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*[[Talk:Europe/Archive01|Archive 1 (pre-2004)]]:<br/><small>[[Talk:Europe/Archive01#Whether Europe is really a continent|Whether Europe is really a continent]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#Earliest use of Europa to mean Europe|Earliest use of "Europa" to mean Europe]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#Whether Armenia and Georgia are in Europe|Whether Armenia and Georgia are in Europe]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#The Baltic states|The Baltic states]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#Notes for rewriting|Notes for rewriting]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#Breaking the article into themed sub-articles|Breaking the article into themed sub-articles]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#The map|The map]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#Deleted statements|Deleted statements]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#Whether Oceania is really a continent|Whether Oceania is really a continent]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive01#There is no... node eight!|There is no... node eight!]]</small> |
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== Area of Europe == |
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*[[Talk:Europe/Archive02|Archive 2 (2004 to 18 Feb 2005)]]:<br/><small>[[Talk:Europe/Archive02#The_Regions_.5BUpdated.5D|The Regions (Updated)]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Definition of "Northern Europe"|Definition of "Northern Europe"]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Status of the Channel Islands|Status of the Channel Islands]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Extent/Map|Extent/Map]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#The starry flag |The starry flag]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#The Middle Ages, the Dark Ages and Medieval times|The Middle Ages, the Dark Ages and Medieval times]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Which countries are in Europe? |Which countries are in Europe?]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Political Nations of Europe|Political Nations of Europe]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Map of Europe |Map of Europe]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Links|Links]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Caucasus and Transcaucasus|Caucasus and Transcaucasus]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#FYR Macedonia's name |FYR Macedonia's name]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Independent "Countries" |Independent "Countries"]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#A geographical definition of Europe |A geographical definition of Europe]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Etymology of "Europa"|Etymology of "Europa"]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#related discussion about the list of countries |related discussion about the list of countries]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#.22.28or_the_Emba_River_in_other_definitions.29.22|or the Emba River in other definitions]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Calculate european and non-european areas of cross-continent countries |Calculate european and non-european areas of cross-continent countries]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#independent states |independent states]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#east boundaries |east boundaries]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Whether Europe is really a continent|Whether Europe is really a continent]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#regions map |regions map]], [[Talk:Europe/Archive02#Greenland |Greenland]]</small> |
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What is the exact area of Europe? According to this article, it is 10,186,000 sq. km, but according to the [[Times Atlas of the World|Collins World Atlas]] in my local library, it is 9,908,599 sq. km (they counted to the single digits!). Why are there a big difference between these sources? [[Special:Contributions/120.16.170.140|120.16.170.140]] ([[User talk:120.16.170.140|talk]]) 05:50, 7 December 2024 (UTC) |
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*[[Talk:Europe/Archive03|Archive 3 (next to start)]] |
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:Area will differ based on different definitions of Europe. [[User:Chipmunkdavis|CMD]] ([[User talk:Chipmunkdavis|talk]]) 08:08, 7 December 2024 (UTC) |
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:Because the Collins World Atlas is published by the British. They have included the [[North Caucasus]] as a part of Asia. [[Special:Contributions/2001:8003:9100:2C01:F0F5:3D10:42B7:F29D|2001:8003:9100:2C01:F0F5:3D10:42B7:F29D]] ([[User talk:2001:8003:9100:2C01:F0F5:3D10:42B7:F29D|talk]]) 14:09, 9 December 2024 (UTC) |
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== Armenia again == |
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== new table added to "independent states" == |
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I see that I should have noted that the consensus ''is'' firmly established to include Armenia in the article for reasons given in a note. But therein lies the problem. The note reads "Armenia can be considered part of Eastern Europe or West Asia; it has strong historical and sociopolitical connections with Europe. The population and area figures include the entire state, respectively." This is just as much a justification for including Australia and Canada in the article, not making it clear at all why they're different. Since they aren't, this makes the justification look specious and ''ad hoc'' as though it's really being given only for the purpose of placating some group of people. This isn't a great impression for a Wikipedia article to give. At the moment, I'm not arguing one way or the about Armenia's inclusion but that the way it's been included looks almost like an acknowledgement that it doesn't really belong. [[User:Largoplazo|Largoplazo]] ([[User talk:Largoplazo|talk]]) 18:46, 7 December 2024 (UTC) |
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:As a standalone it might give that impression, but it comes after the much earlier Definition section which should provide a reader a reasonably clear understanding of the issue of Europe's 'borders'. Would an internal link, eg. "[[Europe#Definition|can be considered]]", help? [[User:Chipmunkdavis|CMD]] ([[User talk:Chipmunkdavis|talk]]) 06:53, 8 December 2024 (UTC) |
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The place for this table is not here! And the enourmous note-list below it! |
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:Well, most countries outside Europe classify the countries of the [[South Caucasus]] region as Asian countries instead of European countries. The only one which classify these countries as European countries are themselves. |
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Even the author states "more or less independet" - this portion of the main Europe (continent) article is not about "semi-autonomous", "gurellia", etc. if Kosovo is included, then why not include Moldova-Trisapol, Northern Cyprus, etc.?? - it is about internationaly (UN?) "recognised" states... |
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:The same can be said of Cypus and Turkey, and to a lesser extent, Kazakhstan. [[Special:Contributions/2001:8003:9100:2C01:F0F5:3D10:42B7:F29D|2001:8003:9100:2C01:F0F5:3D10:42B7:F29D]] ([[User talk:2001:8003:9100:2C01:F0F5:3D10:42B7:F29D|talk]]) 14:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC) |
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== Is the Turkish peninsula west of Istanbul considered Europe? == |
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The huge note list with details about nearly every state... that is not needed - these details are included in the states' own articles... if we start so, we should add notes like "Slovakia - one of the former Czechoslovakian republics", "France - a country known for its wine and fromage (cheese)", etc. |
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"San marino is microstate surrounded by Italy and strongly dependent on it" - this is not a note, suitable for this section... This is a note suitable for the San Marino and Italy articles... |
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Europe orthographic Caucasus Urals boundary (with borders): |
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The usefull info in the table (membership to some organizations) should be put into a separate article and link to this article should be put into the "Europe - See also" section (if someone thinks that he can find a more appropriate place somewhere in the article - even better). |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#/media/File:Europe_orthographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary_(with_borders).svg |
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Just asking, thanks. [[User:Teastain|Teastain]] ([[User talk:Teastain|talk]]) 19:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC) |
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Also, the place of this table about "EEA, EU, NATO, Euro, Shengen" is not in the main Europe article - not all european states are interacting actively with these organizations and this could be considered a POV. Why not include CIS, GUUAM and other post-soviet organizations then? |
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:Yes it is considered Europe (as is also clear from the opening lines of the [[Turkey]] article.) [[User:Arnoutf|Arnoutf]] ([[User talk:Arnoutf|talk]]) 20:33, 10 December 2024 (UTC) |
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:Yes, [[East Thrace]] is a part of Europe, but it is a geographical region, not a [[peninsula]]. [[Special:Contributions/203.46.37.2|203.46.37.2]] ([[User talk:203.46.37.2|talk]]) 07:13, 11 December 2024 (UTC) |
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== EUROPE IS NOT A CONTINENT! == |
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: Thanks for your comments. I'll respond to them point by point. |
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there is no geological evidence to support the statement of Europe being a continent. [[Special:Contributions/197.229.7.18|197.229.7.18]] ([[User talk:197.229.7.18|talk]]) 13:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC) |
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: First, about the table itself: For reasons of consolidation, I thought it would be a good idea to have one place that summarized the memberships of the most important organizations that European states belong to. Yes, this information will be available both from (a) articles about the individual states, and (b) articles about the orgnizations, but is there any other place on Wikipedia that has all this summarized in a convenient table form? |
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:You will get further if you lower your voice. I suggest delete and start again. [[User:Roger 8 Roger|Roger 8 Roger]] ([[User talk:Roger 8 Roger|talk]]) 13:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC) |
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::Agree shouting is not helping. And in any case you should make an argument that geology is decisive. For that you may want to look at the [[continent]] article which explains that it is not that continent are not solely defined by geology but also by convention (ie agreement). And in any case what geography would you use? Continued landmass, which would render Eurasia-Africa a single continent (and Great Britain possibly not part of it) as would it combine the Americas into one continent, or would you refer to tectonic plate, which would make India arguably a continent distinct from Eurasia. [[User:Arnoutf|Arnoutf]] ([[User talk:Arnoutf|talk]]) 21:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC) |
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== Since Europe is called the Eurasian peninsula == |
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: About the many notes: Not every country has a note, and the notes are not about the countries' cheeses, history, and such. The table is about independent European nations, and since there are differing degrees of being "independent" and differing degrees of being "European", I think these notes are needed for clarity and NPOV. |
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there is a conventional boundary between this peninsula and the mainland somewhere, especially since some sources indicate the area. Looking at the map, I intuitively feel that it is a line from the White Sea to the Sea of Azov. Could this be true? [[User:Mir.Nalezinski|Mir.Nalezinski]] ([[User talk:Mir.Nalezinski|talk]]) 20:40, 14 June 2025 (UTC) |
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: About the differing levels of independence: (a) A subdivision of a nation, such as a French province, is not independent. (b) Next level up: Kosovo. It is nominally not independent, but in reality the country it belongs to, Serbia, does not have influence over it. (c) Next level up: a microstate such as Liechtenstein, which is in a customs union with Switzerland, and depends on it for its defence. (d) The next step (or two) up: a fully independent state, such as Bulgaria. |
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:It could be true, depends how someone defines peninsulas and how that definition would apply. [[User:Chipmunkdavis|CMD]] ([[User talk:Chipmunkdavis|talk]]) 23:21, 14 June 2025 (UTC) |
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: Also the Europeanness of some states is controversial. For instance, are Cyprus, Turkey, or Armenia European? The answer, according to [[NPOV]], is to make a note that differing opinions exist. |
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::The more eastern [[Ural mountain]]s range (basically between the [[Aral sea]] and the [[Kara sea]]) is generally considered the border between Europe and Asia. But indeed the issue remains what constitutes a peninsula - whould that be any narrowing of landmasses? Taken such argument in absurdis you could argue that the sea of Bengal to the Laptev sea makes for the isthmus splitting the "East Asia peninsual" from the rest of the continent. [[User:Arnoutf|Arnoutf]] ([[User talk:Arnoutf|talk]]) 07:44, 15 June 2025 (UTC) |
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:::The area of the peninsula (here the European one) will probably be obtained by assuming the shortest arc on the globe with the maximum possible area (here on the eastern side). The area of the European Peninsula is of course smaller than the area of Europe. Has anyone calculated the area of the European Peninsula discussed here? [[User:Mir.Nalezinski|Mir.Nalezinski]] ([[User talk:Mir.Nalezinski|talk]]) 08:12, 15 June 2025 (UTC) |
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: I agree with you that this table should be broken off into a separate article, such as '''The political geography of Europe''' -- especially as the main article on Europe is already getting rather long. This new article might also be the right place for the other two new tables I suggested, ''European nations' inhabited exclaves, dependencies, overseas provinces and territories, areas outside the EU customs union, and other anomalies'' and ''European nations' uninhabited or only temporarily inhabited overseas islands, military bases, and Antarctic territories''. |
