balkanize

To fracture and waste something important, like a country, with something totally unimportant, like ethnic differences.

Man, you just balkanized your head on a stump!

by psients October 24, 2006

balkanize

To split something (usually a state) apart, on a usually ethnic basis. This verb first appeared in the 1990's during the War in Bosnia, led by Croats, Serbs and Bosnians, which caused the demise of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). It is nowadays again popular with Kosovar Albanians trying to rip off a part of Serbia -Kosovo (15% of Serbian territory, imagine the US without Texas)- for themselves.

It seems highly unlikely to balkanize the USA.

by Ntex March 30, 2008

Balkans

A region in Southeast Europe where everyone hates each other.

Greece hates turkey and vice versa

Serbia hates turkey and vice versa
Greece hates Albania

Greece hates skopia and vice versa
Serbia hates Croatia and vice versa
Bulgaria hates turkey and vice versa
No one likes Slovenia and no one considers it Balkan.

Those Balkans are fucking crazy

by not a guy named Andreas December 14, 2019

The Balkans

The most wretched hive of scum and villany (other than YouTube comments). A place where everyone hates each other. A place where every country dreams of having another country's land. A place where a country can have 3 major ethnicities and not be destroyed by a civil war. A place where Muslims and Orthodox Christians fight all day. A place where every one thinks he's better than anyone else. A place where you want to stay away from.

Serbia: REMOVE KEBAB REMOVE STINKY TURK MUSLIM
Croatia: FUCK YOU SERBIA YOU OPPRESS EVERY MINORITY

Albania: FUCK YOU SERBIA KOSOVO IS ALBANIA AND MACEDONIA IS OPPRESSING US
Bosnia: Pls Halp
Srpska: LET ME GO STUPID BOSNIAN KEBAB TURK
Bulgaria: I don't know what they are even grumbling about. And I don't care
Macedonia: WE ARE BEST WE ARE TRUE MACEDONIANS GREEKS ARE TURKS ALEKSANDR WAS MACEDONIAN
Greece: FUCK YOU SLAVIC IDIOT YOU ARE A SLAV AND FUCK YOU TURKGAY INSTABUL IS GREEK
Montenegro: Serbia, I thought you were better than that.
Romania: I AM NOT A FUCKING GYPSY YOU PIECE OF SHIT YOU DONT KNOW AND YOUR COUNTRY SUCKS BLABALALBALBALBABLA...
Slovenia: I AM NOT IN THE BALKANS, I AM IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Turkey: I hate you all. Passively. Also, I'm in Asia, not in Europe.
Moldova: Don't know, don't care
Kosovo: I don't even know what I am

by flamewarr alertt July 17, 2015

Balkan

Anyone who is pissing you off and is from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey

*You get killed in Valorant*
You: YOU BLOODY BALKAN. YOUR SO BAD YOUR FROM BULGARIA

by NoBalkansPls January 22, 2022

balkan

Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula or the Balkan Mountains.

by Cool Guy June 4, 2003

balkans

The Balkans is another way to describe southeast Europe. The region has a combined area of 728,000 km² and a population of around 53 million.The region's name comes from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia.

The region's principal nationalities in the balkans are:
Greeks 11.5 million
Turks 9.2 million (European part of Turkey, Istanbul)
Serbs and Montenegrins 8.9 million
Bulgarians 7 million
Albanians 6 million (2 million of them living in Kosovo, Serbia)
Croats 4.5 million
Bosnians 2.4 million
Macedonians 1.4 million

by Dragan October 7, 2005