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Sentence Examples The project is one of the first collaborative projects to be carried out with foreign partners in the Western Balkans since the end of conflict. In several passages, he exalts the American weaponry used in the Balkans, particularly the latest Air Force technology. It was a time of relative calm in the Balkans, and Belgrade was suddenly a lively city. Roast kid is a festive dish in Mediterranean countries, spit-roast kid being found throughout the Balkans and the Middle East. The army took the traditional overland route down the Danube River and across the Balkans to Constantinople. They were the members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th century. In command of most of the Balkans and northern Greece, John Asen now began to call himself Emperor of the Bulgars and the Greeks. The strudels of thin pastry enriched with fat are sweet in Central Europe, and sweet or savoury by the time they reach the Balkans. Europe has made strenuous efforts to bring the Balkans into its economic and political orbit. From here supplies were airlifted to soldiers deployed in the wars in the Balkans and in Afghanistan. The soft underbelly of Europe, the Balkans, which is constantly being destabilized, is a great weakening of all of European civilization. Northern Ireland and the Balkans demonstrate that the dark side of religion is truly devilish! In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples. The Red Army triumphed after 12 days of fighting in one of the pivotal battles in the allied liberation of the Balkans. The Balkans War and the capture of a US spyplane in China both saw hackers for both sides go into action. Some 40 percent of the striking workers are comprised of immigrant groups as various as Somalis, Tibetans and workers from the Balkans. In fact, Western intervention in the Balkans exacerbated tensions and sustained hostilities. They act as guards at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and they continue to keep order in the Balkans. There are also proposals to tighten controls on visitors from the Caribbean and the Balkans. He was the first Cheshire officer to swap his regular beat in the Knutsford area to act as an adviser in the war-torn towns of the Balkans. Show More Sentences Italian ambitions in the Balkans angered the Serbs and the Allies and rendered a common front in the Balkans all but impossible. The backbone of the region is made up of the Balkans, a mountain range that runs north-south. Maritsa Iztok 2 is the largest thermal power plant in the Balkans fuelled by brown coal. As the EU enlarges into the Balkans, the ratio of sprats to sharks will increase. The Pentagon is making a serious push to pull US forces out of Balkans altogether. Hailing from the Balkans, the so-called powder keg of Europe, Croats are a tall and somewhat western looking people. For a long time, even in the Balkans, they didn't have anyone reporting there and were depending on BBC stringers. Slavic peoples migrated into the Balkans and along the Dalmatian coast in the sixth century. In Spain and her former American colonies, in Italy and in the Balkans, constitutional appearances barely concealed older forms of power-broking, factionalism, and conflict. Central Europe, extending from the Balkans to the Baltic along the Danube and Oder Rivers, encompasses cultures of Slavic, Germanic, Magyar, and Gaelic origins. On the credit side Russia has been brought back into the fold of the international community and in the Balkans the process of resettlement and regeneration goes on apace. Russia replied by opening up a new theatre of war in the Balkans. Because his narrative is unmoored to any conceptual anchor, Halberstam tends to imbue events such as the decade-long Balkans catastrophe with too much significance. But, he smiled as he studied his vocabulary lists, if his plan was to emigrate out of the Balkans, learning Romance languages would be the way to go. Greek grill masters use ground lamb instead of beef, as do those in the Balkans, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and Central Asia. In addition to the activities in the Balkans the exchange with Austria plays an important role in helping to break down chauvinistic attitudes in the Balkans. Genuine democratic and social renewal within the Balkans can never take place under the political tutelage of the Western powers and their local quislings. Heavy snow and ice blanketed the Balkans on Christmas Day, blocking roads and closing airports as temperatures plunged to near minus 20 degrees centigrade. In Aaronovitch's telling, events in the Balkans become purely symbolic. Why does war in the Middle East today arouse feelings that war in the Balkans did not, if logically there is little or nothing to choose between them? Show More Sentences French author Victor Hugo took up the cause during the latter part of the 19th century, after the Serbians revolted against Turkish domination in the Balkans. The same happened in Iran under the Safavids, in India under