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Almost 30 years ago, Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic trained and directed militias that committed some of the worst atrocities of the post-Cold War era. In the Balkan wars, their militias are ...

An ambitious effort to digitize 300 years of Serbian military records has led to the indictment of more than a dozen war criminals and the discovery of unmarked mass graves.

On Oct. 8, 1912, the tiny Kingdom of Montenegro declared war on a weakened Ottoman Empire, kicking off what is now known as the First Balkan War. Three other Balkan states in league with the ...

The first is that while the first Balkan war was a tremendous success and brought Bulgarian troops to within 40km of Istanbul, in people’s minds the war runs seamlessly into the war of 1913 and ...

The map, which may be highly recommended, can also be obtained on rollers and varnished for 6s. War Map of Italy and the Balkan States. 30 in. - 40 in. (Edinburgh: J. Bartholomew and Co., n.d.) 1s ...

At Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert, soldiers train for war on foreign soil; a new book details how calculus rocked world history; musician Jordi Savall explores the music of the Balkans.

Many Balkan historians, not all of them admirers of Mr Milosevic, detect a whiff of hypocrisy in the disdain which people in settled and prosperous parts of Europe now accord to old-fashioned ...

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Though parts of the Balkan region have blossomed into popular tourist sites for Europeans since the civil strife of the 1990s ended, the countries that once comprised Yugoslavia are still viewed ...