What are the Balkans?

How to Invent a Country by BBC

Apr 3, 202641:34Society & Culture

June 28 1914 - a young Bosnian in Sarajevo fired the shot that triggered World War One. Why is this region so unstable? Misha Glenny returns to a region he's known for years

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