The topography and climate of the Balkans.

The Balkan Peninsula occupies a very important geographical position, bordering the Adriatic Sea and Aegean Sea in the west, the Black Sea in the east, Asia across the Turkish Strait, and the Danube and its tributary sava river in the north. The border with the European continent is very wide, with no mountain barrier and convenient transportation. The peninsula covers a total area of 500,000 square kilometers, including Albania, Greece, Bulgaria and Macedonia, most of Yugoslavia and a small part of Romania and Turkey.

The topography of the Balkans is mainly mountainous. In Turkish, "Balkan" means mountainous. The mountains on the peninsula mainly belong to the branches of the Alps, with only the plains and lowlands in the north and east. The south bank of the west bank has a Mediterranean climate, and the inland has continental climate characteristics. The coastline is tortuous and many islands. There are forests, coal, copper, oil and other resources here.

The Balkan Peninsula is one of the earliest cradles of human civilization, especially the southern part of which once gave birth to the famous ancient Greek culture. Because of its important traffic location, the peninsula has become the focus of sharp contradictions among European powers in this century. 19 14 World War I was triggered by the assassination of the Austrian Crown Prince in Yugoslavia.