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| "Western Balkans" is an EU neologism, but it does exclude Slovenia. The CIA site classifies it as Central European, as does our ] article. I've always seen Slovenia as Central European. It may be that they're trying to distance themselves from the Balkans, but so what? The word doesn't have any set meaning anyway. — ] (]) 05:59, 24 November 2019 (UTC) | "Western Balkans" is an EU neologism, but it does exclude Slovenia. The CIA site classifies it as Central European, as does our ] article. I've always seen Slovenia as Central European. It may be that they're trying to distance themselves from the Balkans, but so what? The word doesn't have any set meaning anyway. — ] (]) 05:59, 24 November 2019 (UTC) | ||
| :Slovenia may be classified today as part of Central Europe by political reasons, but geographically 25% from its territory lays in Southeast Europe, i.e. on the Balkans. Look the article ] itself, please. Moreover, in the past it was classified during Yugoslav era as part of the Balkans also by political reasons. The geographical criteria is the most accurate and indisputable: Slovenia is simultaneously Central European and Southeast European country. This NPOV stays now in this article. Keep in mind Balkans and Southeast Europe are synonyms and Southeast Europe is an euphemism designed to conceal the controversial term ''Balkans''. ] (]) 06:11, 24 November 2019 (UTC) | |||
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Italian War Crimes during Italian Fascist Occupation of Slovenia 1941-1943 and the change of British policy towards their persecution due to the possibility of Italian communists winning the 1946 general election
Foreign Office (i.e. British civil authority, but not the military) policy was indeed initially, as you say, in favor of 'hand-over' of the Italian war criminals, but the British and American military authorities in Italy were against it (p.520), but the Foreign Office changed its policy (ibid., p.523), too, when in 1946 the possibility was that Italian communists would win the Italian general election, which would open Italy to Soviet influence, so they decided to drop the case and let Italy do the job (ibid., p.526) resulting in the (highly indicative) fate of Graziani and Roatta (ibid., p.525). The British concern to secure the electoral victory of the Christian Democrats "prompted Britain to drop all of its war crimes claims against Italy" (ibid., p.527). See the screenshots from the scholarly article via JStor.org
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- Effie Pedaliu (2004) Britain and the 'Hand-over' of Italian War Criminals to Yugoslavia, 1945-48. Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Collective Memory, pp. 503-529 (JStor.org full article)
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Slovenia and the Balkans
Its part south of Sava river belongs to the Balkan peninsula – i.e. Southeastern Europe. Jingiby (talk) 17:00, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
- The Balkan peninsula and the Southeastern Europe are in no way synonyms - the Balkan peninsula is a colloquial historical term for countries that were once dominions of the Ottoman Empire (until its eventual and gradual collapse in the second half of the 19. century). Thus, the Balkans is not merely a geographical term (with very loosely, if at all defined borders), but above all a cultural term that does indeed share some similarities with the definition of the Balkan peninsula. It is thereby unacceptable to reject differentiation between the SE Europe and the Balkans the way you have, and further so to establish Slovenia's location be part of the aforementioned entity solely based on the misunderstanding of the latter. At this point, it is paramount to touch upon the fact that the European Union considers in its definition the countries of the Western Balkans (the only definition of the Balkans provided in the international law) to be Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia for the purposes related to identification of the candidates for the ascension to the Union . Slovenia was never considered to be part of the South East due to its strong cultural ties to the north, the fact mirrored in the International Geographic Union definition of the country as an entity exclusively within the boundaries of Central Europe (as defined at the 1994 Congress held in Prague). That is reinforced by the definition provided by the CIA World Factbook . It is thereby irresponsible to single-handedly alter an established definition by counterparting it with one comprising the broadest existent term of the Southeastern Europe that entirely disregards the historic specifics of Slovenia, as well as directly contradicts major international standards and definitions that have seen unanimous application since the collapse of Yugoslavia (that aberrated the set definitions of the country's position within Europe for the period of forty-six years between 1945 and 1991 based upon the allegiance to the socialist federation of states formerly enthralled to the Ottoman Empire - see the initial claim on the top). The definition you provided (Encyclopedia Britannica) is for that reason unsuitable, largely due to its own uncertainty over the definition - it provides no clear boundaries of the region itself, resorting to approximations and allegations of too abstract a nature to provide any concrete determination (even contradicting itself several times, exempli gratia the uncertainty over the definition of Southeastern Europe and the Western Balkans - the latter deriving from the legal basis of the European Union above). It is for that same reason of uncertainty that I deem it inappropriate to regard Slovenia as a part of SE Europe as the region is, as stems from the sources above, too grossly undefined to serve as a criterium for the country's geographical position that was defined with far greater certainty by several other sources (also provided above) which contradict its placement in the South East (and even wholly neglect it), instead placing it solely in Central Europe. --Øksfjord (talk) 21:29, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
- The real reason in Slovenia to dispute that part of its territory falls geographically on the Balkans is political and cultural. It is a Slovenian complex and striving not to be identified with the Balkans but with Central Europe. However Misplaced Pages is a place for scientific knowledge. This issue is described well in the book by D. Norris "In the Wake of the Balkan Myth: Questions of Identity and Modernity", publisher: Springer, 1999; ISBN 0230286534, on p. 14 as follows: Geographically speaking, the River Sava, one of the acknowledged markers of the northern limit of the Balkans, flows by the northern edge of Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana. However, there exists a Slovenian mental map of former Yugoslavia in which they were in the north, and everyone in the south is in the Balkans. That is the real issue, not the geography. Jingiby (talk) 04:23, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- There are many sources that include Slovenia in SE Europe, so I don't see an issue with saying that in the article. Including Slovenia in the Balkans is a bit of a stretch, but I don't see that in the article currently, so it seems like that's a non-issue at the moment. Khirurg (talk) 04:52, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- The issue with Slovenia is explained also in the book by Zeljko Šević Banking Reforms in South-East Europe, New horizons in money and finance, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002; ISBN 1781959560, on p. 1. as follows: In part in response to the break-up of the former Yugoslav Federation, a more fashionable term 'South-East European countries' has emerged in the 1990s, covering the Balkan states (plus Slovenia)., i.e. Slovenia is undoubtedly a South-East European country and is located partially on the Balkans, per above citation. Jingiby (talk) 05:23, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- There are many sources that include Slovenia in SE Europe, so I don't see an issue with saying that in the article. Including Slovenia in the Balkans is a bit of a stretch, but I don't see that in the article currently, so it seems like that's a non-issue at the moment. Khirurg (talk) 04:52, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- The real reason in Slovenia to dispute that part of its territory falls geographically on the Balkans is political and cultural. It is a Slovenian complex and striving not to be identified with the Balkans but with Central Europe. However Misplaced Pages is a place for scientific knowledge. This issue is described well in the book by D. Norris "In the Wake of the Balkan Myth: Questions of Identity and Modernity", publisher: Springer, 1999; ISBN 0230286534, on p. 14 as follows: Geographically speaking, the River Sava, one of the acknowledged markers of the northern limit of the Balkans, flows by the northern edge of Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana. However, there exists a Slovenian mental map of former Yugoslavia in which they were in the north, and everyone in the south is in the Balkans. That is the real issue, not the geography. Jingiby (talk) 04:23, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
There is nothing "scientific" about a word like Balkans. It's just a label. Originally Ottoman Europe, including Greece -- but Greece is seldom included in the Balkans today. Originally not including Slovenia, but later it did, because Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia. But arguing about whether it "is" or "isn't" is futile. You can say that it is/isn't per the definition of the Council of Europe, or National Geographic, or whatever, but absent an agreed international definition, a simple claim one way or the other is meaningless. Also, per our Balkans article, just part of Slovenia is included in the definition they prefer (and outline on the map), which means at best (worst?), Slovenia's on the northern fringe. — kwami (talk) 05:41, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
"Western Balkans" is an EU neologism, but it does exclude Slovenia. The CIA site classifies it as Central European, as does our Central Europe article. I've always seen Slovenia as Central European. It may be that they're trying to distance themselves from the Balkans, but so what? The word doesn't have any set meaning anyway. — kwami (talk) 05:59, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- Slovenia may be classified today as part of Central Europe by political reasons, but geographically 25% from its territory lays in Southeast Europe, i.e. on the Balkans. Look the article Balkans itself, please. Moreover, in the past it was classified during Yugoslav era as part of the Balkans also by political reasons. The geographical criteria is the most accurate and indisputable: Slovenia is simultaneously Central European and Southeast European country. This NPOV stays now in this article. Keep in mind Balkans and Southeast Europe are synonyms and Southeast Europe is an euphemism designed to conceal the controversial term Balkans. Jingiby (talk) 06:11, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
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