English > Balkans: 3 senses > noun 2, location| Meaning | A large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range. |
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| Synonym | Balkan Peninsula |
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| Instance of | peninsula | A large mass of land projecting into a body of water |
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| Members | Balkan | An inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula |
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| Part of | Europe | The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia) |
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| Parts | Albania, Republic of Albania | A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula |
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| Balkan Wars | Two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe |
| Balkan country, Balkan nation, Balkan state | Any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula |
| Balkans, Balkan Mountains, Balkan Mountain Range | The major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula |
| Croatia, Republic of Croatia, Hrvatska | A republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area |
| Macedon, Macedonia, Makedonija | The ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria |
| Macedonia | landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula |
| Thrace | An ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea |
| Turkey, Republic of Turkey | A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans |
| Spanish | Balcanes, Península Balcánica |
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| Catalan | Balcans, Península Balcànica |
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