Balkan,as someone before said their folklore is South Slavic,and language is a part of South Slavic dialect continuum.
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Balkan,as someone before said their folklore is South Slavic,and language is a part of South Slavic dialect continuum.
I'd say Central European. Even the Croats these days like to see themselves as Central European and not Balkan.
I've read that before the Germans and Magyars settled in Central Europe the Slovene and Slovak were ethnically connected and really almost one.But in the over 1 thousand years since the cultures have been totally separated and Slovenia has many more cultural connections with the North Western Balkans.
Balkan and at the same time central European. I see them more as part of the northern Balkans though.
I would say Balkan. When I say Balkan I mean Slavic and exclude Albania and Greece as they are seen as Mediterranean countries.
I met Slovenians and really they are like other Yugoslavs. Their cuisine is very much like Serbian and Croatian. If you walk into their food stores you'd think you were in Serbia. It would not be just their food but their looks and mentalities that are very similar. They are very tall people too.
Interesting. I didn't know that coastal non-Slavs were seen as non-Balkan but as exclusively Mediterranean. Also, would that make coastal Slavs like Slovenians, Croatians, Bosnians and Serbians Mediterranean and non-Balkan as well, or does their Slavic-culture overshadow their relation to the Mediterranean making them exclusively Balkan?
I'm just really curious.
Central Europeans. They do not belong in Balkans. They have no Balkan culture.
Patronizing much? Well, I was genuinely interested in your views, because I've certainly seen many different definitions of the Balkans, culturally, geographically and ethnographically. No need to establish what is considered the Balkans where you live in such a condescending way.