Balkan States

American  

plural noun

1. the countries in the Balkan Peninsula: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and the European part of Turkey.

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Balkan States British  

plural noun

1. Also called: the Balkans.  the countries of the Balkan Peninsula: the former Yugoslavian Republics, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and the European part of Turkey

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Balkan States

There, the Italian diaspora has been slowly replaced with immigration from the Balkan States and Latin America, which is actually helping to preserve Italian culture in the neighborhood.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2020

Turkey's alliance with Britain and France also bade fair to ease German pressure on the little Balkan States.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two Balkan States, Hungary and Rumania, are already largely under Germany's thumb.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Balkan States have long been selling their small exportable food surplus to Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

The suggestion was accepted and although it did not succeed in avoiding war between the different Balkan States themselves, it, at least, localized this war and kept the rest of Europe out of it.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)