Central Europe and Northern Eurasia

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Chapter 18

• Central Europe and Northern Eurasia

2
Overview Chapter

• 1989 - there were 8 countries in Eastern Europe
• 2001 - 13
• Why? Fall of
• Soviet Union,
• religion,
• ethnicity, and
• land disputes

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Physical Geography

• Landscape
• 1. North European plain - Atlantic to the Ural
  Mts. In Russia
• Vistula river - Poland
• Carpathian Mountains - Northern Slovakia to
  Romania - Transylvanian Alps
• Danube Valley - Danube river, Wallachian Plain
  (Romania and Southern Bulgaria)
• Hungarian Basin (pustza) - Serbia, Hungary,
  Romania
• -farmland and very fertile land

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Physical continued

• 4. Balkan peninsula - Albania/Bulgaria and
  former Yugoslavia
• -Balkan Mts.
• -Dinaric Alps - coast
• karst - soft limestone dissolved by water
• East drier than west (winds lose moisture)
• Hungarian Basin - very dry
• 1/2 farming
• Tundra to Chaparral - evergreens, bushes, scrub

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Human Geography

• Multiethnic - especially eastern Europe ,
  composed of many ethnic groups
• East - Russians, Ukrainians
• West - Poles, Czechs, Slovaks
• South - Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Bulgars
• Slavs - 2/3 the population of Eastern Europe
• Came from India settled N. of Carpathian Mt.
  (Baltics)

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Human geography

• The Magyars (Hungarians) A.D. 895
• Communism - Karl Marx, society has no social
  class and holding in common ownership the
  economic resources of the country
• Totalitarianism - Gov. controls all aspects of
  the people
• Stalin - after WWII created a buffer zone between
  East and West Europe
• Between 1989 - 1991 - many countries overthrew
  communist rule

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Last of Human Geography

• Czech Republic and Slovakia - split in 1993
• Roma - gypsies, migrated from India, most live in
  Greece, nomadic
• Women - begging, fortune telling
• Men - trades (roofing, etc.)