Central Europe

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Central Europe is a region of the European continent that lies between Western and Eastern Europe, encompassing countries such as Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and others, and has long been a crossroads of cultural, political, and military history.

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Central Europe (hypothetical homeland) 1

Statements (66)

Predicate Object
instanceOf European region
borderRegionOf Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Mediterranean Basin
surface form: Southern Europe

Western Europe
climate temperate climate
continent Europe
dominantReligion Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy

Protestantism
Roman Catholicism
economicBloc European Union
hasCountry Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Germany
Hungary
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Poland
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Switzerland
Ukraine
hasMajorCity Berlin
Bratislava
Budapest
Kraków
Ljubljana
Munich
Prague
Vienna
Warsaw
Zurich
hasMajorRiver Danube
Elbe
Rhine
Vistula River
surface form: Vistula
hasMountainRange Alps
Bohemian Massif
Carpathian Mountains
Sudetes
hasPlain North German Plain
surface form: North European Plain
hasSeaAccess Baltic Sea
North Sea
historicalEmpire Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austro-Hungarian Empire

Holy Roman Empire
historicalEvent Reformation
Thirty Years' War
surface form: Thirty Years War

World War I
World War II
historicalRole crossroads of European cultures
crossroads of European trade routes
major theater of European wars
languageFamily Germanic languages
Romance languages
Slavic languages
locatedInTimeZone Central European Summer Time
Central European Time
partOf Europe
politicalDivision Iron Curtain
securityAlliance NATO

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Outer Western Carpathians locatedIn Central Europe
Pannonia locatedIn Central Europe
Polish People’s Republic locatedIn Central Europe
Polish–Lithuanian War locatedIn Central Europe
Poprad River locatedIn Central Europe
Prague locatedIn Central Europe
Province of West Prussia locatedIn Central Europe
Prussian Silesia locatedIn Central Europe
Reichsgau Wartheland locatedIn Central Europe
Roman–Germanic wars locatedIn Central Europe
Second Polish Republic locatedIn Central Europe
subject surface form: Silesia
Silesia locatedIn Central Europe
Slavic cultural sphere locatedIn Central Europe
subject surface form: Slavkov u Brna
Slavs locatedIn Central Europe
Slovakia–Germany border locatedIn Central Europe
southern Germany locatedIn Central Europe
subject surface form: Southern Germany
southern Slovakia locatedIn Central Europe
subject surface form: Southern Slovakia
Spiš Castle locatedIn Central Europe
Sudetenland locatedIn Central Europe
Sudetes locatedIn Central Europe
Switzerland locatedIn Central Europe
Tatra Mountains locatedIn Central Europe
Third Polish Republic locatedIn Central Europe
Third Silesian War locatedIn Central Europe
Thirty Years' War locatedIn Central Europe
Tisa riverbank locatedIn Central Europe
Tisza locatedIn Central Europe
University of Breslau locatedIn Central Europe
University of Ljubljana locatedIn Central Europe
University of Wrocław locatedIn Central Europe
Upper Austria locatedIn Central Europe
Upper Rhine Plain locatedIn Central Europe
Vienna locatedIn Central Europe
Vogtland locatedIn Central Europe
Waldeck locatedIn Central Europe
Warsaw District locatedIn Central Europe
Warsaw Metro locatedIn Central Europe
Wartheland locatedIn Central Europe
West Berlin locatedIn Central Europe
West Germany locatedIn Central Europe
West Prussia locatedIn Central Europe
West Slavs locatedIn Central Europe
Western Beskids locatedIn Central Europe
Zagreb locatedIn Central Europe
inner German border locatedIn Central Europe