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Albanians

Albanians  

Tim Judah

in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
25 September 2008
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780195376739.003.0001
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Although the focus of this book is Kosovo, it is also about the people of the Western Balkans, especially the Albanians and the Serbs, who do not fit neatly into the boundaries of the ... More
Building

Building  

Stathis N. Kalyvas

in Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
28 May 2015
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199948772.003.0003
Format: 
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How was the new state built? Becoming independent was the easy part. The leaders of the new state faced a daunting task. They sought to create a modern European state in a rather ... More
Conclusion

Conclusion  

Andrew Finkel

in Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
07 June 2012
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199733057.003.0007
Format: 
chapter
What sort of future does Turkey face? Since this is the last question, I allow myself the luxury of answering it obliquely, or at the very least with an anecdote or two. In 2007 I ... More
Constitutional Collapse, 1960–1974

Constitutional Collapse, 1960–1974  

James Ker-Lindsay

in The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
28 July 2011
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199757169.003.0002
Format: 
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Creating History

Creating History  

Tim Judah

in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
25 September 2008
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780195376739.003.0003
Format: 
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Every nation has a story, its myths about history and ancestry. In the Serbian story Kosovo looms large. Serbs like to hark back to the Middle Ages as a high point in their past and thus ... More
Current and Future Settlement Efforts

Current and Future Settlement Efforts  

James Ker-Lindsay

in The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
28 July 2011
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199757169.003.0005
Format: 
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A Divided Island, 1974–

A Divided Island, 1974–  

James Ker-Lindsay

in The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
28 July 2011
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199757169.003.0003
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Economy

Economy  

Andrew Finkel

in Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
07 June 2012
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199733057.003.0003
Format: 
chapter
What is Turkey’s economic potential . . . ? Turkey comfortably takes its place at G20 summits. It is, according to most reckonings of nominal GDP, the seventeenth largest economy ... More
Emergence

Emergence  

Stathis N. Kalyvas

in Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
28 May 2015
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199948772.003.0002
Format: 
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How did modern Greece come into being? Most people see modern Greece as a successor state of ancient Greece and the last chapter in a long history going back three thousand years. ... More
The Franco Regime, 1939–1975

The Franco Regime, 1939–1975  

William Chislett

in Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
19 September 2013
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199936441.003.0002
Format: 
chapter
What kind of dictatorship did General Franco establish after winning the 1936–1939 Civil War? On top of the more than 200,000 who died at the battle fronts between 1936 and 1939, ... More
From Dardania to Yugoslavia

From Dardania to Yugoslavia  

Tim Judah

in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
25 September 2008
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780195376739.003.0004
Format: 
chapter
For as long as anyone can remember, the history of Kosovo has been a battlefield pitting Serbs against Albanians. Each believes different things because each has been taught different ... More
From the Golden age to the Memorandum

From the Golden age to the Memorandum  

Tim Judah

in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
25 September 2008
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780195376739.003.0006
Format: 
chapter
Today the 1970s are seen by Kosovo Albanians as a golden age. They were freer than they had ever been in Yugoslavia and better educated and in better health than they had ever been in the ... More
Future

Future  

Stathis N. Kalyvas

in Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
28 May 2015
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199948772.003.0007
Format: 
chapter
What are the seven boom-bust-bailout cycles of Greek history? Looking back at the historical trajectory of modern Greece, it is possible to discern a succession of seven major ... More
The Great Crisis

The Great Crisis  

Stathis N. Kalyvas

in Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
28 May 2015
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199948772.003.0006
Format: 
chapter
How did Greece go from economic boom to bust? Things in Greece looked ideal in 2008. By most indices of economic and human development, the country was in an enviable position. It ... More
Historical Background

Historical Background  

Andrew Finkel

in Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
07 June 2012
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199733057.003.0002
Format: 
chapter
Who were the Ottomans and what is their relation to modern Turkey? Today’s Turkish Republic was previously part of an empire ruled over by the Ottoman dynasty. The word “Ottoman” ... More
Historical Background, 711–1939

Historical Background, 711–1939  

William Chislett

in Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
19 September 2013
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199936441.003.0001
Format: 
chapter
What was the legacy of the Muslim presence between 711 and 1492? Moors (Berber tribes) crossed over from North Africa in 711 and landed at a limestone mass they called jabal-tariq ... More
Introduction

Introduction  

Andrew Finkel

in Turkey: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
07 June 2012
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199733057.003.0001
Format: 
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Why this book? The method of this book is to investigate a complex subject succinctly by posing a series of questions that beg answers that beget more questions. It is hard to ... More
The Key Issues

The Key Issues  

James Ker-Lindsay

in The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
28 July 2011
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780199757169.003.0004
Format: 
chapter

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Kosovo after 1999

Kosovo after 1999  

Tim Judah

in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
25 September 2008
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780195376739.003.0009
Format: 
chapter
It is impossible to underestimate the chaos of Kosovo in the wake of the war. Albanians streamed back in and Serbs fled, or were ethnically cleansed, from their homes and villages. Some ... More
Kosovo and the Region

Kosovo and the Region  

Tim Judah

in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Published in Print: 
25 September 2008
Published Online: 
12 November 2020
DOI: 
10.1093/wentk/9780195376739.003.0011
Format: 
chapter
Sometimes on the graves of Kosovo Albanian fighters, on Albanian Internet sites, and elsewhere you see an unfamiliar map, one that engulfs and dwarfs Kosovo. It is Greater or, as Albanians ... More

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