CONTENTS
H. BIRNBAUM
Prefatory Note . . . . . . . . 5
M. GIMBUTAS
The Neolithic Cultures of the Balkan Peninsula . . . . . . . . 9
V. I. GEORGIEV
The Earliest Ethnological Situation of the Balkan Peninsula as Evidenced by Linguistic and Onomastic Data . . . . . . . . 50
P. IVIĆ
Balkan Slavic Migrations in the Light of South Slavic Dialectology . . . . . . . . 66
K. KAZAZIS
The Status of Turkisms in the Present-Day Balkan Languages . . . . . . . . 87
P. CHARANIS
Town and Country in the Byzantine Possessions of the Balkan Peninsula During the Later Period of the Empire . . . . . . . . 117
I. DUJČEV
Le problème de la continuité dans l'histoire de la Bulgarie médiévale . . . . . . . . 138
S. VRYONIS, JR.
Religious Changes and Patterns in the Balkans, 14th-16th Centuries . . . . . . . . 151
M. CHATZIIDAKIS
Aspects de la peinture religieuse dans les Balkans (1300-1500) . . . . . . . . 177
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K. OTTO-DORN
Nachleben byzantinischer Traditionen in der Moschee Murads II. in Edirne . . . . . . . . 198
E. V. WILLIAMS
A Byzantine Ars Nova: The 14th-Century Reforms of John Koukouzeles in the Chanting of Great Vespers . . . . . . . . 211
B. LAOURDAS †
Greek Religious Texts During the Ottoman Period . . . . . . . . 230
H. BIRNBAUM
Byzantine Tradition Transformed: The Old Serbian Vita . . . . . . . . 243
A. TIETZE
The Balkans and Ottoman Sources — Ottoman Sources and the Balkans . . . . . . . . 285
A. B. LORD
The Effect of the Turkish Conquest on Balkan Epic Tradition . . . . . . . . 298
R. A. GEORGES
Process and Structure in Traditional Storytelling in the Balkans: Some Preliminary Remarks . . . . . . . . 319
H. İNALCIK
The Ottoman Decline and Its Effects Upon the Reaya . . . . . . . . 338
J. MATL
Die patriarchale Altkultur und der Weg zur Neukultur . . . . . . . . 355
T. EEKMAN
Parallel Developments in the Poetry of the South Slavs (Late 19th and Early 20th Century) . . . . . . . . 370
R. V. BURKS
Nationalism and Communism in Yugoslavia: An Attempt at Synthesis . . . . . . . . 397
H. L. KOSTANICK
Balkan Demographic Trends and Population Heartlands . . . . . . . . 424
S. VRYONIS
Epilogue . . . . . . . . 442