Ethnic Processes in the Spatial Structure of the Balkans
Ethnic Processes in the Spatial Structure of the Balkans

Summary/Abstract: The Balkans as a political region forcefully keeps its historical definiteness. Its specific, European peripheral location, the differences of its geographic formation, the divergent distribution of the population and the migration lines between them, had effects on the regional formation of the states of the Balkans and on the changing of its ethnic structure of this area. Several ethnic fault lines were evolved based on the spatial identity in the Christian culture and in the three dominant, Slavic, Latin and Greek language areas. By the end of the 18th Century, there was a lot of economical and religious conflict in the region. In the 19th Century ethnic separation and the process of the validation of the spatial law started to begin by the advance of the effort for the autonomic national identity. There was some serious conflict in this area because of the principle of the autonomic state or of the culture or of the geographic space. According to historical studies we cannot “simplify” or permanently unfold these mosaic fragmented, complemented, coherent historical spaces with precise, closed political borders. The migration lines which keep these areas together might be able to consist provisionally without conflicts.

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