Historical regions of Central Europe

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• • Lower Austria
    Lower Austria
    
    Lower Austria is one of the nine Bundesland or Bundesl?nder in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria is Sankt P?lten — the most recent capital town in Austria....
     (AT)
  • Upper Austria
    Upper Austria
    
    Upper Austria is one of the nine States of Austria or Bundesl?nder of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders on Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as on the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria , and Salzburg ....
     (AT)
• Austrian Littoral
  Austrian Littoral
  
  The Austrian Littoral or K?stenland was a crown land within the Austrian Empire from 1813 to 1918.The Austrian Littoral included the Imperial Free City of Trieste and its suburbs, the Margravate of Istria, and the Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca, which each had independent administrations, but were all s...
   (Primorska) (IT, SI, HR)
• Backa
  Backa
  
  Backa is an area of the Pannonian plain lying between the rivers Danube and Tisa. It is divided between Serbia and Hungary, with small uninhabited pockets of land on the left bank of the Danube which belong to Croatia, but are under Serbian control since 1991 ....
   (Sr, HU)
• Banat
  Banat
  
  The Banat is a geographical and Historical regions of Central Europe currently divided between three countries: the eastern part lies in Romania , the western part in Serbia , and a small northern part in Hungary ....
   (RO, Sr, HU)
• Baranya
  Baranya (region)
  
  Baranya is a geographical region between the Danube and the Drava rivers. Its territory is mostly divided between Hungary and Croatia, with a small uninhabited pocket of land on the right bank of Danube....
   (HU, HR)
• Bavaria
  Bavaria
  
  Bavaria , with an area of and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is a region located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest States of Germany of Germany by area....
   (DE)
• Bessarabia
  Bessarabia
  
  Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
   (MD, UA)
• Budjak
  Budjak
  
  Budjak or Budzhak is a historical region in the Odessa Oblast of Ukraine. Lying along the Black Sea between the Danube and Dniester rivers this ethnic group region was the southern part of Bessarabia....
   (UA)
• Gagauzia
  Gagauzia
  
  Gagauzia , formally known as the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia , is an Autonomous area of Moldova. Its name derives from the word "Gagauz people", which in turn derived from the name Gok-oguz used to describe descendants of the Turkic peoples Oghuz Turks tribe....
   (MD, UA)
• Bohemia
  Bohemia
  
  History...
   (CZ)
• Bohemian Forest Region
  Bohemian Forest Region
  
  The Bohemian Forest Region is a historical region in the Czech Republic. It includes parts of southwestern Bohemia in the Bohemian Forest once largely populated by ethnic Germans....
   (CZ)
• German Bohemia
  German Bohemia
  
  German Bohemia was a region in Czech Republic established, for a short period of time, after the World War I. It included parts of northern and western Bohemia once largely populated by ethnic Germans....
   (CZ)
• Egerland
  Egerland
  
  The Egerland is a historical region in the far north west of Bohemia in the Czech Republic at the Germany border. It is named after the city of Eger, in Czech Cheb....
   (CZ)
• Sudetenland
  Sudetenland
  
  Sudetenland is the German language name used in English in the first half of the 20th century for the western regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans, specifically the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Czech Silesia associated with Bohemia....
   (CZ)
• Brandenburg
  Brandenburg
  
  Brandenburg is one of the sixteen states of Germany of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany....
   (DE, PL)
• Altmark
  Altmark
  
  The Altmark is a region in Germany, between Hamburg and Magdeburg, comprising the northern third of Saxony-Anhalt . The region is rural and widely covered with forests....
   (DE)
• Mittelmark
  Mittelmark
  
  Mittelmark is a historical region in present-day eastern Germany that was the core territory of the March of Brandenburg between the Oder and Elbe rivers....
   (DE)
• Neumark
  Neumark (region)
  
  The Neumark , also known as the New March or East Brandenburg , was a region of the Prussian province of Brandenburg, Germany, located east of the Oder....
   (PL)
• Prignitz
  Prignitz
  
  Prignitz is a Kreis in the northwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring are the districts Ludwigslust and Parchim in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the district Ostprignitz-Ruppin, the district Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt and the district L?chow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony....
   (DE)
• Uckermark
  Uckermark
  
