RUSSIA AND

EASTERN EUROPE

MODERN TERMINOLOGY

AND USAGE

Description to former eastern-bloc countries

Considered to be a pejorative term

COUNTRIES BELONGING TO

THIS GROUP

COUNTRIES BELONGING TO

THIS GROUP

COUNTRIES BELONGING TO

THIS GROUP

COUNTRIES BELONGING TO

THIS GROUP

COUNTRIES BELONGING TO

THIS GROUP

COUNTRIES BELONGING TO

THIS GROUP

17,098,242 km

13,812 sq km

MAJOR LANDFORMS

Carpathian Mountains Source of Dniester, Tisza

and Vistula Rivers

Form a natural border between Slovakia and Southern Poland

The highest point is Mt. Gerlachovkain in southern Slovakia. It stands at 2,655 m

Great Hungarian Plain Covers more than the half

of Hungary

Here can be found Putsza

Home of massive herds of cattle and horses

Tisza- important river of the plain

MAJOR WATERFORMS

Lake Ladoga Largest freshwater lake in

all Europe

Located in Northwest Russia

14th largest lake in the world by area

The lake has an average surface area of 17, 891 km sq.

Cerknica Lake Largest intermittent lake

in Europe

A lake in Autumn, a field in Spring

Located in Cerknica, Slovenia

Surface area of 26 38 sq. km

NATURAL WONDERS

Plitvice Lake Located halfway between

Zagreb and Zadar.

Composes of 16 lakes

Interconnected by a series of waterfalls

oldest national park in Southeast Europe

largest national park in Croatia

Bigar Cascade Falls Located in Caras- Severin

Romania

Locals calls it The miracle from the Minis Canyon

Formed by an underground water spring that spills into Minis River

Belogradchik Rocks Located at costal

town of Belogradchik

reddish color is due to the iron oxides and hydroxides

These columns of rock generate natural fortress, which was exploited from ancient times.

MINERALS AND

RESOURCES

Coal Silver

Copper Lead

Bauxite Salt

Iron Ore Natural Gas

Amber Manganese

Gold Arable land

CULTURE

HISTORICAL EVENTS THAT AFFECTS E. EUROPES CURRENT CULTURE TREND

Cold War

Great Schism of 1054

COLD WARS IMPORTANCE

TO EASTERN EUROPE

Most countries in E. Europe are members of the Warsaw pact

The fall of berlin wall marked the end of Communism

Glasnost and Perestroika

GREAT SCHISM IMPORTANCE

TO EASTERN EUROPE

Eastern Orthodoxy

Cultural Heritage are closely tied on history of Christianity

- 186,808,844

-74 -81

Low fertility rate

Population growth is generally low

Close percent of Youth and elderly

Trends in life expectancy at birth (years) for selected countries by sex, 19702009.

David A Leon Int. J. Epidemiol. 2011;ije.dyr061

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association

The Author 2011; all rights reserved.

Secular states

Freedom of expression varies

Improving economic freedom

Predominantly Slavic in ethnicity

Language is predominantly Slavic

Predominantly Orthodox Christian

Religiosity varies

Rise of Islam

Referred by geographers as Shatter belt

a zone persistent of splintering

- a term used to describe the cause of a shatter belt

Velvet Divorce

Break up of Yugoslavia

Declaration of Kosovos independence

Mikhail Gorbachev

Joseph Stalin

Karl Marx

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Karl Marx Joseph Stalin

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomew I

Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic

Vladimir Putin

Alexander Lukashenko

Ecumenical Patriarch

Bartolomew I Vladimir Putin

Kolinda Grabar- Kitarovic Alexander Lukashenko

Giving of loaf

of bread

Giving of loaf of bread with salt is the symbol of welcome and hospitality

CURRENT EVENTS

RUSSIA DELIVERS NUCLEAR THREAT

TO DENMARK

RUSSIAS ANNEXATION OF CRIMEA

NASA SURPRISED BY

CHELYABINSK RUSSIAN

METEOR FRAGMENTS

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