Eastern Europe is, by convention, that part of Europe from the Ural Mountains and Caucasus mountains in the East to an arbitrarily chosen boundary in the West. Usually some or all of the countries adjacent to Russia's western border are included. As is also true of continents, regions are only social constructs and should not be understood as physical features defined by abstract, neutral criteria. ==History== As a term, the origins of "Eastern Europe" are fairly recent. For many years Europe was divided on a North-South axis, with the southern Mediterranean states having much in common, and the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea bordering states also having much in common (see also Northern Europe, Nordic Countries). The term "Eastern Europe" first arose in the 19th century century, and was used to describe an area that was falling behind the rest of Europe economically. It was seen as a region where serfdom and reactionary autocratic governments persisted long after those things faded in the west. It was always a very vague notion, however, and many countries in the region did not fit the Stereotype view. Much of Eastern Europe has ties to both the east and west. While all of the countries were heavily influenced by Roman Catholic or Protestant Christianity and have very close historical and cultural ties to Germany, Italy, France or Scandinavia (e.g. the Vikings in Russia, the Hanseatic league in the Baltics), many countries also had relations with the East. Russia was under the control of the Mongols for two centuries and inherited some political and social conventions from them. Further south the Ottoman Empire and Islam had a very strong influence. The nations of the Balkans as well as Hungary and Romania were all at one time controlled by the Turks. The term is recently used in the Western countries to refer to all European countries that were previously under communist state, the so-called Eastern Bloc. The concept of Eastern Europe was greatly strengthened by the domination of the region by Communism and more specifically the Soviet Union after the Second World War. The idea of an "Iron Curtain" separating Eastern and Western Europe was dominant throughout the Cold War. This strict dualism causes problems, however, as it fails to account for complexities of the region. For instance, communist countries such as Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albania refused to be controlled by the Moscow Kremlin, which however didn't make much difference to anti-Communists in the west. Furthermore, a view that Europe is divided strictly into the West and the East is considered pejorative by the population of the nominally eastern countries, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism in Europe overall. The Europeans from eastern countries do not classify themselves as "East Europeans" but prefer to include themselves in other groups, associating themselves with Central Europe, with Northern Europe, or with Southern Europe. People in the Baltic States and Poland may feel the label Social statustizing in comparison with countries that successfully have asserted their belonging to ''the West'' despite their Eastern location — and history as parts of Eastern Orthodoxy (Greece) or Imperial Russia (Finland). ==Eastern Europe== The [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm United Nations Statistics Division] defines Eastern Europe as: *Belarus *Bulgaria *Czech Republic *Hungary *Moldova *Poland *Romania *Russia *Slovakia *Ukraine These countries were all formerly within the Soviet Union: *Belarus *Estonia *Latvia *Lithuania *Moldova *Russia *Ukraine ===Southeastern Europe/Balkan Peninsula=== Commonly this definition is expanded to include these other previously communist countries: *Albania *Bosnia and Herzegovina *Bulgaria *Republic of Macedonia *Serbia and Montenegro Greece and the European part of Turkey are usually not included, as they are old NATO members. ===Central Europe=== The previously communist countries of Central Europe became included in the era of the Cold War: *the Czech Republic - part of former Czechoslovakia *Hungary *Poland *Slovakia - part of former Czechoslovakia *Slovenia - formerly within Yugoslavia *Croatia - formerly within Yugoslavia Prior to the German reunification, East Germany was often counted to Eastern Europe. ==See also== * Northeastern Europe * Southeastern Europe * Enlargement of the European Union ==External link== * [http://www.ericdigests.org/2004-2/europe.html Civic Education Trends in Post-Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe] Eastern Europe cv:Хěвелтухăç енчи Европа
==Transcaucasus== Are Georgia (country), Azerbaijan, Armenia part of Eastern Europe? - User:Olivier :I would assume they would be considered to be so when considered to be part of Europe at all; see Talk:Europe. --User:Brion VIBBER ==former Soviet Union== In fact, in the Eastern Europe article, listing "former Soviet Union" is too vague. Some of the former republics geographically belong to Europe (Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine, part of Russia)- according to the Europe article. Some others clearly do not (Central Asian republics, for instance). The article should probably give more details about that. - User:Olivier ==East Germany== Shouldn't the former Eastern Germany be included as having historically been part of Eastern Europe? - User:Olivier I wouldn't describe Poland as part of Eastern Europe. They belong culturally (they're roman catholics) and politically to Central Europe. : Hey, the same arguments would apply to Croatia, but it's a moot issue... --User:Shallot 14:32, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ==Russia== Since when is Russia not part of Eastern Europe? Is this your own new definition of that term in the USA and Britain? Note that elsewhere in the world Eastern Europe has always included Russia. -- Greetings from a German intellectual from Wikipedia Germany, User:Woldemar : I fixed that blatant omission. --User:Shallot 14:32, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ==old and new== It seems to me that we need two lists -- the groups of countries that composed Eastern Europe during the Cold War (basically the Soviet sphere of influence), and what became of that, i.e. how things are named right now. --User:Shallot 14:32, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) == communist or Communist? == I'm not an expert on capitalization rules in English, but see: Communism#Writing \"Communism\" or \"communism\". -- User:Kpalion 11:55, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) : In the context of generally describing these countries as "communist", I don't think it needs capitalization. The parties which formed those governments weren't all called "Communist", either. --User:Joy 17:53, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) == "Problems with this definition" == Ronline, why didn't you post this fairly slanted text in Talk first so that we can discuss it? A cursory look at the page history would have revealed that there had been disagreements regarding the definitions before, let's not repeat history... --User:Joy 10:28, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) :What do you mean by "this fairly slanted text"? The reason I included it is to clear things up a bit regarding what is and what is not Eastern Europe. The first paragraph of the article is an introductory statement, while the second paragraph ("Contemporary Eastern Europe") puts forward the correct definition of Eastern Europe. "Extended Eastern Europe" refers to the definition of Eastern Europe containing all of former-Communist Europe. There is also a section, the one I wrote, about problems with this definition. This argues, in what I see as a NPOV manner, why the extended definition is problematic (first paragraph). Other terms, such as New Europe, are also discussed. I don't see how this inclusion will cause arguments, especially since it is more NPOV than before. Before, the article basically was written from the point-of-view of an extended Eastern Europe, which causes controversies in Central Europe, Northern Europe and Southeastern Europe. It is already enough that the non-Eastern European former-Communist countries have to live with being included in this article in the first place. User:Ronline 06:10, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Styles and/or HTML == When I look at this page with Firefox, I don't see the map. I see it with IE, though. Perhaps there's some invalid HTML or CSS.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is, by convention, that part of Europe from the Ural Mountains and Caucasus mountains in the East to an arbitrarily chosen boundary in the West. Usually some or all of the countries adjacent to Russia's western border are included. As is also true of continents, regions are only social constructs and should not be understood as physical features defined by abstract, neutral criteria. ==History== As a term, the origins of "Eastern Europe" are fairly recent. For many years Europe was divided on a North-South axis, with the southern Mediterranean states having much in common, and the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea bordering states also having much in common (see also Northern Europe, Nordic Countries). The term "Eastern Europe" first arose in the 19th century century, and was used to describe an area that was falling behind the rest of Europe economically. It was seen as a region where serfdom and reactionary autocratic governments persisted long after those things faded in the west. It was always a very vague notion, however, and many countries in the region did not fit the Stereotype view. Much of Eastern Europe has ties to both the east and west. While all of the countries were heavily influenced by Roman Catholic or Protestant Christianity and have very close historical and cultural ties to Germany, Italy, France or Scandinavia (e.g. the Vikings in Russia, the Hanseatic league in the Baltics), many countries also had relations with the East. Russia was under the control of the Mongols for two centuries and inherited some political and social conventions from them. Further south the Ottoman Empire and Islam had a very strong influence. The nations of the Balkans as well as Hungary and Romania were all at one time controlled by the Turks. The term is recently used in the Western countries to refer to all European countries that were previously under communist state, the so-called Eastern Bloc. The concept of Eastern Europe was greatly strengthened by the domination of the region by Communism and more specifically the Soviet Union after the Second World War. The idea of an "Iron Curtain" separating Eastern and Western Europe was dominant throughout the Cold War. This strict dualism causes problems, however, as it fails to account for complexities of the region. For instance, communist countries such as Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albania refused to be controlled by the Moscow Kremlin, which however didn't make much difference to anti-Communists in the west. Furthermore, a view that Europe is divided strictly into the West and the East is considered pejorative by the population of the nominally eastern countries, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism in Europe overall. The Europeans from eastern countries do not classify themselves as "East Europeans" but prefer to include themselves in other groups, associating themselves with Central Europe, with Northern Europe, or with Southern Europe. People in the Baltic States and Poland may feel the label Social statustizing in comparison with countries that successfully have asserted their belonging to ''the West'' despite their Eastern location — and history as parts of Eastern Orthodoxy (Greece) or Imperial Russia (Finland). ==Eastern Europe== The [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm United Nations Statistics Division] defines Eastern Europe as: *Belarus *Bulgaria *Czech Republic *Hungary *Moldova *Poland *Romania *Russia *Slovakia *Ukraine These countries were all formerly within the Soviet Union: *Belarus *Estonia *Latvia *Lithuania *Moldova *Russia *Ukraine ===Southeastern Europe/Balkan Peninsula=== Commonly this definition is expanded to include these other previously communist countries: *Albania *Bosnia and Herzegovina *Bulgaria *Republic of Macedonia *Serbia and Montenegro Greece and the European part of Turkey are usually not included, as they are old NATO members. ===Central Europe=== The previously communist countries of Central Europe became included in the era of the Cold War: *the Czech Republic - part of former Czechoslovakia *Hungary *Poland *Slovakia - part of former Czechoslovakia *Slovenia - formerly within Yugoslavia *Croatia - formerly within Yugoslavia Prior to the German reunification, East Germany was often counted to Eastern Europe. ==See also== * Northeastern Europe * Southeastern Europe * Enlargement of the European Union ==External link== * [http://www.ericdigests.org/2004-2/europe.html Civic Education Trends in Post-Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe] Eastern Europe cv:Хěвелтухăç енчи Европа
Eastern Europe
==Transcaucasus== Are Georgia (country), Azerbaijan, Armenia part of Eastern Europe? - User:Olivier :I would assume they would be considered to be so when considered to be part of Europe at all; see Talk:Europe. --User:Brion VIBBER ==former Soviet Union== In fact, in the Eastern Europe article, listing "former Soviet Union" is too vague. Some of the former republics geographically belong to Europe (Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine, part of Russia)- according to the Europe article. Some others clearly do not (Central Asian republics, for instance). The article should probably give more details about that. - User:Olivier ==East Germany== Shouldn't the former Eastern Germany be included as having historically been part of Eastern Europe? - User:Olivier I wouldn't describe Poland as part of Eastern Europe. They belong culturally (they're roman catholics) and politically to Central Europe. : Hey, the same arguments would apply to Croatia, but it's a moot issue... --User:Shallot 14:32, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ==Russia== Since when is Russia not part of Eastern Europe? Is this your own new definition of that term in the USA and Britain? Note that elsewhere in the world Eastern Europe has always included Russia. -- Greetings from a German intellectual from Wikipedia Germany, User:Woldemar : I fixed that blatant omission. --User:Shallot 14:32, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) ==old and new== It seems to me that we need two lists -- the groups of countries that composed Eastern Europe during the Cold War (basically the Soviet sphere of influence), and what became of that, i.e. how things are named right now. --User:Shallot 14:32, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) == communist or Communist? == I'm not an expert on capitalization rules in English, but see: Communism#Writing \"Communism\" or \"communism\". -- User:Kpalion 11:55, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) : In the context of generally describing these countries as "communist", I don't think it needs capitalization. The parties which formed those governments weren't all called "Communist", either. --User:Joy 17:53, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) == "Problems with this definition" == Ronline, why didn't you post this fairly slanted text in Talk first so that we can discuss it? A cursory look at the page history would have revealed that there had been disagreements regarding the definitions before, let's not repeat history... --User:Joy 10:28, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC) :What do you mean by "this fairly slanted text"? The reason I included it is to clear things up a bit regarding what is and what is not Eastern Europe. The first paragraph of the article is an introductory statement, while the second paragraph ("Contemporary Eastern Europe") puts forward the correct definition of Eastern Europe. "Extended Eastern Europe" refers to the definition of Eastern Europe containing all of former-Communist Europe. There is also a section, the one I wrote, about problems with this definition. This argues, in what I see as a NPOV manner, why the extended definition is problematic (first paragraph). Other terms, such as New Europe, are also discussed. I don't see how this inclusion will cause arguments, especially since it is more NPOV than before. Before, the article basically was written from the point-of-view of an extended Eastern Europe, which causes controversies in Central Europe, Northern Europe and Southeastern Europe. It is already enough that the non-Eastern European former-Communist countries have to live with being included in this article in the first place. User:Ronline 06:10, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Styles and/or HTML == When I look at this page with Firefox, I don't see the map. I see it with IE, though. Perhaps there's some invalid HTML or CSS.
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