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    40°0′N 55°0′E / 40.000°N 55.000°E / 40.000; 55.000 Balkan Region (Turkmen: Balkan welaýaty, Балкан велаяты) is the westernmost of the five regions of...
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    historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria. The Balkan Peninsula is bordered...
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    some of those from Western Asia. It is found in the Balkan Peninsula of Southeast Europe, a region without clear boundaries but which is generally considered...
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    The Balkan mountain range is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkans in Southeastern Europe. The range is conventionally taken to begin at...
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  • Caspian Sea in the Balkan Region of Turkmenistan. They consist of the Greater Balkan, or Uly Balkan and the Lesser Balkan Kiçi Balkan [ru]. They are separated...
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  • Balkan music is a type of music found in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. The music is characterised by complex rhythm. Famous bands in Balkan...
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    (/ˌmæsɪˈdoʊniə/ MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə) is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably...
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    The First Balkan War lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (the Kingdoms of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro)...
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    The Open Balkan is an economic and political zone of three member states in the Balkans, those being Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia. The zone has...
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  • Balkan jazz is an umbrella term for jazz from different parts of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Jazz in the region may incorporate various...
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    and response, drones, and parallel intervals. Balkan drone music is described as polyphonic due to Balkan musicians using a literal translation of the...
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    domestic donkey originating in the Balkan region. It is reported from Serbia and Montenegro. A herd of about 120 Balkan donkeys in the Zasavica Reserve, Sremska...
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    The Balkan Wars were a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan states of...
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    The Balkan Pact, or Balkan Entente, was a treaty signed by Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia on 9 February 1934 in Athens, aimed at maintaining the...
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  • Balkan folk music is the traditional folk music within Balkan region. In South Slavic languages, it is known as narodna muzika (народна музика) or folk...
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    political forces in the region. The central aim was to establish a new political unity: a common federal republic unifying the Balkan Peninsula on the basis...
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    The Balkans and parts of this area may also be placed in Southeastern, Southern, Eastern Europe and Central Europe. The distinct identity and fragmentation...
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  • the Balkan Games that started in 1929. The purpose of the "Balkan Games" was to strengthen the relations between the nations of the Balkans region. The...
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    Труба, "Trumpet"), is a distinctive style of music originating in the Balkan region as a fusion between military music and folk music. In recent years[when...
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  • The Balkan Cup was an international association football competition contested on and off from 1929 to 1980 by countries from the Balkans region. The most...
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  • The BTA Best Balkan Athlete of the Year, or simply Balkan Athlete of the Year (Bulgarian: БТА спортист на Балканите, romanized: BTA sportist na Balkanite)...
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  • up Balkan or Balkans in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Balkans is a peninsular region of southeastern Europe. Balkan may also refer to: Balkan Mountains...
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    Near East (redirect from Near East (region))
    The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, including the historical...
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    Southeastern Europe (SEE) is a geographical sub-region of Europe, consisting primarily of the cultural region of the Balkans, as well as adjacent regions and archipelagos...
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    Yangykala Canyon is an eponymous landform in the Balkan Region of north-west Turkmenistan, about 160 km east of Turkmenbashi. The bottom of the canyon...
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  • International Scientific Journal reported that Balkan Insight was "the leading news site covering the Western Balkans Region", and often published opinions from...
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    Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of the Balkans, a region of Southern Europe. Sarajevo is the political, financial, social,...
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    dating back to the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. Before the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the entire Balkan region had been Christianized by both the Western...
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    Θρᾴκη, romanized: Thrakē) is the ancient name given to the southeastern Balkan region, the land inhabited by the Thracians. Thrace was ruled by the Odrysian...
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    The League of the Balkans was a quadruple alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Eastern Orthodox kingdoms of...
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