Balkan studies explained

Balkan studies or Balkanology is the studies of the Balkans.

Institutions specializing in Balkan studies

Academic

• International Association of South-East European Studies (AIESEE)
• East European and Balkan Institute, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
• Institute for Balkan Studies, Greece
• 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, Ukraine

Notable people

• Traian Stoianovich (1921–2005), history
• Gustav Weigand^[1] (1860–1930), linguistics
• Gerhard Gesemann (1888–1948), linguistics
• Konstantin Josef Jireček (1854–1918), history, linguistics
• Josef Matl^[2] (1897–1974), history, linguistics
• Ioannis Papadrianos^[3] (d. 2009), history
• Kristian Sandfeld (1873–1942), linguistics
• Vaso Čubrilović^[4] (1897–1990), history
• Radovan Samardžić (1922–1994), history
• Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907), linguistics^[5]
• Dragoljub Dragojlović^[6] (b. 1928), philology, history
• Boris Shmelev^[7] (b. 19××), contemporary geo-politics
• Ivan Dorovský (1935–2021), linguistics, Slavistics and Balkanology
• Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca (1941–2017), history and philology
• Maria Todorova

See also

• Imagining the Balkans
• Byzantine studies
• Hellenic studies
• Albanology
• Yugoslav studies

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.

Notes and References

1. Book: Dimitar Bechev. Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia. 13 April 2009. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-6295-1. 37. .
2. Book: Islamica: The Journal of the Islamic Society of the London School of Economics. 1995. Islamic Society, London School of Economics and Political Science. .
3. Book: Balkanološki institut. Balcanica. 39. 2009. SANU. 314.
4. Book: That was Yugoslavia. 1991. Ost-Dienst. 28.
5. Book: Cahiers de linguistique théorique et appliquée. 1978. Editions de l'Académie de la République populaire roumaine. 367.
6. Book: Radovan Samardžić. Milan Duškov. Serbs in European civilization. 1993. Nova. 978-86-7583-015-3. 181.
7. Book: FBIS Daily Report: East Europe. 1993. The Service. 4. .