Thanks Frank for the good links... To understanding history correctly it is necessary to use and compare many different sources. Today when internet it is very powerfull tool everybody can wrote history on personal wishes not on the fact... I don't care how people call me; I don't have a problem to be a Balkans, or Jugoslavians, or Afrikans or maybe Marsians who care.... But for myself I know exactlly my family roots and resarch what was happened in the turbolent history on this small piece of the globe... So I respect any other opinion and if somebody from Balkan don't like to be Balkans it is fine for me... -----Original Message----- From: Frank Kurchina [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 3. april 2005 9:28 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Balkans or southeastern Europe Perhaps some subscribers would like to read the definition of "Balkans" presented below : (However the printout in 1 inch thick) Maps below might be the better starting point ? TWENTY-FIVE LECTURES ON MODERN BALKAN HISTORY (THE BALKANS IN THE AGE OF NATIONALISM) by Steven W. Sowards http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/ List of Maps http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/maps.htm Bibliography http://www.lib.msu.edu/sowards/staff/balkan/bibliography.html v Frank Kurcina