The Balkans: Between Europe and the Middle East

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The Balkans Between Europe and the Middle East

• By Lisa Adeli

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Warm-ups

• Macedonian song Jovano, Jovanke
• What do you notice about the?
• Melody
• Rhythm (Count how many beats per measure.)
• Sounds of the language
• Instruments
• Picture books of the Balkans
• What do you notice about the?
• Appearance of the land
• Architecture

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Ottoman Empire at Its Height
Justin McCarthy, The Map Project, MESA
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Justin McCarthy, The Map Project, MESA
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Justin McCarthy, The Map Project, MESA
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Justin McCarthy, The Map Project, MESA
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The Map Project, MESA, http//fp.arizona.edu/mesas
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CIA map, www.makedonija.info/ CIA_Balkans.jpg
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Meteora, Greek Orthodox monastery suspended in
the air
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Gracanica, a 14th century Serbian Orthodox
monastery in Kosovo
http//www.kosovo.net
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Queen Simonida, wife of King Milutin, one of the
saints. Note that the eyes were gouged out due
to Muslim outrage at idols in the Christian
Churches.
http//www.srpska-mreza.com
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Fethija Mosque in Bihac, Bosnia. A Gothic church
converted into a mosque.
www.virtualtourist.com
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Former Jewish quarter on the island of Rhodes
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Jewish Heritage Online Magazine
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Interior of Jewish synagogue on the island of
Rhodes
Jewish Heritage Online Magazine
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Gazi Husrev Beg Mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia
Yugoslavia Republics and Provinces
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Prizren, Kosovo mosque with a church in the
background
http//homepage.ntlworld.com/wandering/DIARY/Kosov
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Muslim tombstone (note the turban)in Sarajevo,
Bosnia
Yugoslavia Republics and Provinces
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Kameniot Most (Stone Bridge), Skopje, Macedonia
donika.com
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Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia (destroyed in the 1990s
civil war)
http//www.uhd.edu/academic/colleges/sciences/engi
neeringtech/sad/images/ MostarBridge.jpg
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Famous Bridge on the Drina, Viegrad, Bosnia
www.wmf.org/resources/photogallery
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? (D in Latin alphabet)

• ?????? mosque
• ????? coffee maker for Turkish coffee

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Continuing linguistic influence ???? ahid
(?????)

• In the Iran-Iraq War, Iranians used this term a
  lot (meaning a martyr in a religious war).
  Today, Bosnian Muslims use the term to mean
  someone who died fighting on the Muslim side in
  the Bosnian civil war (1990s).

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Bacarija, Traditional Market in Sarajevo,
Bosnia
http//www.stoessel.ch/images/europe/sarajevo_basc
arsija.jpg
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Copper crafts of Kazandiluk, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Yugoslavia, Published by Mladinska Knjiga
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Bosnian Muslim home in Mostar
Review, Yugoslav Monthly Magazine, 1969
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Differing Styles of Dress Ethnic Albanian Women
of Kosovo
www.irex.org
delivery.viewimages.com
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Albanian women farm workers. (Notice that one
has a headscarf the other does not.)
http//cache.eb.com/eb/image?id94809rendTypeId4
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Bosnian Muslim women praying
http//www.gannett.com/news/awards/photowinners/20
03/quarter4/division2/images/photo3.jpg
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Bosnian War (1990s) military patches for Muslim
forces
http//www.tridentmilitary.com/World-Militaria/Bos
nia.html
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Questions or comments?

• Contact Lisa Adeli
• adeli_at_email.arizona.edu