Intermediate Europe
With Between Europe of the 19th century (1831 and 1863) was for the Polish uprisings, especially in the interwar period from the First to the Second World War, all of the in Eastern Europe (and Southeastern Europe ) between Germany (and Austria) and Russia or the Soviet Union lie States designated.
While Russia , the German Empire and Austria-Hungary were still bordered by each other, after the collapse of these three empires as a result of the First World War, several new states emerged between the German Empire and Russia and on the territory of the former Habsburg monarchy.
- Usually only the two Slavic states Poland and Czechoslovakia as well as the Baltic States with the three states Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania were meant.
- Finland , Ukraine and Belarus in the east and Romania and Hungary in the south , but not East Germany , were also included less frequently in the north .
The term came up again briefly after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, mainly as a term for states located between Russia and the European Union , but most of which became EU members themselves with the EU expansion in 2004 .
See also
literature
- H. Kinder / W. Hilgemann: dtv-Atlas zur Weltgeschichte, Volume 2. Munich 2004
- Westermann's Great Atlas of World History . Braunschweig 1997