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
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 07, 2005
(Turkish or Persian, n.) The Balkans is geopolitical region that is within southeastern Europe. Within the region's several countries, there is a total of 55,000,000 people (if we are counting the Greek Islands), or 32,000,000 people within the region's peninsula.
The term "balkans" originally came from the Persian "balk", which means mud, and the Turkish suffix "kan" which is a swampy forest. However, in modern Turkish, the word "balkan" means "a chain of wooded mountains".
A home to a wide variety of cultures, countries, and consistently useless and pointless wars, the region is well known for its exportation of competent individuals with slightly nationalistic tendencies, exceptionally strong liquor, (apparently) good wine, very tasty but fat-inducing cuisinery, gästarbeiters for Western countries, and the term known as "balkanization", which is a pejorative term for the fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or uncooperative with each other because of pointless differences.
The region contains the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean seas, the Dinaric and Albanian Alps, and certain places that are either popular with tourists or underrated. The highest peak in the Balkans is Mt. Musala, and the Balkans is home to various amounts of flora and fauna.
The term "balkans" originally came from the Persian "balk", which means mud, and the Turkish suffix "kan" which is a swampy forest. However, in modern Turkish, the word "balkan" means "a chain of wooded mountains".
A home to a wide variety of cultures, countries, and consistently useless and pointless wars, the region is well known for its exportation of competent individuals with slightly nationalistic tendencies, exceptionally strong liquor, (apparently) good wine, very tasty but fat-inducing cuisinery, gästarbeiters for Western countries, and the term known as "balkanization", which is a pejorative term for the fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or states that are often hostile or uncooperative with each other because of pointless differences.
The region contains the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean seas, the Dinaric and Albanian Alps, and certain places that are either popular with tourists or underrated. The highest peak in the Balkans is Mt. Musala, and the Balkans is home to various amounts of flora and fauna.
yeah, no matter how much i don't want to admit it because it's a piece of shit, i'm from the balkans
by ImNotTheOxfordDictionary July 19, 2021
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.
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 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
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
by NoBalkansPls January 22, 2022
by Cool Guy June 04, 2003
To fracture and waste something important, like a country, with something totally unimportant, like ethnic differences.
by psients October 24, 2006