Saturday, April 13, 2013

Explore the beauty of Balkan region through culture I Srimal Fernando I Daily Mirror

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 8 Apr 2013   Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Explore the beauty of Balkan region through culture

 By Srimal Fernando

Nestling on the eastern side of Europe surrounded by the sea on three sides, the region of the Balkan nations is an important location at the crossroads of Europe, Central Asia and the Mediterranean. The spectacular Balkan countries of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia – Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Slovenia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Rumania are binded together by the glories of its rich history. It is a magnificent landscape endowed with most famous tranquil hill stations, snowclad mountains, long coastlines, devotional and historical places. The Balkan region is also called “a chain of wooded mountains” in Turkish. The region has been invaded many times in the past and has been occupied and settled by many different people, each of whom have left their imprint on the current inhabitants of the Balkan countries. There is no end to the breath-taking sites visitors can see in the towns of Sofia , Belgrade, Bucharest ,Skopje, Tirana, Novi Sad ,Cluj and , Zagreb to be found across various Balkan states. The region is culture

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