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  Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains (in Caucasia).
On the east, Europe is divided from Asia by the water divide of the Ural Mountains and by the Caspian Sea.
Europe's eastern frontier is delineated by the Ural Mountains in Russia.
www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Europe   (4190 words)

  
 History of Europe (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The first well-known literate civilization in Europe was that of the Minoans of the island of Crete and later the Myceneans in the adjacent parts of Greece, starting at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC.
Eastern Europe was an arena of conflict for domination between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire.
The map of Europe was redrawn at the Yalta Conference and divided as it became the principal zone of contention in the Cold War between the two power blocs, the capitalistic Western_countries and the Communist Soviet Union.
history-of-europe.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (4735 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Europe and China
Europe has been cooperating multilaterally for decades in space, through the ESA for science and space transportation, Eumetsat for weather satellites, and Eutelsat for telecommunications.
Hence, for Europe, cooperation in space with China is fully decoupled from any lifting of the arms embargo against this country.
The potential partnership between Europe and China in space is not meant to isolate the United States or increase the proliferation of space technologies that would be used for anything other than peaceful purposes.
www.space.com /adastra/china_europe_0505.html   (2009 words)

  
 Europe and Human Rights - Global Issues
Europe is a small region but has many peoples, cultures and nations.
But even though Western Europe is freer than most regions around the world, there is a marked increase in racism and anti-immigrant policies, as well as a rise in poverty.
Numerous conflicts have resulted in gross human rights violations and a lot of suffering and killings of civilians.
www.globalissues.org /HumanRights/Abuses/Europe.asp   (865 words)

  
 History of Europe information information - Search.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Hungarians pillaged mainland Europe and the Arabs the south.
The first revolution to occur in Europe after the French Revolution was the Serbian Uprising of 1804, and the Second Serbian Uprising of 1815, which resulted in the proclamation of autonomous Serbia by the Ottoman Empire.
The map of Europe was redrawn at the Yalta Conference and divided as it became the principal zone of contention in the Cold War between the two power blocs, the Western countries and the Eastern bloc.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com.cob-web.org:8888 /reference/History_of_Europe   (5861 words)

  
 NATO Speech: EAPC Security Forum - Panel 1 “Addressing Europe's unresolved conflicts” - 25 May 2005
In my view conflicts are mainly caused by the situations where people are not only frustrated, but they are desperated by the lack of instruments, or other way to solve the conflicts.
Another feature of those conflicts, that is the presence, the military presence in those conflicts, in all those three conflicts, under whatever pretext, be it so-called peacekeeping operation, or whatever.
Of those conflicts that we are referring as the frozen conflicts, represent today end of secessionist movements in the ex-Soviet territories because all those regimes are controlled, centrally from Moscow, Moscow appoint those people, they are Russian citizens, so we cannot say that these people are striving for independence.
www.nato.int /docu/speech/2005/s050525k.htm   (12229 words)

  
 The History Guy: The War List
If a conflict can be broken up into one or more component parts, the secondary wars are listed below the primary war and are indented to show they "belong" to it.
In North America the colonial aspect of the conflict was known as King William's War.
This conflict concluded with the Oslo Accords, which set up a timetable for Palestinian nationhood and called for the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, with PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat as President.
www.historyguy.com /War_list.html   (3757 words)

  
 Israel and Europe: The Positive and the Negative - Hildegard Müller
Our values and shared historical experience of tyranny and despotism in Europe during the last century place on us a particular responsibility toward human life and to apply justice to protect inalienable human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.
If Europe made a clear commitment to Israel's security through a privileged partnership, this would be one step closer to greater trust and peace in the region.
It should be the responsibility of the UN Security Council and Europe to place this issue again on the agenda of the United Nations.
www.jcpa.org /israel-europe/ier-muller-05.htm   (3415 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Europe & Central Asia: Europe and Central Asia Overview
Ethnic conflict had attended the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia for ten years, and in 2001 its aftermath continued to shape much of the human rights landscape.
The decade of ethnic conflict in the region was evidenced in the millions who remained displaced in 2001, in some cases years after they originally left home.
Throughout the year, Council of Europe experts were seconded to the office of President Putin's representative on human rights in Chechnya, Vladimir Kalamanov, and the Parliamentary Assembly pursued a dialogue on Chechnya with the Russian Duma.
hrw.org /wr2k2/europe.html   (5726 words)

  
 List of conflicts in Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A, thus far incomplete, list of conflicts in Europe, (arranged both alphabetically and chronologically), including;
Global conflicts, in which Europe was a theatre of war
List of wars — a complete global listing
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe   (97 words)

