Im not from Europe. Can someone explain what are the Balkans exactly and why there’s “beef” between them?
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There have always been lots of tiny (relatively) countries in that part of the world, but then the Ottoman empire came along and conquered all of the little nations along with some larger one and then introduce Islam into the area some of the people adopted Islam, some turned to different aspects of Christianity, this resulted in splits between the populations over nationality and religion. The Ottoman empire declined and the region temporarily got back independence sometimes using armed force. After WW2 a large part of the area was then taken over by the USSR and the region still was split especially since during WW2 when the area was generally fighting against Hitler the partisans spent almost as much time fighting each other. With the dissolution of the USSR all these historic divides came back to the surface.
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