Traveling to Croatia Located in the south-eastern Europe, Croatia is a small country with many travelling hot spots. This amazing country represents an attractive mix of Mid-European continental and passionate Mediterranean culture and way of living. If you would have to compare it with other nations, we might say it is a combination of Austria and Spain, but in a unique and charming way. Having this in mind, it won't be a big surprise to find out that Croatia is one of the central tourist destinations
fell apart in the early 1990s. The wars that started to arise between countries ended up leading the Yugoslavian states to get independence. Besides the six main member states, there were two autonomous regions in Yugoslavia, located in Serbia: Vojvodina and Kosovo. After the collapse of Yugoslavia,
GENOCIDE Genocide means any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group. The word was created by Raphael Lemkin who dedicated his life to make genocide recognized as a crime. There are multiple ways to commit genocide including killing members of the group and deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in a whole or in whole or in part. Genocide, whether committed in time
• The Yugoslav Wars were ethnic conflicts that were fought between 1991 and 2001 in the former territory of Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav wars were broken up into a series of conflicts including the War in Slovenia, the Croatian War of independence, the Bosnian War and the Kosovo War. *show map • Yugoslavia was created after World War 1, the nation itself, lasting from 1918 to 1941, when it was invaded by the powers during World War 2. *change • The Balkans had been the main site for the conflict that
(the Pannonian) stretches from Belgrade north to the borders with Croatia, Hungary and Romania. Natural lakes in Serbia are rare as a result of the rugged terrain, and the ones that do exist -such as the glacial lake Palic- are mostly located in Vojvodina. Serbia's largest artificial lake, resulting from a hydroelectric dam, is Derdap located on the Danube. Significant rivers include the Danube, Drina, Lim, Morava, Sava and Tara. Serbia is also one of the richest European countries when it comes to
The Disintegration of Yugoslavia Introduction As one of the most misrepresented series of major events in history, the disintegration of the Yugoslav state is an intricate event to follow due to the sheer number of parties involved and the consequent “systematically distorted” historical and journalistic narratives surrounding the subject. Still, however, this seems counter-intuitive, as Yugoslavia was always deemed to be an artificial state and its dissolution had seemed, at times, inevitable.
Kosovo is located in South-Eastern Europe, in the Balkans (or Balkan peninsula) and in the former Yugoslavia. Kosovo is also called by the Serbian authorities Kosovo and Metohija . Kosovo is the disputed borderland between Serbia and Albania. About 90 per cent of its two million inhabitants are Kosovo Albanians (Kosovars). Albanians are supposedly descended from the ancient Dardanians (Illyrians) who allegedly inhabited the western Balkans long before Slavs arrived in the sixth to eighth centuries
Humanitarian intervention as characterized by many intends to permit a foreign state to stop or prevent infringement of human rights in another state, at times through the utilization of military power. The use of force by military to ensure respect of human rights, nonetheless, conveys with it the dangers of civilians and military losses and a scale up of violence, and it rarely gives provides long term solutions for reasons of conflict. The achievement of a intervention ought to essentially be