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:::But, for example, the Somali Peninsula is 750,000 km² (the sixth largest peninsula in the world in terms of area) and looking at the map you may have trouble determining the conventional border of this peninsula... [[User:Mir.Nalezinski|Mir.Nalezinski]] ([[User talk:Mir.Nalezinski|talk]]) 08:18, 15 June 2025 (UTC) |
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::::Still remains the question whether Europe should be called a peninsula. At some stage the isthmus connecting it to a mainland is going to be to wide or the land mass to large to still talk about peninsula. The mere fact that peninsula are surrounded by water on three sides (compared to islands on all sides) is not very helpful as all sea sides (except in the case of perfect circular islands) could be argued to be peninsulas, just like all landmasses (including the entire Eurasia/Africa landmass) could be labelled an island (as it is surrounded by water on all sides). The only reliable source I found was a national geographic (archived source https://web.archive.org/web/20121005064158/http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/peninsula/?ar_a=1) which post a call out the Europe is sometimes (i.e. not always) called peninsula. [[User:Arnoutf|Arnoutf]] ([[User talk:Arnoutf|talk]]) 12:25, 15 June 2025 (UTC) |
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: The "anomalies" table might actually be a better place for Kosovo, since, as you note, it is not an internationally recognized independent state. And yes, Transdniestria (Moldova-Trisapol) and Northern Cyprus could also go in that table. |
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: I don't see what is POV about listing memberships in organizations, and in the European Monetary Union. The memberships are simply facts, and I think the importance of the organizations I chose is general knowledge. Which doesn't preclude adding more organizations to the table, of course! After the country names and the five organizations, there's lots of horizontal room on the page for other organizations such as CIS, EFTA, Council of Europe, etc. If you feel it would be useful to list memberships of those organizations, you're welcome to add them. And/or perhaps I will, also. |
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:: I noticed that you did it already. [[User:Teemu Leisti|Teemu Leisti]] 00:47, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) |
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: There seem to be many other sections in this talk page which discuss issues touching on this table: inclusion, Europeanness, etc. I suggested in these places that discussion on these issues be consolidated here. [[User:Teemu Leisti|Teemu Leisti]] 22:59, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) |
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Answering myself here: I just discovered there's actually an article [[Special member state territories and their relations with the EU]] that already includes a lot of the information I had in mind for presenting in the two new tables I suggested. |
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On the talk page of that article, I repeated the suggestion I made above, about creating a new article, '''The political geography of Europe.''' That page would list all the European nations, plus controversial cases, with notes, plus all the information in the [[Special member state territories and their relations with the EU|above-mentioned article]]. If this suggestion has no other merits, at least the ever-continuing dispute on what is the exact list of European countries could be confined to a single place. [[User:Teemu Leisti|Teemu Leisti]] 00:03, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) |
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: As you see I am not against your table (on the contrary - I think that it is needed and usefull), I just think that its place is not in this article - I see that you noticed where I have moved it and you have not put it back, so I assume that now everything is fine. |
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: about the "degree of independence" (and the related notes) - let's stick to the easy (and NPOV) way - "internationaly recognized" independence (the list as it is currently). The fine details about special autonomous or rebellion regions or about de-facto dependence on bigger neighbooring states - that is better described in the articles of the involved parities... |
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: about the "europeaness" - it is very debatable (you can vote about it on one page's discussion - I don't remember it fully - something like "Template:EuropeCountries" (the box with list of european countries below on the pages of each country)). And becouse it is debatable - there are notes on the current "list of independent states" (I think most cases that you mention are covered, only Iceland is omitted - very few, if any, people consider it "North American" or "Atlantic". Greenland is the borderline case, but it is a dependency.). Also, on the separate page with the table -[[International Organizations in Europe]] - there are no notes about europeaness of the states, there is just a link to the "Independent states" list on the Europe page - becouse the focus of the separate page is on "membership in organizations", not "europeaness" (witch is covered here) - we should not include all info on all pages... this is too much :) |
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: Again - your table is good and it would be nice if we can fill it more correctly - see that I have leaved some question marks (unsufficient info about them can be found on the Schengen and EEA articles and discussion pages). Also I don't consider the name of the article with the table as very good (I just can't think of any better now, but the current is not good enough). |
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: About "europeaness debate" - my personal opinion is that the geographical borders are more or less non-debatable (Mediterranean Sea, Bosphorus, Black Sea, Caucaus watershed, Caspian Sea, Ural river/maybe Emba river/, Ural mountains, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean including Icealand/maybe also including Greenland/). The only debates are about the inclusion of Greenland into Europe (it should be anyway included "for cultural and historical reasons") and about if the Emba river should be used instead of Ural river. Both rivers are in Kazakhstan, Emba is more to the East, so we could go the "safer" way and "use" Ural. This borders give us a very non-debatable list: Iceland, UK, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, etc. are fully into Europe. Turkey, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan are paritialy into Europe (see [[Countries in both Europe and Asia]] for details). Armenia and Cyprus are in Asia (included into Europe for "cultural and historical reasons". Greenland is maybe debatable, but more likely to be included into North America. The real debate should be about another "cultural and historical"-european states - should we add-in any state (bordering current European state) of the former Russian/Roman/Ottoman Empires? Or should we stick to the tried formula "Armenia, Cyprus and maybe Greenland"? |
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:: I'll take a look at the question marks later and change the table cells according to the prevailing situation. |
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:: Yes, I agree now that the place for this table is somewhere else, and with your decision to move it to a separate article. You said you don't like the current name. I suggest again the name '''The political geography of Europe'''. In addition to the table, that article could include more information, as suggested above. |
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:: If the page [[International Organizations in Europe]] is to include only that table, then yes, the notes on Europeanness might be left out. However, with the name change and added content I suggest, I think it would be good to restore the notes. |
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:: Re the Europeanness debate: the reason for the many notes I had was to mark the countries that are only part in Europe, or disputedly partly in Europe (such as Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan), or outside geographical Europe but sometimes considered "culturally" a part of it. But as you say, they were in the original table anyway. Just for completeness's sake, I would add the note on Iceland that you took out to the table on page [[Europe]]. |
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:: I now agree with you about the internationally recognized independence, and agree that Kosovo should not be listed in the table of European states. |
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:: What do you think of these ideas? |
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:: By the way, to make it easier to see who wrote what when, can I suggest that you sign your contributions with four tildes ( ~ * 4 ), which will cause your username and the date and time to be printed, like this: [[User:Teemu Leisti|Teemu Leisti]] 20:46, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) |
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::: I don't sign the messages, becouse currently I use a computer, where I don't want to login, type passwords, etc. |
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::: Agree with the ideas. Only disagreement - the notes about europeaness are currently on the Europe-page list. We should just link to this list [[Europe#Independent States]] and not repeat it everywhere/below every table with european countries (becouse if some newer info came out and is updated on one place - the other places will be obsolete. If we keep this list on the current place and link to it like "table xxx of the [[Europe#Independent States|European states]]" - then all pages will be aways up-to-date). |
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::: About the table - similar table, but about the dependencies of european states (both dependencies located in Europe and elsewhere) would be usefull. Info can be found here [[Special member state territories and their relations with the EU]]. And the table should be placed on the same page (and remove irrelevant columns like UN, NATO, ESA, maybe CoE, OSCE - dependencies can variate only their EU, Euratom, Schengen, Euro/pegged-to-euro, etc. EU-policies, not NATO and ESA membership). |
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::: I also found this: [[Third country relationships with the EU]]. Maybe the link, that I put on the [[European Union#Single market]] page to the [[International Organizations in Europe]] should be moved/copyied to this page, where it will be more relevant (but unlike the dependencies page - this page is not a suitable place for the table - it should be leaved on a separate page becouse of the non-EU-columns in it). |
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:::: Sounds good. Let's do it that way. I might edit those articles to include the stuff I had in mind, when I get the inspiration -- in case you or somebody else doesn't want to do it. [[User:Teemu Leisti|Teemu Leisti]] 19:14, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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In all this defining of Europe I miss some areas, like the Mahgreb |
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countries which have been a part of european history for thousands |
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of years, and today they are associated members of EU. |
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They are already part of EU in many ways, like we in Sweden |
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were before we got full membership. |
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They are part of Europe without having any say in Brussels, |
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they are not shown on maps of Europe. |
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Look at the world at night, the night lights as seen from space. |
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http://www.colberts.us/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-160 |
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click on the image to get a very big version of the image |
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You see how the industrialized Europe is a continous area |
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from Morocco, Portugal and Britain in the west stretching into |
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Siberia and central Asia in the east. That is Europe in the |
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industrial and economic sense. The actual european market is all |
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of that area, although different states have different levels of |
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membership in the official EU. |
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I am glad that the [[Third country relationships with the EU]] |
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page tells us a little about these countries and their relation |
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to EU and Europe in general. |
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The southern border of EU and Europe in cultural, historical, |
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industrial and economic terms is the Sahara desert, not the |
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mediterrainian sea. |
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[[User:Roger4911|Roger4911]] 10:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC) |
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== continent or not == |
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I wrote the following sentence: |
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:It is traditionally considered a [[continent]] in the West, which is more a cultural distinction than a geographic one. |
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and someone later deleted the phrase "in the West". As far as I know, Europe is not considered a continent by Japanese and Chinese, who distinguish a continent as a land mass (大陸) and a region of the world (洲/州). Australia and Eurasia are the former; Oceania, Asia, and Europe are the latter. I think it is nothing strange to add the phrase "in the West", though it may irritate Eurocentrists who believe Europe is accepted as a continent worldwide. |
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In addition, Europe is geologically a peninsula, not a subcontinent, because Europe is on the [[Eurasian plate]], unlike the [[Indian subcontinent]]. - [[User:TAKASUGI Shinji|TAKASUGI Shinji]] 08:46, 2005 Mar 23 (UTC) |
