Talk:Europe

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Economy of Europe[edit]

I think this would be in the economy section: Europe has a long history as the world's richest and most productive part of the world. At the time of Christ's birth is estimated western European output per capita was approximately 30% higher than the world average. Year 1500 had this advantage increased to 40%.[1] After the development of science and the Industrial Revolution in Europe grew its lead quickly, in 1700 produced an average European almost 70% more than world's average population, and in 1850 was taken over the entire 150%. Around the year 1900 was Western Europe's leading role as the world's most productive area has been taken over by the former European colony of the United States, but Europe has continued to belong to the world's richest, most productive and knowledge-producing regions.[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.103.205.2 (talk • contribs) 12 January 2011

References

  1. ^ a b Madisson, Angus (2009). [http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/Historical_Statistics/horizontal-file_09-2008.xls Statistics on World Population, GDP and Per Capita GDP, 1-2006 AD].

Chinese Name Change[edit]

I deleted the following sentence from this page:

which is an abbreviation of the transliterated name Ōuluóbā zhōu (歐羅巴洲)

I did this because, I have never heard this term though I am a speaker of Chinese. I asked some native Chinese speakers, and they also had never heard this term. I have found any research indicating that the term 欧洲 is an abbreviation of 欧罗巴州, as the deleted sentence suggests, though 欧罗巴 is direct transliteration of the word Europe into Chinese. The word was used on the Chinese Language Wikipedia page refers to 欧罗巴 only as a transliteration for the Greek word "Europa." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agenbite (talk • contribs) 27 January 2012

The image[edit]

Isn't that Europe image a bit big?

Change native spelling (transliteration) Ukrajina → Ukrayina[edit]

As native, I would like to declare that "Ukrayina" sounds closer to national variation rather than "Ukrajina".

Chechnya and Dagestan[edit]

Chechnya and Dagestan are autonomous regions located within Russia. We already have South Ossetia and Abkhazia listed (which are autonomous regions within Georgia).

Also, is it possible to include Circassia?

WikiNutt (talk) 12:09, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

South Ossetia declared independence back in 1991, has never been re-annexed, and still seeks international recognition. Abkhazia declared independence in 1992, has not been re-annexed, and seeks international recognition. Abkhazia is under Russia's military protection and Georgia has declared the area to be "a Russian-occupied territory". (As a sidenote, Abkhazia performed ethnic cleansing of Georgians in the 1990s and still discriminates against any remaining Georgian minority. The so-called Abkhazian Revolution of 2014 ousted a President just because he granted citizenship rights to ethnic Georgians and gave them a right to hold passports. )

I am not certain what to do with Russia's autonomous regions. Chechnya and Dagestan are considered part of Eastern Europe, but they hold status as federal subjects in the Russian federation.

Why Circassia? The region lost autonomy and political coherence in 1864. Its former areas are currently divided between Krasnodar Krai, Adygea, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia-Alania, and Stavropol Krai. The traditional Circassian capital, Sochi, is in Krasnodar Krai. Dimadick (talk) 06:00, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

They aren't self-declared independent states, so why would they be included? Rob984 (talk) 14:52, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Battle of Prokhorovka was not the largest tank battle[edit]

From the article: "The Battle of Kursk, which involved the largest tank battle in history, was the last major German offensive on the Eastern Front" it links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prokhorovka It is a misconception that the Battle of Provkhoravka was the largest tank battle, as the actual number of German tank in the battle was heavily overestimated by the Soviets. Could somebody correct this? VictordeHollander (talk) 14:14, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

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