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Spider Jerusalem

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1. Minor nitpick

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Tue Apr 4, 2017, 07:07 AM

Apr 2017

"Balkanization" actually comes from the early 20th century; the breakup of the former Ottoman territory of the Balkan peninsula into several small and generally politically unstable states over the century or so since the Greek war of independence (Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, etc).

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