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:I agree. Even on Russian Wikipedia it is not called a continent. Perhaps a pole of other language wikipedias should decide this issue finally? [[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 08:59, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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:The [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B0 Russian Wikipedia] it says "Europe is part of the world, and together with Asia, forms the continent 'Eurasia'" [[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 09:03, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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:I find the point interesting in itself (that is, even if Europe was accepted as a continent, it would be pertinent to discuss the fact that it is not universal). The [[fr:Europe|French article]] mentions the term "continent" as an abuse of language and holds Europe as "a mere part of Eurasia (Western peninsula)". It goes on to suggest that the use of this term is linked to the expressions "Old Continent" (Europe) and "New Continent" (America). [[User:Rama|Rama]] 09:26, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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:I don't believe to be that much of an Eurocentrist, but I do think that the construction "traditionally in the West considered" is harder to defend than "traditionally considered". You must remember that a statement is not necessarily interpreted as you intend to, and that the Anglophone context is, and rightfully so, taken for granted, which of course in inherently Eurocentric — and "the West" is a rather ambiguous concept. Most of all, trust [[Occam's Razor]] and keep it short when possible. --[[User:Johan Magnus|Johan Magnus]] 09:29, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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: The [[de:Europa|German article]] says "Europe of the westernmost fifth of the Euroasian land mass, and is usually considered as a continent of its own by Europeans" |
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: The [[es:Europa|Spanish article]] says "One of the widest peninsulas of Eurasia, which considers itself a continent for historical reasons" |
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: The [[it:Europa|Italian article]] and [[la:Europa|Latin article]] just says "continent". (I have found no evidence that they have considered the question, though) |
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: So overall, it seems that there is a fairly wide consensus on other wikis that the term "continent" is an abuse of language with historical reasons. [[User:Rama|Rama]] 09:56, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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::I like Rama's suggestion that the issue be discussed in the article. How about a section "is Europe a continent?", with a brief synoposis of both sides of the argument. Its a valid issue, and not clear-cut. (Q. In the [[bible]] it talks about 'three land' of the world, Africa, Asia and Europe. Could this be the origin of the idea that Europe is a continent?)[[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 10:17, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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:::[[User:Iota|Iota]] reverted my change from ''continent'' to ''region''. Again, in [[geology]], there is no disagreement on the status of Europe — it is not a [[continent]] but a [[peninsula]]. Changing ''continent'' to ''region'' in this article is not bad at all even for promoters of the European continent, because ''region'' is a neutral term that can be applied to a continent. I don't deny, of course, that Europe is often called a continent in the West. However, calling it a peninsula and a continent in the same article is self-contradictory. It may be acceptable in a dictionary, such as in [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Europe Dictionary.com/Europe]: |
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::::''The sixth-largest continent, extending west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains. It is technically a vast peninsula of the Eurasian land mass.'' |
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:::Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a dictionary, and we shouldn't allow this kind of inconsistent terminology. If it is technically a peninsula, it is a peninsula. I don't edit now, to avoid edit wars. Any ideas? - [[User:TAKASUGI Shinji|TAKASUGI Shinji]] 01:13, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC) |
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:::: I would tend to think that a proper way to put it would not be ''The sixth-largest continent, extending west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains. It is technically a vast peninsula of the Eurasian land mass.'', but ''A vast peninsula of the Eurasian land mass, extending west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains. For historical reasons, it is often refered to as the sixth-largest continent.'' (or something like this) [[User:Rama|Rama]] 06:26, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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:::::Not "for historical reasons", since it begs the question what those reasons are. "It is often refferred to...." is enough. No need to apologize. [[User:Evertype|Evertype]] 09:16, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC) |
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::::::How about we call it a region everywhere, except in one dedicated section where we discuss all these issues? I imagine a lot of people look up "Europe" to answer these question. ''What is it? Why is it called a continent when all other continents are islands?'' The [[Asia]] article deals with this issue with the phrase "''Asia is not a continent or a subcontinent.''". [[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 10:32, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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:::::::Sounds good. However, I don't find any reason to separate the continental Europe from the rest of the Old World. Europe as a region, including the British Isles and the Mediterranean islands, may sound valid, but it is denied not only in geology but also in various areas of study: |
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:::::::*In linguistics: [[Indo-European language]] speakers also live in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Iran, and South Asia. Some Europeans don't speak those languages. |
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:::::::*In anthropology: People genetically close to Europeans also live in the Americas, North Africa, Southwest Asia, and South Asia. |
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:::::::*In religion: Christians also live in the Americas and the ''Asian'' part of Russia. Monotheists also live in North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia. |
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:::::::*In biogeography: Europe is a part of the [[Palearctic]] ecozone. |
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:::::::It is really hard to define Europe to include the area up to the Ural. The only answer is the word usage, which is not a technical definition at all. - [[User:TAKASUGI Shinji|TAKASUGI Shinji]] 09:11, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC) |
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:::::::I list other sources that deny Europe as a continent here. |
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:::::::[http://homepage.smc.edu/morris_pete/continents.html The Myth of Continents, or How our Grade-School Teachers Distorted the Truth]: |
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::::::::''Personally, I'm inclined to answer these questions Yes, No, and No, giving me a list of six: North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. To my eyes at least, this half-dozen represents the world's primary distinctive land masses, as opposed to islands.'' |
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::::::::''While this list is debatable, one thing clearly isn't: Europe is not a continent--at least as long as we continue to see "continent" as more or less a synonym for land mass.'' |
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:::::::[http://www.bowdoin.edu/~dbensen/Spec/Eurasia.html The Nature of Spec - Eurasia] divides Eurasia into north and south, from a viewpoint of biogeography. |
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:::::::[http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/lemke/geog101/syllabus.html Geography 101: The Physical Environment - Syllabus] also lists North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica. |
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:::::::[http://www.sou.edu/geography/RICHARDS/Geog103/StudyGuides/103FINMAP01.html GEOGRAPHY 103 --STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL MAP EXAM]: |
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::::::::''CONTINENTS: (the six "As"): Africa; North America; South America; Antarctica; Australia; EurAsia'' |
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:::::::Moreover, subdividing Eurasia into Europe and the non-European region (''Asia'') is Eurocentric. Eurasia is more appropriately subdivided into seven regions - Europe, Southwest Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, and North Asia. Southwest Asia is clearly closer to Europe than to East Asia, and categorize them in the single Asia is meaningless. |
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:::::::The [[History of Eurasia]] article lists the four coastal civilizations, [[East Asia]], [[South Asia]], [[Southwest Asia]] (the Middle East), and [[Europe]], which had been attacked by nomads from [[Central Asia]]. |
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:::::::[http://www.askasia.org/teachers/Instructional_Resources/FEATURES/SilkRoad/GeographyESSAY.htm Silk Road Encounters - Geographical Setting]: |
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::::::::''Once Eurasia is seen as a whole, erasing the ancient but artificial and geographically meaningless division of the land mass into "Europe" and "Asia," it becomes possible to visualize the important geographical and cultural regions into which the continent is subdivided, and the trade routes that linked them together, sometimes over very extensive distances and across formidable physical barriers.'' |
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::::::::''Different authorities define the borders and number of Eurasia's subregions differently. Subregional maps of Eurasia are all generally similar, however, since the subregions correspond closely to geographical realities. The major subregions are: the Intermontaine Desert and Oasis Belt; the Trans-Eurasian Steppe Belt; China; the Mediterranean; the Middle East; South Asia; Northeast Asia; Northern Europe; Mainland Southeast Asia; Island Southeast Asia; the Boreal Forest; and the Arctic Littoral.'' |
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:::::::[http://history.byu.edu/courses/archive/c/201pixton-fall04.pdf World Civilization to 1400 AD]: |
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::::::::''the major regions of Eurasia (East Asia, South Asia, West Asia and Europe)'' |
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:::::::[http://usembassy.state.gov/ Websites of U.S. Embassies and Consulates] lists six world regions: Africa, the Americas, East Asia and Pacific, Europe and the former USSR, Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia. |
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::::::: - [[User:TAKASUGI Shinji|TAKASUGI Shinji]] 03:37, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC) |
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OK, Takasugi-san, you seem to have a real bee in your bonnet about this. Is it the Wikipedia's job to teach readers of this article that "Europe is not a continent"? That seems to be what you are interested in. [[User:Evertype|Evertype]] 21:35, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC) |
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:I was interested in not calling Europe a ''continent'', and showed the fact that geologists and many historians think it is not a continent as proof. However, Wikipedia is everyone's encyclopedia, not necessarily an academic one. If you believe I have ''a real bee in my bonnet'' instead of facts, leave the article as it is. - [[User:TAKASUGI Shinji|TAKASUGI Shinji]] 00:51, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC) |
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: Huh ? I don't understand you, [[User:Evertype|Evertype]]. What purpose for an encyclopedia, if not to educate people ? On this particular subject, [[User:TAKASUGI Shinji|TAKASUGI Shinji]] is right (or so do I and many other editors feel), so his desire to have his point accurately integrated in the article seems very legitimate to me. Mind that this article in about Europe in general, not Eruope as a political or historical entity. [[User:Rama|Rama]] 05:43, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC) |
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There's an edit war going on on whether to include [[National Geographic Society]] as an authority to define Europe as a continent. (I'm not involved in this war.) As far as I have checked, they always use ''Europe'' for the European region, including the British Isles. So they can't be an authority for the European ''continent'' (large land mass excluding surrounding islands). - [[User:TAKASUGI Shinji|TAKASUGI Shinji]] 05:11, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC) |
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Europe and asia are definatly seperate continents. They are the only continents defined culturally. They are not one continent. All the books say so and it is just the accepted norm. If we are going to define continents utterly geographically then the article on north America should include eastern Siberia and Japan as being part of N.America and other wacky things which are true when defining continents geographically but are not the accepted norm - Josquius |
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:Thanks for that, but we're not talking about [[Tectonic plate]]s here. Europe and Asia are defined as seperate continents only in western Europe and North America and only then in non-scientific books. Scientists world wide define them as parts of a Eurasian continent. Even in non-scentific writings outside of the cultural 'west' Europe is never called a continent. |
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:The ultimate proof is go stand in the Ural mountains, look east, look west, and try and find the continental boundary. I've been there, and you know, I couldn't see it. If Europe is a 'cultural continent' then so are India and China, and anyway the Ural mountains isn't a sensable boundary for a European 'cultural continent'. [[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 16:38, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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[[Eurasia]] has a more detailed discussion of the continent question, and is linked from the first sentence of [[Europe]]. The Europe as continent POV can't go away entirely because it's historically important and people will ask about it.--[[User:JWB|JWB]] 19:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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== The population of Europe == |
