How To Use Balkan In A Sentence
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These Mesolithic cultures (Mesolithic, meaning Middle Stone Age, describes postIce Age European hunter-gatherers) achieved some degree of social complexity in Scandinavia, where richly decorated individuals were buried in cemeteries by 5500 B.C.E. These same cultures were the indigenous societies of Europe, farmers who first spread north and west across central Europe from the Balkans after 4500 B.C.E. 1
3. Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
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He visited all the Balkan countries, meeting with eminent public figures.
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In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples.
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Both the United States and Britain insist that, to keep the country from imploding, it is essential that the Balkan nation remain under the political authority of an internationally appointed "High Representative," who governs the nation's affairs.
Elmira Bayrasli: Electing an Independent Bosnia: The High Representative Must Go
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But there was nothing preordained about the outcome of events in the Balkans in the late 1940s.
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Doing the humane thing—i.e., something good for the people of Haiti or Bosnia or Kosovo—could also be the smart and, to use the word commandeered by critics of such policies, the realistic thing, since it was good for the United States to avert instability in the Caribbean and the Balkans.
The Great Experiment
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I must say that my main reaction, having read this en route from Switzerland to Belgium after giving a conference presentation on the Balkans and the Caucasus, is that actually the Israel/Palestine conflict is a lot less special than its protagonists like to think it is.
September Books 21) In the Land of Israel
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In his concluding remarks, he rather defensively explains: ‘This book was always premised to be about my country, not about the Balkans or any other foreign country.’
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In three hundred large-format pages, 60 million Frenchmen merit a single paragraph, while the fifty thousand Vlachs of the Balkans and the fifty thousand Faroe Islanders of Denmark receive careful dissection over many pages.4 And why not?
Bloodlust
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If we don't have room for a glover, blacksmith, steamfitter, cobbler, hooper, chimney sweep and Balkan restaurant, what good are we?
Archive 2006-10-01
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In Aaronovitch's telling, events in the Balkans become purely symbolic.
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Thraco-Phrygian peoples who had overrun the Balkans, occupied Thrace and Macedonia, and crossed into Asia Minor.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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A good example is the Bora wind which is a cold north-easterly wind which blows in winter down the east coast of the Adriatic from the Balkan mountains.
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Balkan film directors, actors and students in the field will join the discussion section of Dionisia.
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-- Afghanistan and Pakistan "to stabilize the security situation;" in fact, a major effort may be undertaken to destabilize it as part of a broader agenda to stoke violence, increase Washington's presence in the region, double US forces in Afghanistan to 60,000 or more according to recent reports, and "Balkanize" each country, Iraq and possibly Syria into separate autonomous states; and
Obama v. Richard Falk on Israel and Occupied Palestine
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Turkey; he did not claim any territory south of the Balkan, nor any part of Roumelia -- not even Adrianople -- only Constantinople with its neighborhood.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
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Rival claims to Macedonian territory caused conflict in the Balkans.
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The World Customs Organisation ranked Bulgarian Customs first in the number of heroin detections along the ‘Balkan Route’ in 2002, he said.
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Amid the torrent of music coming out of the Balkans in the past year or two, this session, recorded in the historic town of Mostar, stands out by virtue of its simplicity and its aura of rapt melancholia.
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As one of my Kosovo friends said last year, this was one of the least unexpected developments in the Balkans in the last two decades: the ground had been well prepared, and the choreography is being duly executed.
February Books 14) Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising
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It was a time of relative calm in the Balkans, and Belgrade was suddenly a lively city.
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‘That is how we lose the passengers' faith and money and our name is associated with only negative emotions,’ a Balkan flight attendant said.
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The big draw for me, though, is the cooler along the south wall, which is jammed with Greek olives, cheese, anchovies, halvah and other specialties, including hummus, tarama and Balkan-style yogurt.
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Later, the Balkans provided a crisis of moral weight sufficient to rival those earlier times - especially for those writers and journalists, mostly on the center-left, who had the courage and intrepidity to go there.
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First the Gulf, then the Balkan campaigns honed the syntax of 24-hour reporting almost to the point of banality.
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We have to approach this challenge conscious of the fact that we do not unwittingly promote the interests of those whose aim has always been to balkanise the country along ethnic and racial lines.
POLITICAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, TO THE 49TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA
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AMERICAN POLICY INthe Balkans through the first half of the 1990s can only be described as feckless.
Sands of Empire
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The question must be asked: Should one of the main architects of the Balkan wars go down in history as a convicted embezzler or a convicted war criminal?
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After finishing second to Bulgaria in their qualifying group, Croatia beat Slovenia 2-1 on aggregate in a Balkan play-off.
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Thereafter they moved around the Balkans, sometimes in open war with the Romans, sometimes bound by treaty.
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The project is one of the first collaborative projects to be carried out with foreign partners in the Western Balkans since the end of conflict.
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Instead of questioning the possibility of a perfect ready-made within the Balkan context, Vangeli has posed the question of fabricating.
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National Party tried over decades to balkanise South Africa and failed.
STATEMENT ON THE IFP CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSALS
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The flora, especially on the limestone which is one of the most active centers of floristic speciation in the Balkans, includes many rare species such as the Pirin poppy, Papaver pirinica, golden aquilegia Aquilegia aurea, yellow gentian Gentiana lutea and edelweiss Leontopodium alpinum.
Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
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He was one of his generals who had built up a powerful position in the Balkans at the head of his federate army; in order to remove this threat the emperor ordered him to rule Italy in his name.
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The soft underbelly of Europe, the Balkans, which is constantly being destabilized, is a great weakening of all of European civilization.
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Rival claims to Macedonian territory caused conflict in the Balkans.
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Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
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The Berlin settlement of 1878 disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans.
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Northern Ireland and the Balkans demonstrate that the dark side of religion is truly devilish!
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By this time a French “75” — a gun captured by the Turks from the Serbians in the Balkan war — was pouring her shell at the rate of about one in ten seconds to the neck.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Four months later, in June, the assassination of an archduke in the Balkans led to World War I, which has also been called “the Third Balkan War.”
Bloodlust
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This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic,
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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Thin reasoning perhaps, but the bassoon and double bass duet in the "Menuet" has an earthy Balkan jocularity and the whole work is vigorously charming.
Brad Hill: Salonen Brings Hungarian Echoes to the NY Philharmonic
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Nationalistic thugs who double as acrobats from the fictional Balkan country of Karonia, The Fearsome Foot-Fighters are masters of savate, a French form of kickboxing.
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We've seen that dissolve as more and more ethnicities don't want to just blend into one amorphous mass but be recognized and respected on their own, and you see a lot of "breakaways" and "balkanization.
WordPress.com News
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Balkan Airlines had a scheduled flight through Cairo and Kenya weekly landing in Johannesburg.
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Apart from the signature sausages of Serbian meats -- the unencased cylinders of minced beef known as cevapcici (in both pork and lamb mixes) -- there's a large selection of animal proteins such as pljeskavica, the substantial cevap in burger form; various chicken parts including bacon-wrapped breast and bacon-wrapped livers; snappy paprika-spiked sausages; and pork schnitzel, all culminating in the house specialty, the leskobacki opanak, sort of a Balkan Bacon Explosion, a 500-gram bacon-wrapped cevap with a core of ham and Swiss.
Chicago Reader
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A reverberant melodica opens to a stable kick drum, the Balkan effect softer, more Black Ark-ish.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Thievery's Rastas and Austin's Latin Soul
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The operation known as Rurik's Hammer, the lightning military conquest of all of Scandinavia, had been designed to solidify popular support for the resurrected Soviet government at home despite the rationing, the purges, and the KGB crackdowns; to cow a fragmented and weakened NATO already over-extended in the war-ravaged Balkans; and to remind continental Europe of the might of Soviet arms.
Countdown
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Roma language, oifficially Romani chib, consists of several dialects, such as the Vlax Romani spoken by an estimated 1.5 million people, followed by Balkan, Carpathian and Sinti dialects spoken by several hundred thousand people each.
IPS Inter Press Service
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For the foot-tapping, we must turn to the folksy Balkan dance melodies, the bumpy 'New Age' arrangement of a passamezzo by Mainerio and Pickett's bongo-enhanced version of a chanson by Le Jeune.
AvaxHome
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This comes as no surprise to Balkan-watchers who have been following the evolving tragedy in the country.
