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From comparing and contrasting different booking sites, to planning your travels at the last possible minute, there are all kinds of simple ways to save money on airfare.

Countries in the Balkan region continue to post impressive tourism statistics, with Montenegro the latest to report an increase, according to a report on business web-portal Balkans.com on September 30, 2011.

Designed by Prof. Thucydides Valentis in the eclectic modernist style, the War Museum (Greek: Polemiko Mousio) was inaugurated in 1975 in Athens and hosts an interesting collection of war artefacts from antiquity to the modern era. This Greek Museum holds a collection of 20,000 historic photographs from 1897 to 1950s and an important collection of antique maps.

During the La Tene Culture period (5th century BC – 1st century AD), Celtic presence and influence spread out over a vast area from the Iberian Peninsula to the Black Sea. After the invasion of Italy in the 4th century BC, some of the Celtic tribes went on with their conquering campaign until arriving in Greece and Asia Minor.

Most travel magazines still focus on long-popular western Europe destinations, but hidden europe, a Berlin-based magazine launched in March 2005, provides its readers with insights into lesser known parts of Europe - very often, in our favorite territory of Eastern Europe and Russia. We spoke with editor Nicky Gardner to find out more.

NATO governments led by Bill Clinton in the United States (US) and Tony Blair in the United in the autumn of 1998. These warnings were acted upon five months later, as NATO launched planes and missiles at the Serbs. There were many times when it looked like war might be avoided, but in the end diplomacy broke down, and force was used.

The de facto Republic of Abkhazia is a breakaway region in the north eastern corner of Georgia, adjacent to the Russian Black Sea border. It has been a forgotten wasteland until the recent Russian aggression in South Ossetia has brought it into the political limelight.

* Detailed modelling of each vehicles fire control systems, main and secondary weapons, ammunition types, engine management and transmissions, starting and driving proceduresT-72 Balkans on Fire uses a powerful and stunning 3D and physics engine to produce state of the art effects and realism. Below is a lost of some of what awaits you inside! 

The “Iron Curtain” which came down across Europe after 1945 turned several Balkan kingdoms into Russian communist satellites. The result was banishment and exile for their kings.