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Ads by Google      Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose dominant culture is derived from European culture. In this prophecy, the West is definited based on religion, as the countries of western and central Europe historically influenced by two forms of Western Christianity, namely Catholicism and Protestantism, together with the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The term "Western world" is often interchangeable with the term First World stressing the difference between First World and the Third World or developing countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world   (2243 words)      Western world - encyclopedia article about Western world. Thus the concept of Western Europe is associated with liberal democracy; and its countries have been considered to share many cultural, economic and political traditions with the United States of America and Canada — which have received millions of Western European settlers since the discovery of the New World. According to Huntington's thesis, the primarily Roman Catholic and Protestant countries of western and central Europe, together with the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, constitute the "Euro-Atlantic" civilization, which share a common system of values, shaped by the historic influence of the Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment. The distinctions between the western and eastern parts of the Christian world remained through the Middle Ages, despite a nominal sense of Christian unity (the concept of "Christendom") brought about by the conquests of Christian lands by the Muslim Arabs and Turks. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/western+world   (3716 words)      Western Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Western Europe was largely defined by the Cold War, with the "Iron Curtain" separating it from Eastern Europe (Warsaw Pact countries). Almost all the countries of Western Europe received economical assistance from the United States through the Marshall Plan. The island-states of Iceland, Malta and Cyprus are generally considered part of Western Europe, but most of the time they are simply ignored. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe   (2200 words)      Western betrayal - definition of Western betrayal in Encyclopedia The Western Betrayal refers to the Allied policy towards various Central European countries from the Treaty of Versailles in 1918 to the decades long aftermath of the World War II, the Cold War. Defenders of the actions taken by the Western allies maintain that Realpolitik made it impossible to do anything else, and that they were in no shape to start a war with the Soviet Union over the subjugation of Poland and other Central and Eastern European countries immediately after the end of World War II. Moreover, it was used by ruling communists to underline anti-Western sentiments. http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Western_betrayal   (3542 words)      Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose dominant culture is derived from European culture. The Third World consisted of countries unaligned with either, and important members include India, Yugoslavia and for a time the People's Republic of China, though some find it expedient to group the latter two under Second World because of their communist ideology. In addition the clearly Greek-influenced form of Christianity, Orthodoxy, is more linked to Eastern than Western Europe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world   (2172 words)      Baltic Sea - encyclopedia article about Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is linked to the White Sea White Sea (Бе́лое мо́ре) is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the North Western coast of Russia. The Baltic Sea is a very young sea, formed by the last ice age. At the time of the Roman Empire, the Baltic Sea was known as the Mare Suebicum or Mare Sarmaticum. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Baltic+Sea   (3542 words)      Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Western and Central Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose ethnic identity and dominant culture are derived from European culture. Western countries have in common a high standard of living for most citizens - compared to the rest of the world. The distinctions between the western and eastern parts of the Christian world remained through the Middle Ages, despite a nominal sense of Christian unity (the concept of "Christendom") brought about by the conquests of Christian lands by the Muslim Arabs and Turks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world   (2379 words)      obst_en Yet while the Western emigrants are more reserved, and political emigrants are justly suspicious of the Bulgarian state, which has been reforming slowly since 1989, the communities in the former communist countries definitely tend to idealize and mythologize the homeland, and are quite often disillusioned upon direct contact with reality. In political terms, unlike the Bulgarian communities in the former communist countries and even the first-generation economic emigrants to the West, most of whom tend to be left-wing, political emigrants after 1944 and the recent economic emigrants are more right-wing conservative or liberal. When the Western Outlands were annexed by Yugoslavia in 1919, there were about 55,000 Bulgarians there; according to the latest Yugoslav census in 1991, their number is 25,000 (Todorova 1994: 9-10). http://balder.prohosting.com/asen/obst_eng.htm   (2379 words)      Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Moreover, they are predominantly Muslim countries, as opposed to the rest of Europe where many denominations of Christianity prevail. The boundary continues to the Caspian Sea, the crest of the Caucasus Mountains or, alternatively, the Kura River in the Caucasus, and on to the Black Sea; the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles conclude the Asian boundary. Almost all of Europe was possibly settled before or during the last ice age ca. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe   (3916 words)      mazrui2.htm This convergence between mainstream Western churches and mainstream mosques is clearer at the macro-level of global overview than at the micro-level of relations between Christians and Muslims within individual countries. Many of the millions of victims of Western violence in the two world wars were themselves fellow Christians -- though the Holocaust against the Jews and the Gypsies stand out as special cases of genocide perpetrated by Westerners in otherwise Christian nations. Western secular dictators have killed millions of Western Christians, as well as Jews and Muslims. http://www.swahilionline.com/features/articles/mazrui/mazrui2.htm   (3916 words)      The roots of Arab Anti-Semitism  - Radical Islam’s favorite Western tradition.  By David Greenberg Whereas in Israel, as in other Western countries, overt bigotry is scolded, ignored, or kept out of politics, mainstream Arab culture promotes extreme anti-Semitic ideas through schools, newspapers, television, popular culture, and official ideology. Nationalism served to justify the repression of “alien” peoples, especially Jews—not just in eastern Europe, where Jews lived in ghettos, insulated from their Polish or Russian compatriots, but even in Western Europe, where many Jews were assimilated and considered themselves full citizens of their countries. For example, whatever one thinks of the extent of anti-Semitism still extant within the Catholic Church, most Westerners consider the 1964 decision by the Second Vatican Council to repudiate claims that Jews killed Christ to be a mark of progress, to say the least. http://slate.msn.com/?id=2057949   (1566 words)      Crimes of Honor and Shame In contrast to traditional societies where the type of patriarchy is what Scharabi (1988) calls neo-patriarchy, the responsibility of control in modern Western countries shifts from male members of a woman's biological family to her male intimate partner. In conclusion, it is the position taken in this paper that while honor has not been considered an overt explanation for violence against women in modern Western societies such as the United States, its import as a possible explanatory variable should not be negated. In fact, it is the combination of individualism, patriarchal societies and the privacy of the home, that Western feminists and those involved with the study of domestic violence have long argued kept the extent of such violence hidden in modern Western societies. http://www.critcrim.org/redfeather/journal-pomocrim/vol-8-shaming/araji.html   (1566 words)      Asia Maps Countries Landforms Rivers and Information pages As the planet's largest continent, Asia includes (44) countries and assorted island dependencies. Note that countries labeled in red on the map indicates that the country is certainly a part of the Asian continent, but are often referred to as being a part of the Middle East. Middle East: Countries considered part of the Middle East are shown in a lighter shade of green, and their names are indicated in red. http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/as.htm   (1566 words)      NIGC - Country Analysis Briefs: Western Europe: Greece [eia.doe.org] Greece's power network currently is connected with the networks of Albania, FYROM, and Bulgaria, allowing Greece to export electricity to Kosovo, Yugoslavia, through Albania and FYROM (although transmission problems in those countries prevented much of this electricity from reaching its intended recipients). Greece is involved in a number of projects to link its electric grid with neighboring countries. Many analysts believe that there is potential for further oil discoveries in Greece, but extensive oil exploration activity has not yet occurred and would require significant foreign investment. http://www.nigc.ir/eia/greece.asp   (1566 words)      Low Countries Prior to early modern nationbuilding, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe roughly stretching from Dunkirk at its south-western point to the area of Schleswig-Holstein at its north-eastern point, from the estuary of the Scheldt in the south to Frisia in the north. The name given to the countries (outside of Palestine) through which the Jews were dispersed, and secondarily to the Jews living in those countries. Offers visa support to citizens of foreign countries wishing to come to Russia or the countries of the CIS. http://www.omniknow.com/common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Low_Countries   (1622 words)      The Western Hemisphere's Response to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the United States It is an honor for me to have this opportunity to discuss the response of Western Hemisphere countries at the Organization of American States to the terrorist attacks of September 11. First of all is to improve the capability of the countries in the hemisphere to identify, investigate or provide intelligence capability to monitor individuals who are involved in illegal or illicit activity, to bring those issues to their attention, and certainly working with us to our attention. Chairman, to discuss the response of the Western Hemisphere nations at the OAS to the September 11 attacks. http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa75633.000/hfa75633_0.htm   (16611 words)      East Asian History Sourcebook: Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E. The accounts of the countries of Central and Western Asia contained in the dynastic histories exhibit a certain uniformity inasmuch as certain classes of geographical facts are represented in them with some regularity. The country of Ta-ts'in [Roman Syria], also called Li-kan [Syria], is the general meeting-ground for the nations of the western heaven, and the place where the foreign merchants of Ta-shih [the Arabs of the Caliphate] assemble. On the west the country bounds on the western sea [the Mediterranean]; on the south, on the southern sea [Red Sea?]; in the north it connects with K'o-sa T'u-ch'ueh [the Khazars]. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/romchin1.html   (16611 words)      Institution building in Russia's regions: the challenge of transformation and the role of globalization forces By channeling their help and attention to certain groups and personalities, the Western countries were motivated to strengthen politically and ideologically those leaders prone to cooperation with the West, and to find appropriate political orientations in the unknown world of regional Russia. The Western assistance strategy sometimes concentrates funds in the hands of small, centralized, hierarchical organizations, pursuing their own survival as a priority, rather than the original mission. Western religious institutions are capable of having a certain impact in many regions, especially east of the Urals. http://www.isanet.org/archive/perovic.html   (16611 words)      Central Europe Review - Europe: What are East and West? The distinction between Western Europe and Eastern Europe is becoming less apparent with the majority of countries vying to become members of the European institutions. It has been described as the "marchland" of Europe where Western civilisation merges with a culture that is non-Western and non-European, and it has been described as a "shatter zone" where mixed and fragmented nations have been pieced together into nation-states across the divisions of culture and civilisation. The crossing of cultures and traditions both between Western Europe and Eastern Europe and Europe and Asia marked, for H J Mackinder, a region of potential strategic importance in determining the power centres of the future. http://www.ce-review.org/99/23/lovatt23.html   (16611 words)      Western Sahara The indigenous population of Western Sahara are Sahrawis, and their exact number is difficult to estimate — many have moved into mainland Morocco, many others abroad, while a large group have sought refuge in neighbour countries, principally Algeria. The Green March, the action of Morocco to claim Western Sahara, has resulted in unity and national pride among Moroccans, where the idea that the capital of Laayoune is an extraordinarily beautiful city, while it is just like anywhere else in Morocco, should be an indicator of how strong sentiments are. For the former king of Morocco, king Hassan 2, the Western Sahara situation resulted in unity around his position and as well as damming of the struggle for democratization. http://i-cias.com/e.o/w_sahara.htm   (725 words)      The Cranes Countries where this is a critical need include Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey. Black-necked Cranes were formerly found during the winter in portions of Myanmar and Vietnam, but are no longer believed to occur in these countries. The northern population of resident Wattled Cranes occurs in the Rift valley and highlands of western Ethiopia. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/birds/cranes/regional.htm   (725 words)      CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Slavs Consequently if we were to follow strictly the written historical authorities, of which a number are very trustworthy, we would be obliged to support the theory that the original home of the Slavs is in the countries along the Danube and on the Adriatic coast. In Austria the Poles form the population of Western Galicia and are in a large minority throughout Eastern Galicia; in Eastern Galicia the population of the cities particularly is preponderantly Polish, as is also a large part of the population of a section of Austrian Silesia, the district of Teschin. Consequently the Slavonic reader of these chronicles would believe that the starting point of the migrations of the Slavs also was the Balkans and the region of the lower Danube. