Balkans

1. Major mountain range of the Balkan Peninsula , extending from the eastern portion of the former Yugoslavia through central Bulgaria to the Black Sea .

Example Sentences

As in the Balkans 20 years ago, the effort to preserve “recognized international borders” is already a dead letter.

From The Daily Beast

The Germans, in turn, sold the Allied equipment to pro-Nazi groups in the Balkans.

From The Daily Beast

When the U.S. did intervene militarily, such as in the Balkans, air power was the only real approach considered palatable.

From The Daily Beast

Ignore the clumsy comparisons of the Syria War and the Balkans War.

From The Daily Beast

Krauthammer called Clinton naive for expending blood and treasure to protect human rights and self-determination in the Balkans.

From The Daily Beast

There was always fighting in the Balkans, and the pay had attracted Paul Maxgregor in his earliest days.

From Project Gutenberg

So far as I am concerned, you have all my sympathy in your efforts to check the Russian influence in the Balkans.

From Project Gutenberg

We all talked it over in the evening and decided it was another one of those fights that were always starting in the Balkans.

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The lion had left this region, but lingered on in the Balkans down to historic times.

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From a brand fired somehow, somewhere, in the mysterious Balkans, all Europe was suddenly ablaze.

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