>>>>He is referring to the Balkans, presumably.
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>>>I know of one Balkan. List the others :).
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>>I missed the joke:
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans
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>>Was it a joke?
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>Just a bit of a puzzle, why would it be in the plurals. Balkan is a single peninsula, named after one single mountain, not a mountain chain.

I thought the Balkan Peninsula got it's name from the tallest mountain, and that the Balkan region (the Balkans) is named for the Balkan Mountains which is a range.