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140 Dr Nikola Samarxi} NZ27/2003
Dr Nikola Samard`i}
ABOUT TERRITORIAL IDENTITY
OF THE POSTMODERN BALKANS
Truth and misconception of western attitudes about the Balkans by one part
are designed on traditional difficulties of basic mass of it s inhabitants in every
kind of communications with outer world and with ourselves. History of internal
European expansion and particular introduction was otherwise long and developed
with periodical interruptions. The forces movement of that Europe which matured
in the beginning epoch state shaping as strong structures, were condensed in it s se-
aside’s nucleus, in the Mediterranean and in territories in the west and in the north,
which left over impression of deep contrasts in climate and in the appearance of
ground. Everything else was endless monotony of villages periodically disturbed
by shapes of cities and belfries of churches. Trough wide base with which it is con-
nected with Asia, that Europe lost it s typical characteristic. But it s identity on the
threshold of modern did not deduce on physical characteristics, it is conceived on
the first senses of belongings to one union of Christian name. The eastern Roman
civilization considered unsatisfactory close to Europe, readily neglecting commu-
nal roots, sometimeseven interests.
