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Transcript of EUROPE III (CHAPTER 1: 64-78). REGIONS OF EUROPE WESTERN BRITISH ISLES NORTHERN MEDITERRANEAN...
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
ITALY
MOST POPULATED OF MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES (57.8 MILLION)
BEST CONNECTED TO THE EUROPEAN CORE MOST ECONOMICALLY ADVANCED DISPLAYS A SHARP NORTH/SOUTH
CONTRAST (ANCONA LINE ) MILAN
ITALY’S LARGEST CITY (4.1 MILLION PEOPLE) AND MANUFACTURING CENTER
ALSO THE COUNTRY’S FINANCIAL AND SERVICE-INDUSTRY CENTER
IBERIA SPAIN
42.6 MILLION DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT WITH 17
AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES CATALONIA (6.5 MILLION) IS THE LEADING
INDUSTRIAL AREA MADRID – THE COUNTRY’S PRIMATE CITY
PORTUGAL 10.5 MILLION POPULATION EXHIBITS A COASTAL ORIENTATION LISBON – THE COUNTRY’S PRIMATE CITY
GREECE, CYPRUS, & MALTA
GREECE A CRADLE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 11 MILLION PEOPLE ATHENS – PRIMATE CITY A GEOGRAPHICALLY FRAGMENTED COUNTRY
CYPRUS GREEK MAJORITY WITH A TURK MINORITY STILL CONTESTED WITH A NORTHERN TURKISH AND
SOUTHERN GREEK SECTOR MALTA
A SMALL ARCHIPELAGO WITH ABOUT 400,000 PEOPLE AN ANCIENT CROSSROADS RELIES ON TOURISM
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
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
UNDERLYING FORCES
CENTRIFUGAL 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
IRREDENTISM A POLICY OF CULTURAL
EXTENSION AND POLITICAL EXPANSION AIMED AT A NATIONAL GROUP LIVING IN A NEIGHBORING COUNTRY
BA
A
RIVER & BORDER
COUNTRIES
MINORITYPOPULATION
BORDERADJUSTMENT
ETHNIC CLEANSING REFERS TO THE FORCIBLE
OUSTER OF ENTIRE POPULATIONS FROM THEIR HOMELANDS BY STRONGER POWERS BENT ON TAKING THEIR TERRITORIES
AB
A
COUNTRIES
BORDER
MINORITYPOPULATION
SHATTER BELT
A TERM APPLIED TO EASTERN EUROPE BY GEOGRAPHERS TO DESCRIBE A ZONE OF CHRONIC POLITICAL SPLINTERING AND FRACTURING
WHY HERE?
THE NEW EASTERN EUROPE
COUNTRIES FACING THE BALTIC SEA
THE LANDLOCKED CENTER
COUNTRIES FACING THE ADRIATIC SEA
COUNTRIES FACING THE BLACK SEA
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
THE LANDLOCKED CENTER
CZECH REPUBLIC THE REGION’S MOST WESTERNIZED PRAGUE- A CLASSIC PRIMATE CITY
SLOVAKIA THE LEAST DEVELOPED, MOST RURAL PART
OF THE FORMER “CZECHOSLOVAKIA” HUNGARY
A NATION-STATE OF 10 MILLION THE MAGYARS MOVED INTO THE PRESENT
DAY COUNTRY MORE THAN 1,000 YEARS AGO BUDAPEST- A CLASSIC PRIMATE CITY
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: IMPOVERISHED, AGRICULTURAL-BASED ECONOMY
UKRAINE: REGION’S LARGEST AND MOST POPULOUS (46.7 MILLION) COUNTRY; SUPERB AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES
COUNTRIES FACING THE ADRIATIC SEA SLOVENIA: FIRST TO SECEDE; ETHNICALLY MOST
HOMOGENEOUS CROATIA: 4.4 MILLION PEOPLE (85% CROAT) BOSNIA: LANDLOCKED AND CENTRALLY
POSITIONED SERBIA: LARGEST AND MOST POPULOUS MACEDONIA: 60% MACEDONIAN, 25% ALBANIAN SERBIA: POPULATION OF 10 MILLION MONTENEGRO: 620,000 INHABITANTS ALBANIA: REMNANT OF TURKISH OTTOMAN
EMPIRE; 70% MUSLIMS; LOWEST ECONOMIC RANKING IN EUROPE
KOSOVO: ADMINISTERED BY NATO