{"product_id":"the-balkan-peninsula-von-frank-fox","title":"The Balkan Peninsula","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE Fates were unkind to the Balkan Peninsula. Because of its position, it \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas forced to stand in the path of the greatest racial movements of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld, and was thus the scene of savage racial struggles, and the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edepositary of residual shreds of nations surviving from great defeats or \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePyrrhic victories and cherishing irreconcilable mutual hatreds. As if that \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere not enough of ill fortune imposed by geographical position, the great \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoman Empire elected to come from its seat in the Italian Peninsula to die \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the Balkan Peninsula, a long drawn-out death of many agonies, of many \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebloody disasters and desperate retrievals. For all the centuries of which \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistory knows a blood-mist has hung over the Balkans; and for the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecenturies before the dawn of written history one may surmise that there \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas the same constant struggle of warring races.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041984589\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Historical Analysis of the Balkan Peninsula's Complex Past\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041984589","offer_id":47619196453189,"sku":"9791041984589","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/cfed9f4a-b4d1-4d0f-9d43-596c39d27318.jpg?v=1768456146","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-balkan-peninsula-von-frank-fox","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}