DENNIS P. HUPCHICK is an Associate Professor of History at Wilkes University, Pennsylvania, where he also directs the East European and Russian Studies Program. He is the author of Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe (SMP, 1995), Culture and History in Eastern Europe (SMP, 1994), co-author of The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans (Palgrave, 2001), author of The Balkans (Palgrave, 2001), and The Bulgarians in the Seventeenth Century (1993).

HAROLD E. COX is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Wilkes University, Pennsylvania. He is the former editor of Pennsylvania History and has written extensively on the history of urban transportation and the development of inner cities in the nineteenth century. He has created historical maps for various publications since the early 1950s.

A clear visual aid which will help users easily grasp the geopolitical situation at selected important moments in the history of the Balkans

Includes recent events in Balkan history: takes reader up to the 'Kosovo Crisis'

Continuing topicality of the Balkans in the media

Contains 50 two-colour maps

Preface General Key to the Maps INTRODUCTORY MAPS Physical Political, 2000 Natural Resources Demographic Cultural ERA OF BYZANTINE HEGEMONY, 600-1355 The East Roman Balkans, Late 6th Century Avar, Slav, and Bulgar Invasions, 7th Century Rise of the First Bulgarian Empire, 7th-10th Centuries Fall of the First Bulgarian Empire, Mid 10th-Early 11th Centuries Rise of Medieval Croatia, 10th-12th Centuries The Balkans, Late 12th Century Crusades in the Balkans, Late 11th-Early 13th Centuries The Balkans After the Fourth Crusade, 1204-1214 Byzantium Resurrected, 1261-1328 Rise of the Romanian Principalities, Mid 13th-14th Centuries Rise of Medieval Bosnia, 13th-14th Centuries Rise of Medieval Serbia, 13th-Mid 14th Centuries Political Fragmentation, Mid 14th Century ERA OF OTTOMAN DOMINATION, 1355-1804 Ottoman Expansion in the Balkans, Mid 14th-Early 16th Centuries Fall of Constantinople, 1453 (and Ottoman Istanbul) Apex of Ottoman Expansion, Mid 16th Century Ottoman Millet Organization, Mid 16th-17th Centuries Habsburg Croatian-Slavonian Military Border, 17th-18th Centuries The Ottoman Balkans, Late 17th-18th Centuries ERA OF ROMANTIC NATIONALISM, 1804-1878 Emergence of Modern Balkan States, 1804-1856 The 'Balkan Crisis' of 1875-1876 The 'San Stefano' Balkans, March 1878 The 'Berlin' Balkans, July 1878 ERA OF NATION-STATE NATIONALISM, 1878-1944 Balkan State Territorial Expansion, 1881-1886 The 'Macedonian Question' The Balkans, 1908 Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1908-1914 The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 World War I in the Balkans The Post-Versailles/Lausanne Balkans, 1923 Yugoslavia, 1929-1941 Post-Trianon Romania, 1920-1938 The 'Transylvanian Question' Bulgaria, 1919-1940 Greece, 1923-1941 Albania, 1921-1940 The Balkans, 1939-1940 World War II-The 1941 Balkan Campaign The Axis-Dominated Balkans, 1941-1944 ERA OF COMMUNIST DOMINATION, 1944-1991 Balkan Cominform States, 1945-1947 The Greek Civil War, 1946-1949 Splits in Communism, 1948-1960 Collapse of Communism, 1989-1991 ERA OF POST-COMMUNISM, 1991-PRESENT Wars of Yugoslav Succession, 1991-1995 The 'Kosovo Crisis,' 1999 Selected Bibliography Index