تاریخ ادبیات (Jan 2017)
A Historical Review of Developments of Persian Language and Literature in the Balkan Peninsula
Abstract
The Balkan semi island is located in the eastern south of Europe. This area is included the ex-Yogoslavia countries (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia&Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro, kosovo), Greek, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and European part of Turkey. Despite of no direct connection between Iranian and people of this erea, a large part of Balkan Semi Island (especially Bosnia and Albania and Thrace) was inspired by Iranian literature and calture for many centuries. So we can say Balkan has been the western border of Persian language and lite influences on literature and language of thet region has also been studied. rature in near past, while the eastern border was in India and Pamirs also the capital was in Iran. In this study for better recognition of this subject, we have tried to search about history of literary and lingually relation among Iran and Balkan since pre ottoman empire until now. Furthermore the acceptance reasons of how Persian literature reaches into the Balkan have been shown. Then its
