A large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range
(Noun)
Synonyms:
balkan-peninsula
balkan mountains
Balkan Mountain Range
Balkans Sentence Examples
The outbreak of disturbance in the Balkans ended this period of calm.
The manufacture is chiefly carried out in India, Persia and the Balkans; the last named supplying the bulk of the European demand.
Growing rivalry between Austria and Russia in the Balkans rendered the continuance of the League of the Three Emperors a practical impossibility.
Adrianople had previously been the commercial headquarters of all Thrace, and of a large portion of the region between the Balkans and the Danube, now Bulgaria.
Settled along the Balkans as a kind of bulwark against the invading Bulgars, the Armenians on the contrary soon fraternized with the newcomers, whom they converted to their own views; even a prince of the Bulgarians adopted their teaching.