Balkan (disambiguation)

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Balkan usually refers to the Balkans, a peninsular region of southeastern Europe.

Balkan may also refer to:

Places

• Balkan Mountains, a mountain range in Bulgaria, in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula, also called Stara Planina
• Balkan Province, one of the Welayat (provinces) of Turkmenistan
• Balkan (village), a village in Stambolovo Municipality, Bulgaria
• Balkan, Kentucky, a community in the United States

People

• Enver Balkan (1902 – date of death unknown), Turkish Olympic fencer
• Fuat Balkan (1887–1970), Turkish Olympic fencer
• Liza Balkan (born 20th century), Canadian academic and actress
• Nihat Balkan, Turkish Olympic fencer
• Orkan Balkan (born 1987), Turkish footballer

The arts

• Balkan (band), a defunct hard-rock band from Serbia and the former Yugoslavia
• Balkans (band), a rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Balkan (album), an album by Seka Aleksić
• "Balkan", a song by Scale the Summit from the album The Collective

Other uses

• Balkan (ship) ship of the compagnie Fraissinet, sunk August 1918
• Balkan (newspaper), a newspaper published in Balkanabat, Turkmenistan
• Balkan (motorcycle), the first motorcycle built in Bulgaria
• Balkan Bulgarian Airlines (1947–2002), a defunct Bulgarian government-owned airline
• Balkan sprachbund, a linguistic concept
• Balkan Universities Network, a regional university association
• Balkanization, a geopolitical term
• PFC Balkan Botevgrad, a Bulgarian football club, playing in Botevgrad
• FC Balkan, a Turkmen football club, playing in Balkanabat
• FBK Balkan, a Swedish football club located in the district Rosengård of Malmö
• FK Balkan Skopje a Macedonian football club, playing in Skopje

See also

• All pages beginning with Balkan
• All pages with a title containing Balkan
• FK Balkan (disambiguation)