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Title: Central Europe and Northern Eurasia


1
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

3
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

4
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

5
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)

6
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

7
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.)
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