Balkans

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geographical region historical region

The Balkans is a historically and culturally diverse region in Southeast Europe known for its complex mix of ethnicities, religions, and languages and its pivotal role in European and Mediterranean history.

Aliases (17)

Statements (87)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region → historical region →
associatedWith	start of World War I →
borderedBy	Adriatic Sea → Aegean Sea → Black Sea → Danube River → Ionian Sea → Mediterranean Sea →
continent	Europe →
hasClimate	Mediterranean climate → continental climate →
hasCountry	Albania → Bosnia and Herzegovina → Bulgaria → Croatia → Greece → Kosovo → Montenegro → North Macedonia → Romania → Serbia → Slovenia →
hasCulturalConcept	Balkanization →
hasEthnicGroup	Albanians → Bosniaks → Bulgarians → Croats → Greeks → Macedonians → Montenegrins → Roma → Romanians → Serbs → Slovenes → Turks → Vlachs →
hasHighestPeak	Musala →
hasHighestPeakElevation	2925 meters →
hasLanguageFamily	Albanian language → Greek language → Romance languages → Slavic languages → Turkic languages →
hasMajorCity	Athens → Belgrade → Bucharest → Ljubljana → Podgorica → Pristina → Sarajevo → Skopje → Sofia → Thessaloniki → Tirana → Zagreb →
hasMountainRange	Balkan Mountains → Carpathian Mountains → Dinaric Alps → Pindus Mountains →
hasPartialCountry	Hungary → Italy → Moldova → Turkey → Ukraine →
hasReligion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Islam → Judaism → Roman Catholicism →
hasSubregion	Central Balkans → Eastern Balkans → Western Balkans →
hasSupranationalOrganizationMembership	European Union (some states) → NATO (some states) →
historicallyRuledBy	Austro-Hungarian Empire → Byzantine Empire → Ottoman Empire → Roman Empire →
locatedIn	Southeast Europe →
locatedOn	Balkan Peninsula →
partOf	Eastern Europe → Southern Europe →
timeZone	Central European Time (most areas) → Eastern European Time (some areas) →
wasCenterOf	Balkan Wars → Yugoslav Wars → assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand →

