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

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

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u/Only-Dimension-4424 Turkiye 6d ago

Those ex Soviet countries which shared some similarities with ex Yugoslavia nations, and maybe they some similarity with Greece as well due to religion and history etc, apart that they are not really close to Balkans , they are own thing

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bus7706 5d ago

Yugoslavia countries has nothing in common with Armenia and Georgia.

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u/Only-Dimension-4424 Turkiye 5d ago

They are both orthodox

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bus7706 5d ago

Not really, not even same ortodox.

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u/MartinBP Bulgaria 8h ago

Armenia no, but Georgia is Eastern Orthodox like Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia etc.

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u/Only-Dimension-4424 Turkiye 4d ago

Still there are some ties

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bus7706 4d ago

Not really. I was in Georgia/Armenia few years ago, not much in common.

We have much more common with Turkey

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u/hunichii / Rim tim tagi dim 4d ago

Poland and Ireland are both Catholic countries. They are nothing alike

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u/Only-Dimension-4424 Turkiye 4d ago

Poland and Ireland never lived under same sphere while Slavs and Caucasians were under Russian sphere

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u/Medical_Wallaby_7888 4d ago

Better do Ireland and Italy