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Countries in the Balkans

  • GreeceThe year 776 BC marks the first Olympic Games, a moment that signaled the end of the Greek Dark Ages and the beginning of recorded history for these…
  • TurkeyGöbekli Tepe stands as a stone monument older than Stonehenge, with some henges erected around 9600 BC. This site in southeastern Turkey predates the…
  • RomaniaRomania sits at the intersection of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Its borders touch Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to…
  • CroatiaThe name Croatia emerges from a linguistic puzzle spanning centuries. Medieval Latin records show the term Croatorum on an 8th-century church inscription…
  • SloveniaIn the Divje Babe cave near Cerkno, archaeologists uncovered a pierced cave bear bone in 1995. This artifact dates back to approximately 43,100 years before…