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Balkan Peninsula   /bˈɔlkən pənˈɪnsələ/   Listen
Balkan Peninsula

noun
1.
A large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range.  Synonym: Balkans.






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"Balkan Peninsula" Quotes from Famous Books



... politically. We do not purpose nor desire to dictate to them in any way. We only desire to see that their affairs are left in their own hands, in all matters, great or small. We shall hope to secure for the peoples of the Balkan peninsula and for the people of the Turkish Empire the right and opportunity to make their own lives safe, their own fortunes secure against oppression or injustice and from the dictation of foreign courts or parties, and our attitude ...
— In Our First Year of the War - Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, - March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 • Woodrow Wilson

... towards the Balkan Peninsula, the expansive tendency is much more complicated and of very ancient date. The Russo-Slavs who held the valley of the Dnieper from the ninth to the thirteenth century belonged to those numerous frontier tribes which the tottering Byzantine Empires attempted to ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace



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