The European Realm
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| show | An area of spatial change where the peripheries of two adjacent realms or regions join; marked by a gradual shift (rather than a sharp break) in the characteristics that distinguish these neighboring geographic entities from one another.
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| City-state | show 🗑
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| show | A hallmark of Europe’s economic geography that later spread to many other parts of the world, whereby particular people in particular places concentrate on the production of particular goods and services.
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| show | The term applied to the social and economic changes in agriculture, commerce, and especially manufacturing and urbanization that resulted from technological innovations and greater specialization in late-eighteenth-century Europe.
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| show | Controlling power and influence over a territory, especially by the government of an autonomous state over the people it rules.
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| show | The downtown heart of a central city; marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings.
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| show | A term employed to designate forces that tend to divide a country—such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences.
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| Supranationalism | show 🗑
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| show | Rhône-Alpes (France), Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Catalonia (Spain), and Lombardy (Italy). Each is a high-technology-driven region marked by exceptional industrial vitality and economic success not only within Europe but on the global scene as well.
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| show | Legally protected residency status; usually granted by a host country to immigrants fleeing political oppression in their former homeland.
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| show | A sovereign state that contains a minuscule land area and population. They do not have the attributes of “complete” states, but are on the map as tiny yet independent entities nonetheless.
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| Urban system | show 🗑
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| Primate city | show 🗑
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| show | The internal locational attributes of an urban center, including its local spatial organization and physical setting.
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| Estuary | show 🗑
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| show | General term used to identify a large multimetropolitan complex formed by the coalescence of two or more major urban areas.
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| show | A location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another. In a port, the cargoes of oceangoing ships are unloaded and put on trains, trucks, or perhaps smaller river boats for inland distribution. An entrepôt.
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| show | A place, usually a port city, where goods are imported, stored, and transshipped; a break-of-bulk point.
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| show | Region caught between stronger, colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals. Eastern Europe is a classic example.
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| show | The fragmentation of a region into smaller, often hostile political units. Named after the historically contentious Balkan Peninsula of southeastern Europe.
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| show | The territory constituted by most of Europe’s countries within which people are free to cross international boundaries without formal border checks. Certain EU members do not fully participate: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Ireland, and Romania.
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| show | Four non-EU countries do participate: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and the microstate of Liechtenstein. Another non-participant is the United Kingdom, which voted to leave the EU in 2016.
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