Balkan Peninsula is located in the southern part of Europe.Washed it waters of the Aegean, the Adriatic, Ionian, Black and Marmara seas.In the West Bank there are many bays and coves, rocky and steep for the most part.In the east they are generally straight and low.Balkan Peninsula includes medium and low mountains.Among them Pind, Dinaric Alps, the Rhodope Mountains, Old Planina Serbian highlands and others.The name of one of the peninsula in Europe.
located on the outskirts of the Lower Danube and the Pannonian plain.The most important rivers are considered Morava, Maritza, Sava, Danube.Among the main reservoirs of lakes Prespa, Ohrid, Skadar.Balkan Peninsula in the north and east, characterized by moderate continental climate.For the areas in the south and west is typical Mediterranean subtropical climate.
Balkan Countries differ greatly in the socio-political climate and other conditions.The southern territory takes in much of Greece.Since it borders Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Turkey and Albania.In Greece, the climate is characterized as subtropical Mediterranean, with hot and dry summers, wet, mild winters.In the mountainous northern regions, and the weather conditions are more severe in winter the temperature is below zero.
Balkan Peninsula in the south of Macedonia takes.It is bordered by Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia.In Macedonia, the climate is mostly Mediterranean, with rainy winters and dry and hot summers.
Northeast Bulgaria occupies the peninsula.North part of it is on the border with Romania, the Western - Macedonia and Serbia, south - with Turkey and Greece.The territory of Bulgaria includes the longest mountain range on the peninsula - the Stara Planina.To the north of it and south of the Danube is the Danube Plain.This is quite a vast plateau rises above the sea level on the one hundred and fifty meters, is dissected by many rivers that originate in the Stara Planina and pouring into the Danube.Rhodopes limit the southeastern plains to the south-west.Most of the plain is located in the basin of the Maritsa River.These areas have always been famous fertility.
Climate Bulgaria is divided into three zones: steppe, Mediterranean and continental.This causes a variety of nature of this area.For example, in Bulgaria there are more than three thousand species of plants, various types of which have disappeared from other European territories.
western Balkans occupied Albania.Northern and north-western border with the territory of Montenegro and Serbia, Eastern - Macedonia and the southern and south-east - with Greece.The main part of Albania is different sublime and mountainous terrain with deep and very fertile valleys.In the territory also has several large lakes that stretch of border areas with Greece, Macedonia, Yugoslavia.
climate in Albania is Mediterranean subtropical.Summers are hot and dry, and winter - wet and cool.
