Musala is a high 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
 The concept of the "Balkans" was created by the German geographer August Zeune in 1808, who mistakenly considered it as the dominant central mountain system of Southeast Europe spanning from the Adriatic Sea to the Black Sea

