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 • Jan. 22, 2024

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 • Jun. 24, 2021

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 • May 11, 2020

To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan Mountains and swam the Bosporus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Russian troops crossed the Danube and the Balkan Mountains, and seized on the important Shipka Pass.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park