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Balkan meaning
Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula. | Of or relating to the Balkan Mountains. | Of or relating to the Balkan countries and their inhabitants.
Example sentences (20)
Balkan drone music is described as polyphonic due to Balkan musicians using a literal translation of the Greek polyphōnos ('many voices').
For instance, the Balkan slang name for marihuana (trava - meaning "grass") turns to "vutra"; the Balkan slang name for cocaine (belo - meaning "white") turns to lobe, a pistol (pištolj) turns to štoljpi, bro (brate) turns to tebra.
Musical style Bregović's compositions, extending Balkan musical inspirations to innovative extremes, draw upon European classicism and Balkan rhythms.
Provoked by the backstage deals between its former allies Serbia and Greece on allocation the spoils at the end of the First Balkan War, while it fights at the main Thracian Front, Bulgaria marks the beginning of Second Balkan War when attacked them.
The word was used by the Ottomans in Rumelia in its general meaning of mountain, as in Kod̲j̲a-Balkan, Čatal-Balkan, and Ungurus-Balkani̊, but especially it was applied to the Haemus mountain.
This period of unemployment was the only one of his life; however, he employed himself as best he could, including recovering from his Balkan experiences and finishing up his Balkan studies.
This region is subdivided into two geomorphological units, the Pre-Balkan and the Balkan Mountains, also known in Bulgarian as Стара Планина — "Old Mountain".
A day earlier that was mentioned in a bloc's meeting with Western Balkan leaders in Brussels.
Hungary struck a deal with Serbia that could bring increased shipments of Russian natural gas through the Balkan country if Ukraine ends a gas transit agreement with Moscow.
Months before graduating in 2022, Petar was invited by a fellow Bulgarian on a trip to annexed Crimea as part of a project to organise events aimed at influencing the Balkan peninsula.
President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday said that India and Serbia are ancient lands and in the modern era, India’s relations with the Balkan country were particularly defined in the context of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Since sources claim that Phrygians migrated from the Balkans, archaeological finds of Balkan pottery in western Anatolia in the 12th century BC is likely a trace of this migration.
The Balkan nation has consistently over-performed on the world stage over the past 25 years, starting with their third-place finish at the 1998 World Cup.
The nine-day track and field event will be the backdrop for talks with the Emir of Qatar and the presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, as well as leaders from the Balkan nations of Serbia and Bosnia.
The small Balkan country’s post World War II communist dictatorship reveled in massive defensive works; the countryside is still littered with the crumbling remains of 175,000 concrete mini-bunkers – again built to stop imaginary invaders.
They both underlined the importance of the integration of the Western Balkan region with the European Union.
Two mass shootings in May, resulting in 18 deaths, including nine elementary school students, triggered street protests that shook Vucic and the SNS's decade-long grip on power in the Western Balkan republic.
A normal agenda between Albania and Kosovo would pre-suppose the development, operation and reinforcement of their inter-state relations, currently nearly at crisis point, before the development of a Balkan Schengen.
Balkan Paar, who is a mum-of-five, shared a video of her cleaning her kids' school bags on and it has since gained over 10 million views.
Both countries lie on the so-called Balkan land route used by migrants trying to reach western Europe.