Given the city's Greek population and history, Greece liberated it from the Ottoman Empire during the First Balkan War of ...

On December 1, 1913, the island of Crete was officially united with the rest of Greece after centuries of Ottoman rule.

There is an unexplainable sadness in the heart of every Serbian. Maybe you’ll understand it when you finish this book.” These were the words ...

Members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, acting on the orders of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, have arrested eight people on suspicion that they, as members of the organized ...

Yet the current term for the practice was not born until the Balkans wars of the 1990s," the article says. "Anderson correctly employs this term, 'ethnic cleansing,' in his subtitle, and his book ...

This is not to say that organized crime is an exclusive Balkan specialty, like Shopska salad. Rather, in these times of widespread poverty, of physical and social ruins left by a series of civil wars ...

Their adaptation of an ancient Greek tragedy highlights not so much the devastation war inflicts on women but ... and Mitic are currently staging in the Balkans has a quite distinct focus.

Euripides's "Trojan Women", first performed in 415 BC, is an acerbic condemnation of the atrocities of war. It focusses on the misery and injustices the women of Troy endure after the conflict between ...