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The Elbe-Trieste Line: Eastern and Western Europe

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1 The Elbe-Trieste Line: Eastern and Western Europe

2 Seipel Line Ignaz Seipel (1876-1932)
Austrian churchman, political scientist and statesman In the 1920s was chancellor of Austria Speech to League of Nations in 1928 Europe is divided by a line which separates two entirely different conceptions of the idea of the “Nation.” On one side of the line are the peoples for whom the state is everything, and who also understand national sentiment as a great enthusiasm for the state to which they, of their own free will, belong. On the other side of that line of demarcation, the sentiment of civilization, of a common tongue and a common origin, preponderates.

3 Elbe-Trieste Line

4 Charlemagne (814) and the Treaty of Verdun (843)

5 Europe (1000)

6 Medieval Trade and the Plague

7 Hanseatic League (beginning 13th century)

8 Europe (1500)

9 European Exploration (1500s)

10 Dutch Golden Age (1580s-1670)

11 European Trade (1770)

12 Major Universities (by 1650)

13 Academies (by 1790)

14 Agricultural/Industrial Revolutions (19th century)

15 1848 Revolutions

16 German/Italian Unification (1861-71)

17 WWI ( )

18 Iron Curtain (Post-WWII)/ NATO and Warsaw Pact

19 Religious Division (2004)

20 European Languages (2010)

21 The Elbe-Trieste Line: Eastern and Western Europe


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