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This website has been developed to offer visitors the opportunity to explore the diverse culture of Southeast Europe.

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Welcome

Culture (noun) can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, games, norms of behavior such as law and morality, and systems of belief as well as the art.

Welcome to "Southeast Europe: People and Culture"

This website has been developed to offer visitors the opportunity to explore the diverse culture of Southeast Europe.

The website provides information about culture and sports of the Western Balkans (Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244/99) and Turkey.

“Southeast Europe: People and Culture” provides visitors with a comprehensive insight into the culture of the region. Writers and journalists from the area offer new, informative and exciting feature articles covering art, dance and theatre, gastronomy, literature, music and sports.

You can visit feature articles via the interactive map which will take you directly to all the articles. The events calendar provides information about regional cultural and sports events, as well as events which are related to the region but take place in the EU member states.

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Should you have any questions, comments or suggestions with regard to our website, please feel free to contact us through the Contact page.

We hope you enjoy the website!

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Album Competition

Inva Mula, born in Tirana, Albania in 1963, is one of the leading sopranos of her generation. Famous to filmgoers as the voice featured in the Diva Dance in Luc Besson’s Fifth Element, she has performed to great acclaim across the world, and is a regular performer at La Scala in Milan. Her album Il bel sogno is performed with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ivo Lipanović and features famous arias by Puccini, Gounod, Massenet and Verdi.

Read more and win the album

Upcoming events

One World Human Rights Film Festival, 12-16 December

The One World Human Rights Festival will take place in Pristina from 12-16 December. Its aim is to promote human rights, freedoms, and democracy, but also to feature meaningful debates on issues like human rights, civil society, foreign policy, environmental policy, etc.

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