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On 8 June 2026, it was proposed that this article be moved from Southeast Europe to Southeastern Europe. The result of the discussion was moved.

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Request to merge with Balkans

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The page will not be moved due to consensus on geographic scope. Peripteros (talk) 19:02, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

User:Dbachmann requested that this article should be merged with Balkans, without giving any reason.

I Oppose the request. If this article can be shown to have merit, in some models it describes an area that is bigger than the Balkans. --Red King (talk) 13:23, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Absolutely. Southeastern Europe is Chechnya or Georgia. The Balkans may be Central-South. --Lysy^talk 19:15, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support It even states in the introduction of this article that it is a name for the balkans. This whole article is just a different name for the Balkans, and merging them would make both articles better. A section in the merged article about names would be a useful addition too. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 01:55, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. These are 2 different regions. Southeast Europe may be considered Balkans as Balkans is clearly within this part of Europe, however, SE also encompasses countries outside the Balkans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.32.36.43 (talk) 06:17, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support. But Balkan should be redirecting to Southeast Europe due to the last term is neutral term should we have to use.

Gsarwa (talk) 06:48, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Given that this article is simple about an alternative term for the Balkans, I do not see why it merits a separate page. Furthermore, it seems that the creators do not have many things to fill the article with as half of the content is about obscure EU initiatives, etc.--Bucharwm (talk) 02:15, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The Southeastern Europe is a completely different term from Balkans. Balkans is just a peninsula in Southeastern Europe, but not the region itself. Yes, Southeast Europe mostly covers the Balkans, but not only the peninsula. There is a reason why both words exist and they DO NOT mean the same thing. I think that these two pages MUSTN'T be merged by any chance! We want Wikipedia to be accurate and correct! Filipdr (talk) 18:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for now. The article seems to cover more than just the balkans Chipmunkdavis (talk) 04:06, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose . Geographically speaking the distances from Romania (where i'm from), to the N,W,E,S points of Europe (these can be found here for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Europe ) are (using: http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm): 1000km to the south in Greece, 2800 To Portugal in the West, 2800 To Norway in the North, and approx 2700-2800 to the Ural Mountains - not taking islands into consideration. So...by this definition Romania is in south-central(roughly) Europe and everything underneath it is South Europe - which means the Balkans ofc. So...South-eastern Europe would be...actually just the Black Sea and the region North of the Caucasus.

From a political standpoint....that's another discussion. Numaru7 (talk) 20:11, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Unlike the Balkan peninsula definition, Southeastern Europe includes the entirety of Slovenia and Croatia within the definition of Southeastern Europe.--R-41 (talk) 12:08, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Question: What happened with this discussion? Reached anywhere? --E4024 (talk) 10:58, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Edit request (Ref. 6)

Ref 6 is not reachable. Could someone correct it please? Thanks in advance. --E4024 (talk) 11:00, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done! --79.160.40.10 (talk) 11:14, 25 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New changes

@Noseamuseos: your new changes in article has been reverted because southeast-europe.net is not reliable source. Map on page concerns "South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme", not geographical things. Also, Slovakia and Austria (see map in source) lies in South East Europe? Absurd. According to Wikipedia:CYCLE, before new controversial changes must to be discuss and consensus. @Tanper: your change is also controversial [1]. Noseamuseos and Tanper - both, please not continue the edit-war. Discuss please, below. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 23:19, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Changes after 16 August 2014‎ has been reverted, discuss and consensus first. Subtropical-man talk
(en-2) 23:42, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've already provided a reliable source from CIA that put Croatia within Southeast Europe under Geography section Croatia but the reverts continue. Noseamuseos (talk) 23:31, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Slovenia and Croatia are both generally excluded due to their political, economical and cultural differences and the geographical connection is somewhat vague.

Noseamuseos' reasoning concernig Turkey is flawed since Turkish part in SE Europe has more population than Slovenia and Croatia combined and more land mass. Not to mention its cultural influences on neighbouring countries. Few sources could list Slovenia or Croatia as SE country, but the general consensus is that they are not. There are numerous sources listing them as Central European. Tanper (talk) 23:34, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Slovenia is not part of the question here. Romania has very small population but is included. The geography is important here. Plus I've already provided a reliable source from CIA (I hope you are not Anti-American) that put Croatia within Southeast Europe under its Geography section Croatia From the CIA source - "Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia" Noseamuseos (talk) 23:38, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And here we have Croatia in Central Europe. ^[1] As I noted, you can find few sources saying otherwise, but the general census is as it is. Romania is Eastern / South Eastern, that does not relate to Croatia. Tanper (talk) 23:45, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1. One more reliable source from UN agency: [2] "Croatia: 2014 UNHCR regional operations profile - South-Eastern Europe." 2. Plus my previous reliable source from CIA: "Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia." Croatia Noseamuseos (talk) 23:58, 8 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Croatia is traditionally counted to the western balkans and with this also to southeast europe. It is also counted into central europe if cultural and historical relations are counted in. I have now put some sources into the article for croatia as part of southeast europe. Kind regards Seader (talk) 08:47, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nice section title. Eric ^talk 03:25, 30 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.ebrd.com/downloads/research/REP/rep-2014.pdf

Dr. Urban's comment on this article

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Some background information on the Stability Pact such as the breakup of former Yugoslavia and the wars on the Balkan Peninsula are missing.

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly. We believe Dr. Urban has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:

Reference : Vasily Astrov & Vladimir Gligorov & Peter Havlik & Mario Holzner & Gabor Hunya & Anna Iara & Sebastian Leitner & Zdenek Lukas & Anton Mihailov & Olga Pindyuk & Leon Podkaminer & Josef Poschl & Sandor , 2009. "Differentiated Impact of the Global Crisis," wiiw Forecast Reports 3, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw. ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 16:53, 27 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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There are hardly any additional informations apart from the issue of the definition of the region.

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Reference : Vasily Astrov & Serkan Cicek & Rumen Dobrinsky & Vladimir Gligorov & Doris Hanzl-Weiss & Peter Havlik & Mario Holzner & Gabor Hunya & Sebastian Leitner & Olga Pindyuk & Leon Podkaminer & Sandor Richte, 2014. "On Thin Ice: CESEE Core Resilient in the Face of EU Stagnation and the Ukraine Crisis," wiiw Forecast Reports Autumn2014, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw. ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 20:17, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 8 June 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 02:13, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Southeast Europe → Southeastern Europe – WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CONSISTENT with Western Europe, Southern Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe. See also:

13,555 results for “Southeastern Europe” on JSTOR vs 5,396 for “Southeast Europe”
Ngram also shows a more common use of “Southeastern Europe”.

Even the introductory map uses “Southeastern Europe”. ~2026-33872-51 (talk) 09:27, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Also better English. -- Necrothesp (talk) 09:58, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom and I'm similarly seeing Northwestern Europe. Do not move the page until June 15th for the archiver to run correctly, if that's where consensus leads. Peripteros (talk) 18:53, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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