The Mount Arlan rises sharply above sea level in the Great Balkhan Range in western Turkmenistan ( Balkan Province ).

Turkmenistan is divided into five provinces welayatlar ( singular – welayat ): Ahal Province ( Aşgabat ), Balkan Province ( Balkanabat, formerly Nebitdag ), Daşoguz Province ( formerly Tashauz ), Lebap Province ( formerly Charjou Province ) ( Turkmenabat, formerly Charjou ), Mary Province

* The name of several cities in Turkmenistan renamed by Niyazov, the largest of which is Türkmenbaşy, Balkan Province, formerly known by the Russian name Krasnovodsk.

In places like Turkmenistan and the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea one still encounters this name, such as the Balkan Peninsula and the Balkan Province in Turkmenistan.

Balkan Province has significant energy reserves, which account for 94 % of Turkmenistan's natural gas production and 12 % of its petroleum production.

Off its Caspian shores the Balkan Province includes the island of Ogurja Ada, the most important island in Turkmenistan and one of the largest in the Caspian Sea.

Balkan Province is administratively divided into 6 districts ( etraplar ; singular: etrap ) and 7 cities ( il ).

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Türkmenbaşy ( also spelled Turkmenbashi ), formerly known as Krasnovodsk () and, more properly, Kyzyl-Su, is a city in Balkan Province in Turkmenistan, on the Krasnovodsk Gulf of the Caspian Sea.

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Balkanabat ( Балканабат, بلخان آباد ), formerly Nebit Dag, is a city in western Turkmenistan, and the capital of Balkan Province.

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Oreshak () is a village, situated in the middle part of the Balkan Mountains in Troyan Municipality, Lovech Province, Bulgaria.

The Balkan League (,,, ) was an alliance formed by a series of bilateral treaties concluded in 1912 between the Balkan states of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia, and directed against the Ottoman Empire, which at the time still controlled much of the Balkan peninsula.

Chetniks, or the Chetnik movement (, ; ), were a Serb nationalist and monarchist paramilitary organizations from the first half of the 20th century, formed as a resistance against the Ottoman Empire in 1904, and participating in the two Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II.

The Battle of Lemnos (, ), fought on, was a naval battle during the First Balkan War, which defeated the second and last attempt of the Ottoman Empire to break the Greek naval blockade of the Dardanelles and reclaim supremacy over the Aegean Sea from Greece.

The Second Battle of Adrianople (, known as the Liberation of Edirne in Turkey ) was a minor conflict during the Second Balkan War.

Rigas Feraios ( or Rhegas Pheraeos ) or Rigas Velestinlis ( or Rhegas Velestinles ) (,, born Αντώνιος Κυριαζής, Antonios Kyriazis, ; also known as Κωνσταντίνος Ρήγας, Konstantinos or Constantine Rhigas ; Serbian: Рига од Фере, Riga od Fere, ; 1757 – June 13, 1798 ) was a Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment, remembered as a Greek national hero, a victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a forerunner of the Greek War of Independence.

The Battle or Siege of Adrianople or Siege of Edirne (,, ) was fought during the First Balkan War, beginning in mid-November 1912 and ending on 26 March 1913 with the capture of Edirne ( Adrianople ) by the Bulgarian 2nd Army.

Sirene / Sirenje (, ;, ; Serbian / Croatian: сир, sir, Albanian: djath i bardhe ) or known as " white brine sirene " (, ; is a type of brine cheese made in South-Eastern Europe, especially popular in Serbia, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia and other Balkan countries.

The Battle of Pente Pigadia or Battle of Beshpinar (, ) was fought during the First Balkan War between the Ottomans and the Kingdom of Greece.

The Battle of Elli (, ), also known as the Battle of the Dardanelles, took place near the mouth of the Dardanelles on as part of the First Balkan War between the fleets of Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

there are beauties from the Balkan states who are similarly endowed, and -- back in the blessed United States -- they were regarded simply as pretty women.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

* 1913 – Second Balkan War: delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.

The communist-era state airline, Balkan Airlines, was replaced by Bulgaria Air, for which a private owner was to be selected from among bidders by the end of 2006.

The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, strengthened Bulgaria's position as a regional military power, significantly reduced Ottoman influence over the Balkans, and resulted in the formation of an independent Albanian state.

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

Romania had raised an army and declared war on Bulgaria on 10 July ( 27 June ) as it had from 28 ( 15 ) June officially warned Bulgaria that it would not remain neutral in a new Balkan war, due to Bulgaria's refusal to cede the fortress of Silistra as promised before the First Balkan war in exchange for Romanian neutrality.

* France, not feeling ready for a war against Germany in 1912, took a totally negative position against the war, firmly informing its ally Russia that it would not take part in a potential conflict between Russia and Austria-Hungary if it resulted from the actions of the Balkan League.

* Balkan Wars from a Turkish perspective

The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria and Serbia.

The term " Balkan " itself likely comes from Turkish, meaning " a chain of wooded mountains.

During the 1st millennium BC, they were spoken across Europe, in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Atlantic and North Sea coastlines, up the Rhine valley and down the Danube valley to the Black Sea, the Upper Balkan Peninsula, and in Galatia in Asia Minor.

* 1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.

By the 3rd century, the Goths ruled a vast area north of the Black Sea from where they either through crossing the lower Danube or traveling by sea, raided the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia as far as Cyprus.

The last vestiges of serfdom were abolished in Russia in 1861 and Balkan nations began to regain independence from the Ottoman Empire.

Constantine was now ruling only in what was Greece before the Balkan Wars (" Old Greece "), and his government was subject to repeated humiliations from the Allies.

The later derive from early Indo-European presence in western Balkan Peninsula.

The Albanians, because of the higher degree of Islamic influence, their internal social divisions, and the fear that they would lose their Albanian-populated lands to the emerging Balkan states — Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece — were the last of the Balkan peoples to desire division from the Ottoman Empire.

Some 1, 200 Jewish residents and refugees from other Balkan countries were hidden by Albanian families during World War II, according to official records.

Report of the Carnegie Commission on the causes and conduct of the Balkan Wars from 1913.

The valley of the river Vardar, which was later to become the central area of the Republic of Macedonia, was ruled by the Ottoman Empire prior to the First Balkan War of 1912, with the exception of the brief period in 1878 when it was liberated from Ottoman rule after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, becoming part of Bulgaria.

Romania had also recently acquired the Southern Dobruja territory called " The Quadrilateral " from Bulgaria as a result of its participation in the Second Balkan War in 1913.

Situated in the northeastern portion of the Balkan Peninsula, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe — the Atlantic Coast — and the most easterly — the Ural Mountains.