Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The Balkan Peninsula.
- The Balkan Mountains.
- The Balkan States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun plural The countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula.
- proper noun plural The Balkan mountains.
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- proper noun A
geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by the formerYugoslav countries,Bulgaria ,Albania ,Greece and sometimesRomania .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the Balkan countries collectively
- noun a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range
- noun the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula
Etymologies
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Examples
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The U.S. involvement in the Balkans is a good example.
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To avoid 'us vs. them' in Balkans, rewrite history
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Mexico, not unlike the Balkans, is geographically a myriad of mountainous indentations that divide the population, particularly in the south.
History Moving North 1997
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Both wanted to snatch the Balkans from the hands of the dying Ottoman Empire.
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As new POWs wait in Balkans, a Vietnam MIA flag is folded
Bailey, John E. 1966
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Both wanted to snatch the Balkans from the hands of the dying Ottoman Empire.
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W.R. Savic, whose book on South Eastern Europe published in January, 1919, has been received in Britain and America as a wonderful historical and literary presentation of the problems of the Balkans, is himself a Serb.
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Trade had exploited the reds, because the word Balkans was in the air that Fall, on account of an extra vicious efflorescence of the fighting disease.
Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905
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What I do know about the history of the Balkans is that very often the reasons why something happened were extremely local and complex and can’t be reduced to a clash between civilisations/empires.
When What We Think We Know, Is Actually Wrong at SF Novelists 2009
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I was writing about the war in the former Yugoslavia, and the Balkans was the subject of the West book.
Holbrooke: An extraordinary man Richard Cohen 2010
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