Bethesda is a census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just northwest of the United States capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem 's Pool of Bethesda.
to understand who the peoples of the balkans are one must first know which countries make up the balkans the countries that make up the balkans today include greece albania macedonia bulgaria romania rump yugoslavia serbia and montenegro and bosnia herzegovina referred to as bosnia throughout this texthe term balkans is a geographical designation for the southeastern peninsula of the european continent europe has many regions of course and has two other southern peninsulas the iberian peninsula spain and portugal and the italian peninsula
The reason the Balkans were the powderkeg of Europe was and still is to a certain extent the crossroads of Eastern and Western Europe.ince the start of the 20th century this region was in a state of continuous upheaval starting with the First and Second Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913 respectively. In 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian.