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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

For two decades the Balkan States and Turkey had been objects of Germany’s especial solicitude.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris