Balkans

English thumb|250px|Balkan peninsula (as defined by the Danube-Sava-Kupa line) Alternative forms en Balcans dated Etymology Of en trk - origin; compare tr balkan wooded mountain range. Probably unrelated to en balk ridge of land. Pronunciation en /ˈbɔːl.kənz/ /ˈbɒl.kənz/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Balkans.wav Southern England en /ˈbɔl.kənz/ /ˈbɑl.kənz/ US Proper noun p 1 en Q23522en cultural region/and/peninsula r/Southeastern Europe roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovenia, and European Turkey the Balkans. 19th c. en 2002 Dennis P. Hupchick The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism 104 As the Ottomans' victories in the Balkans multiplied, increasing numbers of Anatolian warriors flocked to their ranks, and their territorial conquests grew. en 2015 Anastas Vangeli On the Growing Cooperation Between China and the Western Balkans Nikolaos Papakostas; Nikolaos Pasamitros An Agenda for the Western Balkans: From Elite Politics to Social Sustainability Stuttgart 182 The Balkans is still comparatively less attractive than other post-communist countries in Europe [...] Synonyms geographical region en Balkan Peninsula Derived terms en Balkan en Balkanism en Balkanize en Balkanization Related terms en Balkanic en Balkanian en Paleo-Balkan Translations geographical region in the southeast of Europe Balkan Peninsula Acehnese: ace Balkan Afrikaans: af Balkan Albanian: sq Ballkan Amharic: am ባልካኖች Arabic: ar الْبَلْقَان f Egyptian Arabic: arz البلقان f Hijazi Arabic: acw الْبَلْقَان f al-balgān) Armenian: hy Բալկաններ p Asturian: ast Balcanes m Azerbaijani: az Balkanlar Basque: eu Balkanak Belarusian: be Балка́ны m-p Bengali: bn বলকান Breton: br Balkanioù Bulgarian: bg Балка́ни p Catalan: ca Balcans m-p Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 巴爾幹 Bā'ěrgàn, cmn 巴爾幹半島 Bā'ěrgàn bàndǎo Czech: cs Balkán m Danish: da Balkan Dutch: nl Balkan m Esperanto: eo Balkanio Estonian: et Balkan Finnish: fi Balkan French: fr Balkans m Galician: gl Balcáns m-p Georgian: ka ბალკანეთი p German: de Balkan m Greek: el Βαλκάνια n-p Ancient Greek: grc Χερσόνησος τοῦ Αἵμου m Hebrew: he הבלקן m ha-balkan Hindi: hi बाल्कन Hungarian: hu Balkán Ido: io Balkan Indonesian: id Balkan Interlingua: ia Balkanes Irish: ga Balcáin m-p na Balcáin Italian: it Balcani m-p Jamaican Creole: jam Balkans Japanese: ja バルカン半島 バルカンはんとう, Barukan hantō Javanese: jv Balkan Kazakh: kk Балқандар p Korean: ko ^발칸반도 Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ckb بالکان Ladino: lad Balkanos Latvian: lv Balkāni m-p Lithuanian: lt Balkanai m-p Lombard: lmo Balcan Luxembourgish: lb Balkan n Macedonian: mk Балкан m Malagasy: mg Balkana Malay: ms Balkan Malayalam: ml ബാൾക്കൻ Marathi: mr बाल्कन Mazanderani: mzn بالکان Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Balkan Nynorsk: nn Balkan Occitan: oc Balcans Pashto: ps بالکان Persian: fa بالکان bâlkân Polish: pl Bałkany nv-p Portuguese: Brazilian Portuguese: pt Bálcãs m-p European Portuguese: pt Balcãs m-p Punjabi: pa ਬਾਲਕਨ Western Punjabi: pnb بلقان Romanian: ro Balcani m-p, ro Peninsula Balcanică f Russian: ru Балка́ны m-p Sardinian: sc Balcanos Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Ба̀лка̄н m Latin: sh Bàlkān m Silesian: szl Bałkany Slovak: sk Balkán m Slovene: sl Balkán m Spanish: es Balcanes m-p Swahili: sw Balkani Swedish: sv Balkan Telugu: te బాల్కన్లు Thai: th บอลข่าน Turkish: tr Balkanlar p Ottoman Turkish: ota بالقان Ukrainian: uk Балка́ни m-p Urdu: ur بَلْقان m balqān Vietnamese: vi Balkan Welsh: cy Balcanau p Yakut: sah Балкаан Further reading en References German Pronunciation de /ˈbalkaːns/ de De-Balkans.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Bal kans Proper noun de proper noun form de Balkan gen s Swedish Proper noun sv proper noun form sv Balkan gen Anagrams sv aabklns albansk blankas