After World War I, though, the basic territorial pattern of the Balkans was set. Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania were independent countries and, with some exceptions, occupied their current borders. Today's countries of Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia were then part of Yugoslavia--a new country formed in 1918.
verb (used with object), undermined, undermining. 1. to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect. 2. to attack by indirect, secret, or underhand means; attempt to subvert by stealth. 3. to make an excavation under; dig or tunnel beneath, as a military stronghold.
Tuberculosis: An Unfortunate Resurgence. Heaven on Earth. Thatâs the first impression of the vista outside the New Haven Clinic, one of 17 health centers overseen by Doctors Without Borders/MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res (MSF) in the Shiselweni region of Swaziland.