Balkan Romani activists prefer the term Samudaripen (" mass killing "), first introduced by linguist Marcel Courthiade.

The term refers to the division of the Balkan peninsula, formerly ruled almost entirely by the Ottoman Empire, into a number of smaller states between 1817 and 1912.

It is sometimes referred to as the saz ( from the Persian, meaning a kit or set ), although the term " saz " actually refers to a family of plucked string instruments, long-necked lutes used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk music, Azeri music, Kurdish music, Assyrian music, and in parts of Syria, Iraq and the Balkan countries.

Rumelia ( English: Roumelia ; Turkish: Rumeli ; Albanian: Rumelia ;, Romylía, or Ρούμελη, Roúmeli ; Bosnian, Serbian and ;, Rumeliya ) was a historical term describing the area now referred to as the Balkans or the Balkan Peninsula when it was occupied by the Ottoman Empire.

According to historians, as a result of the linguistic unity of the Getae and Dacians that result from the record of ancient writers Strabo, Cassius Dio, Trogus Pompeius, Appian and Pliny the Elder, contemporary historiography often uses the term Geto-Dacians to refer to the people living in the area between the Carpathians, the Haemus ( Balkan ) Mountains and the Black Sea.

*" Third Balkan War ": a term suggested by British journalist Misha Glenny in the title of his book, alluding to the two previous Balkan Wars fought 1912 – 1913.

In fact, the term has already been applied by contemporary historians to World War I as an allusion that it was a direct sequel of the 1912 – 1913 Balkan wars.

The name kaval may once have been referred to various Balkan duct and rim-blown flutes, accounting for the present day diversity of the term ’ s usage.

Hekhál, also written hechal, echal or heichal — and sometimes also Echal Kodesh ( mainly amongst Balkan Sephardim ) comes from Hebrew ה ֵ יכ ָ ל ‘ palace ’, a term which was also used in the time of the Temple in Jerusalem to refer to the inner sanctuary containing the Holy of Holies.

Eastern European cuisine is a generic term regarding the cuisine of Central and Eastern Europe ( including the Caucasus, but excluding most Balkan countries ).

The Yugoslav federation also collapsed in the early 1990s, followed by an outbreak of violence and aggression, in a series of conflicts known alternately as the Yugoslav War ( s ), the War in the Balkans, or rarely the Third Balkan War ( a term coined by British journalist Misha Glenny ).

The term is also used in the Balkan Christian countries that were once under Ottoman domination ( Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Montenegro, Macedonia and Romania ) for a Christian who had traveled to Jerusalem and the Holy Lands.

In many parts of Eastern Europe and the Balkan region, headscarves are used mainly by elderly women and this led to the use of the " babushka " term, a Slavic word meaning Grandmother.

Although eau de vie is a French term, similar beverages are produced in other countries ( e. g., German Schnaps, Balkan rakia, Romanian tuica, Czech and Slovak pálenka, Hungarian palinka, Sri Lankan coconut arrack, and Georgian chacha ).

Miquelet Lock is a modern term used by collectors and curators, largely in the English-speaking world, that is widely applied to a distinctive form of snaplock, originally as a flint-against-steel ignition form, prevalent in the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas, North Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and Spanish America during the late 16th to mid 19th centuries.

Also, the Slavic neighbours called Moldovans " Vlachs " or " Volokhs ", a term equally used to refer to all native Romance speakers from Eastern Europe and the Balkan peninsula.

Byzantinism or Byzantism is a term used in political science and philosophy to denote the political system and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and its spiritual successors, in particular, the Balkan states, the Ottoman Empire and Russia.

The term " Illyricum " continued to be used to refer to the western Balkan peninsula, and in the mid-4th century, the praetorian prefecture of Illyricum was set up as one of four praetorian prefectures that the Roman Empire was divided into ; it encompassed Pannonia, Noricum, Crete, and the whole Balkan peninsula except Thrace.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

Abnormal and pathological anxiety or fear may itself be a medical condition falling under the blanket term " anxiety disorder ".

The second suggestion is " vine ", which is reached through * Ambilō, which may be related to the Greek term ámpelos, itself meaning " vine, liana ".

However, the Church declared that "' Extreme unction ' ... may also and more fittingly be called ' anointing of the sick '" ( emphasis added ), and has itself adopted the latter term, while not outlawing the former.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

More generally, one curve is a curvilinear asymptote of another ( as opposed to a linear asymptote ) if the distance between the two curves tends to zero as they tend to infinity, although usually the term asymptote by itself is reserved for linear asymptotes.

In particular, the term refers to a strict monophysite sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th century, from the rule of Peter Mongus, Patriarch of Alexandria, and remained " without king or bishop " until they were reconciled by Mark II ( 799-819 ).

The term " I am " has no meaning by itself ; it must have an action or relation appended to it.

The term also accurately describes the condition of the baseball itself.

This singularity is sometimes called " the Big Bang ", but the term can also refer to the early hot, dense phase itself, which can be considered the " birth " of our Universe.

The better a plant can cope with these changing conditions, the more likely it is to be able to survive over both the short and long term as well as establish itself over a wider geographic range.

Since that time, the term Bolshevik has been regarded as obsolete, and relevant only to the pre-Revolutionary times, during the Russian Revolution itself and the Russian Civil War which followed.

Widespread interest in the region itself and the term itself was re-discovered by the end of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West, splitting Central Europe in half.

The term " conspiracy theory " is itself the object of a type of conspiracy theory, which argues that those using the term are manipulating their audience to disregard the topic under discussion, either in a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth, or as dupes of more deliberate conspirators.

Some people automatically connect cross-dressing behavior to transgender identity or sexual, fetishist, and homosexual behavior, but the term cross-dressing itself does not imply any motives.

The word " conservative " itself is a term of abuse in France.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

The term " direct " means that the court itself cites the person in contempt by describing the behaviour observed on the record.

" Shag " itself ( when used in reference to American social dances ) is a very broad term used to denote a number of swing dances that originated during the early part of the 20th century.

The intended meaning was likely the first, which would be translated as Latin causātīvus or effectīvus, but the Latin term was a translation of the second.

This broad use of the term is likely to have come about because alkalis were the first bases known to obey the Arrhenius definition of a base and are still among the more common bases.

The participation of the Bastarnae in these is likely but largely unspecified, due to Zosimus ' and other chroniclers ' tendency to lump all these tribes under the general term " Scythians "-meaning all the inhabitants of Scythia, rather than the specific people called the Scythians.

* the likely consequences of any decision in the long term

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

In their Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vicki Ruíz and Virginia Sánchez report that demographic differences in the adoption of the term existed ; because of the prior vulgar connotations, it was more likely to be used by males than females, and as well, less likely to be used among those in a higher socioeconomic status.

The signal for formation of a regional centromere appears to be " epigenetic "-a widely used term that in this instance most likely refers to a particular set of post-translational modifications of the histone proteins, or different histone variants being present.

The unqualified term " chauvinism " is far more likely to refer to a male chauvinism than female chauvinism in the context of chauvinism as sexism.

The term " clipper " most likely derives from the verb " clip ", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.

In these cases, the front line, FEBA, FLOT and FLET are almost conceptual ideas ; and the term ' front line ' has come to refer more to any place where bullets and bombs are flying-or are likely to fly.

It is likely that the term derives from the order of the Greek alphabet, gamma being the third letter of the Greek alphabet ( gamma + tria ).

According to Jan Nattier, it is most likely that the term Hīnayāna post-dates the term Mahāyāna, and was only added at a later date due to antagonism and conflict between bodhisattvas and śrāvakas.

Smith found that the 1826 letter by James Curtis cited by Dunn and others as the first known use of the term was actually written in 1846, and a 1827 diary entry by Sandford and Son ( published in a newspaper in 1859 ) was likely an editorial comment and not from the original diary.

Most likely, the rise of the term Hesychasm reflects the coming to the fore of this practice as something concrete and specific that can be discussed.

The advantage of obtaining such information lies not only in its objective factual value but in obtaining early notice of likely trading recommendations which are known to produce short term market movements.

The use of the term Islamism was at first " a marker for scholars more likely to sympathize " with new Islamic movements ; however, as the term gained popularity it became more specifically associated with political groups such as the Taliban or the Algerian Armed Islamic Group, as well as with highly publicized acts of violence.

The study finds the term now most likely to be used by Liberals in connection with discussions of Muslim and Islamic inclusion in America, and renewed debate about the separation of church and state.

Fidler warned that according to California law, the Board of Prison Terms could later change the sentence to a lesser term ; at the time, Olson's lawyers asserted that due to discrepancies between 1970s laws and current California laws, their client would most likely serve only five years, which could turn into two years for good behavior.

One of the very few understood words so far, the summarizing term, KU-RO, most likely meaning ' total ' or something similar to it, could be of either Indo-European * kwol-( o-grade form of * kwel -, cognate to English " whole "), or Semitic (* kull-' whole ') origin, or a language isolate, unrelated to either.

Although Jack Worrall claimed that he had invented the term " bodyline ", it is more likely that it was coined by Sydney journalist Hugh Buggy who worked for The Sun in 1932, and who happened to be a colleague of Jack Fingleton.