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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The countries of the Balkan Peninsula, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, along with areas of continental Greece, southeast Romania, and European Turkey.
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Examples
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The question has been raised whether in reality negotiations are being conducted between the Balkan States, that is to say, Bulgaria and
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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If the Powers attack her, and try to drive her out of Crete, she will at once attack Turkey on the mainland, and with the help of Servia, Bulgaria, and what are known as the Balkan States (from the Balkan Mountains which run through them) will try her best to destroy the disreputable Turkish monarchy in Europe.
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At the head of each of the Balkan States is a monarch surrounded by a governing clique who have full authority in military matters.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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Austrian spheres of influence in the Balkans are to be defined in such a manner that a definite arrangement of affairs in the Balkan States will be the result.
The Coming Conquest of England August Niemann 1879
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As it was, their history for upwards of forty years had little to record other than a momentary cohesion and a subsequent lapse into five quarrelsome little republics -- the "Balkan States" of America.
Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors 1902
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I finally saw my best prospect to escape in 1958, when I was granted permission for a tour around the Balkan States.
Nikki Stone: Earning Our Stars and Stripes Nikki Stone 2011
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That the Balkan States should be admitted to the council of Peace and decide the government under which they are to live is taken as a matter of course because they are Europeans, but no extra-European is credited, even by the extremest advocates of human equality, with any right except to humbly accept the fate which Europe shall decide for him.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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But certainly, very significant in the Balkan States here.
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According to Stratfor, the Russian Federation is trying to put pressure on the Balkan States as well as the Eastern European nations to distance themselves from NATO.
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This tendency had broken out first and most strongly in the Near East, in the little Balkan States, and had sustained them through an almost unparalleled martyrdom to their goal of separation from Turkey.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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