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Ancestry is traced back to the Romans; Oil reserves were huge and helped the Nazis | Romania |
This country was once a part of Persia; Shares close ties with Turkey; and shares a border with Iran | Iraq |
Arch Duke Ferdinand's murder sparked WWI; Muslims were Killed | Bosnia & Herzegovina |
Became independent in 2008; capital is Pristina | Kosovo |
Important center of Slavic culture; Capital is Sofia | Bulgaria |
Capital is Belgrade; | Yugoslavia |
Capital is Podgorica | Montenegro |
At various times, this country was controlled by the Turks, Mongols, & the Tatars | Turkmenistan |
Desert landscape of this former soviet republic, in the Caucus', 25 million people, communist leaders have regained power | Uzbekistan |
Lake Bikal, dominated eastern europe until the fall of the berlin wall, large producers of oil and gas | Russia |
germany and soviets invaded this country in 1939; gave up 1/3 of their land to russia, soldiery movement replaced communism in 191 | Poland |
the most prosperous republic of the former Yugoslavia republics | Serbia |
The former home of Alexander the Great; the only Yugoslav republic to separate with nonviolence | Macedonia |
Split from the soviets; and is closest to finland | Estonia |
Buda, and Pest are split by the danube | Hungary |
this nation is second in size to Russia; next to the Aral Sea | Kazakhstan |
Chernobyl nuclear explosion in 1986; capital is minsk | Belarus |
second smallest soviet republic, densely populated, big agriculture, very similar to romania; Chisinau is the capital | Moldova |
home to the kyrgyz people | Kyrgyzstan |
this country and solvakia formed a country until 1993 | Czech Republic |
this country is the breadbasket; name means boarder lands; capital is kiev | Ukraine |
more people over the age of 100; culture goes back to the 4th century | Georgia |
People in this country are called Lets; language is based on sand-script | Latvia |
called Illyria, constantine came from this country; smallest balcan country in size and population; first atheist country | Albania |
1700 mile coastline, called the dalmatia coastline | Croatia |
became one of the first countries in the world to designate christianity as their national religion; first holocaust of the 20th century | Armenia |
Russians are the largest ethnic minority; capital is vilnus | Lithuania |
Eastern part of the former Czechoslovakia | Slovakia |
Nurek Dam is the highest in the world; dushanbe is the capital | Tajikistan |
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