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    Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Asia and Africa.

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      Northern Hemisphere shaded blue. The hemispheres appear...

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      1916 physical map of Europe. Topography of Europe. Some...

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    • European Union

    Europe is named after a princess in Greek mythology called "Europa." The myth says that Zeus kidnapped Europa and took her to Crete, where she became the mother of King Minos (from whom Europe’s first civilization gets its name, the Minoans). The name "Europa" was later used to describe Greece. Then, as the rest of modern-day Europe started to have...

    The history of Europe is long and has many turns. Many great countries originated from Europe. Greek mythology and the beginning of western civilizationcame from European nations. Some of the major periods in European history have been: 1. Ancient Greece (Minoan, Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic): c.2000 BC to 146 BC 2. Ancient Rome (Roma...

    Andreas M. Kaplan describes modern Europe as a continent where many different cultureslive closely together, "embracing maximum cultural diversity at minimal geographical distances". There are several major regions of Europe: 1. Eastern Europe 2. Central Europe 3. Western Europe 4. Northern Europe 5. Southern and Southeastern Europe Within these re...

    Most of Europe lies in temperate climate zones. However, there are many different climates throughout Europe. For example, during the winter, it may be snowing and -30 degrees Celsius for 4–5 months in Finland. Yet it may be much warmer, with no snow at all except on high mountains, in Spain.

    The European Union is a confederation of 27 European countries. These countries agree to follow common laws so that their citizens can move and trade in EU countries almost the same as they do in their own. Twenty of these countries also share the same type of money: the euro.

  2. Website europa .eu. The European Union ( EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. [8] [9] The Union has a total area of 4,233,255 km 2 (1,634,469 sq mi) and an estimated total population of over 448 million.

    • 2023 estimate
    • The European Parliament and the Council
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  3. Europe by cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1595. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about ...

  4. 2 days ago · Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia). It occupies nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. The long processes of history marked it off as the home of a distinctive civilization.

  5. The history of Europe means all the time since the beginning of written records in the European continent up to the present day. It is traditionally divided into ancient (before the fall of the Western Roman Empire ) medieval, and modern (after the fall of Constantinople ).

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