Describing a region, organization, or territory that has been broken into smaller, often hostile or incompatible separate units.
Past participle of 'balkanize,' formed with the '-ed' suffix to create an adjective describing the resulting state after fragmentation.
When you describe something as 'balkanized,' you're using history as a shorthand—it instantly tells people this unity is broken and the pieces are in conflict with each other.
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