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kəˌnaɪz verb (used with object), Bal·kan·ized, Bal·kan·iz·ing.
1.
to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
2.
(often lowercase) to divide (groups, areas, etc.) into contending and usually ineffectual factions: a movement to balkanize minority voters.
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Balkanize or Balkanise (ˈbɔːlkəˌnaɪz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to divide (a territory) into small warring states |
| 2. | to divide (a group or organization) into small factions |
| Balkanise or Balkanise | |
| —vb | |
| Balkani'zation or Balkanise | |
| —n | |
| Balkani'sation or Balkanise | |
| —n | |
| 'Balkanized or Balkanise | |
| —adj | |
| 'Balkanised or Balkanise | |
| —adj | |
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Balk-anise
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Word Origin & History
Balkanize
1920, first used in reference to the Baltic states, on the model of what had happened in the Balkans; said to have been coined by Eng. editor James Louis Garvin (1868-1947), but A.J. Toynbee (1922) credited it to "German Socialists" describing the results of the treaty of
Brest-Litovsk. Either way, the reference is to the political situation in the Balkans c.1878-1913, when the European section of the Ottoman Empire split up into small, warring nations. Balkanized and Balkanization both also are from 1920.
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