  Uckermark is a Kreis in the northeastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Barnim and Oberhavel, the districts Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Uecker-Randow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and to the east Poland ....
   (DE)
• Bukovina
  Bukovina
  
  Bukovina is a historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plains. It is currently split between Romania and Ukraine....
   (RO, HU, UA, MD)
• Hertza
  Hertza region
  
  Hertza region is the territory of an administrative district of Hertza Raion in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine, on the Romanian border....
   (UA)
• Carinthia (AT, SI)
• Slovene Carinthia
  Carinthia (province)
  
  Carinthia is both a historical and a statistical region in the north of Slovenia. It is occasionally referred to as Slovene Carinthia in English in order to distinguish it from the neighbouring Austrian Carinthia ....
  
• Carniola
  Carniola
  
  Carniola is a Historical regions of Central Europe of Slovenia. As part of Austria-Hungary, the region was a crown land officially known as the Duchy of Carniola until 1918....
   (SI)
• Inner Carniola
  Inner Carniola
  
  Inner Carniola is a traditional region of Slovenia. It was a part of the historical Habsburg crown land of Carniola. The traditional administrative and economic center of the region is Postojna, and other minor centers include Logatec, Cerknica, Pivka and Ilirska Bistrica....
   (SI)
• Lower Carniola
  Lower Carniola
  
  Lower Carniola is a traditional region of Slovenia. It is a part of the historical Habsburg crown land of Carniola . The region of White Carniola is often considered a part of Lower Carniola....
   (SI)
• White Carniola
  White Carniola
  
  White Carniola is a traditional region in southeastern Slovenia on the border with Croatia. Its major towns are Metlika, Crnomelj, and Semic, and the principal river is the Kolpa, which also forms part of the border between Slovenia and Croatia....
   (SI)
• Upper Carniola
  Upper Carniola
  
  Upper Carniola is a traditional region of Slovenia. It is a part of the historical Austria-Hungary crown land of Carniola. The traditional center of the region is Ljubljana, while other urban centers include Kranj, Jesenice , Tr?ic, ?kofja Loka, Kamnik, and Dom?ale....
   (SI)
• Central Croatia
  Central Croatia
  
  Central Croatia is a historical term that refers to the areas of the present-day Republic of Croatia that were part of the Habsburg Kingdom of Croatia which excluded Istria, Slavonia, and Dalmatia....
   (HR)
• Civil Croatia
  Civil Croatia
  
  Civil Croatia was a designation for the areas of Central Croatia that were not part of the Habsburg Military Frontier. Like the Military Frontier, it ceased to exist as a political entity in the late 19th century....
   (HR)
• Croatian Littoral
  Croatian Littoral
  
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   (HR)
• Croatian Highlands (HR)
• Medimurje (HR)
• Morlachia (HR)
• Dalmatia
  Dalmatia
  
  Dalmatia is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, situated mostly in modern Croatia and spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast....
   (HR)
• Dobruja
  Dobruja
  
  Dobruja, or Dobrudja , is a historical region shared by Bulgaria and Romania, located between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, including the Danube Delta, Romanian coast and the northernmost part of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast....
   (RO, BG)
• Northern Dobruja
  Northern Dobruja
  
  Northern Dobruja is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, bordered in south by Bulgarian Southern Dobruja....
   (RO)
• Southern Dobruja
  Southern Dobruja
  
  Southern Dobruja is an area of north-eastern Bulgaria comprising the administrative districts named for its two principal cities of Dobrich and Silistra....
   (BG)
• Friuli
  Friuli
  
  Friuli is an area of northeastern Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, i.e....
   (IT)
• Gorizia and Gradisca
  Gorizia and Gradisca
  
  Gorizia and Gradisca was a Habsburg county in Central Europe, in what is now a multilingual border area of Italy and Slovenia. It was named for its two major urban centers, Gorizia and Gradisca d'Isonzo....
   (IT, SI)
• Carnia
  Carnia
  
