Balkans Edit Meaning

1.

The Balkans is another way to describe southeast Europe. The region has a combined area of 728,000 km² and a population of around 53 million.The region's name comes from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria into eastern Serbia.

The region's principal nationalities in the balkans are:

Greeks 11.5 million

Turks 9.2 million (European part of Turkey, Istanbul)

Serbs and Montenegrins 8.9 million

Bulgarians 7 million

Albanians 6 million (2 million of them living in Kosovo, Serbia)

Croats 4.5 million

Bosnians 2.4 million

Macedonians 1.4 million

See albania, bulgaria, macedonia, greece, serbia and montenegro, Dragan