South Eastern Europe in maps

Fülszöveg

Over the past fifteen years the explosion of the "Balkan powder-barrel"
shocking the European continent deeply i.e. the fanning of ethnic-religious
tensions (suppressed for several decades) into regional conflicts
and warfare renewed traditional interests of the Hungarian public
towards the countries of South Eastern Europe (the former member
republics of Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania).
There has emerged a necessity to publish an atlas in the form of a book
or a book combined with an atlas in which a large number of attractive thematic
(political, ethnic, religious, economic) maps, charts, tables completed
by concise textual analyses provide explanation for the up-to-date societal
and economic issues of South Eastern Europe and the most characteristic
segments of the region's development in the 20th century. The present publication
produced in the Geographical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences serves as a brief account for public and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Over the past fifteen years the explosion of the "Balkan powder-barrel"
shocking the European continent deeply i.e. the fanning of ethnic-religious
tensions (suppressed for several decades) into regional conflicts
and warfare renewed traditional interests of the Hungarian public
towards the countries of South Eastern Europe (the former member
republics of Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania).
There has emerged a necessity to publish an atlas in the form of a book
or a book combined with an atlas in which a large number of attractive thematic
(political, ethnic, religious, economic) maps, charts, tables completed
by concise textual analyses provide explanation for the up-to-date societal
and economic issues of South Eastern Europe and the most characteristic
segments of the region's development in the 20th century. The present publication
produced in the Geographical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences serves as a brief account for public and scientific audiences and political
decision makers on the region which largely belongs to the Balkans,
with some countries as the primary targets of the enlargement of the European
Union. The chapters are entitled by the main topics figuring in the book:
the concept of South Eastern Europe and the Balkans; territorial distribution
by states; ethnic and religious patterns; urbanisation and town network;
the standard of economic development; spatial disparities;
industry; transport; and tourism. Vissza