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Definition of Balkan mountains
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 Mountains
Literary usage of Balkan mountains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Short Stories from the Balkans by Edna Worthley Underwood (1919)
"THE SWINE HERD A TALE OF THE balkan mountains A PPROACH of evening in a land of
black x\_ mountains. Fine, cold rain like a winding sheet. ..."
2. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"My lour well defined sections may be Danubian table-land in the north, the of
the balkan mountains extending west- ntire length of the country, ..."
3. Macedonia by Tihomir R. Đorđević (1918)
"... their invasion of the Southern Slav lands between the Danube and the Balkan
mountains—Contrast between the Bulgars and the conquered Slavs—Their gradual ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"To the south of this the coast-line rises again ; ir'da peninsula is formed by
an extension of the balkan mountains, which may be considered as forming the ..."
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