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Silence of the Balkans is a live Goran Bregović album recorded in Thessaloniki, Greece on December 30, 1997. Bregović's performance was part of that city's final showcase as the 1997 European Capital of Culture.
Balkan Trafik, a yearly three-day Balkan Brass festival in Brussels, Belgium. [4] Zlatne Uste Golden Festival, a yearly two-day festival in New York City. [5] Guča na Krasu - Guča sul Carso, a yearly three-day festival in Trieste. [6] Roma Truba Fest - a yearly festival in Kumanovo, featuring Roma brass players. Usually in September. [7]
Instagram launches a desktop client for the first time on the Windows 10 platform, which can be downloaded via the Windows Store. 2016: November 21: Product: Instagram launches live video, which allows users to broadcast live on Instagram, for up to one hour.
Map showing the borders of the Balkan states before and after both Balkan Wars.. The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, which at the time still controlled much of Southeastern Europe.
Professional wedding bands that blended Bulgarian folk and gypsy music with the inevitable western influences became increasingly popular in the '80s. Though not in itself strictly jazz music their music was similar with its syncretism, improvisatory character, and reiteration of old well-known melodies into something new. [9]
Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported that Balkan Insight is a "highly regarded Internet portal" [4] and BIRN is "valued for its independence and seriousness". [5] In 2015, the journal Academicus International Scientific Journal reported that Balkan Insight was "the leading news site covering the Western Balkans Region", and often published opinions from international leaders. [1]
Sworn virgin in Rapsha, Hoti, Ottoman Albania, 1908 Balkan sworn virgins (in Albanian: burrnesha) are people who are assigned female at birth and who take a vow of chastity and live as men in patriarchal northern Albanian society, Kosovo and Montenegro.
The Balkan Wars were a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan states of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defeated it, in the process stripping the Ottomans of their European provinces, leaving only Eastern Thrace under Ottoman control.