Unusual Balkan? Dagger

eftihis · 26th July 2010, 02:33 PM

Hi Kronckew, Greece is of course part of the Balkans, but do not make the assumption that countries and nations that exist in the same geographical area have necessary the same culture and characteristics.
Its like i am saying that US citizens and Mexicans are all "Americans".
Without making a lond speech, i want to say that countries of the Balkans share a common history being inside the same empires (Byzantine, Turkish and some of them Venetian), but there many differences especially when we come in the case of Greece, which being at the end of Balkan peninsula has great influences and a way of life affected by the Mediterranean sea, and by different historical circumstances. Our language is very different from the Slavic that many neigbors share, and also our culture and history.
So not all Greek things fit in the Balkan family, and not all Balkan things relate to Greece.

26th July 2010, 02:33 PM	#21
eftihis Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Chania Crete Greece Posts: 511	Hi Kronckew, Greece is of course part of the Balkans, but do not make the assumption that countries and nations that exist in the same geographical area have necessary the same culture and characteristics. Its like i am saying that US citizens and Mexicans are all "Americans". Without making a lond speech, i want to say that countries of the Balkans share a common history being inside the same empires (Byzantine, Turkish and some of them Venetian), but there many differences especially when we come in the case of Greece, which being at the end of Balkan peninsula has great influences and a way of life affected by the Mediterranean sea, and by different historical circumstances. Our language is very different from the Slavic that many neigbors share, and also our culture and history. So not all Greek things fit in the Balkan family, and not all Balkan things relate to Greece.