Balkan
adjective
noun
Origin of Balkan
Balkan States
plural noun
Examples from the Web for balkans
Contemporary Examples of balkans
As in the Balkans 20 years ago, the effort to preserve “recognized international borders” is already a dead letter.
The Germans, in turn, sold the Allied equipment to pro-Nazi groups in the Balkans.
When the U.S. did intervene militarily, such as in the Balkans, air power was the only real approach considered palatable.
Ignore the clumsy comparisons of the Syria War and the Balkans War.
Krauthammer called Clinton naive for expending blood and treasure to protect human rights and self-determination in the Balkans.
Historical Examples of balkans
Remind me of the people who live about the foothills of the Balkans.
The UnderdogF. Hopkinson Smith
Then Fenton had gone to the Balkans, on a flying trip in every sense of the word.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
From the heights of the lower Balkans—as at Sopot—we could see the horizon red.
The Making Of A NovelistDavid Christie Murray
The Balkans are apt to have strange effects on the traveller.
BulgariaFrank Fox
So far, then, the answer to the question, "Why are the Balkans so often at war?"
BulgariaFrank Fox