At the end of the 20th century people spoke as if the Balkans had
plagued Europe forever. But 200 years earlier, the Balkans did not
exist. It was not the Balkans but the "Rumeli" that the Ottomans
ruled, the formerly Roman lands that they had conquered from
Byzantium, together with its Christian inhabitants. In this account
of the region Mark Mazower dispels current Western cliches and
replaces stereotypes with a vivid account of how mountains, empires
and religions have shaped its inhabitants' lives. As a bridge
between Europe and Asia it has been exposed to a constant incursion
of nomadic peoples across the centuries. Mazower's narrative ranges
broadly both in time and in space, treating the former Turkish
domains in Europe as part of a common if complex historical
inheritance.
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