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And depleted uranium seemed harmless in routine handling - until several Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans died of leukemia.
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We also describe the affiliation index of balkanization, similarity of information resources and offer the conditions under which virtual balkanization emerges.
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A good example is the Bora wind which is a cold north-easterly wind which blows in winter down the east coast of the Adriatic from the Balkan mountains.
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Russia replied by opening up a new theatre of war in the Balkans.
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Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
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They stand on battlements in places of great importance to us: on Israel's border, and Iraq's, in the Mediterranean between two NATO allies, in Europe on the border of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to deter a wider Balkan conflict, and in the Caribbean.
Letter To Congress On Funds For Un Peacekeeping
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It is transmogrified by Greek and Bulgarian investors into a Balkan business hub.
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Critics fear it would Balkanize the public into warring factions, but that is what happens under our current one-size-fits-all approach.
Andrew Coulson: A "Winn" for Education and Freedom of Conscience
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To the north, the mountains wind and smoothly melt into the Pre-Balkan region and the Danube plain; while to the south steep mountain slopes tower above a series of hollows and fields.
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This ballet mixes elements of folk dance from the Balkans with eurhythmics in order to tell the story of the beautiful Yana, her fiancé Momchil and the Dragon.
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The Balkans continue to occupy centre stage in world affairs.
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Russia replied by opening up a new theatre of war in the Balkans.
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Now compare things with the movie industry, in which "progress" too often counts as finding some new way to Balkanize the market a little further -- in the process, disabling features in people's homes.
Notes on the digital-music business: Things could be worse
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The Balkan pair view Russia differently.
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By arbitrarily using RST packets in a manner at odds with TCP/IP standards, Comcast threatens to Balkanize the open standards that are the foundation of the Internet.
Boing Boing
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However, there are some unusual Russian and Balkan sauerkrauts tinted amber with quince and pink with beetroot.
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Both peoples continue to draw on traditional Balkan stereotypes, which were reinforced in the recent Socialist era but which stem from much older folk memories.
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Though he's chained up with other "lycan" slaves, werewolf messiah Lucian (Michael Sheen) pursues a love that dare not howl its name with vampire princess Sonja (Rhona Mitra), while her aristocratic dad, Viktor (Bill Nighy), skulks around like a Balkan Ming the Merciless.
NashvilleScene.com
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Somehow or other even a British citizen with more than the usual stupidity of our race as to foreign languages can make himself understood in the Balkan Peninsula, which is so polyglottic that its inhabitants understand signs very well.)
Bulgaria
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There is a narrative of Balkan history which sees the whole 20th century as a long struggle to create nation-states out of the ruins of empire.
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This ballet mixes elements of folk dance from the Balkans with eurhythmics in order to tell the story of the beautiful Yana, her fiancé Momchil and the Dragon.
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Heavy snow and ice blanketed the Balkans on Christmas Day, blocking roads and closing airports as temperatures plunged to near minus 20 degrees centigrade.
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In the ninth century, Orthodox missions from Constantinople converted the Bulgars, Serbs and Slavs, tribes who had invaded and settled the Balkan provinces some 200 years before.
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The proxy forces that they have created to "Balkanize" Pakistan just as they have done in Iraq must be stopped.
Information Liberation
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But I know that moving in a universe operating on Balkan time, no question should be answered too hastily, and without deep contemplation.
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International diplomacy - and its failings - played just as big a part in the Balkan conflict.
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The only real cryptobiont of the Balkans, the olm, has not yet been recorded by specialists in the western parts of Montenegro despite considerable anecdotal evidence of its presence.
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As the EU enlarges into the Balkans, the ratio of sprats to sharks will increase.
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At the start, Amis announces certain 'general principles' to be followed in creating drinks, all of which can be derived, by natural drinkers 'logic, from the first of them, which holds that' up to a point [i.e. short of offering your guests one of those Balkan plonks marketed as wine, Cyprus sherry, poteen and the like], go for quantity rather than quality '.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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The proxy forces that they have created to "Balkanize" Pakistan just as they have done in Iraq must by stopped.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Gaza was populated mainly by Egyptian peasants who evaded the Turkish prohibition on entry, Roumanian gypsy slaves of Maronite priests in Sinai, and latterly Turkish=Muslim peasants transferred from the Balkans after the Treaty of Berlin handed Ottoman holdings in what came to be known as Croatia to the Habsburgs in 1878.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Palestinians of African Descent:
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In several passages, he exalts the American weaponry used in the Balkans, particularly the latest Air Force technology.
