Balkans

like Mexico and the Balkans.

Just take the Balkans. Croatia, Serbia

North Africa, the Balkans and Asia.

Legends of vampires flourish in the Balkans.

And the Balkans was a fabulous place to start.

I'll walk this dog right through that six part series on the Balkans.

Latin America, and in the Balkans not happened, and if instead of the occupation of

Lesbor travels through the Balkans like this, singing, connecting people divided by religion, nationality and language.

You had the creation of new states in Eastern Europe, the former Yugoslav republics and the Balkans, and the 'stans of central Asia.

This incident is bound to spoil NATO's hopes for a clean exit from the Balkans, and frustrates US military leaders, only days away from a withdrawal from Bosnia.

It controlled Northern Africa, as well as all the stuff that you see here and even a little bit of Persia, and actually a good bit of the Balkans,

From Northern Ireland to South Asia from Africa to the Americas from the Balkans to the Pacific Rim, we've witnessed convulsions that can accompany transitions to a new political order.

And what I noticed at the beginning of my research that the Balkans had turned into a vast transit zone for illicit goods and services coming from all over the world.

As a little bit more backdrop as the Ottomans were being pushed out of the Balkans, it helped to bring about more hope of unifying the Yugoslavic people the Southern Slavic people.

It's the bridge over the Drina River, the subject of a novel by Ivo Andrić, and it talks about how, in that very troubled part of Europe and the Balkans, over time there's been enormous building of walls.

The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.

He actually crosses so far into this realm of talking to evil and trying to convince evil that it doesn't need to prevail that he earns the nickname not Sergio but Serbio while he's living in the Balkans and conducting these kinds of negotiations.

By the same token and here we have some good news again the very fact that there is a high level, well resourced international presence in Kosovo and the Balkans region more generally and the fact that local leaders on both sides have showed relative restraint, explains why things have not been worse over the past two years since 2008.