The Balkan Peninsula has had constant conflicts throughout history.
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Long called "the powder keg of Europe" (欧洲的火药桶) - the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 sparked World War I. The peninsula covers Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, the former Yugoslav states, and parts of Romania and Turkey.
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巴尔干 (Bā'ěrgàn) phonetically transliterates "Balkan." 半岛 (bàndǎo) literally "half-island" = peninsula, the standard Chinese word for any peninsula.
