Former countries in the Balkans

The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire, was a state that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century to the early 20th century, centered in modern-day Turkey. It also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Yugoslavia (; ) was a country in Central Europe and the Balkans that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the first union of South Slavic peoples as a sovereign state, following centuries of foreign rule over the region under the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy.

Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and officially as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional dual empire in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consisted of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both the Emperor of Austria and the Apostolic King of Hungary. Austria-Hungary constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy: it was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War, following wars of i

federal republic (1992–2003) and political union (2003–2006) in the Balkans

Central European multinational Empire from 1804 to 1867

feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire

medieval Bulgar-Slavic and later Bulgarian state that existed in Southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD.

kingdom in Southeastern Europe between 1881 and 1947

1882–1918 kingdom in Southeastern Europe

1965–1989 republic in Southeastern Europe

1910–1918 kingdom in Southeastern Europe

World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy (April 1941-May 1945)

Medieval Bulgarian state (1185–1396)

thumb|350px|Roman Moesia in 250 AD, divided into the provinces of Moesia Superior to the west and Moesia Inferior to the east

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former Balkan republic (1992–2003)

former country (1205–1458)

Crusader principality in southern Greece

kingdom established by the Ostrogoths in Italy and neighbouring areas (493-553 CE)

1346–1371 empire in the Balkan Peninsula

former state between 1920 and 1924

(925–1102) a medieval kingdom comprising most of what is today Croatia as well as, periodically, parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina

autonomous territory in the Ottoman Empire from 1878-1885

13th Century short-lived Crusader state founded after the Fourth Crusade, 1204-1224

second kingdom, crown land of the Austrian Empire (1815-1867) and the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)

administrative division that existed between 1868 and 1918 within the Austro-Hungary

former country (1402-1459/1537)

union of Thracian tribes and kingdoms (5th century BC to 1st century AD)

federal unit of Yugoslavia/Serbia & Montenegro between 1992 and 2006

Bosnian de-facto independent feudal state during Middle Ages

former principality in Southeast Europe

administrative division that existed between 1527 and 1868 within the Habsburg Monarchy

Duklja (; ; ) was a medieval South Slavic state which roughly encompassed the territories of modern-day southeastern Montenegro, from the Bay of Kotor in the west to the Bojana river in the east, and to the sources of the Zeta and Morača rivers in the north. First mentioned in 10th– and 11th-century Byzantine chronicles, it was a vassal of the Bulgarian Empire between 997 and 1018, and then of the Byzantine Empire until it became independent in 1040 under Stefan Vojislav ( 1034–43) who rose up and managed to take over territories of the earlier Serbian Principality, founding the Vojislavljević

period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1878 and 1918

Serbian principality between 1371 and 1402

federal unit of Yugoslavia/Serbia & Montenegro between 1992 and 2006

habsburg kingdom (1699–1868)

short-lived 1914 republic in Europe

kingdom in Southeast Europe between 1272–1368

medieval state in the former Roman province of Dalmatia

crownland of the Habsburg monarchy between 1718–1739

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Travunia (; ; ; ) was a South Slavic medieval principality that was part of Medieval Serbia (850–1371), and later the Medieval Bosnia (1373–1482). The principality became hereditary in a number of noble houses, often kin to the ruling dynasty. The region came under Ottoman rule in 1482. Its seat was in the city of Trebinje.

short-lived republic in Central Europe between late-May and early-June 1919

The Narentines were a South Slavic tribe noted as pirates on the Adriatic Sea in the 9th and 10th centuries. They occupied an area of southern Dalmatia centered at the river Neretva (). Named Narentani in Venetian sources, they were called Paganoi, "pagans", by the Greeks, as they were still pagan after the Christianization of the neighbouring tribes. They were fierce enemies of the Republic of Venice, attacking Venetian merchants and clergy traveling through the Adriatic, and even raiding close to Venice itself and defeating the doge several times. Venetian–Narentine peace treaties did not la

Albanian principality (1190-1255)

1921 unrecognized republic in Europe

short-lived state in Western Thrace

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Province in Italian-annexed Slovenia (1941–1943)

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Subdivision of the Ottoman Empire

medieval Serbian kingdom

autonomous region of Ottoman Empire (1774 - 1809)

Panonian Slavic people

1757–1831 autonomous and de facto independent pashalik

medieval principality in south-east Europe