15 February 1999 Ljubljana–The Balkans are not simply a geographical but above all a cultural notion, often synonymous with the negative, the unstable, the wild, the violent–in short, the subversive. The region acquired a bad reputation relatively late, during the 19th-century revolts against the Turks. As it happens, noble aspirations–in this case, liberation from Ottoman […]

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