The aim of this volume is to reflect the stereotype of the imagined landscape and its strangeness at the margins of Europe. Notions ascribed to "the Balkans" reveal the process of making the image of Europe by defining "the Other" as Oriental, unpredictable, dangerous, chaotic, dirty, lazy, primitive, cruel, selfish, uncooperative, etc. On the other hand, historical evidence attests the presence of tolerance, cooperation, hard work, urbanisation, pre-industrial economic efficiency, etc.
