Balkan Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range extending from W Bulgaria to the Black Sea: highest peak, 7,794 feet (2,370 meters).

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Balkan Mountains British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range extending across Bulgaria from the Black Sea to the eastern border. Highest peak: Mount Botev, 2376 m (7793 ft)

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Example Sentences

It’s springtime in the Balkan Mountains, and in a lush expanse, Bulgarian photographer Georgi Georgiev has his lens focused on something tiny.

From National Geographic

That’s a pattern she has also seen at a fossil site in Europe’s Balkan Mountains, where a minimum of two Homo lineages were present and interacted.

From Science Magazine

During a warm spell about 46,000 years ago, a small band of people took shelter in a cave on the northern slope of the Balkan Mountains in what is now Bulgaria.

From Science Magazine

This summer, for our fifth wedding anniversary, Paul and I drove south of my hometown, Sevlievo, for an hour or so to the Balkan Mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal

These are situated on the heights of Mount Haemus, the extremity of the Balkan Mountains, which overhangs the Black Sea.

From Project Gutenberg