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  2. Caucasus - Wikipedia

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    The Caucasus forest refugium is the largest throughout the Western Asian (near Eastern) region. [71] [72] The area has multiple representatives of disjunct relict groups of plants with the closest relatives in Eastern Asia, southern Europe, and even North America. [73] [74] [75] Over 70 species of forest snails of the region are endemic. [76]

  3. Balkans - Wikipedia

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    Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Croatia (yellow) joined the EU in 2013 Croatia (yellow) joined the EU in 2013 The Western Balkans is a political neologism coined to refer to Albania and the territory of the former Yugoslavia, except Slovenia , since the ...

  4. Names of Rus', Russia, and Ruthenia - Wikipedia

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    The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...

  5. Regions of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The Balkan Peninsula is located in Southeastern Europe and the following countries and territories occupy land within the Balkans either exclusively or partially: Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia (approximately the southern half), Greece , Kosovo , Montenegro , North Macedonia , Romania (the Dobrudja region), Serbia ...

  6. South Caucasus - Wikipedia

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    The South Caucasus spans the southern portion of the Caucasus Mountains and their lowlands, straddling the border between the continents of Europe and Asia, and extending southwards from the southern part of the Main Caucasian Range of southwestern Russia to the Turkish and Armenian borders, and from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea coast of Iran in the east.

  7. List of country groupings - Wikipedia

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    These countries are considered major European powers and they are the Western European countries individually represented as full members of the G7, the G8, the G-10 and the G20. This also has an impact on the Eurovision Song Contest, when these countries added to Spain, are turned the BIG 5.

  8. Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised ...

  9. Near East - Wikipedia

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    Orthographic map of parts of the Near East. The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa; it also includes the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace and Egypt.