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Definition of Balkan state

1. Noun. Any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balkan State

Literary usage of Balkan state

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels and Politics in the Near East by William Miller (1898)
"CHAPTER III THE MODEL balkan state : BOSNIA AND THE HERCEGOVINA WHEN, at the eighth sitting of the Berlin Congress, Lord Salisbury proposed that ..."

2. The Vested Interests and the State of the Industrial Arts: ("The Modern by Thorstein Veblen (1919)
"So Balkan-state national establishments appear to be the best there is in prospect in the new world of safe democracy. So true is this, that even in those ..."

3. Near Eastern Affairs and Conditions by Stephen Panaretoff (1922)
"Leaving Roumania aside as not being, properly speaking, a balkan state, there were up to the year 1878 three balkan states: Serbia, Greece and Montenegro. ..."

4. The War in Eastern Europe by John Reed (1916)
"If you want to infuriate a Rumanian, you need only speak of his country as a balkan state. "Balkan!" he cries. "Balkan! Rumania is not a balkan state. ..."

5. The Peace Tangle by John Foster Bass (1920)
"Bulgaria and Constantinople should not be assign^i to any balkan state. ... Bulgaria has the best administration of any balkan state, corrupt though it be. ..."

6. The Great Settlement by Charles Ernest Fayle (1915)
"But, even apart from the question of Russian claims, there is no balkan state whose resources would be equal to the task of administering the great city and ..."

7. Venizelos by Herbert Adams Gibbons (1920)
""I earnestly want peace, but the Greek nation must oppose any attempt of any one balkan state to acquire for itself a preponderant position which would put ..."

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