SLAVIC EUROPE

'Slavic Europe' is a region of Europe where Slavic languages are spoken. This area corresponds, more or less, to Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and consists of: Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the disputed territory of Transnistria, and Ukraine.
The main religions are Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism, with large Muslim populations in some parts formerly ruled by the Ottoman Empire, as well as various constituent parts of Russia. There were also over 4 million Jews living in Slavic Europe until the Holocaust greatly reduced that number and many surviving Jews emigrated to nearby Israel and the United States. There was a large number of Jews in Slavic Eastern Europe because many Jews had been expelled during the Middle Ages from anti-Semitic, Christian, Western Europe. (See Christianity and anti-Semitism).
Amongst the total Slavic population of Europe, there are local Slavic minorities of Sorbs in Germany and Lipovans in Romania, as well as a Slovenian and Croatian minorities in Northeastern Italy and Southern Austria, and the significant Slavic diaspora in Western Europe.

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★ Germanic Europe

★ Latin Europe

★ Slavic peoples

★ Celtic nations

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# Michael Fleischer: Niemcy, Europa, USA i Rosja w polskim systemie kultury, Wrocław 2004