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Medieval Fortifications in the Balkans
By Alice Isabella Sullivan
Fortified locals are prominent features of the Eastern European landscape. Throughout the Middle Ages, the regions of the Balkan Peninsula were caught at the crossroads of competing worldviews and defensive architecture became an important mechanism through which to ensure the protection of secular and religious sites.
Medieval cities regularly received surrounding enclosures. Constantinople is a prime example. Its massive fortifications resisted besiegers for more than a thousand years. Thessaloniki – a prominent city in the Balkans, established by King Cassander of Macedon (r. 305-297 B.C.) – featured imposing fortifications like those of the Byzantine capital. Although the architectural record of Thessaloniki from this period is difficult to establish, the walls of the city were impressive. They extended for about 8 kilometres, and were reconstructed between 380s and mid-400s. This project corresponds roughly
Just how much influence does Russia have in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
January 26, 2021
Russia wants to prevent Bosnia and Herzegovina joining NATO and the EU at all costs.
In December 2020, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was publicly snubbed by two members of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency the Bosniak representative Šefik Džaferović and his Croat colleague Željko Komšić.
It was a gesture that yet again exposed the fraught relationship between the Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska – the two entities that make up Bosnia and Herzegovina – and once again brought into question Russian influence in the region.
Officially, the reasoning behind why the two members of the presidency declined a scheduled meeting with Mr Lavrov was because he had previously met one-on-one with the Serb member and chairman of the presidency Milorad Dodik, during which no insignia of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina were present.
EU stokes divisions by neglecting Balkans in vaccine rollout Europe’s most volatile region looks to China and Russia after vaccine deliveries face delays 22 January 2021 - 09:16 Jasmina Kuzmanovic Serbian President Aleksandar Vuci. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/BLOOMBERG/OLIVER BUNIC The coronavirus exposed lingering divisions in the Balkans, and now Europe’s most volatile region is once again cleaving along geopolitical and ethnic lines over efforts to get people vaccinated.
The EU has pledged to give six prospective members €70m to buy Covid shots, but deliveries are facing delays. That has empowered Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to leverage his links with China and traditional ally Russia into pledging vaccine donations to North Macedonia and to the ethnic Serbs in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina.