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Not sure I understand the basis of these divisions, but as they stand they suggest to me that Baltic Europe and Eastern Europe need to be reconsidered perhaps.
I always thought that Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary are part of the central Europe. Czech republic is a geographical centre of Europe. We have always been considered as Central Europe, for more than thousand years.
It's an ok map as far as Western Europe is concerned I guess, but I don't understand why you'd go into the detail of separating Romance, Germanic etc. and then just label everything from Poland and Greece to Russia, Eastern Europe.
You're way off missing Central Europe for one thing, and alotta Poles for example would be very insulted if you told em they were Eastern. Second, you bothered to separate into Germanic, and Romantic, and Baltic so I'm not sure what the division is, but you left out Slavic (east/west/south) a major group. Also, shouldn't Romania be considered "Romantic" cause of at least their language? They're pretty adamant about that.
There's other groups and stuff you missed, but I'm no expert. But, I'd say your map is only like half done.
If you mark out Germanic and Celtic Europe you should do the same with Slavic Europe. And isn't Romania and Moldova "romantic" ? Their language has much in common with Italian, French, Spanish and Portugese. And what do Greeks, Albanian and Hungarians have to do with Slavs? BTW Slavs also are divided into three groups: Western (Poland, Czech, Slovakia), Eastern (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) and Southern (former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria). Poland, Czech, Slovakia and Slovenia are only ones out of 13 Slavic countries that are EU members and life standards are much higher there than in Ukraine for example. And Finns and Estonians are Finnic, not Baltic. Summerizing this map is a nonsense.
If you want to divide Europe by predominant religion (and culture), this map would be the most accurate, it shows West (Protestant, Catholic) and East (Orthodox, Muslim). This is according to Huntington -> Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's Romance Europe, not "romantic". As others noted, Central Europe is a distinct region. The Balkans too.
I'm no expert on these countries but I'd guess that Finland has a lot in common with Estonia, not nearly as much with Latvia and Lithuania.
by 2004 year DNR research baltics(Lithuania & Latvia) are more finnish then estonia....maybe it's hard to believe cuz Estonians are closer to finns..but it's true.ps. Baltic states are not eastern europe but northern europe. Northern Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
by 2004 year DNR research baltics(Lithuania & Latvia) are more finnish then estonia....maybe it's hard to believe cuz Estonians are closer to finns..but it's true.ps. Baltic states are not eastern europe but northern europe. Northern Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What is DNR? And how do they define "Finnish"?
As I said, I'm no expert. The fact is that unlike Lithuanian and Latvian, Estonian language is very close to Finnish. I guess this alone should provide some reasonably strong bonds between these two countries but then again, I may be wrong.
I don't know if anyone could ever think to associate Greece with Eastern Europe ...
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