Definitions for balkans

balkans Bal·kan

Spelling: [bawl-kuh n]
IPA: /ˈbɔl kən/

Balkans is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in balkans (aabklns).

Definitions for balkans

noun

  1. the Balkans. Balkan States.

adjective

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

plural noun

  1. the countries in the Balkan Peninsula: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and the European part of Turkey.

Origin of balkans

First recorded in 1825-35

Examples for balkans

Then Fenton had gone to the balkans, on a flying trip in every sense of the word.

When the U.S. did intervene militarily, such as in the balkans, air power was the only real approach considered palatable.

From the heights of the lower balkans—as at Sopot—we could see the horizon red.

The Germans, in turn, sold the Allied equipment to pro-Nazi groups in the balkans.

Remind me of the people who live about the foothills of the balkans.

As in the balkans 20 years ago, the effort to preserve “recognized international borders” is already a dead letter.

So far, then, the answer to the question, "Why are the balkans so often at war?"

Krauthammer called Clinton naive for expending blood and treasure to protect human rights and self-determination in the balkans.

The balkans are apt to have strange effects on the traveller.

Ignore the clumsy comparisons of the Syria War and the balkans War.

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