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Machine generated contents note: I A Multidimensional Analysis of the Balkan National Revolutions -- (Part I) -- 2 A Multidimensional Analysis of the Balkan National Revolutions -- (Part II) -- 3 The Pursuit of Citizenship -- 4 Invented Traditions, Symbolic Boundaries, and National Identity -- in Greece and Serbia, 1830-1880 -- 5 The Latecomers: Nationalism in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and -- Albania -- 6 The Articulation of Irredentism in Balkan Politics, 1880-1920 -- 7 The Consequences of Modernity: National Homogenization and -- the Minority Question -- 8 The Balkans in a Global Age -- Conclusions -- Bibliographical Note -- References -- Index

Age structure of a population, representing the final result of all the demographic processes, tells a unique story which incorporates not only the main demographic components, but also its history, cultural and political characteristics of the population. Through its history the Balkan Peninsula has been alluring to all kinds of demographic research. The process of aging, which is intensifying in all developed countries, will increasingly be the main focus of future demographic research. Although there is undeniable general shift in the age structure, there are many regional differences in the Balkan Peninsula. Thus, for the purpose of this paper we created a choropleth map of the Balkans showing the age structure at NUTS 3 regional level. For the purposes of this paper borders of the Balkan Peninsula are defined by Jovan Cvijić in his homonymous work. Toward a more complete understanding of the ageing phenomena in the Balkans we conducted an analysis of regionalization of ageing, to serve as a backbone for the analysis of age structure at the national level. We compare ageing borders with ethnic, religious and political borders in the peninsula.

Past -- The ethnic aspects -- The slavization of the Balkan Peninsula -- The expansion of the Albanians -- The Vlachs (Aromanians) a people without state -- Deportations and colonizations made by the Byzantine and Ottoman empires -- The political aspects -- The downfall and recovery of the Byzantine domination and the rise of Bulgaria -- The small Slavic states from the central and western Balkans -- The Byzantine offensive (ninth-eleventh centuries) -- Pax Byzantina and the centrifugal trends in the eleventh-twelfth centuries -- The inheritors of the Byzantine imperialism -- The rise and the breaking up of great Serbia -- The Ottoman conquest -- Pax Ottomana -- The religious aspects -- The confrontation between Rome and Constantinople in the Balkans -- The spreading of Islam in the Balkans: a new differentiation -- The present. historical propaganda and the Balkan nationalist ideologies -- Theories of ethnogenesis with political implications -- The Greeks -- The Albanians -- The Bulgarians -- The Serbs and the Croats -- The Vlachs (Aromanians) -- The legitimation of expansionism by the abuse of history -- Kosovo- Serbian or Albanian? -- The historical Macedonia - the apple of discord among Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia

Definitions of genocide and ethnic cleansing -- The heritage of horrors -- Balkan Wars 1912-1913 : an unrecognized genocide -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Western Balkans -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Northeastern and Central Balkans -- Multiple genocides of World War II : Southeastern Balkans -- Retaliatory genocides against wartime enemies -- Ethnic cleansing during Yugoslavia's wars of disintegration in the 1990s -- War in Croatia -- War in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Protracted conflict and war in Kosovo -- International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia -- Onward into the twenty-first century : a postscript

This book looks at the phenomenon of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans over the last two hundred years. Carmichael brings together a vast array of primary and secondary sources to produce a concise and accessible argument.