(1) Mladic was a Bosnian Serb general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, and the highest-ranking Yugoslav war crimes suspect still at large.

(2) The economic crisis in Greece is the most important thing to have happened in Europe since the Balkan wars.

(3) N. war crimes prosecutor said on Sunday it was possible Slobodan Milosevic had committed suicide and his death made it all the more urgent to catch others blamed for the horrors of the Balkan wars.

(4) During 1912 and 1913 it became involved in the Balkan Wars, a series of conflicts with its neighbours, during which Bulgarian territory varied in size.

(5) Most of its remaining European territory was lost in the Balkan Wars ( 1912 - 13 ).