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After some furious backpedalling from the Germans in recent days, bond and markets higher Wednesday and the euro clambered back above $1.40 (R10. 40) after the European Union gave its backing to the Greek Balkans, there beckons a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to
WN.com - Articles related to Euro Area Headed for Break-Up, SocGen's Edwards Says
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She had won three national championships and a bronze medal in the Balkan Championships.
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Another Balkanski group act involves trampolining and stilts.
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After spending a holiday in Romania, it takes a tourist only one hour by plane to reach the capitals of the former Hapsburg Empire (Prague, Vienna, Budapest), the bimillenary metropolises of the Balkan region (Athens, Istanbul) or of the Slav one (Kiev, Cracow, Zagreb).
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He told me about the NATO manoeuvres he'd been on, the Balkan skirmishes --- `Fabulous stuff!
RESCUING ROSE
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He pledged to perpetuate the criminal bantustan system, further to balkanise our country and to continue the land dispossession of the African majority, which is confined to a little more than ten percent of
ANC Today
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Casimir left Dublin for the Balkans as a war correspondent and enlistment.
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With a background in the region's history -- so marinated in discord it gives us the word "balkanization" -- you begin to understand how hard it must have been to heal after the war.
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Balkanization has different facts: she was a pedicurist and killed the one with a “pedicure knife.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Chinese woman resists rape, is criminally convicted, then released:
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Rival claims to Macedonian territory caused conflict in the Balkans.
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A liner note by the executive producer untangles some of this all-too-typical Balkan tale, but this recording is more a testament to resilience and joy than anger and resentment.
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One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can balkanize Wikipedia's uppity, insipid lynch mob into an etiolated and sapless agglomeration.
Historical Christian Hairstyles
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The Ottomans were certainly in conflict with Europeans for centuries--they entered the Balkans in the 14th century and they besieged Vienna as recently as 1683; but they certainly did not "jostle" the Crusaders for centuries.
Daimnation!: NY Times blames Crusaders--wrongly
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The British forces in the Balkans are popularly referred to in terms of ‘our boys’, in the spirit of the second world war.
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The perfection of the troops' training was revealed when a display of parade-ground drill helped to extricate the army from a trap in the Balkan mountains.
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The fest kicks off with a visit from Vancouver's Zeellia, a sextet whose home base is Ukrainian traditional music, from which point they venture out to sounds from the Balkans, the Baltic region and the Canadian prairies.
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N. war crimes prosecutor said on Sunday it was possible Slobodan Milosevic had committed suicide and his death made it all the more urgent to catch others blamed for the horrors of the Balkan wars.
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The Ottoman Empire, until then, had kept a lid on all the problems of what was then called the Near East -- including the Balkans and Iraq.
Progress Put On Hold
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They were the members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th century.
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RW: But the irony is that books like yours and [Richard Dawkins's] God Delusion balkanise the world a good deal more, because they polarise views.
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While the term Chetnik, which originally referred to royalist fighters during the Second World War but came to apply to Serb paramilitaries during the Balkan wars of the Nineties, Berikoff said he heard it being used to describe all Serbs.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
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Put more concretely, a voucher system would make the educationally well-off better off, would make the poorly-off worse off, would Balkanize society, and would create an educational under-class.
Teacher Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Slavic peoples migrated into the Balkans and along the Dalmatian coast in the sixth century.
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The army took the traditional overland route down the Danube River and across the Balkans to Constantinople.
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Cottons are used such as Turkey red and Balkan blue and Mandarin yellow, with a good deal of burned orange and black.
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A faint garlic smell reached him exactly then, an inbreaking of Balkan blood on the air of his north, as he turned back to her to ask if she really was Katje, the lovely little Queen of Transylvania.
Gravity's Rainbow
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The strudels of thin pastry enriched with fat are sweet in Central Europe, and sweet or savoury by the time they reach the Balkans.
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In it Raynsford effectively admits that regions are an attempt to balkanise England.
