Balkan People!?

Question

Historically which races and people lived and live in the Balkans?
When each race arrived? Which area did they got and which do they have now?

Answer 1

There are a lot! The most ancient settlements are found in Greece!
The earliest traces of human habitation in Greece date from the Paleolithic period (120,000 – 10,000 B.C. approximately).
During the subsequent Neolithic period (7,000 - 3,000 B.C. approximately), civilization flourishes in Greece. A plethora of Neolithic settlements and cemeteries have been discovered in Thessaly (Sesklo, Dimini), real Macedonia (the Greek province), and the Peloponnesus et al.
The beginning of the Bronze Age (3000 - 1100 B.C. approx.) is marked by the appearance of the first urban centers in the Aegean (Poliochni on the island of Limnos). Flourishing settlements are found on Crete, the Greek mainland, the Cyclades and in the Northeastern Aegean, regions where characteristic cultural patterns develop. At the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. organized palatial societies appear on Minoan Crete, resulting in the development of the first scripts. Using the palace of Knossos as their centre, the Minoans create a communication network with peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean, adopt elements of their cultures, and in turn have a decisive influence on the cultures of the Greek mainland and the Aegean islands. What follows is the rise of the Mycenaean civilization!
In pre-classical and classical antiquity, along the Greeks this region was home to Illyrians, Paeonians, and Thracians.
Later The Romans conquered the area and after the fall of the Roman Empire the Greek Byzantines continue to control Balkans for centuries.
The Slavs and the Bulgarians appear in the Balkans at 7th century BC and they start to press the Greeks at various regions!
After the defeat of the Byzantine Greeks by the Ottoman Turks the area becomes part of the Ottoman Empire!
Today the Greeks remain as the older nation in the region and they occupy a smaller part of the ancient Greek world. At north of Greece at the area that use to be Illyria now is the Albanian state and the republic of Slavic-Macedonia (not to confuse with real Macedonia which is in Greece). At the region of north Thrace is modern day Bulgaria and in general in the north Balkans various Slavic nations remain!

Answer 2

Pelasgians were the natives of the Peninsula!
After the third Cataclysm, that of Deucaliom and Pyrra, we have two distinct races: the Greeks and the Illirians!
The Greeks of the Peninsula have several names, including, according to Hesiod, Yunan, Aeolian, Dorians, Macedonians, Thessalians, Myrmidones, Lydians, Carians, as well as all others.
Before 2,200 years the Romans invaded the Greek peninsula. Also, Gauls, Kelts, Persians, Thrakians, Scythes and others attacked the area. Among others, some races came peacefully, like the Jews.
While the Romans were ruling, other nations and races came to the Greek Peninsula, including the Bulgarians and the Slavs, about 14 - 15 centuries ago. Others were the Catalans, Turks, etc.
Now, the Illirians, called Albanians are residing at the Center of West Hellenic Peninsula.
The Bulgarians the East, center. North of them are the Rumanians. In the center of the Peninsula (East of Albania, West of Bulgaria and North of Greece) are the Slavs.

Answer 3

The oldest civilization in the Blakans was the Vincan civilization as the oldest one in the world. It was an indoeuropean civilization. The first 'civilized' population were the Celts on Danube river (or close to it): Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania.....