NOUN
- 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
How To Use Balkan Wars In A Sentence
- The question must be asked: Should one of the main architects of the Balkan wars go down in history as a convicted embezzler or a convicted war criminal?
- N. war crimes prosecutor said on Sunday it was possible Slobodan Milosevic had committed suicide and his death made it all the more urgent to catch others blamed for the horrors of the Balkan wars.
- While the term Chetnik, which originally referred to royalist fighters during the Second World War but came to apply to Serb paramilitaries during the Balkan wars of the Nineties, Berikoff said he heard it being used to describe all Serbs. Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
- During the Balkan wars and World War I the women operated workshops in the schools that produced sheets and bandages for hospitals in the large cities of Edirne and Istanbul and ran a fundraising and assistance network within the Jewish and local communities. Turkey: Ottoman and Post Ottoman.
- World War I followed on the heels of the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, which prefigured not only the subsequent atrocities of the twentieth century but its fraternal violence. Bloodlust
- Key then (and now) was to balkanize the Middle East along tribal and religious lines - a simple divide and conquer strategy that worked in the 1990s Balkan wars. F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" - Part II
