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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Balkans

He gradually extended his authority over a swathe of the Balkans, making the Lake Prespa and Lake Ohrid region, now mostly in North Macedonia, his powerbase.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

She’d been traveling all over the Balkans, to untouched places that seem right on the verge of being truly developed for tourism.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

Mr. Hoffman shifts from personal memoir to vivid nature writing—as if a modern Thoreau had arrived in the Balkans, eyes open, and begun to write a book of unusual beauty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Of the six countries in the Western Balkans, only Montenegro is further ahead – and it has been in talks for a decade longer.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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

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