Referenced by (275)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Albania → Albania ("Southeastern Europe") → Balkan Front ("Balkan Peninsula") → Balkan Front ("Southeastern Europe") → Balkan Sprachbund → Balkans ("Southeast Europe") → Belgrade → Bulgaria ("Southeast Europe") → Dečani Monastery ("Balkan Peninsula") → Dinaric Alps ("Southeastern Europe") → Dobruja ("Southeastern Europe") → Federal State of Croatia → First Bulgarian Empire → First Hellenic Republic → Gothic War → Independent State of Croatia → KFOR mission in Kosovo → KFOR mission in Kosovo ("Southeastern Europe") → Kingdom of Albania → Kingdom of Bulgaria → Kingdom of Serbia → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes → Kosovo → Kosovo ("Southeast Europe") → Lake Ohrid ("Balkan Peninsula") → Late Byzantine period → Macedon ("Balkan Peninsula") → Maritsa → Meglen region → Meglen region ("Southeast Europe") → Moesia → Montenegrins → Montenegro → Mount Korab ("Balkan Peninsula") → Musala → Naissus → Pella regional unit ("Balkan Peninsula") → Rhodope Mountains ("Southeastern Europe") → Roman roads ("the Balkans") → Sarajevo → Sarajevo ("Southeast Europe") → Serbia ("Southeast Europe") → Serbia → Serbia ("Central Balkans") → Serbian Empire → Serbian Empire ("Southeast Europe") → Skopje ("Balkan Peninsula") → Skopje ("Southeast Europe") → Slavic cultural sphere ("Southeastern Europe") → Slavs ("Southeastern Europe") → Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina → Socialist Republic of Croatia → Socialist Republic of Croatia ("Southeast Europe") → Socialist Republic of Montenegro → Socialist Republic of Serbia → Socialist Republic of Serbia ("Southeast Europe") → Sofia → Southern Greece ("Balkan Peninsula") → Struma → Thrace ("Southeast Europe") → Tirana → United Nations Mission in Kosovo → United Nations Mission in Kosovo ("Southeast Europe") → Via Egnatia → Visigothic–Roman conflicts → Yugoslav Wars → Yugoslavia → Zagreb → Šar Mountains →	locatedIn
Albanian language → Albanian lek ("Southeastern Europe") → Aromanian → Balkan Turkish ("Southeastern Europe") → Bosnia and Herzegovina → Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) ("Southeastern Europe") → Byzantine Empire → Byzantine–Bulgarian wars ("Southeastern Europe") → Danubian Principalities → Dinaric Alps → Diwani script → First Serbian Uprising ("Central Balkans") → Glagolitic script → Gothic Christianity → Gothic language → Hellenic languages → Italian Empire → Kalderash → Kingdom of Albania ("Southeastern Europe") → Kingdom of Serbia ("Central Balkans") → Lake Ohrid ("Southeastern Europe") → Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia) → Macedonian denar → Megleno-Romanian → Mount Korab → Naissus ("Central Balkans") → Ottoman lira → Patriarchate of Peć → Poglavnik ("Balkan Peninsula") → Saint Sava Day → Sava ("Southeastern Europe") → Second Bulgarian Empire → Serbs → Serbs ("Southeast Europe") → State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs → Tosk ("Southern Balkans") → Turkey → University of Belgrade → Vlach language ("Southeastern Europe") → Yugoslav dinar →	region
Balkan Campaign → Balkan League → Balkan Wars → Balkan Wars ("Southeastern Europe") → Byzantine Iconoclasm → Byzantine–Bulgarian wars → Byzantine–Ottoman wars → Constantinian civil war → Danube campaign → Great Illyrian Revolt → Great Turkish War → Long Turkish War ("Southeastern Europe") → Long Turkish War → Marcomannic Wars → Mediterranean Theater of Operations → Mediterranean theatre of World War I →	location
Arta regional unit ("Balkan Peninsula") → Balkans ("Balkan Peninsula") → Bulgaria ("Balkan Peninsula") → Epirus ("Balkan Peninsula") → Greece ("Balkan Peninsula") → Mount Olympus ("Balkan Peninsula") → Mount Parnassus ("Balkan Peninsula") → Preveza regional unit ("Balkan Peninsula") → Trikala regional unit ("Balkan Peninsula") →	locatedOn
Croatia ("Balkan Peninsula") → Croatia ("Southeastern Europe") → Naissus → Pindus Mountains ("Balkan Peninsula") → Pirin Mountains ("Balkan Peninsula") → Rhodope Mountains ("Balkan Peninsula") → Rila Mountains ("Balkan Peninsula") → Salonika → Thrace →	partOf
Croatian Air Force (WWII) ("Southeast Europe") → Croatian Air Force (WWII) → Eastern Romance ("Balkan Peninsula") → Judezmo → Ottoman Empire → Royal Yugoslav Army → Yugoslav military coup of 27 March 1941 →	historicalRegion
Balkan Mountains ("Southeastern Europe") → Lake Dojran ("Balkan Peninsula") → Podgorica → Pristina → Romania ("Southeastern Europe") → Romania ("Balkan Peninsula") → Strait of Otranto →	locatedInRegion
