The spectre of fresh ethnic conflict in Macedonia has revived debate in the West about redrawing the map of the Balkans, but diplomats directly involved warn that would open a can of worms.

The ethnic composition of the country is approximately 85.2% Bulgarian, 8.8% Turkish, 4.9% Roma and 1.5% other, a category composed primarily of other European ethnicities.

In the second Balkan war, in 1913, the ... The wars cost perhaps 200,000 lives and reshaped the map of south-eastern Europe. They ushered in an era of ethnic cleansing and population ...

To witness the dramatic way the map of the world is being repainted in two-tone colours by the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, look to the south and west, to a corner of Europe we ...

Lipa posted a map that includes Albania, Kosovo and parts of neighbouring Balkan countries and a definition of the word "autochthonous" to suggest Albanians belonged there. The tweet sparked ...

The Balkans, the battleground of empires over centuries, ... in the region was in 2001 when local Albanians in Macedonia took up arms against the Macedonian government due to ethnic grievances.

What happened in the Italian-occupied Balkans as the war wound down was ethnic cleansing at its most savage and it happened 50 years before the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.To this day no one ...

What happened in the Italian-occupied Balkans as the war wound down was ethnic cleansing at its most savage and it happened 50 years before the wars in Croatia and Bosnia.To this day no one ...