Balkan studies

Balkan studies or Balkanology is the studies of the Balkans.

Institutions specializing in Balkan studies

Academic

• 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 (or "Balkanological Institute"), Serbia (SANU)
• Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology, Bulgaria (BAN)
• Balkanology Research Center, Bosnia and Herzegovina (ANUBiH)

University

• 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

Notable people

• Traian Stoianovich (1921–2005), history
• Gustav Weigand^[1] (1860–1930), linguistics
• Gerhard Gesemann (1888–1948), linguistics
• Konstantin Josef Jireček (1854–1918), history, linguistics
• Josef Matl^[2] (1897–1974), history, linguistics
• Ioannis Papadrianos^[3] (d. 2009), history
• Kristian Sandfeld (1873–1942), linguistics
• Vaso Čubrilović^[4] (1897–1990), history
• Radovan Samardžić (1922–1994), history
• Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838–1907), linguistics^[5]
• Dragoljub Dragojlović^[6] (b. 1928), philology, history
• Boris Shmelev^[7] (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

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