BATTLE OF LULE BURGAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battle of Lule Burgas mean? 

• BATTLE OF LULE BURGAS (noun)
  The noun BATTLE OF LULE BURGAS has 1 sense:

1. the principal battle of the Balkan Wars (1912); Bulgarian forces defeated the Turks

  Familiarity information: BATTLE OF LULE BURGAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTLE OF LULE BURGAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battle of Lule Burgas; Lule Burgas

Instance hypernyms:

pitched battle (a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place)

Domain region:

Thrace (an ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea; colonized by ancient Greeks; later a Roman province; now divided between Bulgaria and Greece and Turkey)

Holonyms ("battle of Lule Burgas" is a part of...):

Balkan Wars (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)