East Central Europe
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"Central and Eastern Europe" or "East Central Europe" in its usual sense encompasses the countries of Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, which share certain historical commonalities and connections. Specifically, these were extraordinary – at least by European standards – ethnic and religious diversity, the geopolitical context between Germany and Russia, the involvement of the region in imperial contexts over a number of centuries, the subsequent emergence of independent nation states, as well as cultural transfers and concentrations. The term "East central Europe" is itself a source of much debate, as are the borders of the region which it refers to. In its broadest sense it also includes the Baltic states, Belarus, and Ukraine, as well as southeastern Europe and the Balkans, Brandenburg-Prussia and – for the second half of the 20th century – the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). However, the narrower concept of east central Europe referred to above remains the dominant one in the German-speaking countries.
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