the Mughals, in the Middle East, Central Asia, Balkans and Eastern Europe under the Ottomans. During the Middle Ages, the Balkans became the stage for a series of wars between the Byzantine Roman and the Bulgarian Empires. Many people in the Balkans place their greatest folk heroes in the era of either the onslaught or the retreat of the Ottoman Empire. Fascist Italy expanded the war in the Balkans by using its protectorate Albania to invade Greece. Finally, at the end of 1944, the Soviets entered Romania and Bulgaria forcing the Germans out of the Balkans. During the Cold War, most of the countries on the Balkans were governed by communist governments. The new forest was populated with animals from refugia in Italy, Spain and the Balkans. Evidence of permanent settlement dates from the 8th millennium BC in the Balkans. The Turks made the city the capital of their Ottoman Empire, which lasted until 1922 and included Egypt, Syria and most of the Balkans. It concerns the armed conflicts of the Dacian tribes and their kingdoms in the Balkans. The same source also says that Emperor Probus, who ruled between 276 and 282, settled Gepid prisoners of wars in the Roman Empire in the Balkans. Many of the Goths migrated into Roman territory in the Balkans, while others remained north of the Danube under Hunnic rule. Success on the battlefield against the Romans inspired additional invasions into the northern Balkans and deeper into Anatolia. It is the largest economy in the Balkans, where it is an important regional investor. With an economy larger than all the Balkan economies combined, Greece is the largest economy in the Balkans, and an important regional investor. Greek banks open a new branch somewhere in the Balkans on an almost weekly basis. International railway lines connect Greek cities with the rest of Europe, the Balkans and Turkey. Russia's included the eastern regions of Central Europe and a balancing influence in the Balkans. The end of Austrian dominance of the German states shifted Austria's attention to the Balkans. Show More Sentences Tribes of Serbs and Croats were later resettled in the northwestern Balkans, during the reign of Heraclius. Following the Battle of Kosovo, much of the Balkans became dominated by the Ottomans. During the same period, a new wave of pagans emerged in the Balkans, originating mainly from Slavic people. Ragusa was the door to the Balkans and the East, a place of commerce in metals, salt, spices and cinnabar. The Khans also sent Nogai Khan to the Balkans to strengthen Mongol influence there. In 1542, 30,000 soldiers died of typhus while fighting the Ottomans in the Balkans. A second collection of 22 maps was published covering Italy, Greece and the Balkans. In Byzantine times it referred to mainly military commanders of Slavic populations, especially in the Balkans. Voivode is also related to state formations such as Vojvodina, Polish provinces voivodeship, and medieval provinces of Balkans. The Slavic languages are to be found in the central Europe and the Balkans in southern Europe. The Ottoman Empire, after taking Constantinople in 1453, quickly gained control of the Middle East, the Balkans, and most of North Africa. Firstly, to an informed reader chapters appear as anachronous, while a non-connoisseur of the Balkans tangle could be misled. Iranian-style kebabs with their emphasis on yogurt-based marinades, turn up as far west as the Balkans and as far-east as Bangladesh. In the Balkans, an old remedy for bedbug infestations is to strew kidney bean leaves on the floor around the bed. A KOSOVAN marrying an Irish girl yesterday was told that his father, feared dead for the last three months in the Balkans, was alive and well. In spite of being based on obsolete designs, they sold very well throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire, central Europe and the Balkans. According to those figures, Macedonia has the most competitive labor force in the whole Balkans as all neighbors have higher minimum wages. Bolling has acted as an unofficial go-between in some of the world's hottest conflicts from the Middle East to the Balkans. He pledged to hunt down the death squads after sending Britain's chief war crimes investigator to the Balkans to find proof of Serb mass murder. After four meetings, all brushoffs, Kelley, who had been in the Balkans since March 30, made reservations to fly home. Show More Sentences The action takes place in the Balkans around 1885 and so the show has sumptuous period costumes and a chocolate-box set designed by Mark Bailey. The body ard dominates in Portugal, western Spain, the Balkans, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, and most of Latin America. And sometime in AD 251, they defeated a Roman army in the Balkans, killing the emperor Decius in the process. After the devastations by the Slavs and the Avars, large areas of the Balkans became depopulated. In the beginning of the period the Slavic tribes started to expand aggressively into Byzantine possessions on the Balkans. The British were driven from the Balkans after Germany conquered the Greek island of Crete by the end of May. The diversion of heavier bombers to the Balkans meant that the crews and units left behind were asked to fly two or three sorties per night. In the Eastern Empire the slow infiltration of the Balkans by the Slavs added a further difficulty for Justinian's successors. The Byzantines also faced a revived Bulgaria, which in the late 12th and 13th centuries spread throughout the Balkans. On the west, Slavic populations were also able to penetrate deep into the Balkans. These include churches that historically developed in Russia, Caucasus, the Balkans, North Eastern Africa, India and the Middle East. The Bogomils were strong in Balkans, and became the official religion supported by the Bosnian kings. The cabinet discussed Disraeli's proposal to position Indian troops at Malta for possible transit to the Balkans and call out reserves. This was seen as a method of countering Russian influence in the Balkans as the Ottoman Empire continued to weaken. The collapse of the Balkans meant that Germany was about to lose its main supplies of oil and food. In the century after the death of Osman I, Ottoman rule began to extend over Anatolia and the Balkans. With the extension of Turkish dominion into the Balkans, the strategic conquest of Constantinople became a crucial objective. In the east a resurgent Byzantine Empire recaptured Crete and Cyprus from the Muslims and reconquered the Balkans. Current applicants include Turkey and many small countries in the Balkans and South Caucasus. Slaves were drawn from all over Europe and the Mediterranean, including Gaul, Hispania, Germany, Britannia, the Balkans, Greece. Show More Sentences The 2003 European Council summit in Thessaloniki set integration of the Western Balkans as a priority of EU expansion. The Western Balkans have been prioritised for membership since emerging from war during the breakup of Yugoslavia. A 586 Byzantine chronicle of an incursion against the Avars in the eastern Balkans may have one of the earliest references to Vlachs. The oldest securely dated tin bronze artefact are found in the heart of the Balkans in Serbia. This coincides with the collapse of large cultural complexes in the Balkans. The predicted route for this spread would have been from Anatolia to central Europe via the Balkans. Similarly, haplogroup E1b1b was also thought to have been introduced into the Balkans by Near Eastern agriculturalists. Cruciani, Battaglia and King all predict that V13 expanded from the Balkans. Known in the Balkans as Bogomils and in northern Italy and southern France as Cathars, they were pacifists totally dedicated to nonviolence. These languages were spoken in an arc stretching across from Iberia in the west to the Balkans and Anatolia in the east. After initially advancing in British Somaliland and Egypt, the Italians were defeated in East Africa, the Balkans, Russia and North Africa. Islam's presence in Sweden remained marginal until the 1960s, when Sweden started to receive migrants from the Balkans and Turkey. In 278 BC Gaulish settlers in the Balkans were invited by Nicomedes I of Bithynia to help him in a dynastic struggle against his brother. With the Balkans secure, Germany and her allies attacked the Soviet Union in the largest land operation in history. In late 1944 it was joined with the advancing Soviet Army and proceeded to push remaining German forces out of the Balkans. While authorities have stated that no tulips west of the Balkans are native, subsequent identification of Tulipa sylvestris subsp. In addition to these regions in the west tulips have been identified in Greece, Cyprus and the Balkans. Fundamentally the war was sparked by tensions over territory in the Balkans. In the past, the range of the Asiatic lion extended from South Asia to the Balkans, possibly up to the Danube. The Ottoman Empire controlled Anatolia, most of the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans from the mid 16th century onwards. Show More Sentences The Epigravettian is a similar culture appearing at the same time in Italy, the Balkans, Moldavia, Romania, and Russia. She was also the first female and independent elected leader in the whole of the Balkans. The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in Eastern and Southeastern Europe with various and disputed borders. The conversation dominantly focused on the Western Balkans and the importance of integration processes for overall stability and prosperity. Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age copper artefacts from the Balkans and their relation to Serbian copper ores. The new crop was rejected in the Balkans, at least, because it brought changes to taxation and seigneurial dues, rather than because it was exotic. Southwards, his conquests ignited several conflicts with expansionist Turkey, whose territories were thus confined to the Balkans and the Black Sea regions. This group is further divided between those who fled south to North Africa, as opposed to those who fled eastwards to the Balkans, West Asia and beyond. The Eastern Romans, or Byzantines, partially recovered lost territory on numerous occasions but gradually lost all but Anatolia and parts of Thrace and the Balkans. We integrate skeletal markers with micro-nutritional and macro-scaled cultural effects on fertility rates during the Early-Middle Holocene in the Central Balkans. For the next few years, the emperor would be preoccupied with internal revolts in Anatolia, while the Bulgarians expanded their realm in the Balkans. But the Luftwaffe's effort eased in the last 10 attacks as seven Kampfgruppen moved to Austria in preparation for the Balkans Campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece. The Serbian Orthodox Church had its origins in the conversion by Byzantine missionaries of the Serb tribes when they arrived in the Balkans in the 7th century. As the Ottomans' victories in the Balkans multiplied, increasing numbers of Anatolian warriors flocked to their ranks, and their territorial conquests grew. These merchants came to dominate trade within the Ottoman Empire, establishing communities throughout the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Open revolt ensued, leading to 6 years of plundering throughout the Balkans, the death of a Roman Emperor and a disastrous defeat of the Roman army. The most violent dissolution happened in Yugoslavia, in the Balkans. The kingdoms of Croatia and Serbia also appeared in the Balkans. The powerful Bulgarian Empire was the main rival of Byzantium for control of the Balkans for centuries and from the 9th century became the cultural centre of Slavic Europe. In the Balkans, the Ottoman Empire overran Byzantine lands, culminating in the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, which historians mark as the end of the Middle Ages. Show More Sentences A part of the population in the Balkans defines itself as irreligious. Despite periods of intense hunting during the eighteenth century, wolves never disappeared in the western Balkans, from Albania to the former Yugoslavia. Wolves in the eastern Balkans benefitted from the region's contiguity with the former Soviet Union and large areas of plains, mountains and farmlands. These include countries and regions such as Spain, Slovakia, most of the Balkans including Greece, Turkey, the Himalayas, and presumably the Middle East. The vast size of this theatre included the fighting between the Allies and Axis forces in Italy, the Balkans, Southern Europe, Malta, North Africa and the Middle East. Italy also receives species from the Balkans, Eurasia, the Middle East. Subsequent expansion of agriculture was facilitated by the adoption of its methods by indigenous Europeans, a process especially prominent in the Balkans. In the case of the Western Balkans, a special process, the Stabilisation and Association Process exists to deal with the special circumstances there. Austria, however, felt threatened by the Russian troops in the Balkans. Justin McCarthy estimates that during the period 1821 to 1922 several million Muslims died in the Balkans, with the expulsion of a similar number. According to speleologists, Pesna has the largest entry in the Balkans. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. Examples from Classical Literature True, all hideous regimes had their figleaf intellectuals and with a few exceptions, the regimes in the Balkans are not hideous. This is the day-to-day existence in places as far apart as Moscow and the Balkans. Only the leaders of the New Balkans are much younger, less experienced, more prone to superstition, extremism and moodiness. Finally, it merges into a broad level plain, with the Balkans in the background. In an age when a fog of dreary sameness comes over all the civilised world, the Balkans have a great asset in their primitivism. To add to the troubles of the Balkans, the Bogomil heresy appeared, dividing further the strength of the Bulgarian nation. The illegal arms trade from the Balkans is a security risk that affects all of Europe. The most commonly used tranquillizer in the Balkans is diazepam, known in the West as Valium. Likewise, British Harriers were late in starting their wartime service, beginning with the Falklands Conflict in 1982, then in the Balkans. Meantime she talked in a hoarse tone of the political situation in the Balkans. In the beginning, they will be supplied only to the Euro-Balkan store, the only one selling food and beverages from the Balkans in the Emirates. This territory was created as a buffer between the Germanic empire, the Magyar tribes occupying the Hungarian plain and the ever troublesome Slavic princedoms in the Balkans. Sometimes we saw him passing in lonely majesty to his inner sanctum, with his eyes staring vaguely and his mind hovering over the Balkans or the Persian Gulf. The Scottish supporters are hot-blooded like the Turks and Balkans. Justinian I consolidated Anatolia, the Balkans, Egypt and Syria and even reconquered northern Italy and North Africa during his four decade reign. Find more words! 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