Balkan War

[bawl-kuhn wawr]

noun

1. Also called First Balkan War. a war (1912–13) in which Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece opposed Turkey.

2. Also called Second Balkan War. a war (1913) in which Greece, Romania, and Serbia opposed Bulgaria for the redivision of territory taken from Turkey in the First Balkan War.

Example Sentences

They did it in the 1990s during the Balkan War as well.

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U.S. frustration with Mr. Dodik spewed into the open last year, with Washington sanctioning him in January 2022 on grounds his policies were undermining the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that established Bosnia’s government and ended the Balkan war.

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Ora said the youngster's plight reminded her of her own family's experience of fleeing the Balkan War in the 1990s "and how I will be forever grateful to the UK for showing us kindness and compassion".

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Those tensions were later defused amid European Union and U.S. efforts to push forward an EU-mediated dialogue between the former Balkan war foes.

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The Balkan war was then at its height, during what was called the Yugoslav Era of Disintegration.

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