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Historical regions of Europe
- GaulIn 387 BC, warriors from Gaul marched into Rome and sacked the city.
- East PrussiaEast Prussia held 2.49 million people in 1939, but only 193,000 survivors by spring 1945.
- SudetenlandThe name Sudetenland did not exist until the early 20th century. It later became the flashpoint of a crisis over Munich.
- Krasnodar KraiIn July 2012, a wave five meters high hit the Russian town of Krymsk at night. At least 159 people died in Krymsk alone.
- Greek East and Latin WestMarcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations in Greek, not Latin. Latin speakers often learned Greek, not the reverse.
- Russian Far EastUntil 2010, the Russian Far East had no domestic highway to the rest of Russia.
- Roman provinceThe Latin word provincia originally meant a task, not a place. A treasury job could be one.
- BoeotiaBoeotia, a regional unit of Greece with Livadeia as its capital and Thebes as its largest city, was once the target of Athenian mockery. Athenians called its people Hog-Boeotians, and they claimed Boeotian ears were incapable of…
- RutheniaOn March 15, 1939, Carpatho-Ukraine declared independence, and Hungarian troops annexed it the same day.
- ColchisAccording to Greek and Roman sources, between 70 and 300 languages were spoken in one city of ancient Colchis.
- Seventeen ProvincesThe Seventeen Provinces law of 1549 lists only fifteen provinces. Historians still have no single agreed list.
- PrussiaPrussia began in 1525 as a monastery's land and ended in 1947 by Allied law.
- Low CountriesPays-Bas, the French name for the Netherlands, began as "lands down here."