Dear colleagues and friends,

We are pleased to announce that the new, ninth issue of the peer-review journal Balkans has been published. Balkans is a peer-review journal published by the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The topic of the latest issue is The Balkans and the sea.

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Presentation of the last issue of the journal by Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences