Communities of Devotion across the Boundaries: Women and Religious Bonds on the Baltic Rim and in Central Europe, Eleventh – Twelfth Centuries

Fragmentation in East Central Europe

10.1093/oso/9780198843559.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Klaus Richter

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Social Exchange ◽

First World War ◽

World War ◽

East Central Europe ◽

East Central ◽

The First World War ◽

New States ◽

The Baltic ◽

First World

The First World War led to a radical reshaping of Europe’s political borders like hardly any previous event. Nowhere was this transformation more profound than in East Central Europe, where the collapse of imperial rule led to the emergence of a series of new states. New borders intersected centuries-old networks of commercial, cultural, and social exchange. The new states had to face the challenges posed by territorial fragmentation and at the same time establish durable state structures within an international order that viewed them at best as weak and at worst as provisional entities that would sooner or later be reintegrated into their larger neighbours’ territory. Fragmentation in East Central Europe challenges the traditional view that the emergence of these states was the product of a radical rupture that naturally led from defunct empires to nation states. Using the example of Poland and the Baltic States, it retraces the roots of the interwar states of East Central Europe, of their policies, economic developments, and of their conflicts back to deep in the First World War. At the same time, it shows that these states learned to harness the dynamics caused by territorial fragmentation, thus forever changing our understanding of what modern states can do.

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Ceramic Traditions in the Forest-Steppe Zone of Eastern Europe

Open Archaeology ◽

10.1515/opar-2020-0169 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 705-717

Author(s):

Konstantin Mikhailovich Andreev ◽

Alexander Alekseevich Vybornov

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Central Europe ◽

Caspian Sea ◽

Steppe Zone ◽

Aral Sea ◽

Cultural Tradition ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

Pottery Production ◽

The Baltic ◽

Early Pottery

Abstract Early pottery on the territory from the Eastern Caspian Sea and Aral Sea to Denmark reveals a certain typological similarity. It is represented by egg-shaped vessels with an S-shaped profile of the upper part and a pointed bottom. The vessels are not ornamented or decorated with incised lines, organized often in a net. This type of pottery was spread within hunter-gatherer ancient groups. The forest-steppe Volga region is one of the earliest centers of pottery production in Eastern Europe. The first pottery is recorded here in the last quarter of the seventh millennium BC. Its appearance is associated with the bearers of the Elshanskaya cultural tradition. The most likely source of its formation is the territory of Central Asia. Later, due to aridization, these ceramic traditions distributed further westward to the forest-steppe Don region. During the first half of the sixth millennium BC, groups associated with the bearers of the Elshanskaya cultural tradition moved westward. Significant similarities with the ceramic complexes of the Elshanskaya culture are found in materials from a number of early pottery cultures of Central Europe and the Baltic (Narva, Neman, and Ertebølle).

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Contacts between the Late Roman Empire and North-Central Europe

The Antiquaries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0003581500047417 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 76 ◽

pp. 31-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aleksander Bursche

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Central Europe ◽

The Baltic Sea ◽

European Continent ◽

North Central ◽

The Past ◽

Vistula River ◽

English Speaking ◽

English Speaking World ◽

The Baltic

The concept of Central Europe is understood here to cover the geographical centre of the European continent (i.e. the territory between the Elbe, Bug and Neman rivers, that is, eastern Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Lithuania), formerly treated in much of the English-speaking world as ‘Eastern Europe’. In the past six years, however, this area has been moving closer to the West. This paper shall concentrate on the region north of the Carpathian mountains, particularly the Vistula river-basin and Scandinavia (without Norway), in other words the territory round the Baltic Sea.

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The Privatization Process in Central Europe. Edited by Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, John Earle, et al. [Budapest, London and New York: Central European University Press. 1993. xiii + 262 pp. ISBN 1-85866-000-9. £10 (pbk)] - The Privatization Process in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic States. Edited by Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, John Earle, et al. [Budapest, London and New York: Central European University Press. 1993. xiii + 262 pp. ISBN 1-85866-000-9. £10 (pbk)]

International and Comparative Law Quarterly ◽

10.1093/iclqaj/44.2.495 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 495-495 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Istvan Pogany

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Central Europe ◽

Baltic States ◽

Central European ◽

Privatization Process ◽

The Baltic ◽

European University

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Prospects of Croatian initiative “The Baltic – Adriatic – Black Sea”

Journal of International Analytics ◽

10.46272/2587-8476-2017-0-4-37-44 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 37-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

N. A. Samoylovskaya

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Central Europe ◽

Black Sea ◽

Regional Cooperation ◽

Cultural Development ◽

Southeast Europe ◽

Geographical Position ◽

The Baltic ◽

The Impact ◽

The Eu

In January 2015 K. Grabar-Kitarovic was elected as President of Croatia. She identified the integration of Southeast Europe countries into European and Euro-Atlantic institutions and strengthening the cooperation between the countries of Central Europe as a national strategic interest. In her opinion the 12 European member countries of the EU located between the Adriatic, Black and Baltic seas have great potential for regional cooperation in the framework of the EU and the transatlantic community. This potential depends on the geographical position and features of common economic and cultural development. In the presented work is described the evolution of the concept of “the Baltic-Adriatic-Black Sea” and the prospects of its promotion in the countries of Eastern Europe. Special attention is paid to the impact of the initiative on the economic and strategic interests of Russia in Eastern Europe.

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Poland and New Trends in Central European Regional Configuration

Contemporary Europe ◽

10.15211/soveurope120215261 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 101 (1) ◽

pp. 52-61

Author(s):

Maria Rusakova ◽

Keyword(s):

Baltic Sea ◽

Central Europe ◽

Regional Integration ◽

The Baltic Sea ◽

Central European ◽

Eastern Partnership ◽

Carpathian Region ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Baltic ◽

European Regional

The article examines Warsaw's attempts to expand its influence in Central Europe by initiating various regional integration projects: cooperation with the Baltic sea countries participation in the development of the Carpathian region the newest format – the Lublin Triangle. The content of the Lublin Declaration signed on July 28, 2020 by Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine is analyzed in detail. Having been convinced by the example of Ukraine that the Eastern Partnership policy does not allow for quick results, as well as in connection with the events in Belarus, Poland decided to create a regional initiative that can be considered as a continuation of the Eastern Partnership policy. The Lublin Declaration opens up a wide range of potential areas of cooperation, however it is still too early to say how successful this project will be. Initially it was planned that Belarus would also join the Lublin Initiative, but later Minsk refused to participate. This seriously limited the project, but does not exclude the possibility of future innovations in its format. The author concludes that the Lublin Triangle is one of the Warsaw's instruments to realize the idea of Intermarium

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Slavic *komonjь and Its Probable Celtic Source

Studia Celto-Slavica ◽

10.54586/flvd3285 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 11-16

Author(s):

Václav Blažek ◽

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

The Baltic

The main purpose of the present study is to demonstrate that besides the traditional Balto-Slavic etymology of Slavic *komonjь ‘riding horse’, based on the Baltic designation of ‘bridle’, there is an alternative, identifying in the Slavic word an adaptation of the syntagm ‘horse of road’ > ‘riding horse’, expressed in a hypothetical Celtic source from Central Europe as *epos (? *ekwos) or *markos *kammanios, with the following ellipsis of the word for ‘horse’.

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