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Albania is a maritime country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro in the north, Serbia ( Kosovo ) in the north-east, the Republic of Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south, has a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the west, and a coast on the Ionian Sea in the southwest. The country is an emerging democracy and is formally named the Republic of Albania...MORE The Republic of Bulgaria is a republic in the southeast of Europe . It borders the Black Sea to the east, Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north along the river Danube. In the late 7th century a branch of the Bulgars led by Khan Asparuh migrated into the northern Balkans, where they merged with the local Slavic and Thracian population to form the first Bulgarian state. Bulgaria was a significant European power in the 9th and the 10th century, while fighting with the Byzantine Empire for the control of the Balkans...MORE
Bosnia and Herzegovina (also variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina ) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans . Its capital is Sarajevo and it was formerly one of the six federal units constituting Yugoslavia. The republic gained its independence in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and due to the Dayton Accords , it is currently a protectorate of the international community, administered by a High Representative selected by the European Parliament . It is also decentralized and administratively divided into two entities, the and the Republika Srpska. Bosnia Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Herzegovina themselves are historical - geographic regions which today have no political status...MORE
Greece , formally called the Hellenic Republic, is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula . It has land boundaries with Bulgaria , the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the north; and with Turkey to the east. The waters of the Aegean Sea border on Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Seas to the west and south. Regarded by many as the cradle of Western civilization, Greece has a long and rich history during which its culture has proven especially influential in Europe, Asia and Africa...MORE
The Republic of Croatia is a country in Europe bordering the Mediterranean, and the Balkans. Its capital is Zagreb. In recent history, it was a republic of Yugoslavia...MORE
Serbia and Montenegro
The Republic of Macedonia, recognised by most states and international organizations as the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), is an independent state on the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe . It is often called simply Macedonia , although this can cause confusion with the Greek provinces of Macedonia and the wider geographical region...MORE
Romania (formerly spelled Rumania or Roumania ) is a country in southeastern Europe. Romania is bordered by Ukraine and Moldova in the northeast, Hungary and Serbia in the west and Bulgaria to the south. Romania also has a stretch of sea coast on the Black Sea...MORE
The Republic of Turkey is a country located in Southwest Asia with a small part of its territory (3%) in southeastern Europe . Until 1922 the country was the center of the Ottoman Empire . The Anatolian peninsula, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea , forms the core of the country...MORE
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