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Central and Eastern Europe is a geopolitical term encompassing the countries in Northeast Europe (primarily the Baltics), Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Europe (primarily the Balkans), usually meaning former communist states from the Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact in Europe, as well as from former Yugoslavia.
- Central Europe
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between...
- East-Central Europe
East-Central Europe is sometimes defined as the eastern part...
- Europa Central e Oriental
Europa Central e Oriental é um termo que abrange os países...
- Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Eastern Galicia was the most diverse part of the region, and...
- Central Europe
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Several definitions of Eastern Europe exist in the early 21st century, but they often lack precision and may be anachronistic. These definitions are debated across cultures and among experts, even political scientists, as the term has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, cultural, and socioeconomic connotations. It has also been described as...
Classical antiquity and medieval origins
Ancient kingdoms of the region included Orontid Armenia, Caucasian Albania, Colchis and Iberia (not to be confused with the Iberian Peninsula in Western Europe), of which the former two were the predecessor states of Armenia and Azerbaijan respectively, while the latter two were the predecessor states of modern-day Georgia. These peripheral kingdoms were, either from the start or later on, incorporated into various Iranian empires, including the Achaemenid Persian, Parthian, and Sassanid Pers...
1453 to 1918
The conquest of the Byzantine Empire, center of the Eastern Orthodox Church, by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, and the gradual fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire (which had replaced the Frankish empire) led to a change of the importance of Roman Catholic/Protestant vs. Eastern Orthodox concept in Europe. Armour points out that Cyrillic-alphabet use is not a strict determinant for Eastern Europe, where from Croatia to Poland and everywhere in between, the Latin alphabet is used. G...
Serfdom
Serfdom was a prevalent status of agricultural workers until the 19th century. It resembled slavery in terms of lack of freedom, with the distinction that the landowners could not buy and sell serfs separately from the specific plots of land that they were permanently attached to. The system emerged in the 14th and 15th century, the same time it was declining in Western Europe.The climax came in the 17th and 18th century. The early 19th century saw its decline, marked especially by the abolit...
O Leste Europeu, Europa Oriental ou Europa do Leste é uma região que abriga países situados na parte central ou oriental do continente europeu. Há várias interpretações para a abrangência do termo, frequentemente contraditórias e influenciadas por fatores geopolíticos e ideológicos.
