Balkans vs Gaida - What's the difference?
balkans | gaida |
A geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Kosovo, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and sometimes Romania.
* 2002 — Dennis P. Hupchick, The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism , p104
An ancient Thracian bagpipe, variations of which are still played in the Balkans.
As a proper noun Balkans
is a geographical region in the southeast of Europe, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Kosovo, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece and sometimes Romania.As a noun gaida is
an ancient Thracian bagpipe, variations of which are still played in the Balkans.balkans
English
(wikipedia Balkans)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- As the Ottomans' victories in the Balkans multiplied, increasing numbers of Anatolian warriors flocked to their ranks, and their territorial conquests grew.
