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Balkans
Balkans Bulg. Stara Planina , major mountain range of the Balkan Peninsula and Bulgaria, extending c.350 mi (560 km) from E Serbia through central Bulgaria to the Black Sea. It rises to 7,794 ft (2,376 m) at Botev, the highest peak. The Balkans are a continuation of the Carpathian Mts. The fores... Read more
Balkan Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula southeasternmost peninsula of Europe, c.200,000 sq mi (518,000 sq km), bounded by the Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Ionian Sea, and Adriatic Sea. Although there is no sharp physiographic separation between the peninsula and Central Europe, the line of th... Read more
Balkan Wars
Balkan Wars 1912-13, two short wars, fought for the possession of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire. The outbreak of the Italo-Turkish War for the possession of Tripoli (1911) encouraged the Balkan states to increase their territory at Turkish expense. Serbia and Bulgaria accordingly c... Read more
Shipka
Shipka , pass through the Balkans, alt. c.4,370 ft (1,330 m), central Bulgaria. It is crossed by a highway. Gabrovo, north of the pass, was the scene of a Russo-Bulgarian victory over the Turks in 1878. ... Read more
Enver Pasha
Enver Pasha , 1881-1922, Turkish general and political leader. He took a prominent part in the Young Turk revolution of 1908, which reestablished the liberal constitution of 1876. By a coup in 1913, Enver Pasha became the virtual dictator. He fought in the Turko-Italian War (1911-12) in Libya and ... Read more
Olivia Manning
Olivia Manning 1911-80, English novelist, b. Portsmouth, Hampshire. During World War II she served as a journalist in the Middle East. She is best known for her "Balkan trilogy" : The Great Fortune (1960), The Spoilt City (1962), and Friends and Heroes (1966). These novels concern a Britis... Read more
Lake Ohrid
Lake Ohrid Albanian Ohrit, deepest lake of the Balkans, c.130 sq mi (340 sq km), on the Macedonian-Albanian border. It is connected with Lake Prespa by underground channels and is drained to the north by the Black Drin River. On its shores stand several monasteries, notably that of St. Naum (10th... Read more
Edirne
Edirne , formerly Adrianople , city (1990 pop. 102,325), capital of Edirne prov., NW Turkey, in Thrace. It is the commercial center for a farm region where grains, fruits, and tobacco are grown and cattle and sheep are raised. The city was founded (c.AD 125) by Hadrian, the Roman emperor, on the ... Read more
Little Entente
Little Entente , loose alliance formed in 1920-21 by Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Its specific purposes were the containment of Hungarian revisionism (of the terms of the World War I peace treaty) and the prevention of a restoration of the Hapsburgs. The three nations were drawn together... Read more
Avars
Avars , mounted nomad people who in the 4th and 5th cent. dominated the steppes of central Asia. Dislodged by stronger tribes, the Avars pushed west, increasing their formidable army by incorporating conquered peoples into it. Reaching their greatest power in the late 6th cent., they plundered all o... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Balkan"

Balkan Wars (1912–1913)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa BALKAN WARS (1912 – 1913) Warfare among the states of the Balkan Peninsula that affected the balance-of-power politics...contributed to the outbreak of World War I. In the first Balkan War (October 1912 – March 1913), the...
Balkan Wars
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History BALKAN WARS Following the Bosnian crisis of 1908...further the already fractious nature of Balkan rivalries, events soon ran counter to Russia...pact in March 1912, the genesis of a new Balkan League. Two months later Albania revolted...
Balkan Countries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture BALKAN COUNTRIES BALKAN COUNTRIES. Countries on the Balkan Peninsula, a region in southeastern Europe, are bounded by the Adriatic and the Ionian seas in the west, the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas in the south, and the Sea of Marmara and...
Refugees: Balkan Muslim
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa REFUGEES: BALKAN MUSLIM People who have migrated and relocated...Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia, and other Balkan countries. The Balkans — the...Montenegro, and Serbia. Later, the Balkan allies either exiled or caused the deaths...
Balkan Peninsula
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Balkan Peninsula southeasternmost peninsula of...considered as the region's northern limit. The Balkan Peninsula therefore includes most of Slovenia...successors to the Ottoman Empire , are called the Balkan States. Historically and politically the...
Balkan Crises (1870s)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa BALKAN CRISES (1870S) Regional unrest led to...prince; Eastern Rumelia, south of the Balkan mountains, which was to have a Christian...single most important agreement for the Balkan nations in the nineteenth century. While...
Balkan Entente
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Balkan Entente , loose alliance formed in 1934 by Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, and Turkey to safeguard their...Czechoslovakia chiefly against Hungarian revisionism). The events of World War II caused the dissolution of the Balkan Entente.
Balkan Mountains
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Balkan Mountains Major mountain range of the Balkan Peninsula, extending from e Serbia through central Bulgaria to the Black Sea. The range is a continuation of the Carpathian Mountains . It is rich in minerals and forms a climatic barrier for...
Balkan states
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Balkan states Group of countries in the Balkan Peninsula, se Europe, consisting of Albania , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Greece , Macedonia , Romania , Serbia , and European Turkey . From the 3rd century ad , the region was ruled...
Balkan campaign
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Balkan campaign, fought firstly by Greek troops and RAF units against Italian forces which invaded Greece in October 1940; then by Greek...

