Balkan

[ bawl-kuhn ]

adjective

pertaining to the Balkan States or their inhabitants.
pertaining to the Balkan Peninsula.

pertaining to the Balkan Mountains.

noun

the Balkans. Balkan States.

Origin of Balkan

First recorded in 1825–35

Other words from Balkan

Bal·kan·ite, noun, adjective
trans-Balkan, adjective

Words Nearby Balkan

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How to use Balkan in a sentence

Another is rooted in atrocities committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 90s.
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Revisiting the Balkan wars may be a useful reminder about the limits of airpower.
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The New York Review of Books Classics recently rereleased The Balkan Trilogy and School for Love.
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The second reason stems from more recent history: the Balkan genocides of the 1990s.
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For years, Holbrooke ribbed me for complicating his already difficult Balkan peace talks.
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They were delicious, of a brand unobtainable by the public, and made from tobacco grown in one of the Balkan States.
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This was to be a protection to England, and a check to Germany on the one side and the Balkan states on the other.
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This condition of things has grown rapidly in recent years, and most evidently during the reverses of the Balkan war.
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Apparently they were still more numerous in the valley of the Danube and in the Balkan Peninsula.
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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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British Dictionary definitions for Balkan

Balkan

/ (ˈbɔːlkən) /

adjective

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

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