0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Me Anything@lemmy.ca · 9 months agoI live in the Balkans. Ask me anything about this godforsaken place.message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1message-squareI live in the Balkans. Ask me anything about this godforsaken place.0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Me Anything@lemmy.ca · 9 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareShiggles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoIt was first used after the first world war to describe what had happened to the region post Austria-Hungary and Ottomans/the balkan wars that preceded ww1. Darkly humorous that the balkans themselves have been balkanized more than once, though.
It was first used after the first world war to describe what had happened to the region post Austria-Hungary and Ottomans/the balkan wars that preceded ww1. Darkly humorous that the balkans themselves have been balkanized more than once, though.