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Of course, if you consider Slovenia a Balkan country (I don't), it's also very diverse. After all, it has both the Alps and the Adriatic is a small area:
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Why it wouldn't? Obviously because of past conflicts, but except for that there is no reason.
If you think that Yugoslavia makes any sense, what about a Westslavia -- a single country for the West Slavs -- or Eastslavia -- a union of the East Slavs? Those wouldn't work either.
The nations of the former Yugoslavia have their own histories, cultures, religions, identities, economies, and languages (even if count Serbo-Croatian as a single language, the country never had a common language; it spoke three different Slavic languages: Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian.) Even their geopolitical ties are different: Serbia often looks toward Russia, while Slovenia, for instance, has always tended to be pro-Western.
Yugoslavia was created due to the specific geopolitical circumstances of the early 20th century, and it was only kept together first as a Monarchist dictatorship (before WWII) and then as a Communist dictatorship (after WWII). There is no reason why the countries of the former Yugoslavia can't have friendly relations, but trying to unite them in the from of some artificial neo-Yugoslav entity doesn't make any sense. There already is a mechanism for European integration and it's called the EU.
Of course, if you consider Slovenia a Balkan country (I don't), it's also very diverse. After all, it has both the Alps and the Adriatic is a small area:
Slovenia isn't Balkan, it's not even partly Balkan like Greece and Romania.
How many Balkan countries have you visited before coming up with this conclusion?
Here are some photos I took in beautiful, lively Sarajevo, which you apparently consider a "dump":
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