Balkan Mountains Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula
About Balkan Mountains
Geographically the Balkan mountain range stretches from the area of the border betweenSerbiaandBulgariaon the west to the verycoast of the Black Seaon the east. Because it runs like a horizontal axis through Bulgaria, the mountain chain naturally divides the country in northern and southern parts. The mountain can be split into three parts: west, central and east. West Stara Planina is average in height compared to the other Bulgarian mountains. Because of the proximity of its southern ridges to the other mountains of theBulgarian Shoplukcultural region the west portion of the Balkan is a part of that region. Standing relatively alone, the high Central Balkan and the low Eastern Balkan have formed another ethnological area theBalkancultural region. The Balkan cultural region includes more
Balkan Mountains Travel Guide Sections
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