Paint the countries which you consider to be part of the Balkan region and post the results.
Paint the Balkans
Jaxson Rivera
Gavin Carter
Blake Evans
Nathan Campbell
Ryder Ward
Zachary Anderson
Tyler Jenkins
serious question, why the fuck is Vojvodina (northern part of Serbia) included?!?
Blake Brooks
blue line
Luke Morgan
replied to the wrong person methinks
Zachary Taylor
because anyone with a grasp of Serbian history knows that the Serbs settled Vojvodina as refugees from the Balkans in several waves, starting in the 16th century and concluding in the 1990s.
Mason Watson
hungary is lined because in certain regards it has a cultural and lingustic influence in and from the balkans but no a political scale it hasnt really been part of the balkanic sphere lately
Isaiah Cooper
no, just wrote "included" instead of "excluded" oops. tell me though, why do you think it's not part of the balkans? I'm not sure why you think that
so a geographic area changes by who lives there? what kind of logic is that?
Colton Sanchez
habsburg influence, vojvodina hasn't been an ottoman possession for what, 3 centuries now? and you can tell that Vojvodinans have a different mentality than other Serbs
Jason Watson
balkan is more then a geographic area, it's an economic, cultural and a racial one aswell, don't you think?
do you consider turks from istanbul balkanites?
Angel White
i realize my definition is unusually strict, but i unironically believe the only true balkan nations left are albania, kosovo, montenegro, serbia, bosnia, macedonia, & bulgaria
Joseph Reyes
I took the Balkans to mean a cultural area, and there is no group of Serbs anywhere that would not be Greco-Turkish in culture.
Ayden Scott
I don't know why westerners always omit Romanians from the Balkan sphere. I think they're pretty much fully Balkanic and that the main part of their cultural heritage comes from Istanbul and not from Eastern Europe.
Jose Martinez
I find it unusual you have such knowledge, considering you're in the US. do you have experience with Serbians from Vojvodina and Serbians from southern Serbia? what difference do you see between them? I'm just curious what you think
I guess you're right
Josiah Turner
>excluding greece
Samuel Cook
Balkans is everything ruled by Ottomans.
Maybe we can omit Slovenia since they never were ruled by Turks, and most of Hungary.
Rest is Balkans, that includes Romania.
Hudson Williams
nigga im diaspora wasnt it obvious? you think the average westerner has this much autistic knowledge about the balkan peninsula, no chance m8
Jacob Baker
I was more thinking you're just a proxy, but took my chances anyway
Kayden Jackson
The Balkans is about having kolo as your national dance.
About everyday words like čorba and rakija.
About wearing a gold chain around your neck and posturing a certain way.
About using swearwords freely but being very sensitive to certain specific ones.
About family ties, and hospitality.
I can say us Slovenes are observers if not active participants in this because in the cities we are so completely immersed in Serbian culture that we know all of your slang and your behaviours, even if these aren't accepted in Slovenian society.
Christopher Gray
huh, I wasn't aware of this
Nicholas Ramirez
>About wearing a gold chain around your neck and posturing a certain way.
Except this one it's spot-on and I like it that way.