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This dissertation was written as a part of the MSc in ICT Systems at the International Hellenic University. Its purpose is to present the Stock Exchanges of Southeastern Europe and is a first look at their History, Trading Volumes and Technologies. We study the Stock Exchanges (SE) of eleven Southeastern European countries: Greece (Athens Stock Exchange), Serbia (Belgrade Stock Exchange), Bulgaria (Bulgarian Stock Exchange-Sofia), Romania (Bucharest Stock Exchange), Cyprus (Cyprus Stock Exchange), Turkey (Istanbul Stock Exchange), Montenegro (Montenegro Stock Exchange), FYROM (Skopje Stock Exchange), Bosnia Herzegovina (Sarajevo Stock Exchange), Albania (Tirana Stock Exchange), and Croatia (Zagreb Stock Exchange). The presentation is alphabetical, and covered in five chapters. The first chapter is a historical review of each Stock Exchange, discussing various significant aspects of their operation; e.g. their establishment, the most important historical events, membership, etc. The second chapter is a presentation and analysis of the most recent five years of their trading activity, with respect to volume (euro based and shares). Furthermore, in this part is done a more thorough analysis of recent annual index returns and trading volume. Following, in the third section, current membership and the most important listing criteria are discussed. Finally, in the last chapter the technology infrastructure of these Stock Exchanges and the passing from the Trading Floor to the Electronic Book is presented. The Thesis supervisor Prof. Vassilis Polimenis contributed significantly in the implementation of this dissertation. Some help was also given by Emmanouil Daskalakis, PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Furthermore, I would like to thank Mr. Petar Kemalov, Senior expert, corporate development in the Bulgarian Stock Exchange in Sofia, as well as the Deputy Secretary General of Federation of Euro Asian Stock Exchange who gave me important information and replying to my emails on time.