The general scholarly consensus regarding the origin and development of the term “South-Eastern Europe” is, briefly, as follows : a) first used in German in 1861, it was theorized and popularized by the geographer Theobald Fischer in an article of 1893 and another one of 1909 ; b) it was subsequently promoted, notably by the Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga, as a neutral term in the wake of the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 ; c) various official bodies and research units adopted it starting from...