  Carnia is a historical-geographic region of Friuli, which is part of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region.It covers the western and central part of the Carnic Alps mountain range in the Province of Udine, therefore it borders Veneto and Austria , but not Slovenia....
   (IT)
• Galicia
  Galicia (Central Europe)
  
  Galicia is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, named after Ukra?ni?n city of Halych.The nucleus of historic Galicia is formed of three regions of western Ukraine: Lvivska oblast, Ternopilska oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast....
   (PL, UA)
• Great Hungarian Plain
  Great Hungarian Plain
  
  The Great Hungarian Plain is a plain occupying the southern and eastern part of Hungary, some parts of eastern Slovakia , southwestern Ukraine , western Romania , northern Serbia , and eastern Croatia ....
   (Nagy Alföld) (HU, RO, UK, SK)
• Kunság
  Kunság
  
  Kuns?g is a historical and geographical region in Hungary situated in the current B?cs-Kiskun and J?sz-Nagykun-Szolnok counties. Like other historical European regions called Cumania, it is named for the Cumans, a nomadic tribe of pagan Kipchaks that settled the area....
   (Cumania) (HU)
• Nagykunság (HU)
• Kiskunság (HU)
• Hajdúság
  Hajdúság
  
  Hajd?s?g is a Historical regions of Central Europe, which occupied much of what is now Hungary....
   (HU)
• Jászság
  Jászság
  
  J?szs?g or J?sz is a historical and geographical region in Hungary. Its 1161-km? territory is situated in the north-western part of the J?sz-Nagykun-Szolnok county....
   (HU)
• Istria
  Istria
  
  File:Istria Croatian Adriatic.pngIstria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner....
   (HR, SI, IT)
• Kuyavia
  Kuyavia
  
  Kuyavia is a historical and ethnographical region in the center of Poland in the Pojezierze Wielkopolskie. Kuyavia is situated in the basin in the middle of Vistula River and upper Notec River, and it has the capital in Wloclawek....
   (PL)
• Lithuania (Regions of Lithuania
  Regions of Lithuania
  
  Lithuania can be divided into historical and cultural regions . The exact borders are not fully clear, as the regions are not official political or administrative units....
  )
• Aukštaitija or Upper Lithuania (LT)
• Central Lithuania
  Central Lithuania
  
  Central Lithuania may refer to:*Republic of Central Lithuania, a short-lived puppet state created in 1920 in the Vilnius Region*Geography of Lithuania, the central region in Lithuania around Kaunas, Kedainiai, and Jonava...
   (LT, BY)
• Samogitia
  Samogitia
  
  Samogitia is one of the five ethnographic regions of Lithuania....
   or Lower Lithuania (LT)
• Lithuania Minor
  Lithuania Minor
  
  Lithuania Minor or Prussian Lithuania is a historical ethnography region of Prussia , later East Prussia in Germany, where Prussian Lithuanians or Lietuvininks lived....
   or Prussian Lithuania (LT, RU)
• Lubusz Land
  Lubusz Land
  
  Lubusz Land is a historical region in Poland and Germany, on the Oder river. Historically the Catholic Bishopric of Lebus, swampy area east of Brandenburg, west of Greater Poland, south of Pomerania and north of Silesia....
   (DE, PL)
• Lusatia
  Lusatia
  
  Lusatia is a historical region between the B?br and Kwisa rivers and the Elbe in the eastern German states of Free State of Saxony and Brandenburg and south-western Poland ....
   (DE, PL)
• Lower Lusatia
  Lower Lusatia
  
  Most of the area belonging to the German state of Brandenburg today is called Lower Lusatia and is characterised by forests and meadows. In the course of much of the 19th and the entire 20th century, it was shaped by the lignite industry and extensive open-pit mining....
   (DE, PL)
• Upper Lusatia
  Upper Lusatia
  
  Upper Lusatia is today part of the German state of Saxony, except for a small part east of the Neisse River, which is now Polish. It consists of hilly countryside rising in the South to the Lausitzer Bergland near the Czech border, and then even higher to form the Zittau Mountains, the small northern part of the Lusatian Mountains in the C...
   (DE, PL)
• Masovia
  Masovia
  
  Masovia or Mazovia is a geographic and Historical regions of Central Europe situated in eastern Poland's Masovian Plain. Its historic capitals include Plock and Warsaw....
   (PL)
• Masuria
  Masuria
  
  Masuria is an area in northeastern Poland famous for its Masurian Lakeland. Together with Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north and a small section of Lithuania, the region used to be a part of Prussia and of the province of East Prussia, a Germany exclave between the world wars....
   (PL)
• Moldavia (MD, RO, UA)
• Moravia
  Moravia
  
  Moravia is a Historical regions of Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, one of the former Czech lands. It takes its name from the Morava River, Central Europe which rises in the northwest of the region....
   (CZ)
• German South Moravia
  German South Moravia
  
  German South Moravia was a historical region of Czechoslovakia. It includes parts of northern and western Moravia once largely populated by ethnic Germans....
   (CZ)
• Moravian Slovakia
  Moravian Slovakia
  
  Moravian Slovakia is a cultural region in the eastern part of present-day Czech Republic on the border with Slovakia , known for its characteristic folklore, music, wine, costumes and traditions....
   (CZ)
• Moravian Wallachia
  Moravian Wallachia
  
  Moravian Wallachia is a mountainous region located in the easternmost part of Moravia, Czech Republic, near the Slovakian border. The name Wallachia was formerly applied to all the highlands of Moravia and neighboring Silesia, although in the nineteenth century a smaller area came to be defined as ethno-cultural Moravian Wallachia....
   (CZ)
• Podlachia
  Podlachia
  
  Podlachia, Podlesia, or Podlasie is a historical region in the eastern part of Poland and western Belarus. It is located between the Biebrza River in the north and its natural continuation to the south — the Polesie area....
   (BY, PL)
• Podolia
  Podolia
  
  The region of Podolia is a historical region in the west-central and south-west portions of present-day Ukraine, corresponding to Khmelnytskyi Oblast and Vinnytsia Oblast....
   (UA)
• Poland
• Greater Poland
  Greater Poland
  
  Greater Poland or Great Poland, Polish Wielkopolska is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief city is Poznan. Administratively, most of the region now forms Greater Poland Voivodeship , although some parts lie in Lubusz Voivodeship, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and L?dz Voivodeship Voivodeships of Poland....
   (PL)
• Lesser Poland
  Lesser Poland
  
  Lesser Poland is one of the historical regions of Poland. It forms the southeastern corner of the country. It should not be confused with the modern Lesser Poland Voivodeship, which covers just a part of the historical region of Lesser Poland...
   (PL)
• Podhale
  Podhale
  
  The Podhale is Poland's most southern region, sometimes referred to as the "Polish highlands". The Podhale is located in the foothills of the Tatra mountains of the Carpathian mountains, and is characterized by a rich tradition of folklore that is much romanticism in the Polish patriotism imagination....
   (PL)
• Polesie (BY, PL, UA)
• Pomerania
  Pomerania
  
  Pomerania is a historical region on the south coast of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdansk in the East....
   (PL, DE)
• Pomerelia
  Pomerelia
  
  Pomerelia is a Historical regions of Central Europe in northern Poland. Pomerelia was situated in eastern Pomerania on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, centered on the city of Gdansk at the mouth of the Vistula....
   (Eastern Pomerania) (PL)
• Farther Pomerania
  Farther Pomerania
  
  Farther Pomerania, Further Pomerania or Eastern Pomerania is a historical Pomeranian region, which before the Oder-Neisse line comprised the eastern part of the Duchy of Pomerania later Province of Pomerania, roughly stretching from the Oder River in the West to Pomerelia in the East....
   (PL)
• Hither Pomerania
  Hither Pomerania
  
  Western Pomerania or Hither Pomerania are terms used in English to translate the German language Vorpommern the western extremity of the historic region of the Pomeranian duchies and dukes#Duchy of Pomerania, later Province of Pomerania, nowadays divided between the States of Germany of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Poland....
   (DE, PL)
• Prekmurje
  Prekmurje
  
  Prekmurje is the easternmost region of Slovenia. It borders Hungary to the north-east, Austria to the north-west, Croatia to the south and the Slovenian region of Lower Styria to the south-west....
   (SI)
• Prussia
  Prussia
  
  Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
   (PL, DE, RU)
• Duchy of Prussia (RU, PL)
• East Prussia
  East Prussia
  
  East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
   (PL, RU)
• Sambia
  Sambia
  
  Sambia or Samland is a peninsula in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea....
   (RU)
• Netze District
  Netze District
  
  The Netze District or District of the Netze was a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1793. It included the urban centers of Bydgoszcz , Inowroclaw , and Pila and was given its name for the Notec River that traversed it....
   (PL)
• New East Prussia
  New East Prussia
  
  New East Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Partitions of Poland of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and included parts of Masovia and Podlachia....
   (PL)
• Royal Prussia
  Royal Prussia
  
  Royal Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Poland from 1466 and then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1772. Royal Prussia included Pomerelia, Chelmno Land, Malbork Voivodeship, Gdansk, Torun, and Elblag....
   (PL)
• Culmland (PL)
• Pomesania
  Pomesania
  
  Pomesanians were one of the Old Prussian. They lived in Pomesania , a historical region in modern northern Poland, located between the Nogat and Vistula Rivers to the west and the Elblag River to the east....
   (PL)
• South Prussia
  South Prussia
  
  South Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1793 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Partitions of Poland of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and included the regions of Greater Poland and Masovia....
   (PL)
• West Prussia
  West Prussia
  
  West Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773–1824 and 1878–1919/20 which was created out of the earlier Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth province of Royal Prussia....
   (PL)
• Ruthenia
  Ruthenia
  
  Ruthenia is a geographic and culturo-ethnic name applied to the parts of Eastern Europe populated by Eastern Slavic peoples, as well as to the past Russian states that existed in these territories....
   (PL,UA,BY)
• White Ruthenia or Belarus
  Belarus
  
  Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
   (BY)
• Black Ruthenia
  Black Ruthenia
  
  Black Ruthenia, Black Rus or Black Russia are variant conventional term used for a region around Navahrudak , in the western part of contemporary Belarus on the upper reaches of the Neman River....
   (BY)
• Carpathian Ruthenia
  Carpathian Ruthenia
  
  Carpathian Ruthenia, List of acronyms and initialisms: A#AK Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Rusinko, Subcarpathian Rus, Subcarpathia is a small region in Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast , easternmost Slovakia , Poland's Lemkivshchyna and Romanian Maramures....
   (UA)
• Red Ruthenia
  Red Ruthenia
  
  Red Ruthenia is the name used since medieval times to refer to the area known as Galicia prior to World War I.Ethnographers explain that the term was applied from the old-Slavonic use of colours for the cardinal points on the compass....
   (UA, PL)
• Carpathian Ruthenia
  Carpathian Ruthenia
  
  Carpathian Ruthenia, List of acronyms and initialisms: A#AK Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Rusinko, Subcarpathian Rus, Subcarpathia is a small region in Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast , easternmost Slovakia , Poland's Lemkivshchyna and Romanian Maramures....
   (UA)
• Saxony
  Duchy of Saxony
  
  The medi?val Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein....
   (DE)
• Osterland
  Osterland
  
  Osterland is a historical region in Germany. It was situated between the Elbe and Saale rivers to the north of Pleissnerland which it later absorbed and it included the city of Leipzig....
   (DE)
• Pleissnerland (DE)
• Vogtland
  Vogtland
  
  The term Vogtland refers to a region reaching across the German free states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia and into the Czech Republic . The name of the region contains a reference to the former leadership by the Vogt of Weida, Thuringia, Gera and Plauen, which translates approximately to advocates or lord protectors....
   (DE)
• Silesia
  Silesia
  
  Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in present-day Poland, with parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas....
   (PL, DE, CZ)
• Czech Silesia
  Czech Silesia
  
  Czech Silesia is one of the three Czech lands and a section of the Silesia historical region. It is located in the north-east of the Czech Republic, predominantly in Moravian-Silesian Region, with a section in northern Olomouc Region....
   (Austrian Silesia) (CZ, PL)
• Cieszyn Silesia
  Cieszyn Silesia
  
