Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "KaiserBauch"
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Eastern Europe is orthodox Europe - Russia with its satellite Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, Romania, Northern Macedonia, the European parts of the Caucasus (the latter two with Muslim spots).
Central Europe is Germany, Austria, Slavic nations of Latin Christianity (Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia), Hungary and Northern Italy. So roughly Germany plus the late Habsburg empire. However North-Western parts of Germany (set apart by the so called tea-coffe line) and its hanseatic cities (e.g. Hamburg) are rather Western than Central Europe.
Mixed cases: Switzerland (Central/Western), Ukraine (Central/Eastern), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Central/Eastern).
Cases escaping that categorization: Southern Italy, Albania, Montenegro, Greece in the South, the Baltic nations and Finland in the North.
You can see many conflicts of Central vs. East in the Slavic domain: Poland vs Russia since centuries, Bosnia in WW I, Bosnia internally, Croatia vs Serbia and now Central Ukraine vs Eastern Ukraine and Russia.
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