Balkan

[ bawl-kuhn ]

/ ˈbɔl kən /

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adjective

pertaining to the Balkan States or their inhabitants.

pertaining to the Balkan Peninsula.

pertaining to theBalkan Mountains.

noun

the Balkans. Balkan States.

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Origin of Balkan

First recorded in 1825–35

OTHER WORDS FROM Balkan

Bal·kan·ite, noun, adjectivetrans-Balkan, adjective

Words nearby Balkan

Balinese cat, Baliol, balisage, balistraria, balk, Balkan, Balkan frame, balkanization, Balkanize, Balkan Mountains, Balkan Peninsula

How to use Balkan in a sentence

Then in the 1910s, Isaac Carasso, a Balkan industrialist, learned that many children suffered from intestinal disorders.
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At least that was how events unfolded in this small Balkan country after the Macedonian opposition party revealed the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence had been using illegal widespread internet surveillance against its citizens.
The Secret World of Cybersecurity|Joshua Eferighe|May 12, 2021|Ozy
Another is rooted in atrocities committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 90s.
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Revisiting the Balkan wars may be a useful reminder about the limits of airpower.
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The New York Review of Books Classics recently rereleased The Balkan Trilogy and School for Love.
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The second reason stems from more recent history: the Balkan genocides of the 1990s.
European Hawks, American Doves|Peter Beinart|May 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
For years, Holbrooke ribbed me for complicating his already difficult Balkan peace talks.
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They were delicious, of a brand unobtainable by the public, and made from tobacco grown in one of the Balkan States.
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This was to be a protection to England, and a check to Germany on the one side and the Balkan states on the other.
Ways of War and Peace|Delia Austrian
This condition of things has grown rapidly in recent years, and most evidently during the reverses of the Balkan war.
Silver Chimes in Syria|W. S. Nelson
Apparently they were still more numerous in the valley of the Danube and in the Balkan Peninsula.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe|John M. Tyler
It has been her mission to rescue by moral influence some of the fairest lands in the Balkan peninsula from waste and anarchy.
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British Dictionary definitions for Balkan

Balkan

/ (ˈbɔːlkən) /

adjective

of, denoting, or relating to the Balkan States or their inhabitants, the Balkan Peninsula, or the Balkan Mountains

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