The term Balkan and the term balcony have the same root in that persian word b lk neh OK my mistake Can I say a few times And that is not my original research There are many of etymological explanations Every etymological explanation of the term Balkan is linguistic bulgarian turkish persian etc The claim that is the persian word is just equally correct as the other claims are You can prefer turkish explaination but I still claim that the term Balkan came from persian language The term Balkan and the term balcony have the same root in that persian word b lk neh