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Balkan Pact
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Balkan Pact (1934, 1954) An attempt to reduce...Serbia. The pact became the basis for the Balkan Entente which joined the signatory states...invasion during World War II. Indeed, the Balkan states were deeply divided in its response...
Balkan Wars
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Balkan Wars (1912–13) In March 1912, the First Balkan Entente was formed through a system of bilateral treaties...spoils. In June 1913 it attacked Serbia in the Second Balkan War. Bulgaria was soon defeated in a coalition which...
Balkan beam
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing Balkan beam ( Balkan frame ) ( bawl -kăn) n. a rectangular frame attached over a bed, used for the support of splints, pulleys, or slings for an immobilized limb.
To Vlemma Tou Odyssea
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...his interest and became interested in Balkan-wide issues, which found expressions...identity problems lurk within his peculiar Balkan universe, and raises issues of displacement...homelands. He endows the idiosyncratic Balkan problems with a universal humanistic dimension...
Dom za Vesanje
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Kusturica & Time of the Gypsies 's Balkan Makeover of Coppola's Godfathers" in...All': The Balkans' Healing Irony (Balkan Cinema)," in Chronicle of Higher Education...Yugoslavia mixing equal doses of realism and Balkan surrealism. And Time of the Gypsies won...
Balkans
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Balkans (or Balkan States ) The countries occupying the Balkan peninsula of south-eastern Europe, lying south of the...Bulgars, and Turks. From the 3rd to 7th century the Balkan peninsula, nominally ruled by the Byzantine emperors...
Bulgaria
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Bulgaria A country of the Balkan Peninsula in south-east Europe. It...north-east; the long Planina range of Balkan Mountains runs parallel to the river...Bulgaria covering three-fifths of the Balkan Peninsula. Britain, however, now...
Serbia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Serbia A Balkan territory which, after several uprisings, became...did everything to block Austrian pretensions to Balkan predominance. Serbia emerged victorious and strengthened from the Balkan Wars (1912–13), in which it almost...
Eastern Question
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...provided by the Ottoman empire and the volatility of the emerging Balkan states. It can be argued that the Eastern Question caused the...Serbia by annexing Bosnia in 1908. Russia helped to organize the Balkan League of Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Greece, which...
Russia, Christianity in
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Churches in the newly acquired western territory, including the Balkan states. There was a further wave of persecution in 1959...became the headquarters of the Moscow Patriarchate, while in the Balkan states RC and Lutheran cathedrals began to reopen. In 1990...

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Balkan Forms Partnership for Siding Company
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 3/18/1995; ; 700+ words ; For 32 years, Neal Balkan has fought a continuous war against the...quality workmanship and integrity of Balkan Siding Co., which he founded in 1963...and three salesmen. Now in his 70s, Balkan is taking on partners for the first time...
Prospects for Balkan cooperation after the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Magazine article from: East European Quarterly; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...interests of the participating countries. Inter-Balkan Cooperation has historically tried to establish...Ottoman territory to free themselves led to the Balkan League, and the Balkan Wars of 1912-13.(4) c. The effort towards...
Tajac Capital to Acquire Balkan Resources
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 3/27/2008; 700+ words ; ...acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Balkan Resources Inc. ("Balkan"), a junior Canadian mining and exploration company, in exchange for common shares of Tajac (the "Balkan Acquisition"). Balkan has interests in a number...
Animal Names in Bulgarian: Balkan versus Slavonic in the Nineteenth Century
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Henninger. Animal Names in Bulgarian: Balkan versus Slavonic in the Nineteenth Century...representative of the limited range of Balkan animal names used in literature of the...become a part of the Ottoman empire. Each Balkan influence and subsequent lexical infiltrations...
The Global Gambling Industry Is Now Focusing On The Balkan States And Eastern Europe For Its Expansion!!
M2 Presswire; 4/17/2009; 700+ words ; ...Gambling Industry Is Now Focusing On The Balkan States And Eastern Europe For Its Expansion...researchandmarkets.com/research/d2d0d4/the_balkan_gamblin) has announced the addition of the "The Balkan Gambling Markets" report to their offering...
Research and Markets: The Global Gambling Industry is Now Focusing on the Balkan States and Eastern Europe for Its Expansion!
Business Wire; 4/17/2009; 700+ words ; ...researchandmarkets.com/research/ea3ab8/the_balkan_gamblin) has announced the addition of the "The Balkan Gambling Markets" report to their offering...gambling industry is now focusing on the Balkan states and Eastern Europe for its expansion...
Objective Capital Reports Balkan Resources' Prospects Include Public Listing.
News Wire article from: Investrend; 10/27/2009; 700+ words ; ...2009/10/27/objective-capital-reports-balkan-resources-prospects-include-public-listing...Objective Capital on metals exploration company Balkan Resources, Inc. Balkan Resources is an emerging junior Canadian-based...
Aggression versus apathy: the limits of nationalism during the Balkan wars, 1912-1913.
Magazine article from: East European Quarterly; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...seemed critical to western civilization. Balkan behavior in the 1990's was traced back to Balkan history and notably the nationalism which...the salient feature of the first and second Balkan Wars. The earlier conflicts have implications...
BALKAN BULGARIAN AIRLINES SELECTS WICAT FOR FLIGHT, MAINTENANCE AND CABIN ATTENDANT TRAINING
PR Newswire; 4/11/1994; 700+ words ; ...announced today that it has been selected by Balkan, the national airline of Bulgaria, to...based training (CBT) system at the Balkan Training Centre in Sofia. The system...maintenance and cabin attendant training. Balkan is upgrading and modernizing its fleet...
BALKAN CINEMA in the 90s: AN OVERVIEW.
Magazine article from: Afterimage; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...international spotlight, the treasures of Balkan cinema remain unknown even to cineastes...lump these cinemas together and talk of Balkan cinema, as opposed to the cinemas of...believe that there is such a thing as Balkan cinema--one with analagous sites and...