ROMANIA AND THE BALKAN ISSUE. A CULTURAL RADIOGRAPHY
ROMANIA AND THE BALKAN ISSUE. A CULTURAL RADIOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: The article reveals some historical, cultural and, at the same time, diplomatic aspects which justify the involvement of Romania in all of the political, military, geopolitical aspects and issues in the Balkan Peninsula. As we are able to see in the Romanian history, the Neo-Latin speakers lived, in the Middle Age, from Pannonia region to Macedonia. Separated by Slavic and Hungarian populations, Neo-Latin speakers lived at the North of the Danube river and also in the Balkans, on the shores of the river Timoc. After a failed attempt to create a Romanian-Bulgarian state with a Trans-Danubian territory, during the Middle Age, Romania and Bulgaria had separated paths and ways of evolution on their way to unity and independence, but the problem of the Neo-Latin speakers from the Balkans had remained unsolved until a primarily solution in the year 1905, by the initiative of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The article presents a structural and historiographical analysis of the Balkan notion, using linguistic, historical, geographical and geopolitical sources.

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