000- Wien Balkan 000 beginnt in Wien

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Please visit our (slowly) developing project "Humanistic discourses, civil society and social movements in Romania and Bulgaria, with special focus on the so called Western Balkans 6 region. Online at https://fewd.univie.ac.at/humanism/western-balkans/

A “Balkan analysis” by the “star” philosopher Slavoj Žižek is always interesting to read. See the already 1999 published article “The Spectre of Balkan” in The Journal of International Institute, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.4750978.0006.202 = https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jii/4750978.0006.202?view=text;rgn=main 

About Vienna and the Balkans is the Austrian Chancellor Metternich (1773–1859) often cited. He (should) once has remarked, "The Balkans begin at the Rennweg", which was then a mere road in Landstraße, out of Vienna towards the east.  I don’t  know at the moment a serious source. But maybe I think I found one in the book by Foteva, Ana 2014. Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders between the Balkans and Europe. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051119

And still impressive is how many academic journals are dealing with the complexity of the Balkan region / Southeastern Europe, see a small but important slection at https://fewd.univie.ac.at/humanism/cee/journals/

Metternich (1800? "The Balkans begin at the Rennweg",). " Austrian Chancellor Metternich (1773–1859) once remarked, "The Balkans begin at the Rennweg", which was then a mere road in Landstraße, out of Vienna towards the east.  2025.06 unter  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landstra%C3%9Fe  ".