An English Parliament - It's Part of the Solution, Not the Problem
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If you ever want to check out the great but bygone tradition of Yugoslav Album Designs, head over to Carniola, where there's an ongoing series featuring the most remarkable sleeves released during the history of that Balkan republic.
Yugoslav Album Designs
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Alongside this insouciance goes a Balkanised decision-making process, with numerous overlapping authorities responsible for different watersheds, sanitation plants and irrigation.
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A mini-boom in the Balkans is helping: a Greek bank opens a new branch in a neighbouring Balkan country almost every week.
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Mutual contact and friction of the sexual parts seem to be comparatively rare, but it seems to have been common in antiquity, for we owe to it the term "tribadism" which is sometimes used as a synonym of feminine homosexuality, and this method is said to be practised today by the southern Slav women of the Balkans. [
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
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A Balkan Film Board was established in 1995, and although it is non-functional at the moment, it is a structure that many filmmakers from the region say they would like to see operational.
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Because his narrative is unmoored to any conceptual anchor, Halberstam tends to imbue events such as the decade-long Balkans catastrophe with too much significance.
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This tour is centred around the small village of Apriltsi, in the northern slopes of the Balkan mountains.
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It takes place in November and besides the regular panorama of Greek films it offers an annual showcase for recent Balkan productions.
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This is the kind of song which just washes over UK viewers but will hoover up the Balkan votes, particularly as it has a boyband with 3 cuties.
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Minerals, mushrooms, higher and lower plants, invertebrate and vertebrate animals make up the richest museum collection on the Balkan Peninsula.
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The Berlin settlement of 1878 disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans.
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Congrats Chris. ahmet alp balkan said at 1am on Jan 8th # |
Happy birthday to me! I’m joining Google | FactoryCity
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A miracle arrived in this muddy Balkan backwater a few months ago.
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I'm also a fan of the Bosnian-style beef cevapcici at The Balkan Cafe ($6.49, 2321 W. Lawrence Ave., 773-878-7764), where the homemade pitas are crusty on the edges and soft everywhere else.
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Genuine democratic and social renewal within the Balkans can never take place under the political tutelage of the Western powers and their local quislings.
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During the Balkan wars and World War I the women operated workshops in the schools that produced sheets and bandages for hospitals in the large cities of Edirne and Istanbul and ran a fundraising and assistance network within the Jewish and local communities.
Turkey: Ottoman and Post Ottoman.
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For a long time, even in the Balkans, they didn't have anyone reporting there and were depending on BBC stringers.
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Jamie, fifteen, a ninth-grader, heads for a different sort of after-school activity—one that involves hanging around outside a restaurant on Seventeenth Street in Chelsea, waiting with a dozen other paparazzi to see if Gabrielle Bloom, the star of the HBO series Tugboat Annie, will emerge with her new boyfriend, investment banker David Balkan.
Famous
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His novels are a rich synthesis of Balkan history and mythology.
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The label "Balkanization" was probably coined by bismark and accepeted as a valid label ...
Dissident Voice
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Only the united Balkan peoples can give a real rebuff to the shameless pretensions of tsarism and European imperialism.
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A reverberant melodica opens to a stable kick drum, the Balkan effect softer, more Black Ark-ish.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Thievery's Rastas and Austin's Latin Soul
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Theirs can be described as involuntary migration; they ended up in various places where they continue working on films that contribute to the big project of diasporic Balkan cinema.
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ROBERTS: Just as is -- a point of reference, a slivovitz is a very powerful alcoholic drink that's popular in the Balkans.
CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2007
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From Somalia and the Balkans to Iraq, the U.S. military has been embroiled in conflicts that reflect an age-old debate: Can individual agency triumph over deep-seated historical, cultural, ethnic, and economic forces?
Man Versus Afghanistan
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Overall, however, the sound is distinctive thanks to a bold, and highly successful, effort to include traditional Balkan folk instruments, such as the tupan or the tamboura.
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Roast kid is a festive dish in Mediterranean countries, spit-roast kid being found throughout the Balkans and the Middle East.
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World War I followed on the heels of the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, which prefigured not only the subsequent atrocities of the twentieth century but its fraternal violence.
