Balkans

Montenegro

One of the most amazing things about the Balkans is that you can be dancing away in a bar in an exciting, modern European city and – just 10 miles away – is a village that hasn’t changed in a century.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

One of the most amazing things about the Balkans is that you can be dancing away in a bar in an exciting, modern European city and – just 10 miles away – is a village that hasn’t changed in a century.

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The Persian Empire

Otherwise known as the Achaemenid Empire, the First Persian Empire was founded by ruler Cyrus the Great in the 6th Century BC. The Empire gradually expanded into the largest empire the world had seen at the time, controlling regions as far as the Indus River to the East and the Balkans and Macedonia to the west.

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Top Ten SERBIA

Almost  one in five of the population live in the capital. The “white” city is anything but- expect a city in Soviet concrete grey. The city’s strategic location on 2 great rivers at the centre of Europe has led to a series of invasions over the centuries.

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