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- ↑ p. 18, "What's in a Region? Southeast European Regions Between Globalization, EU-Integration and Marginalization", Klaus Roth, pp. 17 ff. in Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, part I, Klaus Roth and Ulf Brunnbauer, eds., Ethnologia Balkanica11 (2007), LIT Verlag, Münster, ISBN 3-8258-1387-8.
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