Balkans

alternative dated Balcans

1. pluralplural onlyA cultural region and peninsula in 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.First known use 19th c.

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

   2015, Anastas Vangeli, “On the Growing Cooperation Between China and the Western Balkans”, in Nikolaos Papakostas, Nikolaos Pasamitros, editors, An Agenda for the Western Balkans: From Elite Politics to Social Sustainability, Stuttgart, page 182

   1 more example

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

   2002, Dennis P. Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism, page 104

   Synonyms: Balkan Peninsula