Since the reign of Heraclius, emperor of the Romans, as will be related in the narrative concerning the Croats and Serbs, the whole of Dalmatia and the nations about it, such as Croats, Serbs, Zachlumi, Terbouniotes, Kanalites, Diocletians and Arentani, who are also called Pagani ***. But when the Roman empire, through the sloth and inexperience of those who then governed it and especially in the time of Michael from Amorion, the Lisper, had declined to the verge of total extinction, the inhabitants of the cities of Dalmatia became independent, subject neither to the emperor of the Romans nor to anybody else, and, what is more, the nations of those parts, the Croats and Serbs and Zachlumites, Terbuniotes and Kanalites and Diocletians and the Pagani, shook off the reins of the empire of the Romans and became self-governing and independent, subject to none. Princes, as they say, these nations had none, but only 'zupans', elders, as is the rule in the other Slavonic regions. Moreover, the majority of these Slavs were not even baptized, and remained unbaptized for long enough.

Така стана, а "Балкан" стана "Шератон" като английския дърводелец Томас Шератон, който през ХVIII век правел столове особено неудобни за долната част на гърба, където понякога искам да ритна философите, историците, социолозите, политолозите.

През 2007 г. еврокомисарят Гюнтер Ферхойген каза:

1. Никога не сме казали на България: "Затваряйте 3-ти и 4-ти блок на АЕЦ "Козлодуй", иначе няма да ви приемем в ЕС,