Bloodlust
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It underlines the ruthless intent of hardliners in the administration to implement the reckless plans to balkanise the country into ethnic impoverished homelands," said the DP's
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The administration has made no secret of its desire to disengage from the Balkans, although it has promised not to make any dramatic troop reductions without consulting with its allies.
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- The people of FYROM are justified in wanting to have some rights to the name Macedonian: they inhabit parts of Macedonia, they speak a Macedonian dialect of the Slavic group, and they have come to think of themselves as a separate nation from other Balkan Slavs.
Macedonia: Name Change to Enter NATO, EU?
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On his right was Miroslav Lajcak, the European Union's senior point man on the Balkans, and to his right was Stefan Fule, the EU's enlargement commissioner.
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Key then (and now) was to balkanize the Middle East along tribal and religious lines - a simple divide and conquer strategy that worked in the 1990s Balkan wars.
F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part II
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This may have resulted in extinction of some species and refuge for others, often in multiple glacial refugia on the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas.
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the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe
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Medieval Turnovo's antique houses and narrow cobbled streets are perched on a large rockface that places it among one of the most beautiful cities not only in the Balkans but in all of Europe.
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A number of factors led to her gravitation towards the Balkan region.
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Sandy, in one of the discussions you have in hospital, had told us just how the Germans munitioned their Balkan campaign.
Greenmantle
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When she started Janam (meaning "dear one" or "sweetheart" in Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Turkish), Graffagna pulled together some of the Bay Area's best Balkan musicians, including Peter Jaques, founder of Brass Menazeri, and Tom Farris of the Helladelics and Izvorno IcePick.
East Bay Express
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The innate love of country, and the cohesiveness and self-identification as Americans that used to be taught in our schools and churches and homes is largely gone too, and ethnic/national identity, race and class warfare and envy has been promoted to Balkanize us and to weaken us.
The Slaughter solution, constitutionality, and precedent
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On the credit side Russia has been brought back into the fold of the international community and in the Balkans the process of resettlement and regeneration goes on apace.
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This matches the needs from many regional companies who are indeed delivering the bulk of their sales across the Balkan markets.
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Only last year teenage star Bizni Slott, who won "Balkan Fame Pimp 2008" by eating her own face, floated out of a skylight after a hard night's partying and was shot down by a Bulgarian MiG-29 fighter, a few miles north of Plovdiv.
Helium-sniffing Simeon Troll goes for broke in the mad world of Potya
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The Red Army triumphed after 12 days of fighting in one of the pivotal battles in the allied liberation of the Balkans.
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They started things like the First World War, where they thought ‘oh, we're just taking care of some minor little problem here in the Balkans ’, and whammo, things have spun violently out of control.
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From here supplies were airlifted to soldiers deployed in the wars in the Balkans and in Afghanistan.
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The big draw for me, though, is the cooler along the south wall, which is jammed with Greek olives, cheese, anchovies, halvah and other specialties, including hummus, tarama and Balkan-style yogurt.
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But even soldiers from the rugged Balkans were unprepared for the Hindu Kush, a towering range extending southwest from the Karakorum and Himalayas.
Alexander the Great
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The stage gathered not only Bulgarian presenters but also members of folk troupes and dance ensembles from the Balkan region.
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The Balkan situation became a political and military quagmire.
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According to a report in BalkanTravellers. com, the discovery was made by archaeologists Aleksadar Michev and Teodor Rokov, who were exploring a stone structure reminiscent of a 'dolmen' - a typical Thracian tomb from the Early Iron Age.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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The Balkan peninsula, which had been raised to a high level of security and prosperity during the Roman dominion, gradually relapsed into barbarism as a result of these endless invasions; the walled towns, such as Salonika and Constantinople, were the only safe places, and the country became waste and desolate.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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He was the first Cheshire officer to swap his regular beat in the Knutsford area to act as an adviser in the war-torn towns of the Balkans.
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Blacks are expected to exercise their political ambitions in unviable, poverty-stricken, arid, bantustan homelands, ghettoes of misery, inexhaustible reservoirs of cheap black labor, bantustans into which South Africa is being balkanized.
Desmond Tutu - Nobel Lecture
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Cheeses follow the general pattern of the Balkan region and include a white brine cheese similar to the Greek feta.
