balkans
English Thesaurus
1. the Balkan countries collectively (noun.location)
2. a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | peninsula, |
| definition | : | a large mass of land projecting into a body of water (noun.object) |
| part holonym | : | balkan wars, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
| part holonym | : | albania, republic of albania, |
| definition | : | a republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | croatia, hrvatska, republic of croatia, |
| definition | : | a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991 (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | macedon, macedonia, makedonija, |
| definition | : | the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | thrace, |
| definition | : | an ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea; colonized by ancient Greeks; later a Roman province; now divided between Bulgaria and Greece and Turkey (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | macedonia, |
| definition | : | landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 (noun.location) |
| part holonym | : | republic of turkey, turkey, |
| definition | : | a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | europe, |
| definition | : | the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles (noun.object) |
| member holonym | : | balkan, |
| definition | : | an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula (noun.person) |
3. the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula (noun.object)
| part meronym | : | balkan peninsula, balkans, |
| definition | : | a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range (noun.location) |
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