balkan peninsula

Noun
  1. A large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range (synset 108731605)
    is an instance of: peninsula - a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
    member holonym: balkan - an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula
    has:
    • balkan wars - two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe
    • balkan country, balkan nation, balkan state - any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula
    • albania, republic of albania - a republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula
    • croatia, hrvatska, republic of croatia - a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991
    • macedon, macedonia, makedonija - the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria
    • thrace - an ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea; colonized by ancient Greeks; later a Roman province; now divided between Bulgaria and Greece and Turkey
    • macedonia - landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991
    • republic of turkey, turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
    • balkan mountain range, balkan mountains, balkans - the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula
    is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
    same as: balkans

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