balkan_wars
1. [ noun ] (military) two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe
Related terms: war Balkan_Peninsula Lule_Burgas Greece
Similar spelling:   balkanise
  Balkan_state
  balkanize
  Balkan_nation