Balkan Mountains
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Example Sentences
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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
At that time the Caucasus was possibly still connected with the Balkan Mountains, across what is now the Black Sea, and that may have been the highway on which they travelled west.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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