  
 EURSOC: Europe: A Sitting Duck
Blame the Americans, Blame the Jews: Europe's response to the terrorist threat is a disturbing and unreformed echo of Vichy.
Unfortunately for the people of Europe, their vision on how best to tackle the global terror threat leaves a lot to be desired.
Maybe someone should point out to Chirac that the terrorists who added France to the Islamist hit list yesterday claim that the root causes of their grievance have nothing to do with poverty or injustice, but are based on France's headscarf ban and a 1300 year-old French military victory against the Moors.
www.eursoc.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/376/Europe:_A_Sitting_Duck.html   (705 words)

  
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The collapse of Communism in Central Europe in the second half of 1989 can be compared to the collapse of the three Empires: the Russian Empire in 1917-18, then the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires in November 1918.
The conflict over economics was between proponents of a speedy transition to the free market and those - former communists and socialists - who wanted a gradual transition with built-in safeguards to maintain living standards.
Conflict with Slovakia was another result of economic reforms - for unemployment there was twice that in the Czech lands (10% versus 4%).
web.ku.edu /~eceurope/hist557/lect20.htm   (17977 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Rebirth of Europe: Books: Elizabeth Pond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Of note is her discourse on how the perceptions of Europe's bloody and fragmented past impact on both the modern European and American psyches.
However, she then states that there are no new great politicians/ statesmen of this caliber in present day Europe, who are willing to fly in the face of certain domestic political death for the greater good.
Pond is right that Europe is a work in progress, but a work that will take significantly longer than Pond implies, especially if Europe and the EU does suffer a significant setback any of the issue areas Pond addresses.
www.amazon.com /Rebirth-Europe-Elizabeth-Pond/dp/0815771592   (1715 words)

  
 Politics of Europe (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It is a topic far more detailed than other continents due to a number of factors including the long history of nation states in the region as well as the modern day trend towards increased political unity amongst the European states.
Modern European Politics is dominated by the European Union, particularly since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc of Communist states.
There are few conflicts within Europe, although There remain problems in the Balkans and the Caucasus.
politics-of-europe.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (1079 words)

  
 U.S. military in Europe: The Pentagon’s Eastern obsession - Global Issues
Moreover, although the cost of living in East Europe is lower than in Germany, it is unlikely that these countries will contribute to the maintenance of U.S. bases - as Germany has been doing to the tune of $1 billion a year.
Soldiers sent to Eastern Europe on a routine six-month deployment may well end up being deployed to the Middle East or Central Asia for extended periods, and could then be separated from their families for as long as 18 months.
Yes, Eastern Europe is a bit closer than Germany is to the Middle East and Central Asia, and thus soldiers there could fly to the hot spots more quickly.
www.globalissues.org /Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/EastEurope.asp   (1151 words)

  
 National Recording Registry - National Recording Preservation Board (Library of Congress)
Note: this is a national list and many of the items listed are housed in collections across the country.
James Reese Europe was the first fl bandleader to record in the United States and was the personal conductor for the immensely popular dancing team of the 1910's, Irene and Vernon Castle.
Reflecting the cultural conflicts between Mexican-Americans and Anglo-Americans in the American Southwest, it describes the heroics of a vaquero falsely accused of murder.
www.loc.gov /rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-masterlist.html   (10901 words)

  
 Extropy Institute Directors & Advisors
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As with most mailing lists, it reflects opinions on various subjects and the posts therein should not be viewed as official endorsements of Extropy Institute or vice versa.
Statements on the Extropy-Chat List by Extropy Institute directors, Advisors, or executive officers should be presumed as the individual’s own views and are not to be taken as official statements representing Extropy Institute.
www.extropy.org /emaillists.htm   (2065 words)

  
 ROfE-IUCN Regional Office for Europe-publications-IUCN South Eastern European e-Bulletin
Following a long tradition, the local rural population in most of these countries has been collecting and using a variety of wild plant and mushroom species for medicinal, cosmetic and nutritional purposes, be it on subsistence level or for trade.
As elsewhere in Europe, however, destruction or conversion of habitats and an increasing demand for raw material, have piled on the pressure on medicinal plant resources in the Balkans.
Based on the Red List, the GSA is the most comprehensive evaluation ever undertaken of the status of the world’s biodiversity.
www.iucn.org /places/europe/rofe/rofe_publications/e_bulletin_3.htm   (6515 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Italy heads for EU showdown
The warrant is the keystone of the union's proposed anti-terror measures but Italy has blocked agreement by insisting on limiting it to only six offences - excluding crimes such as fraud and corruption - rather than the proposed list of 32.
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is to go to Rome next week to tackle Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi directly on the matter ahead of the leaders' summit in Laeken, where a decision on the warrant is expected.
Links to more Europe stories are at the foot of the page.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1698293.stm   (527 words)

