Balkania (proposed state)

Not to be confused with Balkan Federation.

Balkania or the Balkan Federation, was the name of a hypothetical confederacy proposed as an independent successor state to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the Balkans, suggested by the Kosovo Albanian politician and human rights defender Adem Demaçi in 1996.^[1][2]

Proposed confederate state of Balkania: Kosovo (light red), Serbia (yellow), and Montenegro (light blue)^[1][2]

Intended as an alternative, peaceful resolution to the Serbo–Albanian ethnic conflict, it would have transformed the rump third Yugoslavia into a confederation consisting of the democratic Republics of Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro.^[1][2] The proposal became moot when the Republic of Montenegro declared its independence from FR Yugoslavia in 2006, and after the still disputed Republic of Kosovo declared its independence as well in 2008.

Another confederation with the same name, "Balkania", was proposed during the Interwar period by the Romanian historian Victor Papacostea in 1936, in order to solve regional conflicts between Bulgaria and Romania.^[3]