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Noun: Balkan Wars
  1. 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

Type of: war, warfare

Part of: Balkan Peninsula, Balkans

Encyclopedia: Balkan Wars