1. Eastern Europe

2. Geography of Eastern Europe
Carpathian Mountains – In Slovakia and Northern Romania ( home of Transylvania)
Rivers – Volga (#1), Danube runs through 12 countries a major international waterway (#2)
Ural Mountains -a mountain range in Russia. It forms part of the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia and European Russia and Siberian Russia.
Caucasus - The Caucasus Mountains[a] are a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region. Mt. Elbrus is highest peak and popular for skiers and hiking

3. Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”
1500 miles
Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.

4. Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains
Home of Vlad Tepeš, the Drakul (“Count Dracula”)

5. 3 Baltic Nations 3 Baltic nations- Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
Northern European Plain – fertile soil for agriculture, located in Northern Carpathians, Poland and many Baltic countries
Hungarian Plains – has fertile soil used to grow grain and vegetables

6. Poland Warsaw is the largest city and capital of Poland.
Forests cover over 30% of Poland's land area and the country is the fourth most forested in Europe.
Northern European Plain covers 100% of Poland- most fertile soil

7. Poland
Pope John Paul II was born Karol Józef Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland.
He was made a Cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1967, and in 1978 became the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years.
He died in Italy in It was announced in July of that he would be declared a saint in April of the following year.

8. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country situated on the Balkan peninsula of Southern Europe.
Majority of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina comprises of Muslims, followed by Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants and others.
The three main ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina are Bosniak, Serb and Croat.

9. Bosnia and Herzegovinia
Bosnia and Herzegovina gained independence from Yugoslavia in the year 1992.
Sarajevo, the largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina

10. Serbia
The name Yugoslavia previously designated six republics (Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia- Herzogovia, Croatia, and Slovenia), but now includes just Serbia and Montenegro.
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia.
Earned its independence in 2006

11. Serbia
Starting in April 1992, Serbia set out to “ethnically cleanse” Bosnian territory by systematically removing all Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks. Serbia, together with ethnic Bosnian Serbs, attacked Bosniaks with former Yugoslavian military equipment and surrounded Sarajevo, the capital city.
100,000 died in the genocide
Ethnic cleansing - the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society.

12. Former Yugoslavia

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14. Yugoslavia
Communist Yugoslavia - Controlled by Marshall Tito who was a dictator
After Tito’s death fighting began
Yugoslavia collapsed after Soviet Union collapsed
Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia declared independence each defined certain ethnic and religious background
Serbia controlled by Slobodan Milosevic committed ethnic cleansing against Muslims from Bosnia and Kosovo

15. Yugoslavia Bosniaks, Kosovars, Croats fought back
More than 300,000 died over Yugoslavia’s disintegration into separate states
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial at The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.
Milosovich was charged with genocide by forces under his command against Bosnian Muslims and Croats in the Bosnian war

16. Romania Capital: Bucharest
More than half of Romania's Jewish population died in the Second World War.
Though the majority of Romanians are Christians, Romania does not have any official religion.

17. Ukraine
Location: - Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland and Russia
Crimea – now belongs to Russia
Cold War – Ukraine was part of the USSR until 1991
Kiev - the capital and largest city of Ukraine.
2nd largest country in Europe

18. Ukraine
Ukraine suffered the world's worst recorded nuclear accident. On the morning of April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 80 miles north of Kiev, exploded, sending radioactive contaminants three miles up into the atmosphere and out over parts of Europe, Asia, and North America.
A political meltdown occurred in December 1991, when 90 percent of Ukrainians voted for independence, in effect dissolving the Soviet Union. Now Ukraine faces ongoing border disputes with Russia

19. Chernobyl

20. Macedonia
September 9, 1991 when Macedonia came out of the clutches of Yugoslavia and attained independence.
Capital: Skopje
Macedonia has its own language – Macedonian
Mother Teresa was born in what is now Macedonia's capital city, Skopje, on 26th August 1910.

21. Austria German is the official language of Austria
Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria,
Austria is a mountainous country due the Alps

22. Kosovo
Kosovo, the youngest country of the 21st century, declared independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008.
Pristina – capital
Education in Eastern Europe – since transition from communism to a democracy the education system in Eastern Europe has been slow due to lack of funding in schools. How is this different from Western Europe? .

23. Montenegro Used to be called Serbia-Montenegro
Least populated country in Eastern Europe
Capital is Podgorica
In the Dinaric Alps