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Balkan

[ US /ˈbɔɫkən/ ]
NOUN
  1. an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula

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  • These Mesolithic cultures (Mesolithic, meaning “Middle Stone Age, ” describes post–Ice Age European hunter-gatherers) achieved some degree of social complexity in Scandinavia, where richly decorated individuals were buried in cemeteries by 5500 B.C.E. These same cultures were the indigenous societies of Europe, farmers who first spread north and west across central Europe from the Balkans after 4500 B.C.E. 1 3. Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
  • He visited all the Balkan countries, meeting with eminent public figures.
  • In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples.
  • Both the United States and Britain insist that, to keep the country from imploding, it is essential that the Balkan nation remain under the political authority of an internationally appointed "High Representative," who governs the nation's affairs. Elmira Bayrasli: Electing an Independent Bosnia: The High Representative Must Go
  • But there was nothing preordained about the outcome of events in the Balkans in the late 1940s.
  • Doing the humane thing—i.e., something good for the people of Haiti or Bosnia or Kosovo—could also be the smart and, to use the word commandeered by critics of such policies, the realistic thing, since it was good for the United States to avert instability in the Caribbean and the Balkans. The Great Experiment
  • I must say that my main reaction, having read this en route from Switzerland to Belgium after giving a conference presentation on the Balkans and the Caucasus, is that actually the Israel/Palestine conflict is a lot less special than its protagonists like to think it is. September Books 21) In the Land of Israel
  • In his concluding remarks, he rather defensively explains: ‘This book was always premised to be about my country, not about the Balkans or any other foreign country.’
  • In three hundred large-format pages, 60 million Frenchmen merit a single paragraph, while the fifty thousand Vlachs of the Balkans and the fifty thousand Faroe Islanders of Denmark receive careful dissection over many pages.4 And why not? Bloodlust
  • If we don't have room for a glover, blacksmith, steamfitter, cobbler, hooper, chimney sweep and Balkan restaurant, what good are we? Archive 2006-10-01
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