Eastern European is a term that applies to the geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. Throughout history and to a lesser extent today, parts of Eastern Europe has been distinguishable from Western Europe and other regions due to cultural, religious, economic, and historical reasons, even though there is huge disparity in this assertion. Although the term Eastern Europe was largely defined during the Cold War, it still remains much in use. The term is commonly used in the media and in “eastern” and other regions of Europe. However the term is becoming increasingly outdated. Many of the countries it refers to such as Poland and Hungary have been and are culturally very much central European, with the blip of the Cold War creating a division.
Bulgarian Electronic Dictionary, Croatian Electronic Dictionary, Czech Electronic Dictionary
Several definitions of Eastern Europe exist today, but they often lack precision or are extremely general. Definitions vary both across cultures and among experts and political scientists, recently becoming more and more imprecise. Usually, the term is understood as a region lying between Central Europe and the Ural mountains, or as European countries of the former “Eastern Bloc” – western borders of Western Europe depend on the approach.
Hungarian Electronic Dictionary, Polish Electronic Dictionary, Romanian Electronic Dictionary
The United Nations Statistics Division considers Eastern Europe to consist of the following ten countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine. The assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories by the United Nations. Rather than being geographically correct, United Nations’ definition encompasses all the states which were once under the Soviet Union’s realm of influence and were part of the Warsaw Pact.
Slovak Electronic Dictionary, Slovenia Electronic Dictionary, Ukrainian Electronic Dictionary
