the first two depict Slavs from Yugoslavia or Albania...that is my guess... though it could be Bulgaria as well...it can't be Poland or Czech as they are not in the Balkans. Balkans are only the states of ex-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Greece and Turkey.
No, they're not in Greece cause the people there don't look Greek at all.
Slovenia and Greece are the most peaceful Balkan countries, which historically has been in a state of disarray, bloody wars, turmoil, etc. Only in the last century they've seen the Balkan war I and II, WWI and WWII ( the Bulgarians were with the Nazi in WWII
) the Cyprus occupation, the fall of the communist regime, and then Bosnia & Yugoslavia. It's a sort of a miracle that things are quiet now.
I've never lived in a village near the Bulgarian, Serbian or Turkish borders where may be some similar villages there (??) but I've lived in a Corfu village and it looks nothing like that at all.
It looks more like this:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...02809781bqoTkH
or this:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...02810273RgfunN
and this is a view of the old church in Ano Korakiana where my grandfather is buried. There are at least a dozen churches in the village
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...02810203TAZHJJ
This is a view from a Corfu village that could as well be from AK:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...02809990ymPqwF
And you get to see people like that, of course, it's the village life:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...02810100mZhsHQ
just to set the record straight. you see, even the surroundings are different.
But no matter how beautiful Corfu is, give me Thessalonika
anytime Village life is not for me