Balkan Peninsula
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3.1
- proper noun
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Península de los Balcanes
- Indeed, while the First and Second Balkan Wars were confined to the Balkan Peninsula, they would have continent-wide ramifications foreshadowing the Great War to come.
Examples
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Belgrade is the unofficial capital of an emerging Serbian Reich uniting Serbs scattered across the Balkan Peninsula.
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The new supreme power on the southern Balkan Peninsula was the Ottoman Empire.
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The Dinaric karst, highly porous limestone highlands, form a natural border between the inland of the Balkan Peninsula and the Dalmatian coast.
Academic text (1993) -
The Dinaric karst, highly porous limestone highlands, form a natural border between the inland of the Balkan Peninsula and the Dalmatian coast.
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Indeed, while the First and Second Balkan Wars were confined to the Balkan Peninsula, they would have continent-wide ramifications foreshadowing the Great War to come.
Synonyms
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3.9
A region in southeast Europe of many countries with different cultures and a long history
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is compositionally built from 'Balkan' (relating to the Balkans) + 'peninsula' (a landmass surrounded by water), so a learner who knows those constituents can infer it denotes a peninsula in the Balkans. This is a literal, geographic naming pattern found across languages, making the meaning immediately accessible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Balkan Peninsula takes its name from the nearby Balkan Mountains. The word 'balkan' came from Turkish to mean 'mountain', and peninsula means 'land almost surrounded by water', so the name simply points to the land around those mountains.