Balkan Peninsula

English

Balkan peninsula (as defined by the Danube-Sava-Kupa line).

Proper noun

the Balkan Peninsula

2. A geographic region and large peninsula in southeastern Europe, surrounded by water on three sides: the Adriatic Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea (including the Ionian and Aegean Seas) to the south and the Black Sea to the east. Its northern boundary is often given as the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers.

   Synonym: Balkans

Translations

peninsula in southeastern Europe — see also Balkans

• Abkhaz: Балкантәи адгьылбжьахабжа (Balkʼantʷʼi adgʲəlbžaxabẑa)
• Albanian: Gadishulli Ballkanik (sq)
• Arabic: شِبْه جَزِيرَة البَلْقَان f (šibh jazīra(t) al-balqān)

  Hijazi Arabic: شِبْه جَزِيرَة البَلْقَان f (šibh jazīra(t) al-balgān))

• Armenian: Բալկանյան թերակղզի (hy) (Balkanyan tʻerakġzi)
• Azerbaijani: Balkan yarımadası
• Bashkir: Балҡан ярымутрауы (Balqan yarımutrawı)
• Belarusian: Балканскі паўвостраў m (Balkanski paŭvóstraŭ)
• Bengali: বলকান অঞ্চল (bolokan oncol)
• Bulgarian: Балкански полуостров m (Balkanski poluostrov)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Балканскый полуостров m (Balkanskŷj poluostrov)
• Catalan: península Balcànica f
• Chechen: Балканийн ахгӏайре (Balkaniı̇n axğajre)
• Chinese:

  Hakka: Balkan pan-tó

  Mandarin: 巴爾幹半島 / 巴尔干半岛 (zh) (Bā'ěrgàn Bàndǎo)

  Wu: 巴尔干半岛

• Chuvash: Балкан ҫурутравӗ (Balk̬an ś̬urutravĕ)
• Crimean Tatar: Balqan yarımadası
• Danish: Balkanhalvøen c (definite form. The indefinite form is not used.), Balkan
• Esperanto: Balkana duoninsulo
• Estonian: Balkani poolsaar (et)
• Faroese: Balkanhálvoyggin f
• Finnish: Balkanin niemimaa
• Georgian: ბალკანეთის ნახევარკუნძული (balḳanetis naxevarḳunʒuli)
• German: Balkanhalbinsel (de) f, Balkan (de) m
• Greek: Βαλκανική χερσόνησος f (Valkanikí chersónisos)
• Hebrew: חבל הבלקן
• Hungarian: Balkán-félsziget (hu)
• Icelandic: Balkanskagi m
• Irish: An Leithinis Bhalcánach f, Leithinis na mBalcán f
• Italian: penisola balcanica f
• Japanese: バルカン半島 (ja)
• Kabyle: Tazunegzirt n Balqan
• Kalmyk: Балкан тоха арл (Balkan toxa arl)
• Kazakh: Балқан түбегі (kk) (Balqan tübegı)
• Korean: 발칸반도 (ko) (balkanbando)
• Latvian: Balkānu pussala f
• Lithuanian: Balkanų pusiasalis m
• Macedonian: Ба́лкански Полуо́стров m (Bálkanski Poluóstrov)
• Manx: Ny Çheeraghyn Balkanagh
• Mingrelian: ბალკანეთიშ ჩქონი (balḳanetiš čkoni)
• Mongolian: Балканы хойг (Balkany xojg)
• Northern Sami: Balkannjárga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Balkan

  Nynorsk: Balkan

• Ossetian: Балканы ӕрдӕгсакъадах (Balkany ærdægsak’adax)
• Polish: Półwysep Bałkański (pl) m
• Portuguese: Península Balcânica f
• Quechua: Palkan yaqa wat'a
• Romanian: Peninsula Balcanică f
• Romansch: Peninsla dal Balcan
• Russian: Балка́нский полуо́стров (ru) m (Balkánskij poluóstrov)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Балкански полуоток m, Балканско полуострво n

  Latin: Balkanski poluotok m, Balkansko poluostrvo n

• Sicilian: Pinìsula balcànica f
• Slovak: Balkánsky polostrov m
• Slovene: Balkánski pólotok m
• Somali: Jasiiradda Balkaan
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Balkańska połkupa f

  Upper Sorbian: Balkanska połkupa f

• Spanish: Península balcánica f
• Swedish: Balkan (sv), Balkanhalvön (sv)
• Tagalog: Balkanikong Tangway
• Tajik: Нимҷазираи Балкан (Nimjazira-yi Balkan)
• Tamil: பால்கன் குடா (pālkaṉ kuṭā)
• Tatar: Балкан ярымутравы (Balkan yarımutrawı)
• Turkish: Balkan Yarımadası (tr)
• Turkmen: Balkan ýarymadasy
• Ukrainian: Балканський півострів m (Balkansʹkyj pivostriv)
• Uzbek: Bolqon yarim oroli
• Venetan: Penìzoła balcànega f
• Zhuang: Bahwjgan buendauj

Further reading

• Balkan Peninsula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia