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(..) The adjective 'Balkan' can serve sipmply as an anthonym to the adjective 'European': 'In the region itself the Balkans are always thought to be elsewhere, to the south-east of wherever one is, until, on the shores of the Bosphorus, one catches sight of Asia across the water'.

V. Golsworthy. Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination.