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Balkánský sýr

type of white brined cheese produced in Czech Republic and Slovakia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ17067155 ↗
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Balkánský sýr (English: Balkan cheese) is a type of white brined cheese produced from cow's milk in Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is a salty semi-hard white cheese, analogous to Bulgarian sirene, and Greek feta. It is usually not matured (Czech: nezrající).

It is mainly used as a substitute of sirene in the Bulgarian shopska salad or instead of feta in greek salad.

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This entry incorporates text from “Balkánský sýr” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.