  Cieszyn Silesia or Teschen Silesia is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, centered around the city of Cieszyn and bisected by the Olza River....
   (PL, CZ)
• Záolší (CZ)
• Hlucínsko (CZ)
• Lower Silesia
  Lower Silesia
  
  Lower Silesia is the northwestern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Upper Silesia is to the southeast. Throughout its history Lower Silesia has been under the control of medieval Poland, Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy, Kingdom of Prussia, and German Reich, and after 1945 was split between Poland and Germany....
   (PL, CZ, DE)
• Upper Silesia
  Upper Silesia
  
  Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia; Lower Silesia is to the northwest. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater Moravia, Kingdom of Bohemia, Poland, Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Kingdom of Prussia, and later of unified German Reich....
   (PL, CZ)
• Slavonia
  Slavonia
  
  Slavonia is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia. It is a fertile agricultural and forested lowland bounded, in part, by the Drava river in the north, the Sava river in the south, and the Danube river in the east....
   (HR)
• Spiš
  Spiš
  
  Spi? is a region in north-eastern Slovakia, with a very small area in south-eastern Poland. Spi? is an informal designation of the territory , but it is also the name of one the 21 official tourism regions of Slovakia....
   (SK)
• Styria (AT, SI)
• Lower Styria (SI)
• Upper Styria
  Upper Styria
  
  In the Austrian usage of the term, Upper Styria refers exclusively to the northern, generally mountainous and well wooded part of the Styria , the other parts of the state being known as Western Styria and Eastern Styria ....
   (AT)
• Sudovia
  Yotvingians
  
  Yotvingians or Sudovians were a Balts people with close cultural ties to the Lithuanians and Prussians. The Sudovian language was a Western Baltic language nearest to Prussian language, but with small variations....
   (LT, PL, BY)
• Syrmia
  Syrmia
  
  Syrmia is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia in the east and Croatia in the west....
   (Sr, HR)
• Transdanubia
  Transdanubia
  
  Transdanubia is a traditional region of Hungary....
   (HU)
• Swabian Turkey
  Swabian Turkey
  
  The term Swabian Turkey describes a region in southeastern Transdanubia in Hungary delimited by the Danube , the Drava , and Lake Balaton inhabited by an ethnic German minority....
   (HU)
• Transnistria
  Transnistria
  
  Transnistria, also known as Trans-Dniester, Transdniestria, and Pridnestrovie is a disputed region in southeast Europe. Since its declaration of independence in 1990, followed by the War of Transnistria in 1992, it is governed by the Unrecognized states Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic , which claims the left bank...
   (MD, UA)
• Transylvania
  Transylvania
  
  Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountains, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crisana, Maramures, and Banat....
   (RO)
• Burzenland
  Burzenland
  
  The Burzenland is a historic and ethnographic area in southeastern Transylvania, Romania with a mixed population . Since the exodus of most of the German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons in the 20th century, this region has been predominantly inhabited by Romanians....
   (RO)
• Crisana
  Crisana
  
  Crisana is a Historical regions of Romania of Romania, named after the three tributaries of the K?r?s River that flow through it: the Cri%C5%9Ful_Alb_River , Crisul Negru River and Crisul Repede River ....
   (RO)
• Maramures
  Maramures
  
  Maramures may refer to the following:*Maramures, a geographical, historical, and ethno-cultural region in present-day Romania and Ukraine, that occupies the Maramures Depression and Maramures Mountains, a mountain range in North East Carpathian Mountains....
   (RO)
• Northern Transylvania
  Northern Transylvania
  
  Northern Transylvania is a region of Transylvania, situated within the territory of Romania. The population is largely composed of both ethnic Romanians and Hungarians, and the region was ruled by Greater Romania and Romania from 1918 , and Kingdom of Hungary before, in the 20th century ....
   (RO)
• Nösnerland
  Nösnerland
  
  The N?snerland is an historic region of northeastern Transylvania in present-day Romania centered between the Bistrita River and Mures River rivers....
   (RO)
• Partium
  Partium
  
  Partium or R?szek is the name given in Latin language and Hungarian language to the region located to the north and west of Transylvania....
   (RO)
• Székelyföld (RO)
• Tyrol
  Tyrol
  
