Balkan

The Balkan Mountain range runs across Bulgaria from west to east.

Romania is a Balkan country. Its capital is Bucharest.

Serbia is a country on the Balkan Peninsula.

In the earlier historical times the whole of the eastern part of the Balkan peninsula between the Danube and the Aegean was known as Thracia, while the western part (north of the forty-first degree of latitude) was termed Illyricum; the lower basin of the river Vardar (the classical Axius) was called Macedonia.

Albania, officially known as the Republic of Albania, is a country situated in Southeastern Europe on the Balkan Peninsula.

Albania, officially known as the Republic of Albania, is a country situated in Southeast Europe on the western part of the Balkan Peninsula.

Balkan languages that aren't closely related still share similar features.

A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.