# Balkan

Balkan is a German proper name meaning “the Balkans (a cultural region and peninsula in Southeastern Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovenia, and European Turkey)”.

## In other languages

- Русский: Балкан, Холм, Хълм
- Українська: Балкан

## Meanings

1. the Balkans (a cultural region and peninsula in Southeastern Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Slovenia, and European Turkey)
2. _geography_ Balkans
   - Auf dem Balkan ist immer noch kein Friede eingekehrt.
3. _geography_ Balkan
   - [Zar Nikolaj II.:] „Nikolaj war entgegen herrschenden Meinungen gar nicht begeistert davon, auf der Seite Serbiens den Konflikt auf dem Balkan mit austragen zu müssen.“

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