Why is it called "Balkanization" when "Iberization"

>>1624357
Because people only have short term memory.

Taification.

Iberization is shitty to say though.

Balkanization rolls off the tongue much more easily.

>>1624357
No, because taifas were just small, feudal clans ruling out of a major city. Balkanization is where all the ethnic groups of a multi-ethnic country break away and form their own nation-state. They're two different things.

>>1624357
That's just retard.

t. Iberian

>>1624357
Surely the two are opposites

>>1624357
>Ottoman empire loses the Balkans and Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania and Montenegro are made
>Austria-Hungary takes some of this
>Austria-Hungary breaks up and creates Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina among other states not in the Balkans
>Serbia takes this and makes Yugoslavia
>Yugoslavia breaks up and recreates Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro

Also Moldova is a thing when it should be part of Romania.

>>1624357
>>1624357
check what happened in China during Spring & Autumn era when the central power weakened and feudalization led to very intense decentralization.
you have hundreds of tiny states popping up faster than you can track them.