List of historical regions of Central Europe
There are many historical regions of Central Europe. For the purpose of this list, Central Europe is defined as the area contained roughly within the south coast of the Baltic Sea, the Elbe River, the Alps, the Danube River, the Black Sea and the Dnieper River.
These historical regions were current in different time periods – from medieval to modern era – and may often overlap. National borders have been redrawn across those regions many times over the centuries, so usually a historical region cannot be assigned to any specific nation. The list below indicates which present-day states control the whole or a part of each of the listed regions.
Czechia
[edit]- Bohemia
- Czech Silesia (Czech part of the region of Silesia, mostly located in Poland with a small portion in Germany)
- Cieszyn Silesia (part in Poland)
- Hlučín Region
- Opavian Silesia
- Moravia
Former historical regions of the Bohemian/Czech realm, excluding brief possessions:
Lithuania
[edit]Main regions:
- Aukštaitija
- Dzūkija (part in Belarus)
- Lithuania Minor (mostly in Russia)
- Samogitia
- Sudovia
Former historical regions of Lithuania, excluding temporary possessions:
Poland
[edit]Main regions:
- Greater Poland
- Lesser Poland
- Masovia
- Pomerania (small parts in Germany and Russia)[2]
- Silesia (small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany)
Smaller regions:
- Czerwień Cities (part in Ukraine)
- Dobrzyń Land
- Kłodzko Land
- Kuyavia
- Lubusz Land (part in Germany)
- Lusatia (part in Germany)
- Łęczyca Land
- Masuria
- Natangia (mostly in Russia)
- Podlachia (small part in Belarus)
- Powiśle
- Orawa (mostly in Slovakia)
- Sieradz Land
- Spisz (mostly in Slovakia)
- Suwałki Region (small part in Belarus)
- Warmia
Former historical regions of Poland, excluding temporary possessions:
Slovenia
[edit]- Carniola
- Lower Styria (part of the region of Styria, mostly located in Austria)
- Prekmurje
- Slovene Carinthia (part of the region of Carinthia, mostly located in Austria)
- Slovene Littoral
Former Austro-Hungarian Empire
[edit]- Cisleithania
- Transleithania
- Bosnia and Herzegonvina:
The kingdoms and lands represented in the Austrian Imperial Council (Cisleithania)
[edit]Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (Kingdom of Hungary or Transleithania)
[edit]Other regions
[edit]- Austria
- Austrian Littoral (Primorska)
- Bačka
- Banat
- Baranya
- Bavaria
- Brandenburg
- Breisgau
- Burgenland
- Carinthia
- Crișana
- Croatia proper
- Dalmatia
- Dobruja
- East Elbia
- Frisia
- Illyria
- Istria
- Northern Italy
- Jazygia
- Kunság (Cumania)
- Maramureș
- Mecklenburg
- Moldavia
- Nassau
- Orava
- Palatinate
- Partium
- Podolia
- Greater Poland
- Lesser Poland
- Polesie
- Pomerania
- Pomerelia (Eastern Pomerania)
- Chełmno Land
- Farther Pomerania
- Hither Pomerania
- Prussia
- Rhineland
- Right-bank Ukraine
- Romandy
- Ruthenia
- White Ruthenia or Belarus [1]
- Black Ruthenia
- Carpathian Ruthenia
- Red Ruthenia
- Saxony
- Slavonia
- Spiš
- Styria
- Swabia
- Syrmia
- Thuringia
- Transdanubia
- Transnistria
- Transylvania
- Tyrol
- Vojvodina
- Volhynia
- Wallachia
- Westphalia
- White Croatia
- Yedisan
See also
[edit]- Contemporary related subdivisions
- Historical related regions
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich, Tom I (in Polish). Warszawa. 1880. p. 193.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Small portion of the Vistula Spit with the former village of Polski is now located in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.