Balkan Royalty

Book Categories: Albania, Anatolia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Byzantine, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Thrace, Turkey, Yugoslavia, European Royalty, Asian Royalty, Middle Eastern Royalty

Albania

King Zog and the Struggle for Stability in Albania by Bernd Jurgen Fischer. King Zog assumed the throne of Albania in 1928. When Italy invaded the country in 1948, Zog and his family were forced to flee. Zog was the father of the current pretender to the throne, King Leka.

King Zog: Europe's Self-Made Muslim Monarch by Jason Hunter Tomes. Biography of Albania's self-proclaimed King Zog I, described as "the most unusual monarch of the 20th century."

Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History, Volume I: Albania and King Zog, 1908-39 by Owen Pearson. Chronicles the monarchy of King Zog and the wartime period where Albania became a battleground for the Greek, Italian and German armies.

Albania: Eye of the Balkan Vortex by Lou Giaffo. History of the Albanians, descendants of the ancient Illyrians, who at one time occupied the whole Balkan Peninsula.

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Anatolia

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Bulgaria

A Concise History of Bulgaria by R.J. Crampton. Traces Bulgaria's dramatic story from the days when it was the center of a powerful empire, through centuries of Ottoman rule, to the upheavals of the 20th century.

Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria by Stephane Groueff. Boris III reigned from 1918 to 1943. He was the father of the Bulgaria's last (deposed) king, Simeon, who is now the country's prime minister. Available from Alibris.

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The Byzantine Empire

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Greece

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Macedonia

In the Shadow of Olympus: The Emergence of Macedon by Eugene N. Borza. A history of Macedon.

Women & Monarchy in Macedonia by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney.

Antigonus II Gonatas: A Political Biography by Janice J. Gabbert. Antigonus II was King of Macedonia in the 3rd century B.C.

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Montenegro

My Father, the Prince by Milena Petrovic-Njegos Thompson. Biography of Prince Milo of Montenegro.

Nikola & Milena, King and Queen of the Black Mountain by Marco Houston is about the rise and fall of Montenegro's royal family.

The Falcon & the Eagle: Montenegro & Austria-Hungary, 1908-1914 by John D. Treadway. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

Romania

Romania: An Illustrated History by Nicolae Klepper. As a state, Romania has only been in existence since 1859, but the history of its people stretches to the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, the Geto-Dacians and Romans. This book tells the story of the Romanian people, their principalities, and their eventual unification.

Historical Dictionary of Romania by Kurt W. Treptow and Marcel D. Popa. Details the important people, places, events, and institutions of Romania. Includes a chronology and a list of rulers.

Transylvania: A Short History by Istvan Lazar. Entertaining yet scholarly review of the history of this oft-contended land.

Queen Isabella Sforza Szapolyai of Transylvania and Sultan Suleyman of the Ottoman Empire: A Case of Sixteenth-Century Muslim-Christian Collaboration by Alicia McNary Forsey. Isabella Sforza Zapolya was widowed after a year of marriage to King John Zapolya I of Hungary. Suleyman promised to protect her and her son, and he never broke that promise.

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Queen Marie

The Story of My Life by Queen Marie of Romania. Queen Marie was the wife of King Ferdinand, mother of King Carol II, and grandmother of King Michael. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

Later Chapters of My Life: The Lost Memoir of Queen Marie of Romania by Queen Marie of Romania. This recently discovered last volume of Queen Marie's memoirs, long believed to have been destroyed, covers the period following the First World War.

Marie of Romania: The Intimate Life of a Twentieth Century Queen by Terence Elsberry. Biography of Queen Marie. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania by Hannah Pakula. Describes Marie as a woman of striking beauty whose opinions were in advance of her time and whose life was the gossip of three continents. From Alibris.

Americans and Queen Marie of Romania edited by Diana Fotescu. Includes the diary of an American who visited the queen in 1925; and correspondence between the queen and an American who compiled an extensive collection of materials relating to Marie and donated them to the archives of Kent State University in Ohio. Out of print, but sometimes available from AbeBooks.

Her Eternal Crown: Queen Marie of Romania and the Baha'i Faith by Della L. Marcus. The story of the deepening relationship between Queen Marie and the religion whose teachings she championed, told largely in extracts from her own letters and diaries. Out of print, but sometimes available from AbeBooks.

King Carol II

King Carol II: A Life of My Grandfather by Paul, Prince of Hohenzollern-Roumania. Out of print, but sometimes available from Alibris.

Lupescu by Alice-Leone Moats. About the woman for whom Carol II gave up his throne. From Alibris.

Princess Ileana

Royal Monastic: Princess Ileana of Romania by Bev. Cooke. Biography of the princess who built the first English-language Eastern Orthodox women's monastery in the United States.

I Live Again by Ileana, Princess of Romania, Archduchess of Austria. Sometimes available from Alibris.

Hospital of the Queen's Heart by Ileana, Princess of Romania, Archduchess of Austria. From Alibris.

Serbia

The History of Serbia by John K. Cox. History of Serbia, from the splendor of medieval Serbia to 2001. Includes a timeline, four historical maps, and brief biographies of key figures in Serbian history.

Serbia: The History of an Idea by Stevan K. Pavlowitch. Looks at the historical forces which molded Serbia: the medieval rulers and the church, the rule of Ottomans and Hapsburgs, the two World Wars, the Yugoslav kingdom, and modern Yugoslavia.

Yugoslavia

Alexander of Yugoslavia by Stephen Graham. Tells the story of King Alexander I, who was assassinated in Marseilles in 1934. Out of print, but available at Alibris.

Regicide at Marseille by Tibor Eckhardt. About the assassination of Alexander I; the author was a Hungarian politician. From Alibris.

For Love of a King by Queen Alexandra. The wife of the last king of Yugoslavia, Peter II, wrote these memoirs in exile. From Alibris.

Prince Philip: A Family Portrait by Queen Alexandra. This is the queen's story of her first cousin, Prince Philip of Greece, who married Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Alexandra writes from the experiences they shared while growing up together. From Alibris.

A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples by Fred Singleton. Traces the rise and fall of the Slavic principalities from Roman times through the Ottoman and Habsburg empires; the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes; the German Occupation, and socialism under President Tito.

The Contested Country: Yugoslav Unity and Communist Revolution, 1919-1953 by Aleksa Diljas.

Royal Blue by Christina Oxenberg. Novel about a fictional princess, written by the daughter of Yugoslavia's Princess Jelisaveta (Elizabeth). Oxenberg is also the author of a book called Taxi. From Alibris.

Thrace

The Thracians: 700 BC - AD 46 by Christopher Webber, illustrated by Angus McBride. Throughout the seven centuries before Christ, more than 40 Thracian tribes occupied the area between northern Greece, southern Russia, and northwest Turkey. This is a lavishly illustrated study of their history from the Osprey Men-at-Arms series.

The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked by Z. H. Archibald. Analyzes the cultural amalgam the Odrysian governing elite formed from native, Persian, and Greek elements.

Thrace & the Thracians by Alexander Fol and Ivan Marazov. An illustrated history of these mysterious ancient Balkan people. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians by Alexander Fol and Ivan Marazov. Abundantly illustrated catalog from a 1998 traveling art exhibition. From Alibris.

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Turkey/The Ottoman Empire

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