Balkans

English

Balkan peninsula (as defined by the Danube-Sava-Kupa line)

Etymology

Of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  origin. Compare Turkish balkan (“wooded mountain range”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːl.kənz/, /ˈbɒl.kənz/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑl.kənz/, /ˈbɔl.kənz/

Proper noun

Balkans

1. A geographical region in southeastern Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia (and Kosovo), sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey.
   • 2002 — Dennis P. Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism, p.104:

     As the Ottomans' victories in the Balkans multiplied, increasing numbers of Anatolian warriors flocked to their ranks, and their territorial conquests grew.

   • 2015 — Anastas Vangeli, On the Growing Cooperation Between China and the Western Balkans, in: Nikolaos Papakostas and Nikolaos Pasamitros (editors), An Agenda for the Western Balkans: From Elite Politics to Social Sustainability, Stuttgart, p.182:

     The Balkans is still comparatively less attractive than other post-communist countries in Europe [...]

Usage notes

• Used with the definite article the and construed as a plural.

Synonyms

• (geographical region): Balkan Peninsula

Derived terms

• Balkan
• Balkanism
• Balkanize

Related terms

• Balkanic
• Balkanian
• Paleo-Balkan

Translations

geographical region in the southeast of Europe — see also Balkan Peninsula

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Ancient Greek:
• Arabic: البَلْقَان f (al-balqān)

  Hijazi Arabic: البَلْقَان f (al-balgān))

• Armenian: Բալկաններ (hy) (Balkanner)
• Asturian: Balcanes m
• Bulgarian: Балкани pl (Balkani)
• Catalan: Balcans m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴爾幹／巴尔干 (zh) (Bā'ěrgàn), 巴尔干 (zh) (Bā'ěrgàn), 巴爾幹半島／巴尔干半岛 (zh) (Bā'ěrgàn Bàndǎo), 巴尔干半岛 (zh) (Bā'ěrgàn bàndǎo)

• Czech: Balkán (cs) m
• Danish: Balkan
• Esperanto: Balkanio
• Finnish: Balkan (fi)
• French: Balkans (fr) m
• Galician: Balcáns m pl
• German: Balkan (de) m
• Greek: Βαλκάνια (el) n pl (Valkánia)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: Balkán (hu)
• Irish: na Balcáin m pl
• Japanese: バルカン半島 (Barukan hantō)
• Kazakh: Балқандар pl (Balqandar)
• Macedonian: Балкан m (Balkan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Balkan

  Nynorsk: Balkan

• Polish: Bałkany (pl)
• Portuguese: Balcãs m pl, Bálcãs m pl
• Romanian: Balcani m pl, Peninsula Balcanică f
• Russian: Балка́ны (ru) m pl (Balkány)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Балкан m

  Roman: Balkan (sh) m

• Slovak: Balkán m
• Slovene: Balkán (sl) m
• Spanish: Balcanes (es) m pl
• Swedish: Balkan (sv)
• Turkish: Balkanlar (tr) pl

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalkaːns/
• Hyphenation: Bal‧kans

Proper noun

Balkans

1. genitive singular of Balkan