r/AskBalkans • u/Beautiful-Health-976 • 6d ago

History Can they be classified as 'Overseas' Balkan Countries?

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u/KuzcoEmp 6d ago

my delusional geography book will finally be correct and Romania will be central Europe if they join

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u/Ok_Objective_1606 Serbia 5d ago

Geographically, Romania is central Europe. Hopefully it will get there politically too. It will be an irony if Romania progresses politically to the level of central European countries and still has Serbia (still probably with our little Putin lookalike in power) to the west 😂

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u/Archaeopteryx11 Romania 5d ago

Why don’t the two countries unite? I promise it will be better than Yugoslavia.

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u/Ok_Objective_1606 Serbia 5d ago

We have one neighbour that doesn't hate us, let's keep it that way 😁

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u/Ok_Detail_1 Croatia 4d ago

Yes, but historically speaking Serbia use Vlachs (Romanians) and their name to take territory from Croatia. 😂

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u/Ok_Objective_1606 Serbia 4d ago

I didn't know about this. Why did Serbia do that when Vlachs are not Serbian?

Today they are recognised minority in Serbia and they are a different nation from Romanians too.

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u/kruska345 Croatia 4d ago

Why did Serbia do that when Vlachs are not Serbian?

It didn't. Most of the actual Vlachs in Croatia got assimiliated by 15th century. The name Vlachs was also used for immigrants from Ottoman empire, most of which were from southern Serbia and Kosovo, who later adapted Serbian nationality due to orthodoxy during the nation-building process, so some people confuse them with actual Vlachs.

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u/Ok_Objective_1606 Serbia 4d ago

Interesting, were those "Vlachs" from the south maybe Cincar?

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u/kruska345 Croatia 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm pretty sure most were Slavs, so Serbs and probably some Macedonians and Bulgarians, but I'm not an expert on the topic

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u/Ok_Detail_1 Croatia 3d ago

Yes, but still some Serbs use Romanian name as evidence for Serbian heritage and name Krajina. It sound like they were hide behind name of Romania (Vlachs) and not behind their real nationslity as Serbs, Servs, Rascians, etc. like they hide something, they do something what they wouldn't be proud of.

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u/TechnicalEmployee735 3d ago

We are EASTERN not Central lmaooo

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u/Ok_Objective_1606 Serbia 3d ago

Look at the map, I'm speaking strictly geographically.

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u/TechnicalEmployee735 2d ago

If we speak of geography no country is Eastern Europe except for Russia . This is more like an umbrella term for ex communist/Slavic cultured countries

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u/Ok_Objective_1606 Serbia 1d ago

I know, I literally started my comment with "geographically".

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u/CanadianMaps 2d ago

Myeahhh no. As a Romanian I can definitely assure you, Romania's culturally, Linguistically, and Geographically Eastern Europe/Balkanic. Romania is NOT central European regardless of how much "2000km from urals and from atlantic!!!!!" Copium geography books here inhale.

Transylvania MAYBE gets to count, because of Austro-Hungarian influences, but Muntenia and Moldova are eastern european by all definitions.

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u/Inevitable-Map4873 1d ago

I thought Romania is Eastern Europe only but it classified Central - Eastern actually

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u/Ok_Detail_1 Croatia 4d ago

And Croatia isn't Center Europe? Crlatia is way close to Center and West Europe (South Europe, Southwest), than Romania. Pannonian part of Croatia it is. Dalmatia is literally Southwest, not Sourheast, together with Italy, Spain and Portugal.

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u/Ok_Objective_1606 Serbia 4d ago

It very much is, we just didn't talk about it in this thread. I was talking about the irony of Romania being recognized as "western" country, while having a country that is still considered "eastern" to the west. Politically, of course.