Balkan Definition

bôlkən
adjective
Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula or the Balkan Mountains.
American Heritage
Of the Balkan States or their peoples, languages, or cultures.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the Balkan States or their inhabitants.
American Heritage
Of the Balkan Mountains.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula.
Wiktionary

Origin of Balkan

  • From Turkish balkan (“a wooded mountain chain”).

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Balkan Sentence Examples

  • The revival of the various Balkan nationalities was in every case accompanied or preceded by a literary movement; in Servian literature, under the influence of Obradovich and Vuk Karajich, the popular idiom, notwithstanding the opposition of the priesthood, superseded the ecclesiastical RussianSlavonic; in Bulgaria the eastern dialect, that of the Sredna Gora, prevailed.

  • Shishman's son Samuel (976-1014) captured Durazzo; he extended his sway over a great part of the Balkan Peninsula, but was eventually defeated in 1014 by the emperor Basil II., who put out the eyes of 1.5,000 Bulgarian prisoners.

  • Spain, the Gauls, Britain and Africa, leaving to Valens the eastern half of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece, Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor as far as Persia.

  • The large predominance of imports over exports after 1884 was a result of the falling off of the export trade in live stock, olive oil and wine, on account of the closing of the French market, while the importation of corn from Russia and the Balkan States increased considerably.

  • But the most serious point at issue was the Balkan question.

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