Balkan
['bɔ:lkən]
Examples
- The greater part of the Balkan peninsula was conquered by these people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But these Balkan peoples were Christians, and bitterly divided among themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Constantinople had long been a mere island of Christians in a Turk-ruled Balkan Peninsula. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It lifts a curtain upon the Balkan country behind Greece about which we have said nothing hitherto; it carries us to and over the Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- South of this sea stretched a continuous shore from the Balkans to Afghanistan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires lasted for a considerable time: the forms of government in Asia Minor and the Balkans were more unstable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The feverish state of affairs in the Balkans was largely the outcome of the intrigues and propagandas sustained by the German and Slav schemes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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