1. EUROPE III (CHAPTER 1: 78-95)

2. REGIONS OF
EUROPE
WESTERN
BRITISH ISLES
NORTHERN
MEDITERRANEAN
EASTERN

3. MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE

4. MEDITERRANEAN EUROPE SIX COUNTRIES A DISCONTINUOUS REGION
ON THE PERIPHERY
CULTURAL CONTINUITY DATES FROM GRECO-ROMAN TIMES
MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE
HOT - DRY SUMMERS
WARM/COOL - MOIST WINTERS

5. ITALY MOST POPULATED OF MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES
BEST CONNECTED TO THE EUROPEAN CORE
MOST ECONOMICALLY ADVANCED
DISPLAYS A SHARP NORTH/SOUTH CONTRAST (ANCONA LINE )
MILAN
ITALY’S LARGEST CITY AND MANUFACTURING CENTER
ALSO THE COUNTRY’S FINANCIAL AND SERVICE-INDUSTRY CENTER

6. ITALY ROME VATICAN CITY FOUNDED ABOUT 3,000 YEARS AGO
ATTAINED AN ESTIMATED POPULATION OF 1 MILLION < THE END OF THE 1ST CENTURY AD
ONLY 30,000 PEOPLE BY THE 13TH CENTURY
BECAME ITALY’S CAPITAL IN 1870
CURRENTLY HAS ABOUT 2.6 MILLION PEOPLE
VATICAN CITY
AN ENCLAVE WITHIN ROME
THE HEADQUARTERS OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM
FUNCTIONS AS AN INDEPENDENT ENTITY

7. EASTERN
EUROPE
REGIONS
WESTERN
NORTHERN
MEDITERRANEAN
EASTERN

8. EASTERN EUROPE (REGIONAL IDENTIFIERS)
EUROPE’S LARGEST REGION
ADJOINS 3 OF 4 OTHER EUROPEAN REGIONS
CONTAINS THE MOST COUNTRIES
INCLUDES EUROPE’S LARGEST STATE
INCORPORATES EUROPE’S POOREST COUNTRY
IN 1990, NONE OF ITS STATES COULD MEET THE CRITERIA FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE EU
REACHES INTO THE RUSSIAN ZONE OF INFLUENCE

9. KEY CONCEPTS BALKANIZATION IRREDENTISM ETHNIC CLEANSING DEVOLUTION
SHATTER BELT

10. BALKANIZATION
FROM THE VERB BALKANIZE, WHICH MEANS TO BREAK UP (AS IN A REGION) INTO SMALLER AND OFTEN HOSTILE UNITS
ORIGINATES FROM A MOUNTAIN RANGE IN BULGARIA
APPLIED TO THE SOUTHERN HALF OF EASTERN EUROPE, i.e., THE BALKAN COUNTRIES OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA

11. UNDERLYING FORCES CENTRIFUGAL FORCES CENTRIPETAL FORCES
REFER TO FORCES THAT TEND TO DIVIDE A COUNTRY
Religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences
CENTRIPETAL FORCES
FORCES THAT UNITE AND BIND A COUNTRY TOGETHER
A strong national culture, shared ideological objectives, and a common faith

12. IRREDENTISM
A POLICY OF CULTURAL EXTENSION AND POLITICAL EXPANSION AIMED AT A NATIONAL GROUP LIVING IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY
RIVER & BORDER
MINORITY
POPULATION A
BORDER
ADJUSTMENT B A
COUNTRIES

13. ETHNIC GROUPS IN
EASTERN EUROPE

14. ETHNIC CLEANSING
REFERS TO THE FORCIBLE OUSTER OF ENTIRE POPULATIONS FROM THEIR HOMELANDS BY STRONGER POWERS BENT ON TAKING THEIR TERRITORIES
MINORITY
POPULATION A B A
BORDER
COUNTRIES

15. DEVOLUTION
THE PROCESS WHEREBY REGIONS WITHIN A STATE DEMAND AND GAIN POLITICAL STRENGTH AND GROWING AUTONOMY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

16. DEVOLUTION IN
EUROPE

17. SHATTER BELT
A TERM APPLIED TO EASTERN EUROPE BY GEOGRAPHERS TO DESCRIBE A ZONE OF CHRONIC POLITICAL SPLINTERING AND FRACTURING
WHY HERE?

18. ETHNIC
MOSIAC OF
EASTERN
EUROPE

19. SUBREGIONS OF EASTERN EUROPE
COUNTRIES FACING THE BALTIC SEA
THE LANDLOCKED CENTER
COUNTRIES FACING THE ADRIATIC SEA
COUNTRIES FACING THE BLACK SEA

20. COUNTRIES FACING THE BALTIC SEA
POLAND
A CLASSIC NATION-STATE
TRADITIONALLY AGRARIAN - WHEAT
POST WWII INDUSTRY - SILESIA
WARSAW - PRIMATE CITY
LITHUANIA
LOST INDEPENDENCE IN 1940, REGAINED IN 1991
KALININGRAD - A RUSSIAN EXCLAVE
LATVIA
SIMILAR HISTORY AS LITHUANIA
CONSTITUTE BARE MAJORITY IN OWN COUNTRY
BELARUS: RUSSIA’S CLOSEST ALLY

21. THE LANDLOCKED CENTER CZECH REPUBLIC SLOVAKIA HUNGARY
THE REGION’S MOST WESTERNIZED
PRAGUE- A CLASSIC PRIMATE CITY
SLOVAKIA
THE LEAST DEVELOPED, MOST RURAL PART OF “CZECHOSLOVAKIA”
HUNGARY
A NATION-STATE OF 10 MILLION
BUDAPEST- A CLASSIC PRIMATE CITY

22. COUNTRIES FACING THE BLACK SEA
BULGARIA: LIBERATED BY RUSSIA IN 1878
ROMANIA: A FORMER ROMAN PROVINCE; RAW MATERIALS (COAL, IRON ORE, OIL, NATURAL GAS)
MOLDOVA: AGRICULTURAL
UKRAINE: LARGEST AND MOST POPULOUS; AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE

23. COUNTRIES FACING THE ADRIATIC SEA
SLOVENIA: FIRST TO SECEDE; ETHNICALLY MOST HOMOGENEOUS
CROATIA
BOSNIA: CENTRALLY POSITIONED
SERBIA: LARGEST AND MOST POPULOUS
MACEDONIA: 65% MACEDONIAN, 21% ALBANIAN
SERBIA-MONTENEGRO: INCLUDES SERBIA, KOSOVO, VOJVODINA, AND MONTENEGRO
ALBANIA: REMNANT OF TURKISH OTTOMAN EMPIRE; 70% MUSLIMS; LOWEST ECONOMIC RANKING IN EUROPE

24. EUROPE III (CHAPTER 1: 87-105)