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The population of Europe is wrong at 799 million. Area shown green on a map in this article witch is geographically part of Europe stands at about 680 million. The number of 799 million is probably meant if Europe includes whole Turkey and Caucasian countries, witch it does not. Calculate it for yourself! |
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:Totaly agree, If you have already checked the numbers - correct the page please. Maybe the area calculation is similary wrong - including/excluding the whole Turkey and/or Russia.[[User:Alinor|Alinor]] 10:25, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC) |
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Don't know the exact population, but i calculated manually and came to about 680-700 mil. I know for a fact that europe geographically includes european part of russia to the Ural mountains. Russia's popualtion is 1/3 in Asain part and 2/3 in Eruopean part witch means the european part is about 100 million. Turkey is NOT geographically part of eruope exept that small European part. I would still perfer if someone with the exact population would edit the page and correct it, since mine is quite approximate. |
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:I calculated the total population and corrected the figure. I included the european part of Russia (the population of which I calculated to be about 111,8 million) and the caucasian coutries but excluded Turkey.--[[User:Neofelis Nebulosa|Lumijaguaari]] 03:19, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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This needs changing on the Europe Wikiportal when it gets changed in this article, otherwise we get inconsistency. |
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I'll also add "roughly" to the above number, because it could easily be off by 10-20 million either way from calculating percentages of the russian population alone. And then you haven't yet accounted for the fact that census numbers from other countries are not necessarily 100% correct or up to date. Because you can't: population numers are rarely precise. --Daniel |
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== European spelling, please == |
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[[User:TAKASUGI_Shinji|Takasugi Shinji]] just did a major revision changing "continent" to "region" and "Europe" and other things, which is fine. But packed into these edits were changes of ''colour'' to ''color''. I think that the article on Europe ought to favour English English spelling, and so the US spellings should be reverted. [[User:Evertype|Evertype]] 11:22, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC) |
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==National Geographic Society== |
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The National Geographic Society is the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution in the world. It is an organization specifically created ‘to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge." The position of a major geographic society is clearly germane to the subject of whether or not Europe is considered a continent. The excised quote was not saying that the society was correct. It's merely stating that is their position. |
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== transcontinental nations == |
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This sentence was removed by [[TAKASUGI Shinji]]-san |
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::"As such several countries are split between Europe and Asia (see [[transcontinental nations]])." |
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("as such" -> because there is no clear distinction between Europe and Asia). |
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I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but I would like to size the opportunity to underline the naivety of this. A significant proportion of European nations are transcontinental nations because of their empirial past (For imstance, France is part of organisations of American countries (because of her possessions of Guadeloupe, Guyanne, Martinique), and has possessions in the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Similarly, the United Kingdom remains an "Empire on which the sun never sets", etc.) [[User:Rama|Rama]] 06:29, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC) |
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== Semi-autonomous areas == |
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Removed Jan Mayen and Svalbard, as they are neither culturally "defined" nor autonomous (Jan Mayen has a population of less than 20!). Somebody should probably do the same with the British army bases, I do not know enough about them. IMO, only the Faroes and Gibraltar belong here, plus possibly, and only possibly, the Channel Islands. Oh, and Kosovo. [[User:Jørgen|Jørgen]] 09:45, 10 May 2005 (UTC) |
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:The British dependencies are highly autonomous (They are not part of the UK, but separately ruled by the Queen, with the London government handling only defence and foriegn relations) and very culturally different from the each other and from the UK, and thus should be included. However, we should make a distinction between autonomous regions of a centralised nation, and the states of a federation, such as Germany, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, etc. In the case of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (which have local parliaments) could be described as autonomous regions or members of a federation, depending on your point of view. |
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:In the case of [[Serbia]], if we include [[Kosovo]], do we include [[Vojvodina]] or [[Montenegro]]? In Moldovia, do we include the de facto autonomous region of [[Transnistria]], which broke off without agreement, or just the agreed autonomous region of [[Gagauzia]]? And how about the complex situation of [[Permyakia]], which is an autonomous region of [[Perm Oblast]], which is itself a state within the Russian Federation? |
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:This is an extremely complex issue and is perhaps not best served by having a list such as the one in this article. [[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 13:04, 10 May 2005 (UTC) |
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::I see what you mean, but I disagree. I think a list of (semi-)autonomous areas is OK, though a heading saying that the territories are "culturally and geographically defined" is perhaps unnecessary. The main argument to include something other than independent states should be some degree of autonomy, not as "separate rule from above" (that is simply a different kind of subdivision within countries, like the fact that Svalbard is not part of any county of Norway, but directly ruled from Oslo) but as autonomy for those actually living there. Perhaps some degree of independent foreign policy would be a good indicator? |
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::To go through your examples: |
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::*Federations or unions of separate entities, such as the UK, Germany or Serbia-Montenegro, are defined entities that are, beyond dispute, complete states. I do not think that we would disagree on this (if you remove Montenegro from Serbia-Montenegro, it is not the same state anymore, is it?). A similar argument would go for Russia, which is an advanced system of oblasts, republics and I don't know what. |
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::*Vojvodina, though ethnically slightly different, is still a part of Serbia? |
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::*Kosovo, while still a part of Serbia (and thereby a part of Serbia-Montenegro) is ''de facto'' ruled by the UN; Serbia has no authority there. That was the argument for including it. The situation of the area is largely unresolved and it is considered unlikely that it will become a "normal" part of Serbia again. |
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::*An inclusion of Transnistria would be OK for me, the difference from other entities is that it is not internationally recognised, and is unlikely to be. |
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::*The Faroe Islands, in contrast, is not a member of the EU (as Denmark is), leads an independent domestic policy, is internationally recognised, has its own language and culture, and could vote for secession from Denmark any time it wanted (only it doesn't, because it would lose too much subsidies) (POV warning) |
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::There is possibly a discussion on this somewhere on a "list of sub-national entities" or something, perhaps it is better discussed there. The list could go for me. My point was just that including foreign army bases would make it too long and uninformative. |
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::[[User:Jørgen|Jørgen]] 16:48, 10 May 2005 (UTC) |
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:::I think the problem lies in the word "Dependencies", which strictly applies only to the Crown Terrorites of Britian (Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Gibralter) and possibly Faroe. As soon as you get into phrases like "semi-autonomous" you start to pick apart the large countries into their base federal units. The German Bundesländer have a very high degree of autonomy, for example. |
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:::Its probably better to have a short discussion of sub-national entities with a link to a full list. Or else remove the section completely. |
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:::(By the way, The Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are also not part of the EU. However Gibraltar is. See [[Special member state territories and their relations with the EU]]) [[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 19:32, 10 May 2005 (UTC) |
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==Race== |
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The Race section is almost entirely lifted from [http://www.racialcompact.com/nordishrace.html http://www.racialcompact.com/nordishrace.html], a site advocating racial segregation. "Nordish" is also a neologism only used by McCulloch and followers. The detailed racial classification given is based on [[Carleton Coon]]'s "The Races of Europe".--[[User:JWB|JWB]] 03:17, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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I removed the whole section pending aggreement and discussion of copyvios. After a quick glance through it, it sounds like patent nonsense. There is no such word as 'Keltic', try Celtic. 'Brünn' redirects to [[Brno]], the city in Czech Republic. The section states that "John Kennedy (is) of the Brünn". Now, Kennedy came from an Irish family originating in [[Wexford]]. What on earth Brno has to do with anything is beyond me. "In England, Scotland and Ireland the incidence of blond hair is much higher in the east than in the west, in Germany it is much higher in the north than in the south." What? Is it saying that people in Dublin have blond hair and people in Galway have dark? Nonsense! [[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 08:01, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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I don't know if it violates copyright (McCulloch might be glad to get his fringe opinions into a mainstream publication, and Coon is old enough that copyright may be expired) but the POV represented is scientifically discredited, and repugnant to most. Mentioning racist POVs as existing in addition to mainstream ones might be OK for completeness or balance, but giving it most of the space in the section and having it appear as unquestioned scientific fact is not.--[[User:JWB|JWB]] 15:30, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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===Race and physical appearance=== |
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There are three main regional [[racial]] groupings in Europe. The southern region ([[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Italy]] and [[Greece]]) is a racial clinal zone (a border area where different [[races]] meet and intermix) where the [[Mediterranean]] racial group -- which inhabits southwest [[Asia]] (the "[[Middle East]]") and northern Africa as well as southern Europe -- has long intermixed with invaders from the northern areas of Europe. In this southern European "[[melting pot]]" -- which has dissolved many peoples into its solution -- the Mediterranids, in various local types, are generally dominant, having assimilated most of the other elements with which they have been [[hybridized]], although some remnants of the other elements still survive. |
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In the middle region the [[Alpine]] racial group -- including the [[Alpinid]], [[Dinaric race|Dinaric]] and [[Ladogan]] races of southern [[France]], northern [[Italy]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], the [[Balkans]], [[Ukraine]] and eastern [[Russia]] -- is predominant. |
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The northern region is inhabited by the [[Nordish]] racial group ("Nord" being the word for north in both French and German). The latter can be divided into two subgroups: an Inner or Central subgroup consisting of the [[Nordic]], [[Borreby]], [[Brünn]], [[Fälish]], [[Trønder]] and [[Anglo-Saxon]] subraces and subtypes of the [[British Isles]], [[Scandinavia]], northern [[Germany]], the [[Netherlands]] and [[Belgium]]; and an Outer or Periphery subgroup, which includes the Atlantid subtypes of the British Isles, and the Noric, East Baltic and Neo-Danubian subtypes which predominate in northern France, southern [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]], [[Austria]], the [[Czech Republic]], [[Finland]], the [[Baltic States]], [[Poland]] and northwestern [[Russia]]. These last inhabit the racial clinal zone between the Central Nordish and Alpine racial groups, and are intermediate types resulting from [[hybridization]] or intermixture between these two groups, with the Nordish element being generally more numerous and predominant. The term [[Nordish]] is here used to refer to the indigenous peoples of northern Europe as a whole, including both Central and Periphery types, and also those peoples in [[North America]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[South Africa]] and elsewhere whose ancestors were of [[Northern European]] racial origin. |
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Although this system of classification is too simple to be completely accurate, and certainly too simple to be regarded as complete, it is tolerably accurate in identifying those European population groups which have a sufficient degree of [[genetic]] similarity and compatibility that they can interbreed more or less freely within the group without negating -- or significantly altering or disrupting -- their unique and distinctive ensembles of genetic characteristics. These racial groups can therefore be defined as races. Consequently, although these races can be further subdivided into a richly diverse variety of subraces and subtypes, the racial level of classification will be regarded as sufficient for most discussions in this work. A more detailed description of the subdivisions -- subraces and subtypes -- of the Nordish race is given in the outline below, followed by a listing of the countries of Europe showing the distribution of the different European racial types. For a more detailed outline of the Mediterranean, Alpine and other racial groups see The Races of Humanity . |
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The Nordish race, like many others, can be conceived as a series of concentric circles, with the innermost circle, the racial core or navel, consisting of the most distinct and definitive subracial types, in relation to which, in degrees of closeness or distance, the subracial types of the outer circles are defined. The racial outline given below is based on this principle. Some of the names are derived from archaeological sites where early examples of the types were found, others are based on geographical regions with which the types are associated. |
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'''Nordish or Northern European Race''' |
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''1. Inner Circle of Core or Central Subracial Types'' |
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a. [[Aboriginal]] Northwest European subraces (The descendants of the first peoples to settle in northern Europe after the retreat of the glaciers, at the end of the last ice age, during the Upper Paleolithic period circa 8,000 B.C.) |
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1.) [[Borreby]] subrace (named after Danish island site where paleolithic remains were found; principal element in Denmark, southwest coast of Sweden, northern Germany, the Rhineland and the Ruhr, majority element in Wallonia) |
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2.) [[Brünn]] subrace (named after paleolithic site near Brno, or Brünn, [[Czech Republic]]; predominant element in western Ireland) |
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b. [[Nordic]] or Nordid subrace (The modern Nordic subrace is descended from the proto-Nordic Danubian neolithic farmers of the Danube valley whose expansion into northwest Europe circa 3,500 B.C. is probably associated with the spread of [[neolithic]] agriculture and the Indo-European language.) |
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1.) [[Hallstatt]] or [[Österdal]] type (named after Austrian site where remains were found and Norwegian valley near Oslo; predominant element in Sweden and southeastern Norway, common in Denmark, western Finland, eastern England and northern Germany) |
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2.) Keltic type (predominant element in Flanders, majority in the Netherlands and northern and western Switzerland, primary element in England, eastern Scotland and old Frankish country in southwest Germany, common in Wales and Ireland; ancient Franks and northern Kelts were of this type) |
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'''c. Blended types of above subraces''' |
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1.) [[Anglo-Saxon]] or Old Germanic [[Reihengräber]] type (Nordic- Brünn blend; predominant element in the Dutch province of [[Friesland]] (Frisia) and the Dutch and German [[Frisian Islands]], common in southeast England and northwest Germany) |
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2.) [[Trønder]] type (Brünn-Nordic blend; predominant element in [[Trøndelagen]] area of western Norway [whence the name] and [[Iceland]], common in northeast England and Scotland) |
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3.) [[Fälish]], [[Dalofalid]] or Dalo-Nordic type (Nordic-Borreby blend; names from [[Fälen]] [German for "plain"] and [[Dalarna]] region of [[Sweden]] ([[Kopparberg]]); primary element on the north German plain, [[Jutland]] and the Swedish province of Kopparberg) |
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'''2. Outer Circle of Periphery Subracial Types''' |
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''a. Northwestern periphery types (ancient stabilized blends of Inner Circle or Central Nordish inhabitants of northwestern Europe with Mesolithic Atlanto-Mediterranean immigrants)'' |
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1.) [[North-Atlantid]] type (associated with megalithic monuments and long barrow burial sites; primary element in Wales, southeast coast of Ireland and western Scotland, common in England; in coloring combines dark hair with usually light eyes) |
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2.) [[Palaeo-Atlantid]] type (common in Wales and in western England and Scotland from the Midlands to Glasgow, minor element in Norway; hair and eye coloring both dark) |
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''b. Southern and Eastern periphery types (ancient stabilized blends of Inner Circle Nordish types with neighboring [[Caucasoid]] races)'' |
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1.) [[Neo-Danubian]] type (eastern periphery blend of original Danubian proto-Nordic with Ladogan, with the Danubian element dominant; majority element in Poland and Belorussia, primary element in Hungary, west Ukraine and northwest Russia, important in Finland and the Baltic States) |
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2.) [[East Baltic]] type (northeast periphery blend of Borreby and/or Fälish with Neo-Danubian and/or Ladogan; majority element in Finland and the Baltic States, formerly predominant in Old Prussia, but this element now dispersed throughout Germany as a result of the post-war expulsion of the Prussian population from its ancestral homeland) |
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3.) [[Noric]] or Sub-Nordic type (southern periphery blend of Nordic with Alpine and/or Dinaric, with the Nordic element dominant; principal element in northern France, important element in central Germany and Austria, common in [[Transylvania]] and western [[Ukraine]], minor in British Isles) |
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Dominant or predominant = over 60% majority |
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Majority or major = 50-60% majority |
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Principal or primary = 25-49% plurality; less than a majority, but most numerous racial type |
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Important = 25-49% minority; not most numerous racial type |
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Common = 5-25% minority |
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Minor = less than 5% minority |
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There is regional variation within the types, forming local subtypes and varieties. Of the three central [[Nordish]] subraces, the [[Borrebys]] and [[Brünns]] tend to have somewhat larger heads, broader features and heavier body builds than the Nordics. In height they are essentially the same. Of [[United States|American]] presidents in this century [[Woodrow Wilson]], [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and [[George Bush]] are good examples of the Nordic subrace, [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[Gerald Ford]] of the Borreby, and [[John Kennedy]] of the Brünn. The Palaeo-Atlantids are typically dark-eyed (brown or dark-mixed, the latter a mixture of brown with blue or green). The other Nordish types are predominantly light-eyed (blue, gray, green or light-mixed). Light-mixed eyes (a mixture of blue and green) are particularly common in the Nordic subrace. The two Atlantid types are dark haired. Among the other types hair color is variable from very dark to very light, with the light and medium brown shades generally the most common among adults. Hair color is lightest among children, and usually darkens with age. Among adults the incidence of blond hair varies, from lows of 13-15% in the [[Walloon Borrebys]] and the [[Irish Brünns]], to highs of over 50% among the [[Hallstatt Nordic]], [[Trønder]], Borreby and Fälish peoples of [[Scandinavia]], the Anglo-Saxons of [[Frisia]], and the East Baltics of Finland. In [[England]], [[Scotland]] and Ireland the incidence of blond hair is much higher in the east than in the west, in Germany it is much higher in the north than in the south. As a rule, the higher the incidence of blond hair the higher also is the proportion of the light blond shades to the dark blond. Red hair is common in the Brünn and Borreby stems (and in those of partial Brünn or Borreby derivation), minimal in the Nordic. For reference, an estimate of the distribution of racial types in the indigenous European populations is given below. |
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'''Estimated Racial Composition and Nordish Percentage of Indigenous European Populations:''' |
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'''Sweden''' = 70% Hallstatt Nordic (Carleton Coon described Sweden as a refuge area for the classic Nordic race), 10% Borreby (most common in the southwest coastal region), 10% Fälish (most common in Dalarna [Kopparberg] and the southwest coastal region), 5% Trønder (most common near the central Norwegian border), 5% East Baltic = 100% Nordish (95% central and 5% periphery types) |
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'''Norway''' = 45% Trønder (most common in the west), 30% Hallstatt Nordic (most common in the southeast area around Oslo), 10% Borreby (most common in the southwest), 7% Fälish (most common in the south), 5% East Baltic (most common in the far north), 3% Palaeo-Atlantid (found in western coastal areas) = 100% Nordish (92% central and 8% periphery types) |
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'''Denmark''' = 40% Borreby, 30% Fälish, 20% Hallstatt Nordic, 5% Anglo-Saxon, 5% East Baltic = 100% Nordish (95% central and 5% periphery types) |
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'''Iceland''' = 60% Trønder, 22% Borreby, 15% Brünn, 3% Palaeo-Atlantid = 100% Nordish (97% central and 3% periphery types) |
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'''England''' = 30% Keltic Nordic (derived from pre-Roman Iron Age invaders), 20% Anglo-Saxon (post-Roman Germanic invaders, most common in the southeast, especially East Anglia), 15% North-Atlantid and 10% Palaeo-Atlantid (blend of Mesolithic Atlanto-Mediterranean invaders with both earlier and later arrivals; most common in the Midlands and northwest), 8% Hallstatt Nordic (of Viking and Norman derivation), 5% Brünn, 5% Trønder (of Norwegian Viking derivation; most common in the northeast), 3% Borreby and 2% Fälish (both of Viking and Norman derivation; associated with the landed gentry; source of the "John Bull" type), 2% Noric (from Bronze-Age invaders) = 100% Nordish (73% central and 27% periphery types) |
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'''Scotland''' = 30% Keltic Nordic, 22% Trønder (most common in the northeast), 10% North-Atlantid (most common in the west), 10% Anglo-Saxon (most common in the southeast), 10% Palaeo-Atlantid (most common in the southwest), 5% Brünn, 5% Hallstatt Nordic, 4% Borreby, 4% Noric = 100% Nordish (76% central and 24% periphery types) |
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'''Ireland''' = 40% Brünn (indigenous Paleolithic inhabitants, most common in the west), 30% Keltic Nordic (most common in the east), 9% North-Atlantid, 9% Borreby, 3% Palaeo-Atlantid, 3% Trønder, 2% Noric, 2% Anglo-Saxon, 1% Hallstatt Nordic = 100% Nordish (86% central and 14% periphery types) |
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'''Wales''' = 35% North-Atlantid, 30% Palaeo-Atlantid, 30% Keltic Nordic, 5% other types = 100% Nordish (35% central and 65% periphery types) |
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'''The Netherlands''' = 50% Keltic Nordic (of Frankish derivation), 20% Borreby, 10% Anglo-Saxon (most common in Frisia), 10% Fälish, 10% Hallstatt Nordic = 100% Central Nordish |
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'''Belgium''' = 60% Keltic Nordic (most common in Flanders, derived from the ancient Belgae and Franks), 35% Borreby and 5% Alpine (both most common in Wallonia) = 95% Central Nordish |
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'''Luxembourg''' = 80% Alpine, 15% Borreby, 5% other Nordish types = 20% Central Nordish |
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'''Germany''' = 25% Borreby (most common in the Rhine and Ruhr valleys and the north), 20% Fälish (most common in the north), 15% Alpine (most common in Baden and Bavaria), 15% Noric, 6% Keltic Nordic (most common in the old Frankish country in the southwest), 5% Anglo-Saxon (most common in the northwest), 5% East Baltic, 5% Dinaric, 4% Hallstatt Nordic = 80% Nordish (60% central and 20% periphery types) |
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'''France''' = 30% Alpine, 30% Noric (most common in the north), 20% Mediterranean (most common in the south and Corsica), 15% Dinaric, 3% Borreby (in the northeast), 2% Nordic = 35% Nordish (5% central and 30% periphery types) |
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'''Switzerland''' = 40% Keltic Nordic and 30% Noric (most common in the north, west and center), 15% Dinaric and 15% Alpine (most common in the south and east) = 70% Nordish (40% central and 30% periphery types) |
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'''Austria''' = 35% Noric, 25% Dinaric, 20% Alpine, 15% Keltic Nordic, 5% Hallstatt Nordic = 55% Nordish (20% central and 35% periphery types) |
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Poland = 55% Neo-Danubian, 10% Ladogan, 10% Alpine, 10% Dinaric, 5% Hallstatt Nordic, 5% Noric, 5% East Baltic = 70% Nordish (5% central and 65% periphery types) |
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'''Finland and the Baltic States''' = 50% East Baltic, 15% Hallstatt Nordic (most common in the Swedish-settled areas of Finland), 30% Neo-Danubian (most common in southeast Lithuania and northeast Finland), 5% Ladogan = 95% Nordish (15% central and 80% periphery types) |
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The Czech Republic and Slovakia = 40% Alpine and 15% Noric (most common in Bohemia), 25% Dinaric (most common in Moravia), 20% Neo-Danubian (most common in Slovakia) = 35% Periphery Nordish |
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'''Hungary''' = 35% Neo-Danubian (most common in the northeast), 25% Turanid (of Magyar derivation), 20% Dinaric (most common in the southwest), 15% Alpine (most common in the south), 2% Nordic, 2% Noric, 1% East Mediterranean = 39% Nordish (2% central and 37% periphery types) |
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Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine = 40% Neo-Danubian (most common in Belorussia and western Ukraine), 35% Ladogan, 8% Nordic, 7% East Mediterranean (most common near the Black Sea coast), 5% Dinaric (most common in eastern Ukraine), 5% Noric = 53% Nordish (8% central and 45% periphery types) |
