This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). A complicated region with an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage, Europe’s beautiful Balkan lands have been passed through and ...

When it comes to tourism, the Balkan countries tend to be overshadowed by some of Europe’s larger western nations, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a world of spectacular beauty to be found all ...

The Balkans is sometimes called The Wine Peninsula. In its center is North Macedonia, a small country with big wines, not least from the famous vranec grape. ByPer and Britt Karlsson, Contributor.

Heavy storms and a 100-year flood battered the Balkans in May, but by the end of the month, the sun appeared and I was bound for Slovenia and the northern head of the new Via Dinarica hiking trail, ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 11, No. 5 (Oct., 2000), pp. 667-678 (12 pages) Up to now the syntaxonomy of the Fagus woods of the southern Balkans is far less known than that of beech communities ...

The Western Balkans Policy Review, launched by the CSIS Lavrentis Lavrentiadis Chair, is a unique publication that systematically examines the progress of the Balkan Peninsula and the challenges this ...

Iñigo Olalde, Ikerbasque Research Fellow at the UPV/EHU and Ramón y Cajal Researcher has, together with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE: CSIC-UPF) and Harvard University, led a study in ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Romans from the Italian Peninsula had little genetic influence on the populations of the Balkans, in spite of their political and cultural sway. Until recently, most major ...