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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Example Sentences

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

"When the victorious Balkan States wanted to divide Bulgaria among themselves at the Neuilly Peace Conference it was the United States who protested and saved Bulgaria."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Altogether the Balkan States blamed the Allies and took a seven-league leap towards the German-Russian combine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Take the progression away from militancy, and it gives us a table something like this: Arabia and Morocco.Turkish territory as a whole.The more unruly Balkan States.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman