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Chapter 18

Chapter 18. Central Europe and Northern Eurasia. Overview Chapter. 1989 - there were 8 countries in Eastern Europe 2001 - 13 Why? Fall of Soviet Union, religion, ethnicity, and land disputes. Physical Geography. Landscape:

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Chapter 18

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  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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