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'''Spain and Portugal''' = 85% West Mediterranean, 9% South Mediterranean, 5% Dinaric, 1% Nordic (most common in the remnants of the Visigoth aristocracy) = 1% Central Nordish |
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'''Italy''' = 50% Dinaricized Mediterranean (most common in the south and Sicily), 20% Dinaric (most common in the north), 15% Alpine (most common in the northwest), 10% West Mediterranean (most common in Sardinia), 4% Noric (most common in the north, 1% Nordic (most common in the remnants of the Ostrogoth and Lombard aristocracy) = 5% Nordish (1% central and 4% periphery types). Italy, much like the other southern European countries of the Mediterranean region -- Spain, Portugal and |
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Greece -- experienced several waves of Nordish invasions during ancient and early Medieval times, from the Danubians (circa 2,000-1,500 B.C.), who brought the Indo-European language that developed into Latin, and the Kelts (beginning circa 500 B.C.), to the Germanic Ostrogoths and Lombards (A.D. 400-700). These Nordish elements have been gradually assimilated into the majority Mediterranean population, but some of their genetic traits, existing in solution, occasionally recombine to appear in individuals whose other traits are mostly non-Nordish. |
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'''Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia and Macedonia''' = 75% Dinaric, 10% West Mediterranean (most common on the coast), 10% Noric and 5% Neo-Danubian (most common in the north) = 15% periphery Nordish types |
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Romania = 35% Dinaric (most common in the west), 25% East Mediterranean (most common on the coast), 20% Neo-Danubian (most common in the northeast), 10% Alpine, 7% Noric and 3% Nordic (most common in the west) = 30% Nordish (3% central and 27% periphery types) |
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'''Albania''' = 75% Dinaric, 10% West Mediterranean, 10% Alpine, 5% Noric = 5% periphery Nordish |
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'''Bulgaria''' = 60% East Mediterranean, 15% Alpine, 15% Dinaric, 5% Turanid, 5% Nordish |
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'''Greece''' = 40% East Mediterranean, 25% Dinaricized Mediterranean, 20% Alpine (most common in Epirus), 10% Dinaric, 5% Nordish (partly assimilated remnant, or genetic recombinations from solution, of various past Nordish invaders, mostly of Danubian type, going back to the ancient Achaeans and Dorians; most common in the north) |
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<Following paragraph was not from www.nordish.com> |
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Modern research on Y chromosome and mtdna show that Europeans originate from a number of historical groups,eg Middle Eastern farmer,central asian nomads and Paleolithic hunters.The least diverse of Europeans population are the Irish and Basques, while the "Nordic race" are one of the most diverse,in fact Norwegians share many markers with the people of Altai in Siberia. |
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== Race in Wikipedia articles == |
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Whilst that article that has been deleted is unnaceptable for several reasons, it is also '''completely''' unnaceptable that the article on Europe does not have any section on 'Race' while the article on Africa does have such a section. |
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Perhaps someone should seed a 'Race' section in the Europe article which can then be carefully expanded on incrementally? |
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: The mere term of "race" is very shocking to me, and probably to others; it is also a sort of language which is forbidden by law in several European countries. If it is deemed necessary to have similar discussions, they could be at least use a less shocking terminology, such as "ethnicity" or something less racist. That applies to all articles of course. [[User:Rama|Rama]] 16:52, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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: If someone can define the word 'race' in a consistant and logical way, I'll be happy to support a section on race. The problem is that the entire concept that people can divided up neatly into races is nonsense - as is obvious from the gibberish I removed to above. The only logical and scientific thing which can said about race is that people in the southern sunny countries tend to be darker skinned, and this is such an obvious and boring statement that it doesn't deserve to be in the article. All other differences between people are down to culture and nationality. |
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: The race section in [[Africa]] article seems to be more about history and migration than anything else. [[User:Seabhcan|Seabhcán]] 17:05, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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Horses and donkeys are not in the same race, they can mate and can get offspring, but the offspring will be sterile, cannot get living offspring. |
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All human ethnic groups can mate and get children who can get children, |
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so all humans are part of the same race. |
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If somebody would like to write about differences between people he should use words like "genetical differences", but not the word race. |
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[[User:Roger4911|Roger4911]] 10:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC) |
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:: Yes, typically people from the USA tend to distinguish the so-called "races" "White" and "Hispanic", something which would make any European, including the most racist of them, stare at you blankly. That pretty much invalidates the notion of objectively defined human "races". [[User:Rama|Rama]] 17:44, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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One possible reason is that the "Race Question" is very different in different parts of Europe. It's probably better tackled in individual countries. [[User:DJ Clayworth|DJ Clayworth]] 17:48, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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I see Seabhcán changed the Race section in Africa to Demographics. [[Europe]] could have a Demographics section with [[Demographics of the European Union]] as main article. ("Demographics of X" seems to be a Wikipedia title convention, but in this case [[Demographics of Europe]] is a smaller stub. |
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I'm curious why the anonymous poster at top of section thinks [[Europe]] has to have a Race section if [[Africa]] does. I agree with Rama etc. that current European attitudes seem to consider discussion of native racial differences within Europe to be old-fashioned and a waste of time if not actually harmful. There are probably more Americans concerned with it. It's interesting that the nordish.com Race section which was cut was written by an American and uses only American Presidents as example individuals. |
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There's controversy and material aplenty about European and other race at [[Caucasoid]], [[Negroid]], [[Extra-European Caucasoid]], [[Northern Eurasian Supercluster]], [[Caucasian race]], [[Whites]], [[Validity of human races]], [[Race (historical definitions)]], [[Race]] etc. You probably want to keep this stuff out of [[Europe]] or even the Demographics of Europe articles but just link if necessary.--[[User:JWB|JWB]] 20:02, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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::The question is this; is Europe a continent populated by one type of person, and Africa is not, or are the continets of Africa and Europe both populated by different types of people that can be identified by their 'Race and physical appearance'? |
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::If anyone claims that Europe contains a homogenous population, then Africa too has just such a population, and niether article should have a 'Race and physical appearance' section. |
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::Interesting how ''"discussion of native racial differences within Europe to be old-fashioned and a waste of time if not actually harmful."'' But when talking about Africans this is OK? Because of what exactly? |
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::Anyway, the section is gone, as it should be, from both articles now. Lets see how it develops. |
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:Well, I'm European (British/Greek), and I want to see the demographics of Europe written about. Just because it's controversial, doesn't mean it shouldn't be (cautiously) approached. Handling it on a country-by-country basis is a poor solution because it ignores the big pictures of migration, conquest, etc.<br />Of course, the initial entry was both simplistic, innacurate and politically motivated; I won't argue against that. --[[User:Spudtater|Spudtater]] 13:16, 8 August 2005 (UTC) |
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== What is this nonesense? == |
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A country is either in Europe or it is debatable. For a country to be included in Europe, it should have 50% + 1 of its border on what is considered as Europe. |
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This is Europe. |
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http://www.globalgeografia.com/europa/europa.gif |
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Another one. |
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http://www.travel.com.hk/map/newmap/engmap/web/part/euro1.gif |
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The template of European countries is against Wikipedias NPOV and neutral concept, because it present a debatable position as a fact. The template should only include those nations that their "Europeness" (geographically, and NOT culturally(because this is debatable)) is clear cut and not debatable. We can not present names of countries and dump them in Europe as if it was more than just a position, when the country is even not included in Europe in most encyclopedias and maps. My Larousse doesn't say Turkey in Europe, doesn't say Georgia, neither Azerbaijan or Armenia in Europe. Universalis the World biggest French language encyclopedia(I have the 6 CD collection, and which take over 4 GB of hard disk space), doesn't say either. |
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Members voting here does not apply, why not passing a vote to determine if Earth is flat? Members voting is only useful regarding how an article is writen and not what is a fact... because Wikipedia is not about facts but presenting positions and in this regard, I find country inclusions as facts and the template against Wikipedia and as a Wikipedian expect the Wikipedian principles to be respected. [[User:Fadix|Fadix]] 22:45, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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:A gif from MapQuest.com and from a Hong Kong travel site is hardly authoritative. I worked on a CEN/ISSS technical committee report on the languages of Europe, and we had to come up with a geopolitical definition. That is, there is a "sense" of what geography covers Europe, and then there is a set of administrative units of various sizes which fit to it. I guess I will repeat that material here. Georgia, by the way, is considering membership in the EU, and good luck to them. I don't see why "Europe" wouldn't include Transcaucasia. [[User:Evertype|Evertype]] 16:03, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC) |
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== A geopolitical definition of Europe == |
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Since "Europe" is a geographic place and a collection of political and cultural entities, I propose to repeat the following definition, which should, I suggest, be adopted as a "definition" that makes sense for the Wikipedia. Meaning that if we adopt it, we don't have to keep fighting about this issue. |
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[[http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/index.html The Alphabets of Europe]] defines Europe thus: |
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:''The Alphabets of Europe'' uses the following geographical and geophysical definition of Europe: |
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::“Europe” extends from the Arctic and Atlantic (including Iceland and the Faroe Islands) southeastwards to the Mediterranean (including Malta and Cyprus), with its eastern and southern borders being the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, and Anatolia, inclusive of Transcaucasia. |
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:The Alphabets of Europe report also includes languages found in the following areas: |
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::Anatolian Turkey, Greenland |
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:Information concerning the administrative units covered by this geographical definition can be found below. It is important to note that the Alphabets of Europe is a geolinguistic survey. It is not a political survey. The area defined here may be seen on page xiv, “Geographical Comparisons”, in The Times Atlas of the World: comprehensive edition, 1990 (ISBN 0-7230-0346-7). |
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:The following list enumerates the administrative units corresponding to the geographical definition of Europe above. This list was valid at the time of its compilation (1995-03-01). Spelling of entity names follows that given in ISO 3166-3. |
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:The following countries and self-governing dependencies: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan (including the autonomous republic of Naxçivan), Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, the Channel Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland (including Åland), France, Georgia (including the autonomous republics of Abkhazia and Ajaria and the Autonomous Region of South Ossetia), Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey (excluding Anatolia), Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the Vatican City, Yugoslavia (Crna Gora, Srbija, Kosovo-Metohija, and Vojvodina). |
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:The following Republics in the Russian Federation: Adygea, Baškortostan, Čečenija, Čuvašija, Dagestan, Ingušetija, Kabardino-Balkarija, Kalmykija, Karačaj-Čerkesija, Karelija, Komi, Mari-El, [Mordvinija,] Severnaja Osetija, Tatarstan, Udmurtija. |
