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Definition of "balkanise" [balkanise]

  • Alternative spelling of balkanize. (verb)

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Use "balkanise" in a sentence
  • "In it Raynsford effectively admits that regions are an attempt to balkanise England."
  • "He pledged to perpetuate the criminal bantustan system, further to balkanise our country and to continue the land dispossession of the African majority, which is confined to a little more than ten percent of"
  • "To those who sought to balkanise our country into separate entities as a way of entrenching the ideology and practice of racism, as well as those who thought that this country belongs to one race to the exclusion of others, the Freedom Charter's message is clear and simple - South Africa belongs to all who live in it!"