The Balkan History Association was represented by its Vice-President, Dorina Dragnea, at the international conference “Ethnographies of Orthodox Christianity: Holism, Comparison, and Exploration”, organized on February 16-17, 2023 by the Department of Anthropology of the University College London. The Greek Read More
After the publication by Peter Lang of the first volume of the South-East European History Series, Old and New Insights on the History of Intelligence and Diplomacy in the Balkans, which explores intelligence and diplomatic activities in the Balkan region, Read More
The Treaty of Berlin (1878) reshaped the political landscape of the Balkans. The defeated Ottoman Empire had to recognize the independence of its once tributary provinces of Serbia, Montenegro and unified Romania, with new borders drawn mainly in favor of Read More
We are pleased to inform you that the latest issue of Hiperboreea, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2022) has been released and is available online through the Scholarly Publishing Collective (managed by Duke University Press). Soon it will be available on Read More
The Balkan History Association is preparing a volume in English on Islamic culture, traditions, and pre-Islamic beliefs in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The volume will highlight the importance of religious life among the populations of Central Asia. Read More
The more than millennia-long presence of Armenians in Balkan countries made this region one of the closest destinations of the Armenian exodus both geographically and culturally. The Byzantine Empire with its large Armenian population had emperors of Armenian descent. One Read More
The relations between Romania and Albania are part of the wider relations between the two people: the Romanians and the Albanians. Despite historical developments in the Balkan Peninsula that were not linear and sometimes troubled, the two people kept their Read More
While Turkish-Romanian formal diplomatic relations were established at the end of the 19th century, the founding of the modern Turkish nation represented a new and insufficiently studied chapter in the Black Sea region’s diplomatic and socio-cultural history. Hostility during the Read More
English, Romanian, Ukrainian and Polish version. The Balkan History Association is preparing a volume on relations between the Romanian principalities (Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania) and the Ukrainian lands in the early modern era. During this period political transformations and complex processes Read More
The Albanians – Christians and Muslims alike – in the Balkans, are a people of great interest, not just within the context of the Ottoman period, but also during the following one, when Southeastern Europe began to break up into Read More