  
 Significant Ongoing Armed Conflicts, 2006 — Infoplease.com
Where multiple parties and long-standing but sporadic conflict are concerned, date of first combat deaths is given.
Recently Suspended Armed Conflicts - Main warring parties Years of conflict Israel vs. Lebanon 2006 Indonesia vs. Aceh separatists...
war - war, armed conflict between states or nations (international war) or between factions within a...
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0904550.html   (306 words)

  
 Google Directory - Society > History > By Topic > Wars and Conflicts
Searchable database of major conflicts, battles and leaders from the Persian Wars to World War II.
Military developments in Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.
Overview of the conflicts in Europe from 1871 to 1945.
google.org /Top/Society/History/By_Topic/Wars_and_Conflicts   (545 words)

  
 Europe's Goofy Terrorist List
But when the 15 member-states of the European Union omitted the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) from their May 3, 2002 list of terrorist organizations, it was either a major oversight or shameful politics trumping truth.
Both organizations should be on anyone's terrorist list -- if such a list is to be taken seriously.
Such a policy proved disastrously ineffective throughout the great conflicts of the 20th century, and it's unlikely to do anything more than legitimize Colombia's guerrillas rather than brand them for what they are: unabashed terrorists.
www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed050302.cfm   (688 words)

  
 History of Europe infoTurkish.com Herşey Hakkında Türkçe Bilgi
Western Europe emerged as the site of a distinct civilization after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, as barbarian invasions separated it from the rest of the Mediterranean, where the Eastern Roman Empire (a.k.a.
Although he began as a defender of the Revolution against aggression from Austria and Britain, he conquered half of Europe before finally being defeated and deposed by the powers allied against him.
The U.S. and Western Europe (Britain, France, Italy, West Germany, etc.) established the NATO alliance as a protection against a possible Soviet invasion.
www.infoturkish.com /Turkey/History-of-Europe.html   (11801 words)

  
 Central/Eastern Europe - Council on Foreign Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The murder of a prominent journalist reinforces Russia’s image as one of the planet’s most dangerous places to cover news.
The move follows Georgia’s temporary seizure of Russian military officers, a mark of Tbilisi’s frustration over Russian policy in the region.
Fifteen years after the fall of the Soviet empire, a number of so-called frozen conflicts remain unresolved and threaten to unravel fragile peace accords in regions important to energy interests and organizations like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
www.cfr.org /region/329/centraleastern_europe.html   (597 words)

  
 Quia - VUS.12a-b; Cold War Conflicts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This body was designed to stop the spread of communism in Europe by using a defensive alliance
Type of government where the all aspects of people’s lives are controlled
Phrase to describe the separation between NATO and Warsaw Pact nations in Europe
www.quia.com /jg/332344list.html   (431 words)

  
 "History as a source of conflicts in Europe" - Report on UNITED Summercamp in Krakow 2003 (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Then it was the Greek-Turkish conflict that was carefully explained to the group, with direct reference to the historical episodes and the process by which Asia Minor became Turkey.
A short summary was given on the periodical context of the Balkan conflict of the nineties, followed by the conclusion of the Dayton Peace Agreement of December 1995, concluding the conflict.
The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia began in 1988 after the decision of leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), which was an integral part of Azerbaijan to separate this province and join Armenia.
www.united.non-profit.nl.cob-web.org:8888 /pages/repsum03.htm   (10922 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 11.995: Languages of Europe - Italy
LINGUIST List 11.995: Languages of Europe - Italy
Please keep conferences announcement as short as you can; LINGUIST will not post conference announcements which in our opinion are excessively long.
Sergio Scalise, Languages of Europe/ Le lingue d'Europa - Bologna, Italy
www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-995.html   (80 words)

  
 Christian Today - UK & World News Every Day > Doomsday Warning in London Arises from the Christian- Muslim Conflicts in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
A best-selling author and end-times expert, Dr. Hal Lindsey, who is specialized in Muslim-Christian conflicts, has also spoken about the warning recently.
Amidst persecution in India, the proclamation of the gospel continues to circulate the nation, according to a recent report by Bibles For the World’s founder Mawii Pudaite.
The United States is considering removing Vietnam this year from a list of countries accused of severe religious freedom violation, said the U.S. ambassador to the socialist republic.
my.christiantoday.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/missions/doomsday.warning.in.london.arises.from.the.christian.muslim.conflicts.in.europe/6.htm   (444 words)

  
 List of wars: Information from Answers.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
List of wars: Information from Answers.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)
List of possible exceptions to democratic peace theory
List of wars is mentioned in these AnswerPages:
www.answers.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/list-of-wars   (162 words)

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