Ananyev A.G. – postgraduate student, Department of Russian history and policy, Institute of international relations and world history, Nizhny Novgorod State University. Fadeev A.V. – postgraduate student, Department of modern history, Institute of international relations and world history, Nizhny Novgorod State University.
The article evaluates the position of Slavic ethnic minorities which accepted Islam in the period of the Ottoman Empire control over the Balkans. The authors give special attention to contemporary processes of changing identity of the Balkan nations, their religious and national revival as well as to growing islamisation and turkisation of the Balkans where the fragmentation of civilizational space is under way.
Identity, islamization, Muslim minorities, neo-Ottomanism, ethno-confessional conflicts.
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