Europe - Geography

Europe lies in the northern hemisphere, on the border between eastern and western hemisphere, territorially connected with Asia, thereby creating Eurasia. Europe is one of the seven continents on the globe.

Europe - History

Europe is the cradle of the oldest civilizations occurring mainly in the Mediterranean area. The first civilizations arose in the territory of present-day Greece and the Greek islands - the civilization Minoan, Cycladic and Mycenaean. Then gradually began to dominate the Roman culture. In the area of the north were less advanced civilizations created mainly by peoples of Celtic, Germanic and Slavic.

Europe - a description of the Continent

In Europe there are 46 states (including states lying only partly in Europe), and without dependent territories and separatist. 26 countries are associated in the European Union, 15 of which share the common currency - the euro. The surface is mostly lowland. European lowlands, however have one thing in common in terms of równinnego nature of the terrain are varied. It is linked with glaciations, which often included a large part of the continent. Mountainous and upland areas are located on the Scandinavian Peninsula, the northern part of the UK, western and central Europe and the eastern tip of the continent - Ural mountains.

Europe's climate is relatively mild compared to areas occurring at the same level in other parts of the world.

Europe is overwhelmingly dominated by Christianity, which is the state religion in most countries. Other religions - Islam, represents 7.5% of the European population, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, less than 1%.

Europe is the third most populous part of the world (after Asia and Africa) with more than 700 million inhabitants. From the 90 natural increase has been halted in many countries is negative. Urban population is a population management. Europe is quite diverse in terms of languages, the most important of which are English, German, Russian, French and Spanish and Italian. However, all these languages are Indo-European family. Europe lives a few hundred ethnic groups and peoples, whose consciousness of ethnic identity took shape in Europe.

Discover, visitors, and learned from Europe through the photos.    Discover, visitors, and learned from Europe through the photos.

 

Austria Czech Republic
France Hungary
Germany Greece
Italia Slovakia
Spain Poland
   
   
   
   

 

interesting facts Europe

 

Sample destinations travel from European countries (more interesting is the section of interest in each country):

                                                       

(Spain) Fiesta is an event dedicated to fun, entertainment, often in honor of local patron

                                                       

(Germany) In Germany there are more than 6,000 beers

                                                       

(Italy) in the region of Calabria in Sassi are multilevel homes in hollowed out rocks tufowych slopes that have 35 years ago, was inhabited by humans.

                                                       

(Czech Republic) Czechs consume the most beer in the world - 160 liters per person