Silangang Europa: Pagkakaiba sa mga binago

Ang '''Silangang Europa''' ay ang [[silangan]]g bahagi ng [[kontinente]] ng [[Europa]]. Ang kataga ay mayroong malawak na pagkakaiba sa pag-unawang [[heopolitiko]], [[pangheograpiya]], [[pangkultura]], at [[pangsosyoekonomiya]], kung kaya't nakabatay ito sa diwa at may katangiang pabagu-bago.<ref name="TheBalkans">[http://www.cotf.edu/earthinfo/balkans/BKdef.html "The Balkans"], ''Global Perspectives: A Remote Sensing and World Issues Site''. Wheeling Jesuit University/Center for Educational Technologies, 1999-2002.</ref> Isang kahulugan ang naglalarawan na ang Silangang Europa ay isang [[entidad]] na [[kulturang Europeo|makakultura]] at [[etno-kultural]]: bilang isang rehiyong nakalagay sa Europa na ang pangunahing mga katangian ay binubuo ng mga impluwensiyang [[Bisantino]], [[Kristiyanismong Pangsilangan]] (Ortodoks) at ng maliit at may limitasyon na impluwensiyang [[Imperyong Ottoman|Ottoman]].<ref name="UN">[http://141.74.33.52/stagn/JordanEuropaRegional/tabid/71/Default.aspx A Subdivision of Europe into Larger Regions by Cultural Criteria prepared by Peter Jordan, the framework of the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN), Vienna, Austria, 2006]</ref><ref name="EasternEuropeHandbook">{{Citation |last=Ramet |first=Sabrina P. |title=Eastern Europe: politics, culture, and society since 1939 |page=15 |year=1998 |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=eWmDAd6vr5sC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=eastern+europe+definition&source=bl&ots=tYi5LhsIpz&sig=rHczwXEiCcPkVGNMUokIYc-sMVE&hl=en&ei=q5CPSt_0C4GN_AaSlK2vAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=eastern%20europe%20definition&f=false |accessdate=2011-10-05}}</ref> Isa pang kahulugan ang isinasang-alang-alang ng ilang mga may-akda bilang hindi na napapanahon,<ref>"The geopolitical conditions (...) are now a thing of the past, and some specialists today think that Eastern Europe has outlived its usefulness as a phrase."{{Citation |url=http://science.jrank.org/pages/11016/Regions-Regionalism-Eastern-Europe-Future-Eastern-Europe.html |title=Regions, Regionalism, Eastern Europe by Steven Cassedy |publisher=New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Charles Scribner's Sons |year=2005 |accessdate=2010-01-31}}</ref><ref name="sofiaecho.com">[http://www.sofiaecho.com/2010/01/10/839942_the-economist-eastern-europe-a-bogus-term The Economist: Eastern Europe a bogus term - South Eastern Europe - The Sofia Echo<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref name="cotf.edu">"One very common, but now outdated, definition of Eastern Europe was the Soviet-dominated communist countries of Europe."http://www.cotf.edu/earthinfo/balkans/BKdef.html</ref><ref name="CEreview">"Too much writing on the region has - consciously or unconsciously - clung to an outdated image of 'Eastern Europe', desperately trying to patch together political and social developments from Budapest to Bukhara or Tallinn to Tashkent without acknowledging that this Cold War frame of reference is coming apart at the seams. [http://www.ce-review.org/99/1/hanley1.html Central Europe Review: Re-Viewing Central Europe By Sean Hanley, Kazi Stastna and Andrew Stroehlein, 1999]</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Berglund |first1=Sten |last2=Ekman |first2=Joakim |last3=Aarebrot |first3=Frank H. |title=The handbook of political change in Eastern Europe |page=2 |year=2004 |publisher=[[Edward Elgar Publishing]] &#91;via Google Books&#93; |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=HeRzzwzdfPkC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=Eastern+Europe+term+outdated&source=bl&ots=LSLHG97Qxj&sig=6WDECgIXGRj7hrP6RNTBMqCvMHE&hl=en&ei=63n9StCdDNjD_gbp0vSMCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBgQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=Eastern%20Europe%20term%20outdated&f=false |accessdate=2011-10-05 |quote=The term 'Eastern Europe' is ambiguous and in many ways outdated.}}</ref> ay nalikha noong panahon ng [[Digmaang Malamig]] at ginagamit, humigit-kumulang, bilang katumbas ng katagang ''[[Bloke ng Silangan]]''. Isang kahalintulad na kahulugan ang nagpangalan sa dating mga [[Estado (pamahalaan)|estado]]ng [[komunista]] sa Europa na nasa labas ng [[Unyong Sobyet]] bilang "Silangang Europa".<ref name="EasternEuropeHandbook"/>