This paper looks at the typology of borders which have traversed the Balkan lands for centuries. They have been diverse - geographical, political, economic, ethnic, linguistic, religious and cultural. As a result of their length of duration, consequences and importance, they led to phenomena which can hardly be fully appreciated. Serbs lived along those borders, be they already existing or created over time. This research is focused on two borders. The one created by the division of the Roman Empire (395) and strengthened by the schism of Christianity (1054), and the other, completely different, created by the Ottoman conquest of the Balkan lands in the fifteenth century. Local Balkan borders, on the other hand, have never acquired a broader significance in the culture of this region.

La description de l?Istros-Danube par Strabon dans sa G?ographie (4.6.10; 7.5) actualise a l??poque august?enne la tradition g?ographique de la description de ce fleuve. Les contradictions entre les n?cessit?s de la sch?matisation g?ographique et celles de l?int?gration de sources nouvelles expliquent une partie des erreurs g?ographiques de cette partie de l?oeuvre.

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Т. Ф. Теперик (Москва

The peculiarities of Balkan languages nominal infl ections are closely connected with the use of defi nite articles, as there are postpositive articles in Bulgarian.Macedonian, Albanian and Rumanian, prepositive articles in Modern Greek and copulative articles in Albanian, Rumanian and Modern Greek connecting nouns with adjectives.The tendency towards analytism of the nominal system is not specifi c only for Balkan languages, but it can also be found in many other European languages.So this is not only a question of Balkan linguistics but also of Eurolinguistics.Characteristic of the Balkan languages, however, are a number of phenomena that accompany these analytic tendencies, especially the use of articles, postpositive, prepositive and copulative, as well as the doubling of clitics connected with direct and indirect objects, and above all the abundance of the verbal systems in all these languages.No articles are used in the Northern Southeastern European languages (Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene), and in other West and East Slavic languages, e.g.Polish, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.Prepositive articles like in Modern Greek are found in most of the European languages, but postpositive articles can be found in Scandinavian languages and in some northern Russian dialects.We have to raise a question, if the Balkan areais special regarding the use of articles (except Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene).The term "area" is used in dialectology for any geographical region isolated on the basis of its linguistic characteristics.An "areal classifi cation" would establish "areal types" or groups, such as Scandinavian or

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