Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun balkan_wars
1 sense of balkan wars
Sense 1
Balkan Wars -- (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)
INSTANCE OF=> war, warfare -- (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war")