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:The following oblasts in the Russian Federation: Arkhangelˊsk (including the Nenets Autonomous Okrug), Astrahanˊ, Belgorod, Brjansk, Ivanovo, Jaroslavlˊ, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kirov, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moskva, Murmansk, Nižnij Novgorod, Novgorod, Orël, Orenburg, Penza, Permˊ (including the Komi-Permjak Autonomous Okrug), Pskov, Rostov, Ryazanˊ, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Tverˊ, Ulˊjanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronež. |
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:The following krais in the Russian Federation: Krasnodar, Stavropolˊ. |
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This list is inclusive, not arbitrary, and was certainly a reasonable way to enable us to accomplish our task in the Alphabets of Europe project. I commend it to the Wikipedia for our article on "Europe". [[User:Evertype|Evertype]] 16:43, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC) |
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:: This is not NPOV,... you can not present a position as truth, it is POV. The position that neither Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are not considered to be in Europe is a very stronger position, and from what I have read, they are stronger than the position that they are geographically part of Europe. The term "culturally" is open to interpretation. I consider Universalis or other such very credible encyclopedias as very credible. Articles should not be based on what one believes to be the truth, but to simply present positions, and in that regard an alphabet of countries of Europe, or a list presented in the entry of such countries is simply POV. [[User:Fadix|Fadix]] 03:21, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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:::I agree, surely the most accurate means of description is to acknowledge 'Europe' as a human construct, and indeed acknowledge the complications of defining what a continent is in general and specifically in this case. There should be more than the one viewpoint displayed as there is no definite definition of what this continent consists of. It could be sugested that all continental definitions, even geological definitions of a continent are arbitary human constructs without any 'innate truth to nature'. Perhaps there should be a greater deal of fluidity of what these continental boundries consist of and as such what constitutes 'Europe'. [[User:Gazzapedia|Gazzapedia]] |
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Truth, Fadix? There is no "truth". What goes into "Europe" is a matter of choice and definition. Anatolia is not part of Europe; everyone agrees that. A part of Turkey is in Europe. And with regard to Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, the question is whether Europe includes Transcaucasia or not. I believe it ought to. Others may not believe it does. There is no NPOV, but what one ''can'' do is to give a definition of what one considers to be Europe. The Alphabets of Europe project had to do this, and we found the definition above to be useful. I propose that we adopt such a definition for the Wikipedia. That will forestall further argument. If we don't, then we're going to have to go over this again and again and again. Georgia, by the way, has said that it wishes to join NATO and the European Union. |
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: Doesn't make much sense. It is not the job of Wikipedia to say what's what. Wikipedia is not a theses where the author takes position. Wikipedia simply present what is said about things and by whom. That the position that neither Turkey, nor Armenia, nor Azerbaijan, nor Georgia are part of Europe geographically, exist there is no doubt about that. Why would Wikipedia take position, when it is not it's job, in fact, it is even unwiki to take such a position. That Georgia has asked to be a part of the European Union doesn't make of the claim, that Georgia is part of Europe as a certainty. Only in mathematical concepts sometimes Wikipedia can limit to saying that's that. Afteral 1 + 1 really equal 2, and this undisputably. [[User:Fadix|Fadix]] 17:58, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) |
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==Improvement Drive== |
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The article [[Culture of Italy]] has been listed to be improved on [[Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive]]. You can add your vote [[Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive#nominations|there]] if you would like to support the article.--[[User:Fenice|Fenice]] 14:20, 9 August 2005 (UTC) |
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== the new list of unilateraly declared independent territories == |
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to Codecs Sinaiticus: |
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* In the version of this list that you support there are both territories located in Europe and such located in Asia (but part of paritialy european countries or of Cyprus/Armenia that are entierly asian territorialy) - Nagorno Karabakh, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. At the same time you insist that Kurdistan should be excluded, becouse it is in Asia... |
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* In the version that you support are included both territories that have DE-FACTO ACHIEVED SELF-RULE (or at least rule by the presently strong elites) and such that MAY BE classified as "declared independence" (but that is debatable...) Anyway, again, not all such territories are included - Kurdistan, N.Ireland, etc. |
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* The situation with established authorities of N.Cyprus, Nagorno Karabakh, Tranisitria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia (all clearly de-facto self ruling) is clearly much different that the situation with the "rebels", "independence fighters" or "terrorists" in Chechnya, N.Ireland, Basque, etc. |
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Also, I think that the wording of your version is more vague and the other vesion is better formulated (and thus limiting the regions to be included to realy self-ruling regions and not every place where some person/group has declared to be independent of the host state) |
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== New Macedonia¤-related poll == |
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It has been proposed that uses of terms Macedonia¤, Macedonian¤, and Macedonians¤ in articles mentioning the [[Republic of Macedonia]]¤ should be accompanied with the following disclaimer: |
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: <nowiki>{{macedonian naming dispute}}</nowiki> ''template about to be deleted per TfD. -[[User:Splash|Splash]] 02:39, 11 September 2005 (UTC)'' |
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In particular, this article will be affected, among some others. If you happen to have an opinion for or against this proposition, please vote on it at [[Talk:Macedonian denar/Vote|Talk:Macedonian¤ denar/Vote]]. Thank you. -- [[User:Naive cynic|Naive cynic]] 16:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC) |
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== Culture? == |
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Is the lack of "culture" and "economy" sections a conscious decision? If so, why? --[[User:OldakQuill|Oldak]] [[User_talk:OldakQuill|Quill]] 19:25, 18 September 2005 (UTC) |
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== Comment added to article page == |
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I don't have the power to change the colors on the map, |
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but the color of France, Belgium and Holland is wrong. |
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These countries have been a part of central Europe |
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for 2000 years, politically, economically and culturally. |
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They should be light blue like the rest of central Europe. |
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That Great Britain has another color than continental Europe |
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is in order, it has its own history. |
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The rest of the map is okay with me. (Roger J.) |
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The whole section "Regions of Europe" should be deleted. |
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It is written without real knowledge of Europe. |
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There are real regions in europe, like central europe, france, |
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germany, poland, benelux, tjeckoslovakia, hungary, austria. |
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the mediterrainan world, spain, portugal, italy, greece, |
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turkey, and the french riviera. |
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The scandinavian and baltic region. |
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great britain is a region by itself,for historical |
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reasons, it was a superpower for hundreds of years, before it |
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started to secretly cooperate with usa, and it still |
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tries to sabotage eu on behalf of usa. |
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The map here is a cold war picture, which we europeans do |
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not want to remember, a period of 50 years when our continent |
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was occupied and divided by the big powers usa and soviet. |
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It is a perspective which could make anti-european, american |
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people happy, but we europeans are happy that we finally can |
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restore european relations between countries after so many |
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years of occupation and a division enforced by outside powers. |
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The "regions" in the current version are chosen by somebody |
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who has no idea of the history of europe, and seems to be |
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an enemy of the union between france and germany which is |
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the basis for the european union and the modern europe. |
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The map and the section about regions is created by an enemy |
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of europe and the european union. |
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This section doesn't give much useful infomation and is |
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faulty, the only reasonable solution is to delete the |
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whole section. |
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If somebody wants to create a real "regions of Europe" |
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based on reality I don't mind, but the current version |
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is a propaganda piece against europe and EU. |
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Somebody would love to see a split between germany and france |
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and has divided europe in a very unnatural way in that map. |
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The text is just a list of european countries and it feels |
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like it is there just to justify the treacherous map. |
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Ask many french people, if they feel closer to britain or germany. |
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Most will reply that they are much closer to germany, politically, |
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economically, culturally and in many other ways. |
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Roger J. |
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== Dividing Europe linguistically? == |
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What is the "Linguistic-cultural Regions in Europe" section meant to be? I have never heard of Europe being divided into linguistic regions. The existing section is misspelled, and gramatically incorrect. I have removed it for now. Does anyone think we should keep a section on Linguistic divisions of Europe? -- Hexagon1 06:58, 12 October 2005 (UTC) |
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This section has much more meaning than the "geographical" division above. |
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The European people doesn't group themselves in arbitrary "cardinal" division as shown above since it doesn't relate to any cultural reality. |
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Culturally a French will relate himself much better to an Italian or a Spanish than to A Dutch or a British ! |
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The so-called "western Europe" grouping explained above have to be remove. Western Europe is ALL Western Europe (including Spain, Italy, Germany). Put together only France, Benelux and UK has absolutly no meaning. these countries doesn't share any common history, linguistic origins, not even common geographical characteristics or common climates (what in common beetwen Corsica, Bordeaux or Lyon with Edimbourg, Amsterdam or Dublin ??). This grouping is very subjective, I think it is a good thing to show that other classifications are more precise and reflect more clearly the real bonds among peoples. |
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This part of the article is really usefull, it describe an objective reality of Europe, while the"cardinal" classification put countries that don't have much in common in arbitrary "cardinal" groups. |
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But I agree the grammer in incorrect and should be corrected. |
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== The "geographical regions of Europe" should be removed or rebuild == |
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These "geographical" regions are geographically without meaning (the regions are not divided by montains, different climates, peninsulas, etc.) but are in reality coming from the socio-political divisions of Europe that date back from the 19th century in USA (in the case of "western Europe", see the article on W.Europe), or from the 20th (the cold war period). Since 1990 (end of communism) these divisions don't have any meaning anymore, what make the difference between West and east is not capitalism or communism, but the cultural grouping : linguitic groups (slavic, latin, germanic) and the religious herency (catholic, orthodox, protestant) that have left their landmarks in these regions since thousands of years. |
