Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Give 'em enough Europa

As the place of origin of many of our industrious immigrants, it is of more than passing interest to look at the next smallest continent, Europe. The divisions between Asia and Europe occur at the Ural Mountains, Ural River and Caspian Sea in the east, the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea with its outlets, Bosporus and Dardanelles in the south. Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey are considered part of both Europe and Asia. Armenia and Cyprus, which are entirely in Western Asia, are sociopolitically European countries. Some scholars speak of a combined continent, Eurasia, as the land mass is not separated by ocean.
Europe is the ancestral home of at least six branches of my family tree.

Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia and Montenegro
Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Vatican City

Within these countries are several semi-autonomous states:
Abkhazia
Åland
Faroe Islands
Gibraltar
Guernsey
 Isle of Man
Jersey
Kosovo
Nagorno-Karabakh

Northern Cyprus
South Ossetia 
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Transnistria

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