*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Balkan area has historically been one of the world\'s most combustible regions.
The Balkans, however, had been fl.
Infamously, the 1914 assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, was the final straw that led to World War I.
Home to several National groups and at a crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the Balkans have exerted an outsized role on world affairs. *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Balkan area has historically been one of the world\'s most combustible regions