The Ultimate Guide to the Balkans: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and More
The Balkans, an area in southeastern Europe along the Adriatic Sea, have been the crossroads of East and West for centuries. Fallen empires such as the Ottomans, Habsburgs, and Socialist Yugoslavia once claimed sections of the peninsula, and as such, political upheaval and wars — including, more recently, the Croatian War of Independence, the Bosnian…