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Definition of Balkan mountain range
1. Noun. The major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula.
Group relationships: Balkan Peninsula, Balkans
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balkan Mountain Range
Literary usage of Balkan mountain range
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Effect of Maritime Command on Land Campaigns Since Waterloo by Charles Edward Callwell (1897)
"And the great balkan mountain range remained almost as serious an obstacle as
ever to a march towards the Sultan's capital. The topography of these sterile ..."
2. Savage and Civilized Russia by G. W. Royston-Pigott, W. R. (1879)
"They also occur in scattered groups in the northern parts of Thrace and Macedonia.
They are thus, as it were, astride across the balkan mountain range. ..."
3. Library of Universal History: Containing a Record of the Human Race from the by Israel Smith Clare (1897)
"... by that stream from its junction with the Save to its own mouth, on the east
by the Euxine (now Black Sea), on the south by the balkan mountain range, ..."
4. Zigzag Journeys in the Orient. The Adriatic and the Baltic.: The Adriatic by Hezekiah Butterworth (1881)
"... lying between the river Danube on the north, and the lofty and picturesque
balkan mountain range on the south ; while on the west it borders on Servia, ..."
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