Balkan Peninsula

American  

noun

1. a peninsula in S Europe, S of the Danube River and bordered by the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, and Black seas.

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Balkan Peninsula British  

noun

1. a large peninsula in SE Europe, between the Adriatic and Aegean Seas

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Balkan Peninsula Cultural  

1. Peninsula in southeastern Europe between the Ionian Sea and Adriatic Sea on the west, the Mediterranean Sea on the south, and the Aegean Sea and Black Sea on the east. The nations of the Balkan Peninsula include Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, and the former Yugoslavia. The European portion of Turkey is also on the Balkan Peninsula. (See also Balkanization.)

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Example Sentences

This was the hope of Edo and Loryn Nalic when, in 2019, they opened Balkan Treat Box, a restaurant in Webster Groves, Mo., specializing in the foods of the Balkan Peninsula.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2022

Such efforts are ramping up in many European countries — although some, notably those in the Balkan Peninsula, are on a dam-building spree.

From Nature • May 15, 2018

Greece sits at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula while Turkey covers the Anatolian Peninsula.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2015

Nowhere was that dispute more likely to occur than on the Balkan Peninsula.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

In other parts of the Balkan Peninsula these invaders—Serbs, Croats or Bulgars—found little difficulty in expelling or absorbing the native population.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various