The considered the to be the northern limit of the Peninsula of Haemus and the same limit applied approximately to the border between Greek and Latin use in the region later called the.
State Most spoken language Linguistic minorities Albania 98% 2% other Bosnia and Herzegovina 53% 31% Serbian official , 15% Croatian official , 2% other Bulgaria 86% 8% Turkish, 4% Romani, 1% other, 1% unspecified Croatia 96% 1% Serbian, 3% other Greece 99% 1% other Kosovo 94% Albanian 2% Bosnian, 2% Serbian official , 1% Turkish, 1% other Montenegro 43% 37% official , 5% Albanian, 5% Bosnian, 5% other, 4% unspecified North Macedonia 67% 25% Albanian official , 4% Turkish, 2% Romani, 1% Serbian, 2% other Romania 85% 6% , 1% Serbia 88% Serbian 3% Hungarian, 2% Bosnian, 1% Romani, 3% other, 2% unspecified Slovenia 91% 5% Serbo-Croatian, 4% other Turkey 85% 12% , 3% other and unspecified Urbanization Most of the states in the Balkans are predominantly urbanized, with the lowest number of urban population as % of the total population found in Kosovo at under 40%, Bosnia and Herzegovina at 40% and Slovenia at 50%.
For Italians and Austrians, it begins with Slovenia, where the reign of the Slavic hordes starts.
Germany and the 2nd World War.