Eastern Europe is a region lying in the Eastern part of Europe. However, the term is highly context-dependent and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region".[1] A related UN paper adds that "every assessment of spatial identities is essentially a social and cultural construct".[2]
One definition describes Eastern Europe as a cultural entity: the region lying between Central Europe and Western Asia, with main characteristics consisting in Byzantine, Orthodox and limited Ottoman influences.[3][4] Another definition, considered outdated by some authors,[5][6] was created during the Cold War and used more or less synonymously with the term Eastern Bloc, including the countries that historically and geographically belong to Central Europe.[7] A third definition names the formerly Communist European states outside the Soviet Union as Eastern Europe,[8] though these countries are more commonly known as the constituents of Central and Eastern Europe.
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