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- adjective Of or relating to the
Balkan peninsula .
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Examples
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"Balkanic mentality that seems to afflict some Englishmen when dealing with these problems."
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
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Balkanic, with perpetual Balkanic eruptions, so to speak.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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There was something truly Balkanic in the surrender of Cetinje, arranged by the Grand Hotel and his son-in law, which appealed to my sense of humour.
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Balkanic plots and aspirations so little that I had actually to ask where it had happened.
Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890
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He had this fantasy of a Balkanic orchestra, on his own at first, and then with company.
LA BLOGOTHEQUE 2009
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In those Balkanic enclaves, Romanian may be called
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Also enticing is the very idea of a "pan-Balkanic consciousness" that could help transcend the failed politics that have bathed much of the region in turmoil.
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Thracians were nomadic Indo-European people, settling in the Balkanic area about five millennia ago and became a powerful empire during the 5th century BC.
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Eleutherios Venizelos, the foremost statesman of Greece, the man to whom in fact she owes that growth in territory and influence that has come as a result of the first and second Balkanic wars, continues to exert paramount influence in the solution of the Eastern question, in spite of the we believe mistaken policy of the Triple Entente which permitted King Constantine of Greece for so long a period of time to prevent the direct application of the power of Greece to and in the successful termination of the war against Germany.
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I now have an irrepressible need to take a trip to my favorite Lebane se (Goodtaste, 2 chemin sur Grosse, 01210 ferney Voltaire, France) and Balkanic (
Rosa's Yummy Yums Rosa's Yummy Yums 2010
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