Some questions about Europe-Asia boundary

Adrian Bailey (dadge@m) writes:
> What are your thoughts on Transcaucasia? The countries play soccer in the
> European Federation but I tend to count them as Asian.

When I ran a quiz on Europan capitals in rec.games.trivia a couple of
years ago, I used a definition where the highest peaks in the Caucasus
range defined the border. By this definition, Georgia and Azerbaijan
partly became part of Europe. (For the Ural, I used the Ural river
as the boundary.)

But there is also a definition which puts the border in the Manych basin,
which I believe is where the river that connected the Caspian Sea with
the Black Sea ran 10-12000 years ago. (Both were sweetwater lakes then.)
That definition puts all of the North-Caucasian republics in Asia.


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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se

> DFD <DietmarDrewes@> wrote in message
> news:9bfc4929.0309061324.1a6c9c78@c om...
> > Europe begins and ends where the Europeans live. To the east the
> > border is with China along the Amur and Ussuri river, to the west it
> > is the Atlantic coast of Portugal, the people living in these
> > territories are Europeans, posses European culture, are citizens of
> > European states and speak European languages, and that for several
> > millennia.

Some belive, that Europe ends at the Bug river .... :-)


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Jacek

Uzytkownik "Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews@houston.> napisal w
wiadomosci news:m8J6b.6999$Kr5.1982@twister.austin....
> The trap in the concept occurs in trying to call Europe a continent. In
> sensible geographic terms it in a peninsula of the single Eurasian
> continent. As a peninsula with a very broad base it is difficult to

I don`t think that many people share this idea of Mao ( Europe as a
peninsula of Asia )

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Jacek

Jacuo wrote:
> Uzytkownik "Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews@houston.> napisal w
> wiadomosci news:m8J6b.6999$Kr5.1982@twister.austin....

>>The trap in the concept occurs in trying to call Europe a continent. In
>>sensible geographic terms it in a peninsula of the single Eurasian
>>continent. As a peninsula with a very broad base it is difficult to

> I don`t think that many people share this idea of Mao ( Europe as a
> peninsula of Asia )

It certainly predates Mao. I know of no geographic definition of
continent that makes Europe one. FFM

Frank F. Matthews wrote:
>
> The trap in the concept occurs in trying to call Europe a continent. In
> sensible geographic terms it in a peninsula of the single Eurasian
> continent. As a peninsula with a very broad base it is difficult to
> define a boundary. The designation of East of the Urals as Eastern
> Europe is strange to folks brought up on the cold war concept where
> communism defined "eastern europe". To try to put Siberia in europe is
> strange. Should we include Alaska in europe as well? It's connection
> to Moscow is at least as good as that of Siberia. Perhaps western
> Canada and the NW US as well. FFM
>
> DFD wrote:
>

Turkey and even Israel (Must be Palestine as well then) seems sure that
they belong to Europe too.

But they don't, except for a tiny little peace of Turkey..........

/Anders

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"Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews@houston.> wrote in message news:<1sR6b.20889$162.477@twister.austin.>.. .

> It certainly predates Mao. I know of no geographic definition of
> continent that makes Europe one. FFM

Then you should go on studying.

There are several different sets of geographical continents depending
on the branch of geography you occupy yourself with.

If you study the orign of Tellus' land and oceans you probably refer
to the physical continents: Amercia, Euroasia, Africa, Australia,
Oceannia, Greenland, Antarktis etc. (I'm not sure about the English
word for this, but direct translation from Norwegian would be 'Nature
Geography')

If you study the sosioeconomic areas of the world you probably refer
to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia/Oceannia, North America (excluding
Mexico) and Latin America (including Mexico). In some context you will
find 3 Americas: North, Middle and south. Some would also suggest that
Russia is a continent. (I'm not sure about the English word for this,
but direct translation from Norwegian would be 'Culture Geography')

If you study (I'm not sure about the English word for this, but direct
translation from Norwegian would be 'Region Geography') you will focus
on regions rather than continents. In this branch of geography the
Middle east and Scandinavia will be looked upon as regions or
'continents'

Øystein

"Øystein" <oystein@nettkjenning.com> wrote in message
news:af795b07.0309080259.6a431824@c om...
> "Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews@houston.> wrote in message
news:<1sR6b.20889$162.477@twister.austin.>.. .
>
> > It certainly predates Mao. I know of no geographic definition of
> > continent that makes Europe one. FFM
>
> Then you should go on studying.
>
> There are several different sets of geographical continents depending
> on the branch of geography you occupy yourself with.
>
> If you study the orign of Tellus' land and oceans you probably refer
> to the physical continents: Amercia, Euroasia, Africa, Australia,
> Oceannia, Greenland, Antarktis etc. (I'm not sure about the English
> word for this, but direct translation from Norwegian would be 'Nature
> Geography')
>
Guess it is called "Physical Geography".