Balkanization of historical memory

Photo: Predrag Trokicic The controversial term Balkanization is frequently used to describe the process of fragmentation and division of a territory, the formation of small nation-states on the ashes of ancient empires or larger states, the crumbling and disintegration of a territory. Nation-state creation in the Balkans began in the early 19th century, with the first national revolutions in the Ottoman Empire and, somewhat later, the formation of early independent