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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A peninsula of southeast Europe bounded by the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, and the Aegean, Mediterranean, Ionian, and Adriatic Seas. Formerly part of the Roman and Byzantine empires, the region fell to the Ottoman Turks by 1500. The Balkan Wars (1912–1913 and 1913), treaties signed after World War I, and nationalist movements in the early 1990s led to the present country boundaries.
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- proper noun A large
peninsula in southeastern Europe surrounded by water on three sides: theAdriatic Sea to the west, theMediterranean Sea (including theIonian andAegean Seas ) to the south and theBlack Sea to the east. Its northern boundary is often given as theDanube ,Sava and Kupa rivers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range
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Examples
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Somehow or other even a British citizen with more than the usual stupidity of our race as to foreign languages can make himself understood in the Balkan Peninsula, which is so polyglottic that its inhabitants understand signs very well.)
Bulgaria Frank Fox 1917
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Another low came from Spain, rose into the Alpine Region and goes into the Balkan Peninsula.
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And then the snow is coming into the Alpine Region and the Balkan Peninsula.
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And this low is going to bring more snow into the Alpine Region, even into the Balkan Peninsula.
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So it's not only a Great Britain story, but it's into Germany, parts of Poland, here the Alpine Region, and then in the Balkan Peninsula we see some more rain.
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Eons ago, the Balkan Peninsula was actually covered under a vast ocean, and the evidence of this has been left in a region covering northwestern Bulgaria and eastern Serbia in the form of some amazingly unique rock formations.
Archive 2009-08-01 Greg 2009
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You are in better shape than Italy and the Balkan Peninsula, so we're going to see, this weekend, bad storms there.
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But now this system is moving a little bit into the Balkan Peninsula and in Greece included, is where we will see the bad weather.
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Kosovo, map of the crisis region: Also includes world map on reverse: [western Balkan Peninsula and Italy] by Hammond World Atlas Corporation
Between Washington and Moscow: Papandreou's Energy Challenge 2009
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Eons ago, the Balkan Peninsula was actually covered under a vast ocean, and the evidence of this has been left in a region covering northwestern Bulgaria and eastern Serbia in the form of some amazingly unique rock formations.
Belogradchik and Magurata Greg 2009
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