Balkans

Cultural  

1. Major mountain range of the Balkan Peninsula, extending from the eastern portion of the former Yugoslavia through central Bulgaria to the Black Sea.

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Example Sentences

One case began with a man named Daniel Hewitt, an independent recruiter who sent out a LinkedIn message saying clients based in London were exploring opportunities to finance data centers in the Balkans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

This fitted in with the era of liberal interventionism that the UK had backed from the 1990s under Tony Blair, intervening in the Balkans to prevent bloodshed in Kosovo.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

Mandic said similar scenes were unfolding at almost all EU borders with the Western Balkans.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

More than a million Greeks fled what is now Turkey, and millions of Turks fled the Balkans as the Ottoman empire fell into decay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

I learned that he is a Muslim, a Bosnian, a survivor of the Balkans conflict, who came to Britain as a fifteen-year-old refugee.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins