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Balkan

[ bawl-kuhn ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to the Balkan States or their inhabitants.
  2. pertaining to the Balkan Peninsula.
  3. pertaining to the Balkan Mountains.


noun

  1. the Balkans. Balkan States.

Balkan

/ ˈbɔːlkən /

adjective

  1. of, denoting, or relating to the Balkan States or their inhabitants, the Balkan Peninsula, or the Balkan Mountains


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Other Words From

  • Balkan·ite noun adjective
  • trans-Balkan adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Balkan1

First recorded in 1825–35

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Example Sentences

Vucic acknowledged that LGBTQ rights and people in the Balkan nation were under siege and threatened.

It’s now evident that Balkan hunter-gatherers “balanced their diet with plant foods and did so for millennia before the arrival of agriculture,” Cristiani says.

Previous chemical studies of human bones from Balkan sites indicated that ancient hunter-gatherers had eaten a lot of animal protein, mainly fish.

The last time I could recall anything similar were photographs of prison camps during the Balkan wars.

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Then in the 1910s, Isaac Carasso, a Balkan industrialist, learned that many children suffered from intestinal disorders.

Another is rooted in atrocities committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 90s.

Revisiting the Balkan wars may be a useful reminder about the limits of airpower.

The New York Review of Books Classics recently rereleased The Balkan Trilogy and School for Love.

The second reason stems from more recent history: the Balkan genocides of the 1990s.

For years, Holbrooke ribbed me for complicating his already difficult Balkan peace talks.

They were delicious, of a brand unobtainable by the public, and made from tobacco grown in one of the Balkan States.

This was to be a protection to England, and a check to Germany on the one side and the Balkan states on the other.

This condition of things has grown rapidly in recent years, and most evidently during the reverses of the Balkan war.

Apparently they were still more numerous in the valley of the Danube and in the Balkan Peninsula.

It has been her mission to rescue by moral influence some of the fairest lands in the Balkan peninsula from waste and anarchy.

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