GEOGRAPHY OF RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE Geography 308 Professor Zoltn Grossman Office: Phillips 258 H

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GEOGRAPHY OF RUSSIAAND EASTERN
EUROPEGeography 308Professor Zoltán
GrossmanOffice Phillips 258Hours 1000-1050
MWFPhone 836-4471E-mail grossmzc_at_uwec.edu
Web www.uwec.edu/grossmzc
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Geography is about place
Physical (natural)
Human Economic Cultural/ethnic Population Politic
al Urban/rural
Nature-human interaction Environmental Regional
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Changes in Europe, 1990-93
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Geographical implications

• End of Cold War stand-off
• Transition from State Socialism to Capitalism
• Some states break up along ethnic lines
• Decolonization of Russian Empire after four
  centuries

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Northeastern Europe

• Poland
• Ex-GDR (East Germany)
• Czech Republic
• Slovakia
• Hungary
• Baltic States
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Lithuania

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Southeastern Europe (Balkans)

• Romania
• Bulgaria
• Albania
• Former Yugoslavia
• Slovenia
• Croatia
• Bosnia Hercegovina
• Macedonia
• Serbia Montenegro
• (Yugoslavia until 2003 includes Kosovo)

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MONGOLIA
Russian/Soviet Heartland

• Ukraine
• Belarus
• Moldova
• Mongolia

• European Russia
• Southern Russia
• Including Chechnya
• Eastern Russia (Siberia)

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Caucasus and Central Asia

• Transcaucasia
• Georgia
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Central Asia
• Kazakstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Uzbekistan
• Turkmenistan
• Tajikistan

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My Homies The Magyars (Hungarians)
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Zoltán
Zoltan Hound of Dracula
Zoltarin Big
Zoltan, ImperialCommander of the Space Nerds
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Hungarian for Sultan(from the Ottoman
Turkishoccupation of Hungary, 1526-1686)
(Hungarians have lost every war since then.)
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Poltar, Slovakia
Kondorfa, Hungary
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Moms Hungarian Relies