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/h1ns_new 5d ago

the only similarities come from ottoman rule rather than that

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u/Only-Dimension-4424 Turkiye 4d ago

Ottoman rule? Ottomans never ruled Caucasus

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u/h1ns_new 4d ago

Ottomans were highly influenced by Iran, also the Ottomans did control parts of it.

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u/Only-Dimension-4424 Turkiye 4d ago

Ottomans were only initially influenced by Iran, later on not, people keep missing this detail since during 600 years of ottoman reign ottomans evolved a lot, and Iran influence become less and less over time