Balkan Latin → Balkan Turkish → Eastern Romance ("the Balkans") → Proto-Albanian ("Balkan Peninsula") → Vlach language → vlaheşte →	spokenIn
Albanians → Bulgarians ("Southeastern Europe") → Bulgarians ("Balkan Peninsula") → Mespilus ("southeastern Europe") → Vlach (Aromanian people) →	nativeTo
Christianization of the Balkans ("Balkan Peninsula") → Christianization of the Balkans ("Southeastern Europe") → Late Bronze Age → World War II forced migrations →	hasLocation
Croats → Croats ("Southeastern Europe") → Ottoman Turkish ("the Balkans") → South Slavs →	primaryRegion
Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Southeastern Europe") → Greece → Montenegro ("Southeastern Europe") → North Macedonia ("Southeast Europe") →	subregion
Church Slavonic → Cyrillic script ("Southeastern Europe") → Ottoman lira ("Rumelia") → hyperpyron →	usedInRegion
South Slavs ("Southeast Europe") → Turks → Vlach of Istria →	culturalRegion
Eastern Romance ("Southeastern Europe") → South Slavic languages → South Slavic languages ("Southeastern Europe") →	geographicDistribution
Balkans ("Western Balkans") → Balkans ("Eastern Balkans") → Balkans ("Central Balkans") →	hasSubregion
Domobranstvo → Italian Co-Belligerent Army → Operational Groups →	theaterOfOperations
Alexander Löhr → Alexander Löhr ("Southeast Europe") →	hasActivityIn
Christianization of the Balkans ("Byzantine Balkans") → Radical Reformation →	hasMainRegion
Commander-in-Chief South → Roman army →	operatedIn
Treaty of Bucharest (1913) → Treaty of Bucharest (1913) ("Southeastern Europe") →	regionAffected
Mevleviyya → Omar Pasha →	regionOfActivity
Anatolia → Asia Minor →	separatedFrom
Eastern Mediterranean ("Balkan Peninsula") →	adjacentTo
Mediterranean Allied Air Forces →	areaOfOperations
Slavic languages →	areSpokenIn
Sephardi-Mizrahi prayer rite →	associatedWithRegion
Lefkada ("Balkan Peninsula (cultural region)") →	belongsTo
Eastern Europe ("Southeastern Europe") →	borderedBy
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty →	broadcastArea
Russo-Turkish Wars →	conflictRegion
Eurasia ("Balkan Peninsula") →	contains
Eastern Europe →	containsSubregion
Via Egnatia ("Balkan Peninsula") →	crosses
Gagauz ("Balkan") →	culturalInfluences
Sephardi Jews →	dispersedTo
Ottoman Empire ("Southeast Europe") →	dominantIn
Vlach (Aromanian people) →	ethnicGroupOf
Murad I →	expandedTerritoryIn
Ottoman Army →	garrisonedIn
Eastern Orthodox Christianity →	geographicCenter
Byzantine architecture →	geographicRegion
Ottoman architecture →	geographicScope
Balkan Mountains ("Balkan Peninsula") →	givesNameTo
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ("the Balkans") →	governedTerritory
Sephardic music →	hasGeographicDistribution
Eastern Question →	hasGeographicFocus
Late Antiquity →	hasMajorRegion
Islamic world →	hasRegion
Indo-European language family ("Indo-European Sprachbunds") →	hasSubfamily
Bojaxhiu →	hasUsageRegion
Rila Mountains ("Balkan Peninsula") →	highestMountainOf
Musala →	highestPointOf
Romaniote Jews →	historicalCenter
Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) →	historicallySpokenIn
Thracians →	inhabitedRegion
Eastern Question ("Balkan states") →	involves
University of Belgrade ("the Balkans") →	isOneOfOldestUniversitiesIn
Strait of Otranto ("Balkan Peninsula") →	locatedBetween
Thracians ("Southeast Europe") →	locatedInThePast
Sons of the Eagle →	mainSubject
Roma Education Fund ("Southeastern Europe") →	operatesIn
Croatian Air Force (WWII) →	operationalTheater
Zmaj Fizir FP-2 ("Southeast Europe") →	originRegion
Morea ("Balkan Peninsula") →	partOfRegion
Licinius →	placeOfBirth
Salonika →	portServes
Naqshbandi ("the Balkans") →	presentIn
Horahane Roma →	primaryRegions
Yugoslav Royal Air Force →	primaryTheater
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points →	regionAddressed
Serbia ("Balkan region") →	regionalOrganizationMembership
Americas and Europe Division ("South-Eastern Europe") →	regionCovered
Coat of arms of Albania →	regionOfCountry
Titoism →	regionOfInfluence
Bayezid I →	regionRuled
Central European Free Trade Agreement ("Southeast Europe") →	regionServed
Romanians →	relatedToRegion
Adriatic Sea ("Balkan Peninsula") →	separates
Sons of the Eagle →	settingRegion
Balto-Slavic languages →	spokenInRegion
Komnenos dynasty →	territorialExtent
Achaemenid Empire →	territoryExtent
Roman Empire →	territoryIncludes
Battle of Belgrade (1717) ("Southeast Europe") →	theatre
Waffen-SS →	theatreOfOperations
Xoraxane Roma →	traditionallyFoundIn
Common Albanian ("Balkan Peninsula") →	usedIn
Hanafi school →	widelyFollowedIn
Nicolás Bobadilla →	workLocation