What can you tell me about medieval Balkans? How did they compare

To be specific, I'm asking about high and late medieval period.

>>3290434
that map is all sorts of wrong.

>>3290434
>What can you tell me about medieval Balkans
What do you wanna know?
>How did they compare to other regions of Europe at that time?
Compared to what? It's the same feudalist system as any other in Europe of that time. Primarily Greek/Byzantine cultural influence, although Latin culture held on in coastal maritime cities like Dubrovnik, Bar, and Kotor.
>What was their population?
Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Albanians, Vlachs, whoever set his foot on this soil left his mark here.
>What were their militaries like?
Professionals, town militia, conscripted peasants, same as anywhere else. Serbian kings often employed mercenaries from the West like Germans and Spaniards.

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Vlachs are the most powerful race in the world.

>>3290434
pretty lowly developed except for the coastal regions and greek territories, serbs also somehow managed to ruin kosovo's economy although it had one of the biggest gold mines in europe.

the population of the western balkans was about as much as that of kingdom of naples, and about a third as much as greece + western minor asia.

militaries were pretty unremarkable, except for skanderbeg who basically invented his own brand of guerilla warfare that was incredibely succesful.

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This happened

Bulgaria is criminally overlooked in Medieval history. They're one of the cultural/military powers from the late Dark Ages all the way through the late Middle Ages. Hungary also doesn't get that much love in that period.