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All of the exercises used a simulated Balkans environment.
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There was no linear progression from an authoritarian racial state to a non-racial democracy, from a country balkanized on ethnic lines to one with a secure national culture.
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It wanted to expand into Asia and the Balkans and so had conflict with Austria - Hungary.
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The Pentagon is making a serious push to pull US forces out of Balkans altogether.
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In command of most of the Balkans and northern Greece, John Asen now began to call himself Emperor of the Bulgars and the Greeks.
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The Germans' second group game against the Balkan nation promises to be a fascinating encounter, not least because Friedrich's club-mate Gojko Kacar is likely to start in attack for the Serbians.
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Europe has made strenuous efforts to bring the Balkans into its economic and political orbit.
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The treasures of Balkan cinema remain unknown even to cineastes.
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The unnamed first-person narrator of the eight linked stories in Love and Obstacles survives a similar uprooting from the Balkans to the Midwest.
2009 September 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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The third fundamental cause of the War was the desire of the Teutonic powers to control the small nations of the Balkan peninsula.
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Most of these embroilments, to the extent they bother anyone, affect not the United States but its allies - and these allies are generally capable of handling the consequences, be it Indonesia and Australia, or the Balkans and Europe.
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We can't accept the fragmentation or balkanization of the country.
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The rise to power of the Balkan League is bound to modify the balance of power.
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We _can_ attack here with more men and more munitions than the enemy the very moment we care to accept the principle that, _at this moment_, Constantinople and the heartening up of Russia and ascendency amongst the Balkan States are not only the true positive objectives of our strategy, but are the sole strategical stunts upon the board.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
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Instead, inspired by the stuffed cabbage rolls eaten at Christmas in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, I use blanched savoy cabbage leaves to wrap my parsnippy parcel, adding a touch of festive greenery to the dish.
How to cook the perfect nut roast
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The current saga over refugee influxes would pale in comparison to the thousands of Indonesians fleeing a balkanising archipelago.
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In its place, we now have a ‘balkanized’ group of subcultures whose members pursue their separate, unshared interests in an unprecedented variety of ways.
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Others feared complete disintegration, with the Midwest, the mid-Atlantic states and New England going their separate ways, creating a congeries of competing or even warring states—a North American "Balkans"—that would fall prey to foreign interference.
How America's Civil War Changed the World
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Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
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In fact, Western intervention in the Balkans exacerbated tensions and sustained hostilities.
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Despite a number of tangential references to the shady dealings of American corporations in the Balkans and their connections to organized crime, I have not yet seen a serious and comprehensive analysis of this interesting subject.
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To those who sought to balkanise our country into separate entities as a way of entrenching the ideology and practice of racism, as well as those who thought that this country belongs to one race to the exclusion of others, the Freedom
ANC Today
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Curt is an authority on the Paleolithic and Mesolithic of the Balkans.
Of Crystal Skulls and Pyramids
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In addition to the activities in the Balkans the exchange with Austria plays an important role in helping to break down chauvinistic attitudes in the Balkans.
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The decor was simple Balkan style: classy but rustic, without the element of kitsch.
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To those who sought to balkanise our country into separate entities as a way of entrenching the ideology and practice of racism, as well as those who thought that this country belongs to one race to the exclusion of others, the Freedom Charter's message is clear and simple - South Africa belongs to all who live in it!
ANC Today
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There are also proposals to tighten controls on visitors from the Caribbean and the Balkans.
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Musically there's a lot to digest here: African flutes, Spanish guitars and the shimmer of tablas and Balkan violins.
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By the end of March the Balkans had become a hotbed of turmoil.
THE HITLER-HESS DECEPTION
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All those people who are going to venture out into the beaches in France, into Spain, in the Balearics, in Italy, in the islands here, Sardinia and Corsica looking fine, all the way into the Balkan Peninsula.
CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2009
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They took a lesson from their dads: If you're from the Balkans, and you're up at 3 a.m., and your belly's full of hooch, chances are a grill is firing up nearby with cevapcici sizzling.
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The two Balkan neighbors have failed to resolve a name dispute that has blocked the tiny republic's accession to NATO and progress toward becoming a member of the European Union.
Giant Alexander Statue Erected In Macedonia, Vexing Greece
