An Illiterate Shepherd Fixed Europe's Balkan Border
19th Century Europe

An Illiterate Shepherd Fixed Europe's Balkan Border

A teenage Albanian shepherd sketched a border from memory—and his drawing ended up deciding who owned the Balkans.

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