STATES, NATIONS AND ETHNIC-GROUPS IN YUGO SLAVIA

Authors
Citation
U. Ostergard, STATES, NATIONS AND ETHNIC-GROUPS IN YUGO SLAVIA, Internasjonal politikk, 51(4), 1993, pp. 435-458
Citations number
55
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science","International Relations
Journal title
ISSN journal
0020577X
Volume
51
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
435 - 458
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-577X(1993)51:4<435:SNAEIY>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
The author examines the historical conflict lines between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires, the conflict between Christianity and Islam in t he Balkans, and, not least, the border areas Krajina and Ukraine, wher e Christians - Serbs and Cossacks respectively, were given a special s tatus as Christianity's vanguard against Islam.