Located in southeastern Europe is the Balkan Peninsula.

It's home to multiple ethnic groups, languages, and religions.

It has one of the most dynamic and confusing histories of anywhere in Europe

with multiple migrations of people arriving over the centuries.

Not surprisingly, it's also been the source of many conflicts, some of which are still ongoing

today.

Learn more about the Balkans, its history, and what consists of.

On this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The Balkans are a very confusing part of the world. I was planning on doing

individual episodes for many of the countries in the region as well as specific

periods in history so I figured it might be best to first do an episode giving a rough overview

for the region. The Balkan Peninsula consists of pretty much everything in southeastern

Europe. The countries which are part of the Balkans, in part or in full, are Slovenia,

Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania.

Some of these, while they reside on the Balkan Peninsula, are usually not considered to

be Balkan countries.

So for the purpose of this episode I'm going to ignore Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania.

The focus of this episode will be the countries formerly part of Yugoslavia and Albania.

The Balkan Peninsula gets its name from the Balkan Mountains, which is a narrow mountain range

residing almost entirely in Bulgaria and a little bit in Serbia.

Nonetheless, the entire region is more commonly referred to as the Balkans,

even though most countries are not technically in the Balkan mountain range.

Starting with the Iron Age, the people in the Balkan mountain range. Starting with the Iron Age, the people in the Balkans were mostly culturally Greek.

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