  Tyrol is a region in Western Central Europe, which included the present day States of Austria of Tyrol , the Regions of Italy Trentino-Alto Adige/S?dtirol and three Comunes of the Veneto Regions of Italy ....
  (I,A)
• Vojvodina
  Vojvodina
  
  The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
   (Sr)
• Volhynia
  Volhynia
  
  File:Luchesk.JPGVolhynia, Volynia, or Volyn is a historic region in western Ukraine located between the rivers Pripyat River and Western Bug, to the north of Galicia and Podolia....
   (UA)
• Wallachia
  Wallachia
  
  Wallachia or Walachia is a Historical regions of Romania and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians....
   (RO)
• Muntenia
  Muntenia
  
  Muntenia is a historical province of Romania, usually considered Wallachia-proper . It is situated between the Danube , the Carpathian Mountains and Moldavia , and the Olt River to the west....
   (Greater Wallachia) (RO)
• Oltenia
  Oltenia
  
  Oltenia is a historical province and geographical region of Romania, in western Wallachia. It is situated between the Danube, the Southern Carpathians and the Olt River river ....
   (Lesser Wallachia) (RO)
• Warmia
  Warmia
  
  Warmia or Ermland is a region between Pomerania and Masuria in northeastern Poland. Together with Masuria, it forms the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship....
   (RU, PL)
• White Croatia
  White Croatia
  
  White Croatia is a vaguely defined area, said to lie somewhere in Central Europe, near Bavaria, beyond Hungary, and adjacent to the Frankish Empire" from which the White Croats crossed the Carpathian Mountains and migrated in the 7th century into Dalmatia ....
   (CZ, PL, SK)
• White Serbia
  White Serbia
  
  White Serbia, also known as Bojka , was the traditional homeland of the White Serbs in Europe. The area to the east from White Serbia was known as White Croatia....
  
• Yedisan
  Yedisan
  
  Yedisan is a historical region in modern southwestern Ukraine and southeastern Moldova . The region lies to the north of the Black Sea between the Dniester and Dnieper rivers....
   (UA)

See also

• States of Austria
  States of Austria
  
  Austria is a federation made up of nine State , known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is also the German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is often used instead to avoid ambiguity....
  
• Austria-Hungary
  Austria-Hungary
  
  Austria-Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Kaiserlich und k?niglich Monarchy was a state in Central Europe ruled by the House of Habsburg, constitutionally a personal union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary....
  
• Subdivisions of Belarus
• Regions of the Czech Republic
  Regions of the Czech Republic
  
  Since January 1 2000 the Czech Republic consists of thirteen kraje and one capital city . The older Districts of the Czech Republic are still recognized and remain the seats of various branches of state administration, such as the judicial system....
  
• States of Germany
  States of Germany
  
  Germany is a federation consisting of sixteen states, known in German language as L?nder . Since Land is the literal German word for "country", the term Bundesl?nder is commonly used colloquially, as it is more specific, though technically incorrect within the corpus of German law....
  
• List of historic counties of Hungary
• Counties of Lithuania
  Counties of Lithuania
  
  The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties , all named after their capitals. The counties are divided into Municipalities of Lithuania : 9 city municipalities, 43 district municipalities and 8 municipalities....
  
• Regions of Lithuania
  Regions of Lithuania
  
  Lithuania can be divided into historical and cultural regions . The exact borders are not fully clear, as the regions are not official political or administrative units....
   (the historical and traditional ones)
• Moldova
  Moldova
  
  Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
  
• Voivodships of Poland
• Historical regions of Romania
  Historical regions of Romania
  
  At various times during its history, Romania extended over the following Historical regions of Romania:*Transylvania and Partium:...
  
• List of traditional regions of Slovakia
  List of traditional regions of Slovakia
  
  These traditional regions of Slovakia are mostly former counties of the Kingdom of Hungary, but also some other regions. Slovakia was part of the Kingdom from the 11th century/14th century onwards to 1918....
  
• Historical regions of Ukraine

• Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula
  Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula
  
  This is a list of major Historical regions of the Balkan Peninsula. Note that these regions come from different time periods - from ancient to modern era - and may often overlap....