Balkan is an unincorporated community in Bell County, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

[1] A post office was established at Balkan in 1912, and remained in operation until 1982.

[2] It was named after the Balkans, in Southeast Europe, the native land of many of the early settlers in this mining community.

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