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Balkans

Balkans

English

Balkan peninsula (as defined by the Danube-Sava-Kupa line)

Proper noun

Balkans

A geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Kosovo, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and sometimes Romania.
- 2002 — Dennis P. Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism, p104
  As the Ottomans' victories in the Balkans multiplied, increasing numbers of Anatolian warriors flocked to their ranks, and their territorial conquests grew.

Usage notes

Used with the definite article the.

Synonyms

(geographical region): Balkan Peninsula

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

geographical region in the southeast of Europe — See also translations at : Balkan Peninsula

Albanian:
Arabic: البَلْقَان f ‎(al-balqān)
Hijazi Arabic: البَلْقَان f ‎(al-balgān))
Ancient Greek: Χερσόνησος τοῦ Αἵμου m ‎(Khersónēsos toû Haímou)
Armenian: Բալկաններ ‎(Balkanner)
Asturian: Balcanes m
Bulgarian: Балкани pl ‎(Balkani)
Catalan: Balcans m pl
Chinese:
Mandarin: 巴爾幹 (zh), 巴尔干 (zh) ‎(Bā'ěrgàn), 巴爾幹半島 (zh), 巴尔干半岛 (zh) ‎(Bā'ěrgàn bàndǎo)
Danish: Balkanhalvøen
Esperanto: Balkanio
Finnish: Balkan (fi)
French: Balkans (fr) m
German: Balkan (de) m
Greek: Βαλκάνια (el) n pl ‎(Valkánia)
Hungarian: Balkán (hu)

Irish: Na Balcáin m pl
Japanese: バルカン半島 ‎(Barukan hantō)
Macedonian: Балкан m ‎(Balkan)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: Balkan

Nynorsk: Balkan
Polish: Bałkany (pl)
Portuguese: Balcãs m pl, Bálcãs m pl
Romanian: Balcani m pl, Peninsula Balcanică f
Russian: Балка́ны (ru) m pl ‎(Balkány)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Балкан m

Roman: Balkan (sh) m
Slovak: Balkán m
Slovene: Balkán (sl) m
Swedish: Balkan (sv)
Turkish: Balkanlar (tr) pl

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbalkaːns/
Hyphenation: Bal‧kans

Proper noun

Balkans

genitive singular of Balkan