Central District information

Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. The term has come back into fashion since the end of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West, with the Iron Curtain splitting "Central Europe" in half. The understanding of the concept of Central Europe varies considerably from nation to nation, and also has from time to time.
The region is usually used to mean:









Rather than a physical entity, Central Europe is a concept of shared history by contrast to the surrounding regions: immediately to the east and south-east lie the regions which had for longer periods been under the Ottoman Empire, Imperial Russia and with relics of a strong Hellenic cultural influence (eg. Cyrillic descending directly from Greek). These phenomena collectively established religions such as well Eastern Orthodoxy, Uniate Catholicism, and Islam (ie. Sunni), with Central Europe generally defined as an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic area, and up to World War I distinguished from the region immediately to its west as an area of relative political conservatism opposed to the liberalism of France and Great Britain and the influences of the French Revolution. (...) more....

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