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

Slovenia, a nation of two million people in the Balkan Peninsula, has produced some of the world’s best competitive climbers, including Janja Garnbret, the top-ranked woman last year on the sport’s World Cup circuit.

From New York Times

Some large-pincer harvestman species live in cold, humid caves in the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Balkan Peninsula, forming a narrow band across Europe.

From Scientific American

In intimate and at times gripping footage, the film chronicles the Fazilis’ 3,500-mile journey across half a dozen countries, including Iran, Turkey and the Balkan Peninsula.

From Washington Post

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