Balkan Peninsula

noun

1. a peninsula in S Europe, S of the Danube River and bordered by the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, and Black seas.

Balkan Peninsula

noun

1. a large peninsula in SE Europe, between the Adriatic and Aegean Seas

Balkan Peninsula

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 .)

Example Sentences

Apparently they were still more numerous in the valley of the Danube and in the Balkan Peninsula.

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For the principal geological formations see Balkan Peninsula.

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In the Balkan Peninsula to-day the descendants of the ancient Hellenes are, with few exceptions, confined to the coast.

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The descendants of these people are to be found today throughout the Balkan peninsula, though mainly in the large cities.

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In the Balkan Peninsula railroad facilities are still ill provided for.

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