Geography
The German academic Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (Permanent Committee on Geographical Names) at the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy refers to a territory roughly bounded by the river Rhine in the west, the Bug in the east, the North Sea and the Baltic coast in the north, as well as the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the south. The area is covered by the modern states of:
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- Hungary
- Liechtenstein
- Poland
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Switzerland
Baltic states (Baltikum):
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- Estonia
Mitteleuropa construed as a cultural area would further include:
- Alsace and the Moselle département of northern Lorraine in France
- Luxembourg, though usually referred to as a West European country
- the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave of Russia
- the eastern Vilnius Region in Belarus
- territories of former Austria-Hungary in
- Italy – Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and the area of the former Austrian Littoral in eastern Friuli and Trieste
- Serbia – Vojvodina, Belgrade, Mačva regions
- Romania – Transylvania (Siebenbürgen) and southern Bukovina
- Ukraine – eastern Galicia, Carpathian Ruthenia and northern Bukovina
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Famous quotes containing the word geography:
“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;—and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ktaadn, near which we were to pass the next day, is said to mean “Highest Land.” So much geography is there in their names.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)