Geographical features, regions and cities in the Balkans
This much geographical knowledge is basic equipment for understanding the reading and lectures.
Try to pick it up as soon as you can from the Hupchick and Cox book, supplemented by a full-size atlas.
Especially useful is Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe,
DJK4 .S93 1993 in the Olin reference collection.

Rivers
Danube
Dniester
Drava
Drina
Maritsa
Morava
Mureş (Maros)
Neretva
Prut
Sava
Shkumbini
Siret
Struma (Strumón)
Tisa (Tisza)
Vardar

Seas, Straits, Lakes
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Black Sea
Bosphorus
Gulf of Corinth
Dardanelles
Ionian Sea
Sea of Marmara
Lake Ohrid
Strait of Otranto
Lake Scutari (Shkodrës)

Islands
Corfu (Kérkyra)
Crete
Cyclades Islands
Cyprus
Dodecanese Islands
Ionian Islands

Mountains
Balkan Mts.
Carpathians
Dinaric Mts. / Dinaric Alps
Julian Alps
Pindus Mts.
Rhodope Mts.
Transylvanian Alps

Regions, Districts
Anatolia
Bánát
Bessarabia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bukovina
Dalmatia
Dobruja (Dobrodgea, Dobrudzha)
Epirus (Epeiros)
Istria
Kosovo (Kosova)
Macedonia
Moldavia
Sanjak of Novi Pazar
Peloponnese (Morea)
Slavonia
Slovenia
Thessaly
Thrace (Thrakē)
Transylvania
Voivodina
Wallachia

Cities – Albania
Durrës (Durazzo)
Gjirokastër
Korçë
Shkodër (Scutari)
Tiranë (Tirana)
Vlorë (Valona)

Cities – Bulgaria
Burgas
Plovdiv
Ruse
Silistra
Sofia

Varna
Velike Târnovo (Tŭrnovo)
Vidin

Cities – Greece
Athens (Athinai)
Candia (Iraklion)
Corinth
Ioannina (Janina)
Kavalla
Larissa
Patras
Salonika (Thessaloniki)

Cities – Romania
Braşov
Bucharest (Bucureşti)
Cernăuţi (Czernowitz, Chernivtsi)
Chişinău (Kishinev)
Cluj (Kolozsvár)
Constanţa
Iaşi
Ploieşti
Sibiu
Timişoara (Temesvár)

Cities – Yugoslavia
Banja Luka
Belgrade (Beograd)
Cetinje
Dubrovnik (Ragusa)
Kotor (Cattaro)
Ljubljana
Mostar
Niš
Novi Sad
Peć
Priština
Rijeka (Fiume)
Sarajevo
Skopje (Skoplje)
Split (Spalato)
Višegrad
Zadar (Zara)
Zagreb

Other Cities
Budapest
Edirne (Adrianople)
Istanbul (Constantinople)
Izmir (Smyrna)
Odessa
Trieste
Venice (Venezia)
Vienna (Wien)