Vol 2, No 7 2000 pp. 311 - 324
UDC 316.722+316.642

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SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE - A CROSSROAD
OF CIVILISATIONS OR THE BELATED RENAISSANCE
Alexander Ranguelov
South-Western State University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

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Abstract. South-eastern Europe is a contact-conflictable zone including two trunk directions, through which expansionist waves with different potential, socio-cultural features and fortune conning from the Southeast and the Northeast penetrated. Persia and the Ottoman empire were fateful sings of colonisation pressure on the South-Eastern direction. The north-eastern threat, dated From the Avars and Ostgots, found it's traditional carrier in the Russian ambitions to Europe in the last few centuries. Founding itself in a powerful configuration of permanent aspirations South-Eastern Europe turned for long time into a border of civilisations and European identity. 

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JUGOISTOČNA EVROPA - RASKRSNICA CIVILIZACIJA ILI ZAKASNELA RENESANSA Jugoistočna Evropa je kontaktno-kofliktna zona koja uključuje dve transverzale kroz koje su sa jugoistoka i severoistoka prodirali ekspanzionistički talasi različitog potencijala, socio-kulturnih karakteristika i sudbine. Persija i Otomansko carstvo bili su sudbonosni primeri kolonizacijskog pritiska sa jugoistoka. Pretnje sa severoistoka koje datiraju još iz vremena Avara i Ostrogota, našle su u poslednjih nekoliko vekova svog tradicionalnog nastavljača u ruskim ambicijama prema Evropi. Koreneći se na moćnoj konfiguraciji stalnih aspiracija, jugoistočna Evropa se već odavno pretvorila u granicu civilizacija i evropskog identiteta.