Europe generally refers to the mass of the Eurasian peninsula westwards of the Ural Mountains, the islands of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic Ocean.
- Basques: Northern Spain and Southern France
- Crimean Karaites: Crimean Peninsula in Southern Ukraine
- Crimean Tatars: Crimean Peninsula in Southern Ukraine
- Izhorians: Northwest of Russia
- Komi: Komi Republic in Northeast of European Russia
- Mordvins: of the western Ural Mountains in Russia
- Nenets: Northeastern part of European Russia
- Sami: Northern and central Norway, Sweden, Finland and Kola peninsula in the Northwest of Russia
- Veps: Republic of Karelia, Northwest of Russia
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Famous quotes containing the word europe:
“riding flatcars to Fresno,
Across the whole country
Steep towns, flat towns, even New York,
And oceans and Europe & libraries & galleries
And the factories they make rubbers in”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn’t just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)