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Central Europe is the region of Europe between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. There are no physical landmarks that would commonly be seen as its borders. Rather, it is a concept of shared history, in opposition against the East represented by the Ottoman Empire and Imperial Russia, and up to World War I distinguished from the West as the area of relative political conservatism opposing the modern liberal ideas acquired by overseas trading; and ultimately from the French Revolution. Following World War I, and even more so after World War II, these modern ideas in general, and liberal democracy in particular, expanded its dominance to Austria and Germany.

The concept of Central Europe is currently not much used, shadowed by Eastern and Western Europe as it long has been. It may be seen in historical and cultural contexts, where it denotes the area where Germans settled and mixed with Slavs and Magyars, and where gypsy and Jewish minorities made important cultural contributions. This notion has lost much of its relevance due to the HolocaustThis article deals with the Nazi Holocaust. For other meanings of the word Holocaust see Holocaust (disambiguation Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust refers to Nazi Germany's systematic genocide of various ethnic, religious, nat and the following ethnic divisionSee main article German exodus from Eastern Europe The expulsion of Germans after World War II refers to the mass deportation of people considered German (both Reichsdeutsche and Volksdeutsche from areas outside of Germany's post- WWII borders. The proces over the Oder-Neisse lineThe Oder-Neisse line ( German Oder-Neisse-Grenze Polish Granica na Odrze i Nysie Luzyckiej is the current border between Germany and Poland. The line consists mostly of the rivers Oder/Odra and Neisse/Nysa Luzycka, leaving the city of Szczecin/Stettin, lo with Germans transferred to the West both in physical and ideological sense.

Some used to joke that Central Europe is that part of the continent that is considered eastern by Western Europe and western by Eastern Europe.

1 Encyclopaedic definitions

According to several English-language encyclopedias, such as the 1911 Encyclopædia BritannicaThe Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1911) represents in many ways the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. The edition is still often regarded as the greatest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with many articles and the Columbia Encyclopediaencyclopedias The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and sold by the Gale Group. First published in 1936, the current edition is the sixth, printed in 2000. It contains over 50,000 articles, and has al, as well as the CIA World Factbook, the term Central Europe is taken to include:

In the article on Europe, the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia counts Germany (that then reached east of the Baltic) but not Switzerland to Central Europe; Liechtenstein is not mentioned. In other articles of that encyclopedia, France and Switzerland are included.

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