balkans
IPA: bˈɔɫkʌnz
Root Word: Balkans
noun
- A geographical region in southeastern Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey.
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Examples of "balkans" in Sentences
- It has the highest minaret in the Balkans.
- It is the most tiresome mantra of the Balkans.
- Serbia is the bastion of freedom in the Balkans.
- His academic specialization is in the study of the Balkans.
- In part to signal that the USA was the arbiter of the Balkans, not the EU.
- During the stagnation period, much territory in the Balkans was ceded to Austria.
- Jihadis invaded europe and occupied several regions for hundreds of years (i.e., iberia, the balkans, etc.).
- Funny that when Clinton decided to use troops in the balkans the republicans said they could support the troops but not the mission.
- Clinton stopped two genocides in the balkans while he was getting blown and pissants like you were whining that he was wagging the dog.
- Peace, yeah in the face of what we have now, buttttt you had the first world trade center bombing, somalia, the balkans, cruise missles into afghanistan and sudan, the cole.
- Yes, Karadzic is Bosnian, but the larger point of the post dealt with war-on-terror hostility to Islam and its influence on opinions about aggression against muslims in the balkans.
- Designated a terrorist organization - quite rightly until the neocons wanted to advance islamic terror and criminality into the balkans - Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo - all come into that category.
- We butchered our relationship with Georgia that in the end it might create a war, after all every world war began in the balkans… only time will tell if things will change… i dont trust Obama or McCain.
- Some credit the difficulties of the Italians in the balkans to have sidetracked the Germans from an early invasion or Russia, causing a fatal delay that led them to get bogged down in that merciless winter of theirs.
- I was a news junkie for years so I had closely followed events in the near east and the balkans and the trends were ominous. 9/11 also confirmed, through responses from the Left, that Liberalism is incapable of leading the defence of this country.