BALKAN WARS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Balkan Wars mean? 

• BALKAN WARS (noun)
  The noun BALKAN WARS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BALKAN WARS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALKAN WARS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Meronyms (parts of "Balkan Wars"):

battle of Lule Burgas; Lule Burgas (the principal battle of the Balkan Wars (1912); Bulgarian forces defeated the Turks)

Domain region:

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

Holonyms ("Balkan Wars" is a part of...):

Balkan Peninsula; Balkans (a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range)