Balkan studies or Balkanology is the studies of the
Balkans
The Balkans ( ), also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the who ...
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Institutions specializing in Balkan studies
;Academic
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International Association of South-East European Studies
International Association of South-East European Studies, better known by its French language abbreviation AIESEE (from french: Association internationale d'études du Sud-Est européen) is an international scholarly, non-political and non-profit ...
(AIESEE)
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East European and Balkan Institute, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
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Institute for Balkan Studies, Greece
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Institute for Balkan Studies (or "Balkanological Institute"), Serbia (
SANU)
Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology Bulgaria (
BAN)
*Balkanology Research Center, Bosnia and Herzegovina (
ANUBiH)
;University
Centre for Southeast European Studies University of Graz, Austria
Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies University of Macedonia, Greece
Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic
M. Drynov Center for Bulgarian and Balkan Studies National University of Kharkiv
The Kharkiv University or Karazin University ( uk, Каразінський університет), or officially V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University ( uk, Харківський національний університет імені ...
, Ukraine
Notable people
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Traian Stoianovich (1921–2005), history
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Gustav Weigand
Gustav Weigand (1 February 1860 – 8 July 1930), was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Romanian and Aromanian. He is known for his seminal contributions to the dialectology of the Romance languages of the Balkans ...
(1860–1930), linguistics
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Gerhard Gesemann (1888–1948), linguistics
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Konstantin Josef Jireček
The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus'' ( Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great ...
(1854–1918), history, linguistics
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Josef Matl (1897–1974), history, linguistics
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Ioannis Papadrianos (d. 2009), history
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Kristian Sandfeld (1873–1942), linguistics
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Vaso Čubrilović (1897–1990), history
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Radovan Samardžić
Radovan Samardžić ( sr-cyr, Радован Самарџић; Sarajevo, 22 October 1922 – Belgrade, 1 February 1994) was a Yugoslav and Serbian historian, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU).
He successfully defended his d ...
(1922–1994), history
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Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu ( 26 February 1838 – ) was a Romanian writer and philologist, who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history.
Life
He was born Tadeu Hâjdeu in Cristineștii Hotinului (now Kerstentsi in Chernivtsi ...
(1838–1907), linguistics
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Dragoljub Dragojlović (b. 1928), philology, history
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Boris Shmelev (b. 19××), contemporary geo-politics
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Ivan Dorovský (1935–2021), linguistics, slavistics and balkanology
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Maria Todorova
Maria Nikolaeva Todorova ( Bulgarian: Мария Николаева Тодорова) (born 5 January 1949, Sofia) is a Bulgarian historian who is best known for her influential book, '' Imagining the Balkans'', in which she applies Edward Said's ...
See also
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Imagining the Balkans
''Imagining the Balkans'' is a book by the Bulgarian academic Maria Todorova. The book was published by Oxford University Press in United States on May 22, 1997 (), with the second and enlarged edition being published in 2009. It was described as a ...
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Byzantine studies
Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. T ...
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Hellenic studies
Hellenic studies (also Greek studies) is an interdisciplinary scholarly field that focuses on the language, literature, history and politics of post-classical Greece. In university, a wide range of courses expose students to viewpoints that help ...
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Albanology
Albanology, also known as Albanian studies, is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the language, costume, literature, art, culture and history of Albanians. Within the studies the scientific methods of literature, ling ...
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Yugoslav studies
Yugoslav studies or Yugoslavistics ( sh, Jugoslavistika; sl, Jugoslovanske študije; mk, Југословенски студии; sq, Studime Jugosllave; german: Jugoslawistik; la, Iugoslavistica) is an academic discipline within Slavic studi ...
References
Further reading
*Palavestra, Aleksandar. "Balkanologija Jovana Cvijića." Istraživač 1 (1981): 13-15.
*Lukovič, Miloš. "Balkanistika (balkanologie) v Srbsku v období 1991–2013." Historica-Review in History and Related Sciences 5.1 (2014): 86-104.
*Babić, Marko. "Balkanology." (2009).
*Burkhart, Dagmar. "Položaj etnologije u balkanologiji: eksplikacija i teze za balkansku etnologiju." Etnološka tribina 15.8 (1985): 5-28.
*članova Instituta, Bibliografije, and Zrinka Blažević. "Globaliziranje Balkana: prolegomena za nove balkanske studije."
*Lovrenović, Dubravko. "Duž balkanskih historiografskih transverzala." Zeničke sveske-Časopis za društvenu fenomenologiju i kulturnu dijalogiku 03 (2006): 11-20.
*Palavestra, Aleksandar. Balkanology, Archaeology and Long-term History. 1994.
*Miliori, Margarita. "Ambiguous partisanships. Philhellenism, turkophilia and balkanology in 19th century Britain." Balkanologie. Revue d'études pluridisciplinaires 6.1-2 (2002): 127-153.
*Popovici, V. "The rudiments of Balkanology. A step towards Eurolinguistics-German-Reiter, N." (1996): 573-575.
*Polome, E. C. "Characteristics of Balkanology: A first look at Eurolinguistics-German-Reiter, N." (1995): 489-490.
*Battistella, Edwin, et al. "South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics." (1984): 193-194.
*Sawicka, Irena. "Meandry bałkanologii." Slavica Wratislaviensia 159 (2014): 407-411.
*Štěpánek, Václav. "Slavistička balkanistika–novi izazovi." (2010).
*Orr, Robert, et al. "South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, 11)." (1983): 349-351.
*Babić, Marko. "Balkanology." (2009).
*Papasov, Ivo, et al. Balkanology. Hannibal, 1991.
*Nagy, Levente. "Balcanistica hungarica rediviva." Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 39.2 (2003).
*Barentsen, Adriaan Arij. South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics. Vol. 1. Rodopi, 1982.
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