Balkan studies

Balkan studies^[1][2][3] or Balkanology is the studies of the Balkans and Southeastern Europe. It is also known as Southeast European Studies^{[4][5][6][7][8]} or South-East European Studies.^[9][10] It is a subfield of European studies.

Institutions

• International Association of South-East European Studies (AIESEE)
• East European and Balkan Institute, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
• Institute for Balkan Studies, Greece
• Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia
• Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Bulgaria
• Balkanology Research Center, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Austria
• Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Greece
• Department of South Slavonic and Balkan Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic
• M. Drynov Center for Bulgarian and Balkan Studies, National University of Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Department of Balkan Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

People

• Traian Stoianovich (1921–2005), history
• Gustav Weigand^[11] (1860–1930), linguistics
• Gerhard Gesemann (1888–1948), linguistics
• Konstantin Josef Jireček (1854–1918), history, linguistics
• Josef Matl^[12] (1897–1974), history, linguistics
• Ioannis Papadrianos^[13] (d. 2009), history
• Kristian Sandfeld (1873–1942), linguistics
• Vaso Čubrilović^[14] (1897–1990), history
• Radovan Samardžić (1922–1994), history
• Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907), linguistics^[15]
• Dragoljub Dragojlović^[16] (b. 1928), philology, history
• Boris Shmelev^[17] (b. 19××), contemporary geo-politics
• Ivan Dorovský (1935–2021), linguistics, Slavistics and Balkanology
• Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca (1941–2017), history and philology
• Maria Todorova
• Irena Natalia Sawicka (1944), linguistics

See also

• Albanology
• Byzantine studies
• Hellenic studies
• Ottoman studies
• Slavic studies
• Yugoslav studies
• Imagining the Balkans

References

1. "Balkan Studies". www.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
2. "Balkan Studies". Faculty of Slavic Studies. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
3. "Institute for Balkan Studies". www.sanu.ac.rs. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
4. "Southeast European Studies - Joint Programmes". www.jointdegree.eu. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
5. "see.pspa.uoa.gr". see.pspa-EN (in Greek). 2026-03-09. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
6. "Southeast European Studies: Southeast European Studies - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press". www.routledge.com. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
7. "Southeast European Studies". Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
8. "Southeast European Studies | U-M LSA Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES)". ii.umich.edu. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
9. "South-Eastern European Studies". www.seestudies.eu. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
10. O'Driscoll, David. "UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies (SSEES)". Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Retrieved 2026-09-14.
11. Dimitar Bechev (13 April 2009). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia. Scarecrow Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-8108-6295-1.
12. Islamica: The Journal of the Islamic Society of the London School of Economics. Islamic Society, London School of Economics and Political Science. 1995.
13. Balkanološki institut (2009). Balcanica. Vol. 39. SANU. p. 314.
14. That was Yugoslavia. Ost-Dienst. 1991. p. 28.
15. Cahiers de linguistique théorique et appliquée. Editions de l'Académie de la République populaire roumaine. 1978. p. 367.
16. Radovan Samardžić; Milan Duškov (1993). Serbs in European civilization. Nova. p. 181. ISBN 978-86-7583-015-3.
17. FBIS Daily Report: East Europe. The Service. 1993. p. 4.

Further reading

• Palavestra, Aleksandar. "Balkanologija Jovana Cvijića." Istraživač 1 (1981): 13-15.
• Lukovič, Miloš. "Balkanistika (balkanologie) v Srbsku v období 1991–2013." Historica-Review in History and Related Sciences 5.1 (2014): 86-104.
• Babić, Marko. "Balkanology." (2009).
• Burkhart, Dagmar. "Položaj etnologije u balkanologiji: eksplikacija i teze za balkansku etnologiju." Etnološka tribina 15.8 (1985): 5-28.
• članova Instituta, Bibliografije, and Zrinka Blažević. "Globaliziranje Balkana: prolegomena za nove balkanske studije."
• Lovrenović, Dubravko. "Duž balkanskih historiografskih transverzala." Zeničke sveske-Časopis za društvenu fenomenologiju i kulturnu dijalogiku 03 (2006): 11-20.
• Palavestra, Aleksandar. Balkanology, Archaeology and Long-term History. 1994.
• Miliori, Margarita. "Ambiguous partisanships. Philhellenism, turkophilia and balkanology in 19th century Britain." Balkanologie. Revue d'études pluridisciplinaires 6.1-2 (2002): 127-153.
• Popovici, V. "The rudiments of Balkanology. A step towards Eurolinguistics-German-Reiter, N." (1996): 573-575.
• Polome, E. C. "Characteristics of Balkanology: A first look at Eurolinguistics-German-Reiter, N." (1995): 489-490.
• Battistella, Edwin, et al. "South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics." (1984): 193-194.
• Sawicka, Irena. "Meandry bałkanologii." Slavica Wratislaviensia 159 (2014): 407-411.
• Štěpánek, Václav. "Slavistička balkanistika–novi izazovi." (2010).
• Orr, Robert, et al. "South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, 11)." (1983): 349-351.
• Babić, Marko. "Balkanology." (2009).
• Papasov, Ivo, et al. Balkanology. Hannibal, 1991.
• Nagy, Levente. "Balcanistica hungarica rediviva." Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 39.2 (2003).
• Barentsen, Adriaan Arij. South Slavic and Balkan Linguistics. Vol. 1. Rodopi, 1982.