1. There is an irony to Greece’s location. We have this word balkanization, a term that came into being in the 19th century in reference to the history of the Balkan region, which was then a part of the Ottoman empire but slowly began to dissolve into a number of often-antagonistic, ethnically based states.
Dispatches: Athens
Dispatches: Athens
Dispatches: Athens
1. There is an irony to Greece’s location. We have this word balkanization, a term that came into being in the 19th century in reference to the history of the Balkan region, which was then a part of the Ottoman empire but slowly began to dissolve into a number of often-antagonistic, ethnically based states.