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Balkan Peninsula (peninsula) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 45 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 45.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 023 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 23.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Mountainous area comprising easternmost of Europe's three great southern peninsulas; evidence of human habitation dates from 35,000 years ago, but dense settlement dates to Neolithic, 7000-3500 BCE; later was settled by Illyrians and Thracians; the modern nations located here are Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Moldova, Slovenia, Serbia, and Montenegro, and parts of Greece; site of ethnic strife for centuries. |
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| Balkan Peninsula (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
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............ | "Balkan" is derived from Turkish word for "mountain" |
| Balkan Peninsula (Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Balkans (C,O,English,U,N)
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............ | from Turkish word meaning "mountain"; used to refer to this area, more or less, since mid-19th cen. |
| Balkans (Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Péninsule balkanique (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Balkanski Poluostrov (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
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| Balkan (C,V,English,U,A)
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| ארצות הבלקן (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Βαλκάνια (C,U,Greek)
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| Балкански полуостров (C,U,Bulgarian)
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Kosovo (independent nation) (P) |
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| peninsula (preferred, C) |
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| general region (C) |
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| region (geographic) (C) |
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Serbian Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire) |
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(World, Europe) [8711836] |
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