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Balkans

noun

The major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula. Synonyms: Balkan Mountain Range, Balkan Mountains.

A large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range. Synonym: Balkan Peninsula.

The Balkan countries collectively.

Balkan

noun

An inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula.

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... 19% forest and woodland: 28% other: 7% Irrigated land: 34,500 km2 (1989 est.) Environment: frequent earthquakes most severe in south and southwest; geologic structure and climate promote landslides; air pollution in south Note: controls most easily traversable land route between the Balkans, Moldova, ...

— The 1993 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Union entrant to adopt the euro, is a model of economic success and stability for the region. With the highest per capita GDP in Central Europe, Slovenia has excellent infrastructure, a well-educated work force, and a strategic location between the Balkans and Western Europe. Privatization has lagged since 2002, and the economy has one of highest levels of state control in the EU. Structural reforms to improve the business environment have allowed for somewhat greater foreign participation ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Berlin met in 1878, to reconsider the Eastern Question, the situation of the Jews in Eastern Europe, and more particularly in the Balkans, took its place in the front rank of the preoccupations of the Powers. Several long protocols are entirely devoted to it.[36] The result was that the Treaty of Berlin dealt comprehensively with the whole question ...

— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf

... for the trees. The attitude of the nations was made clear enough during these days. When Austria issued her ultimatum, many people in England thought of it as a portent of renewed distant trouble in the Balkans, to be quickly begun and soon ended. It was not so regarded in Germany. The people of Germany, though they were not in the confidence of their Government, were sufficiently familiar with its mode of operation to recognize the challenge to Serbia for what it was, Germany's chosen occasion for her ...

— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh

... lived in the rarefied atmosphere of some Olympian height from which he could distinguish nothing smaller than an international crisis or a split in the Cabinet. Sometimes we saw him passing in lonely majesty to his inner sanctum, with his eyes staring vaguely and his mind hovering over the Balkans or the Persian Gulf. He was above and beyond us. But McArdle was his first lieutenant, and it was he that we knew. The old man nodded as I entered the room, and he pushed his spectacles far up on ...

— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

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