Eastern Europe

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Eastern Europe
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Poland

• Capital Warsaw
• One of the largest countries in Eur
• North Lakes, forests, bogs low swampy lands
• South Carpathian Mountains
• W mild weather
• E cooler weather

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• Used to be communist
• 1989 started moving toward market economy
• 25 work on farms
• Coal mining major industry

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• Warsaw heavily damaged in WWII
• Many Nazi concentration camps were in Poland
• 1947 Communists control
• 1980 Solidarity movement
• Lech Walesa 1st dem pres
• Now a democratic republic

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• 1/3 of people live in countryside
• Most Roman Catholic
• John Paul II 1st Polish pope head of Catholic
  church

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Baltic Republics

• Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
• All on Baltic Sea
• Became independent from Russia in 1991
• Mostly poor swampy land
• Economy based on cattle, fishing, shipbuilding

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Hungary

• Landlocked- Danube River
• Hungarian plain in E- good soil for farming and
  livestock
• Transdanubia in W-rolling hills, forests , lakes

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• Farmers grow a variety of crops
• Coal, petroleum, natural gas

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• Magyars
• Nomads from Central Asia
• Skilled horsemen
• About 90 of people descended from Magyars

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• Capital Budapest
• 2 cities separated by Danube
• W-old Buda
• E-modern Pest

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Czech Republic

• Capital Prague
• Landlocked
• Highest standard of living of E Eur
• Economy
• Agriculture
• Manufactures vehicles, textiles, metals

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Slovakia

• Capital Bratislava
• Carpathian Mountains in N
• Economy
• Iron ore, lead, zinc, copper
• Heavy industry, plastics, processed foods