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Definition of Balkan wars

1. Noun. Two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balkan Wars

Literary usage of Balkan wars

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

1. Slavic Europe: A Selected Bibliography in the Western European Languages by Robert Joseph Kerner (1918)
"Nürnberg, 1912. 108 p. See 3592-3700. /. THE balkan wars i ... SCHURMAN, JG The balkan wars, 1912-1913. (The Stafford Little lectures for 1914. ..."

2. The Great War by George Henry Allen, Henry C. Whitehead, French Ensor Chadwick (1919)
"... the estrangement between Venizelos and the king; problems left by the Balkan Wars; the project for Greek cooperation with the Allies and the resignation ..."

3. The Roots of the War: A Non-technical History of Europe, 1870-1914, A.D. by William Stearns Davis, William Anderson, Mason Whiting Tyler (1918)
"... OF THE TREATY OF BERLIN THE balkan wars THE Treaty of Berlin had long been unsatisfactory to all its signers. Yet it stood for decades, ..."

4. Modern European History by Charles Downer Hazen (1917)
"CHAPTER XXXVII THE balkan wars OF 1912 AND 1913 THE PEACE MOVEMENT The contemporary world, to a degree altogether unprecedented in history, ..."

5. Fifty Years of Europe, 1870-1919 by Charles Downer Hazen (1919)
"CHAPTER XV THE balkan wars OF 1912 AND 1913 THE PEACE MOVEMENT THE contemporary world, to a degree altogether unprecedented in history, has been dominated ..."

6. Greater Roumania by Charles Upson Clark (1922)
"CHAPTER VIII THE ROUMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES AND KINGDOM UP TO THE balkan wars THE Turks had no great difficulty in crushing what . remained of Tudor's ..."

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