Do You Consider Greece A Balkan Country?

[Zeno]

Geographically, yes, of course.

But: culturally, a bit. A tiny bit.

And economically and politically, the rocks even are audibly laughing, so no.

[Ülev]

http://balkanistyka.org/
according to that site, yes

[Bender1999]

Yes, although Greece has separate meaning regarding history/politics. Geographically and yes also culturally they have sone similarities.

[Tauromachos]

Greece is not a typical Balkan country

From my understanding we in Greece consider Balkan more the neighbouring South East European regions outside Greece such as former Yugoslavia,Romania and Albania maybe.

Geograpically Greece is located in the Balkanpeninsular but its not fully Balkan neither since Greece is not only Mainland but Aegean too.

Anyways it maybe considered Balkan or it maybe not there is no strict definition for this imo

Wether Balkan or not, Greece is certainly Mediteranean just look at the map and see how much blue sea Greece has

[gixajo]

South Balkan and mediterranean country.

[Crn Volk]

1. For me it is Serbia definitely
2. Not really, it's just a name issue I guess.

The name issue is solved. Now we are bros

[Crn Volk]

Genetically speaking all people in the Balkans are related to one another, that is why a DNA test gives you a result of "Greece & the Balkans". The Serbs and Croats and Bosnians etc are mostly Slavicized natives of a similar stock to Greeks. I think Southern Greece and Peloponnese connect more with Italians and Spaniards and Northern Greeks more with the Balkan culture.

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[Jana]

This

You are slavicized, we are not. Genetic difference between Croats and Slavophone Macedonians is huge, let alone with Greeks.

[Zeno]

Genetically speaking all people in the Balkans are related to one another, that is why a DNA test gives you a result of "Greece & the Balkans". The Serbs and Croats and Bosnians etc are mostly Slavicized natives of a similar stock to Greeks. I think Southern Greece and Peloponnese connect more with Italians and Spaniards and Northern Greeks more with the Balkan culture.

I think Greeks in general connect in a definitely more direct way with other southern Europeans than Balkanites.

[Renekton]

Mainland Greece yes. Islands no