Eastern European
Baltic or Balkan
Eastern European describes people, cultures, languages, or things from the eastern part of Europe—historically the countries under Soviet influence during the Cold War.
The boundaries are fluid but typically include Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and the Balkans.
Eastern European immigrants, Eastern European cuisine.
The term sometimes carries outdated Cold War connotations that people from the region may find reductive.
- goulashPaprika-seasoned meat stew
- pierogiFilled Central European dumpling
- beet soupBroth from red roots
- SlavicOf certain Eastern Europeans
- UkrainianOf a Black Sea nation
Yugoslavia · winter coat · Warsaw Pact · Polish · Danube · Russian · onion domes · satellite states · Carpathians · Cyrillic · vodka · samizdat · babushka · bread and salt · communist · iron curtain · Velvet Revolution · post-Soviet
- continental originAfrican, Asian, North American, South American, Australian
- food originsAmerican, Asian, African, Mexican, British
- fencing stylesGerman school, Olympic fencing
Eastern EuropeanWestern European
From the continent's west
West European · Nordic · Mediterranean · Western · Scandinavian
Eastern EuropeanWestern European
From the continent's west
Western Bloc · First World · free world · capitalist · non-aligned
Eastern EuropeanWestern
Of Euro-American civilization
American · East Asian · Asian · Latin American · North American
east, eastern, Europe, Eurocentrism, European, Eurozone, Eurocentric