How to Use "Balkans" with Example Sentences

1. The global economic crisis has hit the balkans hard .
2. An increasingly popular option is to go via the western balkans .
3. But as experience in the balkans has shown , the lure of eventual eu membership is a good way to foster liberal , market-based democracy and to defuse territorial and ethnic disputes .
4. The western balkans matter little economically .
5. But the most spectacular cases are still in the balkans .