balkan

Everyday

1. To do with the Balkans, a mountainous region in south-east Europe. tree →
2. The Balkans: the countries of that region, such as Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Kosovo. tree →

In the lessons

In geography and history lessons it names a region and its peoples, foods, music and mountains (the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria). In history it appears in lessons on the First World War and the wars of the 1990s. It tells the reader the place is south-east Europe.

Examples

• The Balkan countries lie in south-east Europe. tree →
• We tasted Balkan food like burek and stuffed peppers. tree →
• The Balkan Mountains run across Bulgaria. tree →
• Many Balkan towns have old stone bridges. tree →
• She went on holiday to the Balkans last summer. tree →
• Balkan music often uses fast, lively rhythms. tree →
• Our history class learned about the Balkan wars. tree →

Note

A proper adjective, so it is written with a capital letter: Balkan, the Balkans (always with «the»). The input is lower case only because of the word list. Not a single country. The name comes from a Turkish word for a chain of wooded mountains.