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Bookmark or Share- Republic of Venice - Encyclopedia.comVenice is located at the head of the Adriatic Sea, wedged between the Italian peninsula and the Balkans. Before the city’s founding, the area was essentially an uninhabitable swamp with a few scattered fishing villages; there was little fresh water, and its perpetual dampness made it a fertile breeding ground for both mosquitoes and the ...
- Balkans - Encyclopedia.comThese raids caused great waves of migration in the late medieval period. For example, beginning in the fifteenth century, Serbs from Kosovo and eastern Serbia moved to Buda to escape Ottoman seasonal raids, while Catholic Albanians and Slavs crossed the Adriatic Sea and established colonies in the Papal States and in the kingdom of Naples ...
- Yugoslavia - Encyclopedia.comThe port of Bar and the Gulf of Kotor are the main access points. At about 125 mi (200 km), the Adriatic Sea is at its widest between Yugoslavia and southern Italy. This portion of the Adriatic is also the deepest, reaching some 4,360 ft (1,330 m) at a point about 75 mi (120 km) southwest of the Gulf of Kotor. CLIMATE AND VEGETATION Temperature
- Balkan Countries - Encyclopedia.comOther popular vegetable soups are potato, leek, corn, or bean soups, or a soup made of zucchini with milk or eggs. Along the Danube River, fishermen prepare thick soups (Alaska è orba), while in coastal areas, they make soup from sea fishes (the Greek khakhavia). In the past, meat did not play a central role in the food culture of the Balkans.
- Adriatic Sea - Encyclopedia.comAdriatic Sea (ādrēă´tĬk), arm of the Mediterranean Sea [1], between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula [2]. It extends c.500 mi (800 km) from the Gulf of Venice, at its head, SE to the Strait of Otranto, which leads to the Ionian
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