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Definition of Balkan peninsula
1. Noun. A large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range.
Terms within: Balkan Wars, Balkan Country, Balkan Nation, Balkan State, Albania, Republic Of Albania, Croatia, Hrvatska, Republic Of Croatia, Macedon, Macedonia, Makedonija, Thrace, Macedonia, Republic Of Turkey, Turkey, Balkan Mountain Range, Balkan Mountains, Balkans
Group relationships: Europe
Generic synonyms: Peninsula
Member holonyms: Balkan
Definition of Balkan peninsula
1. Proper noun. A large peninsula in southeastern Europe surrounded by water on three sides: the Adriatic Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea (including the Ionian and Aegean Seas) to the south and the Black Sea to the east. Its northern boundary is often given as the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balkan Peninsula
Literary usage of Balkan peninsula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"CVIJIC ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE balkan peninsula. ... of the glaciation of the
mountains of the balkan peninsula during an ice period,* and for the solution ..."
2. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"The balkan peninsula is the most easterly of the three great peninsulas of ...
The boundary of the balkan peninsula can best be drawn from the Gulf of Fiume ..."
3. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"States of the balkan peninsula. — If the reader will examine a map of Europe
about 1800 he will find that at that date the state of Turkey occupied the ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"GREECE AND THE balkan peninsula. (1812—31.) I. UNPUBLISHED AUTHORITIES. In addition
to the great number of documents published in various collections, ..."
5. The Frontiers of Language and Nationality in Europe by Leon Dominian (1917)
"CHAPTER X LANGUAGE PROBLEMS OF THE balkan peninsula THE Serbian linguistic area,
noticed in the preceding chapter, is both the political and physical link ..."
6. Medieval and Modern Times: An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson (1919)
"In short, Turkey was preserved and strengthened by the intervention of the powers
as a bulwark against Russian encroachment into the balkan peninsula, ..."
7. Outlines of European History by James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard (1912)
"REVOLTS IN THE balkan peninsula 80. Some idea of the situation of the people
under the Terrible ... ("'g^') which set the whole balkan peninsula aflame. ..."
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