It’s counted along the Kupa, Sava and Danube rivers, and the Trieste and even Slovenia are excluded. Same with half of Serbia and Croatia. Romania is in a small Dobruja part that is south of Danube. But i guess Balkans are some kind of stigma forever branding everything touching it as Balkans. Poland avoided it narrowly by letting go of the southern ambitions lol.
It’s counted along the Kupa, Sava and Danube rivers, and the Trieste and even Slovenia are excluded. Same with half of Serbia and Croatia. Romania is in a small Dobruja part that is south of Danube. But i guess Balkans are some kind of stigma forever branding everything touching it as Balkans. Poland avoided it narrowly by letting go of the southern ambitions lol.
Austria, Hungary and Slovakia should definitely count as honorary Balkans.
Slovakia is rehabilitating itself lately, but agree about Austria, especially with Hungary distant gott erhalte singing in the background
If Yugoslavia took Carinthia after WW2 then a part of Austria would definitely be part of Balkans lmao.
I noticed that somehow all of the “what if” good scenarios in central Europe always ultimately coming back to Premysl Ottokar II not losing.