Review article
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.20.2.06
Croatia as a Part of the Western Balkans – Geographical Reality or Enforced Identity?
Mirela SLUKAN ALTIĆ
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
The article discusses the appearance and historical
development of the geographical term "Balkan Peninsula".
Special attention is drawn to the impact of the historical term
of Balkan Peninsula on the contemporary definition of the
geographical and geopolitical position of the Republic of
Croatia today. Very different points of view on what the
Balkan peninsula is geographically, are currently causing
considerable disagreement in the contemporary
regionalization of south-eastern Europe as well as problems
regarding the regional affiliation of Croatia in international
affairs. The term "Western Balkans" frequently used today as
the definition of the geographical position of the Republic of
Croatia, is in total discrepancy with the criteria of geographic
regionalization and with the geographical definition of what
a peninsula is.
Keywords
Western Balkans; regionalization of Europe; geopolitics; geographical position of Croatia; national identity
Hrčak ID:
69563
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Publication date:
15.6.2011.
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