Musala is 2,925 meters and is the highest peak in the Balkan Peninsula.
 The word was used by the Ottomans in Rumelia in its general meaning of mountain, as in Kodja-Balkan, atal-Balkan, and Ungurus-Balkani, but especially it was applied to the Haemus mountain
=== Historical names and meaning ======= Classical antiquity and the early Middle Ages ====From classical antiquity through the Middle Ages, the Balkan Mountains were called by the local Thracian name Haemus