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In this page it should be only : |
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- A pure geographical grouping (Scandinavia, Iberian peninsula, Italian peninsula, Balkan peninsula, British isles, and "main landmass Europe". |
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- A pure political grouping based on the political situation of 2005, and not in the 19th century. (countries in the EU, countries out of it, countries that will enter it, etc.) |
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- a cultural grouping of the countreis and people based on linguistic or/and religious herency. |
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- Maybe a climatical grouping, since each climate (specific ways of life, specific food products, etc.) leave on the people a deep mark. |
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== Europe is not a continent == |
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No longer shall i accept yee communistic ways of calling europe a continent |
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== EUROPE IS NOT A FUCKING CONTINENT! |
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Maybe it will be good to say from the beginning that Europe is commonly called a continent but folowing the definition it is only a peninsula of Eurasia. |
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In brief response: |
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* (a) do not swear; |
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* (b) cite and support your contentions and references properly. Otherwise, the 'communists' will win. |
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Ta! [[User:E Pluribus Anthony|E Pluribus Anthony]] 21:27, 15 October 2005 (UTC) |
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yee is one of the communists! |
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Why such frantic behavior? No, Europe is not a geological continent, but more of a cultural continent; or a subcontinent, like India and it's neighbors, separated by major geographical boundaries, although Europe isn't on its own tectonic plate. But in actuality there are only four continents: Eurasia/Africa, North America/South America, Australia, and Antarctica. Just an observation. --jugbo |
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:Hello; I'm sorry, but this is ''only'' one [[WP:POV|POV]] that should coexist with other definitions, if applicable, and not prevail. For example, two dictionaries – Oxford and Webster's – both list ''seven'' continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Feel free to [[WP:V|verify]] this. [[User:E Pluribus Anthony|E Pluribus Anthony]] 00:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== [[Portal:Scotland|Scotland Portal]] == |
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{{portalpar|Scotland}} |
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The Scotland Portal is now up and running. It is a project in the early stages of development, but I think it could be a very useful resource indeed, perhaps more for general readers (the vast majority I presume), rather than committed editors, who may be more attracted by the great possibilities of the notice board format: [[Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board]]. |
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Give it a Watch, and lend a hand if you can. It is (hopefully) fairly low-maintenance, but if we run with the "News" section, that will take dedication: time which I cannot commit to presently myself. Most other boxes need replacment/update only weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, plus the occasional refreshment of the Scotland-related categories. Anyway, I assume this is how the [[Template:Main portals|other Portals]] are run, so we can follow their lead. |
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Please add the following code - '''<nowiki>{{portalpar|Scotland}}</nowiki>''' - to your own User page, and you will have the link to the portal right there for easy access. I will investigate how other portals use shortcuts too. |
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Assistance from Wikipedians in the rest of Europe, and indeed everywhere, would be greatly appreciated!--[[User:Mais oui!|Mais oui!]] 08:55, 25 October 2005 (UTC) |
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== Etymology of Europe == |
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Is possible that the name "Europe" may derived from the name "[[Bryges|Brygians]]" (or Bryges or Baryges) a people in North Greece that in Classic Era has lived in Epirus and Western Macedonia? |
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--[[User:Ionn-Korr|IonnKorr]] 16:53, 1 November 2005 (UTC) |
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:Ehhh, just how?... |
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:[[User:85.226.122.222|85.226.122.222]] 16:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC) |
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:I really don't see how. Bryges were supposed to be the Phrygians before they crossed the Bosphorus. |
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:--[[User:Eupator|Eupator]] 14:57, 5 December 2005 (UTC) |
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: Really, a part of [[Bryges|Brygians]] crossed the strait of Bosporus and migrated to posterior [[Phrygia]]. |
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: The name "Bryges" has the same root with name "[[Ambracia|Ambraces]]", a people who lived in [[Aetolia]], in Western Greece. |
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: The suffices (-ges) and (-ces) are ordinary ones, in ancient Greek tribe names. |
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: The roots (*Bry-) and (*Ambra-) are agnate. So perhaps, Brygians and Ambracians were agnate peoples. |
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: It is possible that the root of name of Europe (*Euro-) is a bastardization (or corruption) of the afore-mentioned roots. Perhaps, "the land that was in west of [[Hebrus]] river (i.e. the river of Ambracians/Brygians)" and was dwelled by them, was called "Ebra" (or such a thing) by pre-Indoeuropeans [[Hattians]] and Indoeuropeans [[Hittites]] of Asia Minor in 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. [[Akkadians]] took this name by Hittites and changed it to "Erebu". Finally, [[Greeks/Hellenes]], in their turn, took this word as reverse loan-word and changed it to "Erebos". |
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:Note: Europe (or Eurôpe, Ευρώπη) |
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:The root is Euro- and the suffix is -ope (it is derived by -ops). Consequently, it has happened a change in suffix. |
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: --[[User:Ionn-Korr|IonnKorr]] 17:12, 5 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Definition of independent state. == |
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*Hello, i would like to discuss the meaning of independent state. Why did my entries of Pridnestrovie and Abkhazia get deleted? they is just as indpendent as any other country. Or is it supposed to be just de jure indepedent states? if so i suggest an edit is in order. |
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:Probably independent states according to the United Nations. For instance [[Kurdistan]], is not an independent state, but classified as a geographic and cultural region. [[User:85.226.122.222|85.226.122.222]] 19:33, 3 December 2005 (UTC) |
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== Disputed European countries == |
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To avoid misunderstanding, the countries like [[Armenia]], [[Cyprus]], [[Kazakhstan]], etc. must be footnoted in lists in this article. [[user:mikkalai|mikka]] [[user talk:mikkalai|(t)]] 01:14, 13 December 2005 (UTC) |
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Area of Europe
[edit]What is the exact area of Europe? According to this article, it is 10,186,000 sq. km, but according to the Collins World Atlas in my local library, it is 9,908,599 sq. km (they counted to the single digits!). Why are there a big difference between these sources? 120.16.170.140 (talk) 05:50, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Area will differ based on different definitions of Europe. CMD (talk) 08:08, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- Because the Collins World Atlas is published by the British. They have included the North Caucasus as a part of Asia. 2001:8003:9100:2C01:F0F5:3D10:42B7:F29D (talk) 14:09, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Armenia again
[edit]I see that I should have noted that the consensus is firmly established to include Armenia in the article for reasons given in a note. But therein lies the problem. The note reads "Armenia can be considered part of Eastern Europe or West Asia; it has strong historical and sociopolitical connections with Europe. The population and area figures include the entire state, respectively." This is just as much a justification for including Australia and Canada in the article, not making it clear at all why they're different. Since they aren't, this makes the justification look specious and ad hoc as though it's really being given only for the purpose of placating some group of people. This isn't a great impression for a Wikipedia article to give. At the moment, I'm not arguing one way or the about Armenia's inclusion but that the way it's been included looks almost like an acknowledgement that it doesn't really belong. Largoplazo (talk) 18:46, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
- As a standalone it might give that impression, but it comes after the much earlier Definition section which should provide a reader a reasonably clear understanding of the issue of Europe's 'borders'. Would an internal link, eg. "can be considered", help? CMD (talk) 06:53, 8 December 2024 (UTC)
- Well, most countries outside Europe classify the countries of the South Caucasus region as Asian countries instead of European countries. The only one which classify these countries as European countries are themselves.
- The same can be said of Cypus and Turkey, and to a lesser extent, Kazakhstan. 2001:8003:9100:2C01:F0F5:3D10:42B7:F29D (talk) 14:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Is the Turkish peninsula west of Istanbul considered Europe?
[edit]Europe orthographic Caucasus Urals boundary (with borders): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#/media/File:Europe_orthographic_Caucasus_Urals_boundary_(with_borders).svg
Just asking, thanks. Teastain (talk) 19:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes it is considered Europe (as is also clear from the opening lines of the Turkey article.) Arnoutf (talk) 20:33, 10 December 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, East Thrace is a part of Europe, but it is a geographical region, not a peninsula. 203.46.37.2 (talk) 07:13, 11 December 2024 (UTC)
EUROPE IS NOT A CONTINENT!
[edit]there is no geological evidence to support the statement of Europe being a continent. 197.229.7.18 (talk) 13:27, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- You will get further if you lower your voice. I suggest delete and start again. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 13:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
- Agree shouting is not helping. And in any case you should make an argument that geology is decisive. For that you may want to look at the continent article which explains that it is not that continent are not solely defined by geology but also by convention (ie agreement). And in any case what geography would you use? Continued landmass, which would render Eurasia-Africa a single continent (and Great Britain possibly not part of it) as would it combine the Americas into one continent, or would you refer to tectonic plate, which would make India arguably a continent distinct from Eurasia. Arnoutf (talk) 21:37, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Since Europe is called the Eurasian peninsula
[edit]there is a conventional boundary between this peninsula and the mainland somewhere, especially since some sources indicate the area. Looking at the map, I intuitively feel that it is a line from the White Sea to the Sea of Azov. Could this be true? Mir.Nalezinski (talk) 20:40, 14 June 2025 (UTC)
- It could be true, depends how someone defines peninsulas and how that definition would apply. CMD (talk) 23:21, 14 June 2025 (UTC)
- The more eastern Ural mountains range (basically between the Aral sea and the Kara sea) is generally considered the border between Europe and Asia. But indeed the issue remains what constitutes a peninsula - whould that be any narrowing of landmasses? Taken such argument in absurdis you could argue that the sea of Bengal to the Laptev sea makes for the isthmus splitting the "East Asia peninsual" from the rest of the continent. Arnoutf (talk) 07:44, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- The area of the peninsula (here the European one) will probably be obtained by assuming the shortest arc on the globe with the maximum possible area (here on the eastern side). The area of the European Peninsula is of course smaller than the area of Europe. Has anyone calculated the area of the European Peninsula discussed here? Mir.Nalezinski (talk) 08:12, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- But, for example, the Somali Peninsula is 750,000 km² (the sixth largest peninsula in the world in terms of area) and looking at the map you may have trouble determining the conventional border of this peninsula... Mir.Nalezinski (talk) 08:18, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- Still remains the question whether Europe should be called a peninsula. At some stage the isthmus connecting it to a mainland is going to be to wide or the land mass to large to still talk about peninsula. The mere fact that peninsula are surrounded by water on three sides (compared to islands on all sides) is not very helpful as all sea sides (except in the case of perfect circular islands) could be argued to be peninsulas, just like all landmasses (including the entire Eurasia/Africa landmass) could be labelled an island (as it is surrounded by water on all sides). The only reliable source I found was a national geographic (archived source https://web.archive.org/web/20121005064158/http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/peninsula/?ar_a=1) which post a call out the Europe is sometimes (i.e. not always) called peninsula. Arnoutf (talk) 12:25, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
- The more eastern Ural mountains range (basically between the Aral sea and the Kara sea) is generally considered the border between Europe and Asia. But indeed the issue remains what constitutes a peninsula - whould that be any narrowing of landmasses? Taken such argument in absurdis you could argue that the sea of Bengal to the Laptev sea makes for the isthmus splitting the "East Asia peninsual" from the rest of the continent. Arnoutf (talk) 07:44, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
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