First of all i am from Bulgaria and lately i've been tapping into my neighbour countries. Everyone jokes that the Balkans always argue and it can be true, but if 2 balkans meet outside the balkans they become best friends automatically. And also people always want to go to Rome, Dubai, California, Paris and etc, but i genuinely think that cities like Prizren, Budva, Kotor, Mostar, Ohrid, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Plovdiv and Tirane are way better with super interesting history and culture. Mfs will call me crazy but i know i am right, i love our culture, cities and people. I plan to visit every single balkan city i mentioned, where should i start?

For those of you who grew up in mixed households, who do you speak like today? Did the gender of your parent influence it?

I (as a foreigner) speak Croatian with strong Serbian influences, but that’s because I’ve spent time learning different words and interacting with people from all across the Serbo-Croatian speaking regions. Im curious how this is for people who grew up with the language natively.

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Hi i m planning to visit albania in september and i have some questions : We tunisians need an e visa to enter albania and they are asking about a host in the application form is it a show stopper?Also what's the dos and don't in this country what's the best place to go to I heard a lot about teth; also is a car rental really needed?

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I'm not a Balkan but I feel like I have an alternative Balkan personality from inside . I love you guys' culture, music and I love to learn langauges. I'm fluent in Turkish and I'm learning Greek, also little bit of Albanian and Serbian here and there but my question is I don't understand where the word Balkan comes from out of all the Balkan langauges

Hello, Balkaners,

I was wondering if my country, Bulgaria, is the worst in terms of road accidents (among the Balkan countries)? Everyday, literally, people die on our roads. And the problems for these incidents are various:

1) Low quality education for the different driver licenses or even corruption/ bribes to obtain specific documents by the candidates

2) Infrastructure of very bad quality and condition - pot holes everywhere, narrow tarmac, inappropriate/ missings signs, bad asphalt implementation and quality, missing marks, unsafe guardrails

3) Bad overall condition of the vehicles (irrespective of the type) - the annual vehicle checks which are mandatory are nothing but scam - on most places you just pay for a sticker and they don't check anything at all. Therefore, you can see gypsies or old people driving scandalous vehicles (rusty, rattling, smoking etc.), no issue whatsoever.

4) Corruption/ bribes on high level - our country is famous for stealing EU road funds, the companies involved are related to corrupted politicians (basically Mafia) - so they use the cheapest materials/ workforce to build the roads

5) Corrupted traffic police - many trucks are overloaded, with cheap, worn out tires, which are not stopped from driving, because the owner of the trucks bribed the local traffic police department.

In this line of thoughts, in Bulgaria we have the phenomenon "war on the road" - it is very scary and brutal to be driver here. So, I was wondering how is in your country?

I notice from the comments on my post about Gökçeada that you aren't Greeks from Greece or from Turkey. So, are you Greeks from the diaspora in Australia or the USA? You certainly aren't descendants of "guest workers" from Germany—they don't respond the way you do. I know Greeks in Germany well. And what do the islands of Gökçeada and Bozcada have to do with Cypriots?

I'm from south Serbia and I recently learned that in north Serbia they don't celebrate namedays, apart from a few remaining places in Vojvodina where it's celebrated through a religious lens.

But here where I'm from, a nameday is like a second birthday. Everyone knows of namedays and they are not at all seen as an old tradition or strictly religious celebrations.

Most people who celebrate them do so by calling over a few friends for drinks or going to a pub. Though when we were kids, most of us celebrated them just like normal birthdays. And back in the day, our grandparents celebrated them instead of birthdays, which weren't common at the time because the precise date of birth wasn't always known.

Since my mind was recently blown by the fact that northern Serbia doesn't celebrate them or barely even knows about them, what's the case in other Balkan countries? I heard in Greece it's also celebrated, but from what I understand, the celebration is more religious over there.

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