Prehistory of Southeastern Europe - Bronze Age

Bronze Age

(3,500 – 1,100 BC)

See also: Bronze Age Europe, Bronze Age Romania, and Bronze Age Transylvania

The Bronze Age in the Balkans is divided as follows (Boardman p. 166)

• Early Bronze Age: 20th to 16th centuries BC
• Middle Bronze Age: 16th to 14th centuries BC
• Late Bronze Age: 14th to 13th centuries BC

The Bronze Age in the Central and Eastern Balkans begins late, around 1800 BC. The transition to the Iron Age gradually sets in over the 13th century BC.

The "East Balkan Complex" (Karanovo VII, Ezero culture) covers all of Thrace. The Bronze Age cultures of the Central and Western Balkans are less clearly delineated and stretch to Pannonia, the Carpathians and into Hungary.