>Balkanoids blame 500 years of Turkish yoke for their poverty
>Spain had 700 years of Arab yoke yet they didn't complain but just started working and now have a decently developed country beating any other eastern European shithole at everything
when will Balkanoids learn?
Pshek you know nothing about balkans and you have never visited balkans
yeah but you had white people (Austrians) build your country up
Turks are much worse than Arbs tbf
i've seen a big chunk of the Balkans on google street view so it's enough to let me make bold historiosophical claims on the nature of that region
I don't know what the ottomans did in the balkans, but the Arabs definitely helped spain a lot
India is even a worse case, only roughly 300 years under Turkoids but still poorer even than the Balkans
Not that hard to go from being under a wealthy medieval empire, and become a wealthy medieval kingdom compared to going from being under a wealthy medieval empire to being a wealthy modern state.
Spain fucking sucked to live in all the way until after WW2 what the fuck are you talking about
>Spain fucking sucked to live in all the way until after WW2
Balkan countries still suck yet they blame Turkey for that, even though any kind of Turkish influence on them ended like 100 years ago and for some countries like Serbia or Romania even like 200 years ago.
Based
>Spain fucking sucked to live in all the way until after WW2 what the fuck are you talking about
seethe pvt. rodriguez
Spain threw off the yoke alot earlier so they had more time to develop as a state, in the case of Serbs and Albanians for example these were still literal peasent/highlander tribe societies in the 19th century while the rest of Europe was going through the industrial revolution.
Spain:
>United by language, religion, and ethnicity.
>Geographically blessed. Closest to the new world.
>Has multiple allies in the region and from catholic Europe
>Occupation didn't have much lasting effects
Balkans:
>Divided by language, religion, and ethnicity.
>Geographically cursed. Sandwiched in between two competing cultures.
>All countries in the region are enemies with each other and are isolated from the rest of Europe due to Orthodoxy/being Muslim.
>Occupation's effects are still being seen today in culture, food, genetics, and population.
Balkans clearly had it worse
Munghal were turk?
>leaf education
Balkans arent divided by language nor ethnicity serbian croatian bosnian montenegrins and fyrom all speak a mutually intelligible language and are of the same ethnicity theyre just schizos unlike spaniards
Unironically it's because Balkan geography sucks cock. Spain's geography has lots of flat fertile areas for farming, and ample space to build big industrious cities.
The Balkans would have been better off under the umbrella of one non-muslim empire (because islamic states are absolutely fucking trash at industrialization thanks to fundamentalism). Turkey (aka the Ottomans) are partly to blame, but it's also the fact that the Balkans are balkanized over a wide area of useless mountain terrain.
Reminder that Balkanoids can't into chronology.
>what are albanians, gypsies, and turkish speaking people