noun
Balkans
BAWL-kuhnz
noun
1
The peninsula and cultural region of southeastern Europe encompassing countries such as Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Greece.
"The Balkans have a long and complicated political history."
Word Forms
the Balkans plural
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Etymology
Named after the Balkan mountain range, from a Turkic word meaning "wooded mountain range."