Europe
- 257 Silesia (Silesia)
- 1381 Danubia (River Danube)
- 1391 Carelia (Karelia)
- 2206 Gabrova (Gabrovo, Bulgaria)
- 2236 Austrasia (Austrasia, historic region from western Germany to eastern France)
- 3933 Portugal (Portugal)
- 7671 Albis (Latin name for the Elbe)
- 8020 Erzgebirge (German name for the Ore Mountains)
- 22618 Silva Nortica (Silva Nortica, a region at the border of Austria and the Czech Republic)
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Famous quotes containing the word europe:
“The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“The people of Western Europe are facing this summer a series of tragic dilemmas. Of the hopes that dazzled the last twenty years that some political movement might tend to the betterment of the human lot, little remains above ground but the tattered slogans of the past.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)