| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The first attested time the name Balkan was used in the West for the mountain range in Bulgaria was in a letter sent in 1490 to Pope Innocent VIII by Buonaccorsi Callimaco, an Italian humanist, writer and diplomat.[14] English traveler John Morritt introduced this term into the English literature at the end of the 18th century, and other authors started applying the name to the wider area betwee
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