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14042a.htm   (725 words)      17 - THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE YUGOSLAV CRISIS FOR WESTERN EUROPE'S FOREIGN RELATIONS Nevertheless, there is a growing reluctance blindly to follow Western initiatives and there are also changes under way in the domestic political equilibrium which could in the long term affect these countries' foreign policies. Western strength of action can only be maintained if leadership is exercised jointly by the West Europeans and the Americans; but joint leadership requires greater equality among partners, and, consequently, the West Europeans must move forward with their political unification and the improvement of their own crisis management capability. Western Europe's hesitant involvement in former Yugoslavia is interpreted by Central Europeans as being largely the result of confusion over western strategic interests in the Balkans in particular, and in Central and Eastern Europe in general. http://www.iss-eu.org/chaillot/chai17e.html   (725 words)      The New "Great Game": Oil Politics in the Caucasus and Central Asia -- Heritage Regional conflicts in the Caucasus and Central Asia threaten to deny Western access to the vital oil and gas reserves the world will need in the 21st century. Therefore, the safest (and cheapest) route for Eurasian oil, which is preferred by Western oil companies, is a large pipeline from the Caucasus via Turkey to the Eastern Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.        One purpose of the Russian intervention was to weaken Georgia and curb Turkish and Western influence in the region. http://web.nps.navy.mil/~relooney/Caspian_13.htm   (725 words)      ZNet Africa Western Sahara A Western Saharan solidarity campaign could actually enhance the credibility of the Palestinian solidarity campaign, since it would demonstrate that progressives are opposed to all occupations, including those by Arab countries. One claim against a Sahrawi state is that the fate of the long-standing, West-friendly Arab dynasty in Morocco is tied to the Western Sahara. Similarly, the Western Sahara dispute has damaged the once-lofty goals of economic integration by the Arab Maghreb Union—the economic pact between Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, and Libya signed nearly a decade ago. http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=4819   (2067 words)      Baltic Sea - encyclopedia article about Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is linked to the White Sea White Sea (Бе́лое мо́ре) is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the North Western coast of Russia. The Baltic Sea is a very young sea, formed by the last ice age. At the time of the Roman Empire, the Baltic Sea was known as the Mare Suebicum or Mare Sarmaticum. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Baltic+Sea   (3542 words)      faq There tend to be more people with backgrounds with elements from where Western countries had colonies in Asia—thus there are more Indian-English (also known as "Anglo-Indians"), Vietnamese (formerly "Indochinese")-French, and Indonesian-Portuguese/Dutch/English Eurasians (these last also being known as "Indos" and the most numerous "type" of Eurasian). Eurasians in Asia sometimes encounter discrimination there because historically many of their mothers were impregnated by Westerners, with the woman often having been raped or forced to sell herself (the father often having been a soldier). Eurasians (in the West) tend to be viewed as simply "Asian"—with Western stereotypes of Asian women (demure, alluring, exotic) being relatively positive compared to those for Asian men (neurotic, effeminate, asocial). http://www.concentric.net/~oliverlu/discussion.html   (3542 words)      Western United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hawaii is the only state in the union in which Asian Americans outnumber residents of European stock, and Asians from many countries have settled in California and other coastal states in several waves of immigration since the 1800s. As defined by the Census Bureau, the Western region of the United States includes 13 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Mocan of chewntana, New Mexicohello, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The region is also renowned for libertarian political thought. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_(U.S.)   (3504 words)      Western culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In this definition, Western culture is the set of literary, musical, philosophical and other traditions from Western Europe and countries whose history is strongly marked by Western European immigration or settlement. The Western world is a group of countries and cultures of which the composition depends on the definition used. The origins of Western Culture are often cited as ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and Catholic and Protestant Christianity, and as such, some describe it the "Judeo-Christian culture". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture   (717 words)      jul26.mak The designation "Western Outlands" caused a scandal at Mrs Savovic's meeting today with the members of the National Assembly standing committees on foreign policy and on human rights and religious denominations. The MPs, Evgeni Ekov and Anatoli Velichkov of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Union on Macedonian Societies, said the rights of Bulgarians in the two neighbouring countries are being violated and asked the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister for the action they have undertaken in a view of this. An opposition MP emphasized that the name "Western Outlands" is used in conformity with historical tradition, without implying a desire to revise the existing borders. http://www.b-info.com/places/Macedonia/republic/news/95-07/jul26.mak   (717 words)

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