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Balka (from the article "India") ...authority in Lakhnauti (northern Bengal) and was encroaching on the province of Bihar. 'Iwaz Khalji ... Balkan Crises (from the article "international relations") The Balkan crises and the outbreak of war, 1907-14 Balkan Entente (Feb. 9, 1934), mutual-defense agreement between Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia, intended to guarantee the ... [3 Related Articles] Balkan League (1866-68), an alliance organized by the Serbian prince Michael III (Mihailo Obrenovic). Concluded by the ... [1 Related Articles] Balkan League (1912-13), alliance of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro, which fought the First Balkan War against ... [8 Related Articles] Balkan Mountains chief range of the Balkan Peninsula and Bulgaria and an extension of the Alpine-Carpathian folds. ... [4 Related Articles] Balkan Wars (1912-13), two successive military conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of almost all its remaining ... 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