Talk:Southern Europe
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Is Corsica part of Southern Europe? It isn't mentioned in the article even though it's highlighted on the map. ShadowDragon 01:25, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I'm afraid I must have highlighted that accidentally. Anyway, the article, as it is, is not particularly useful, this definition is rather narrow, imprecise, and there is no historic overview. --Shallot 10:30, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Of course that corsica is in southern Europe !!
Milan, in northen Italy is considered in south Europe while Corsica, wich is situated 300 kilometer more in the south of that city, in the middle of the mediteranen sea is not ??!! It is the same of south half of France, wich is as mediterranean as Italy... Even more than some italian regions: is italian tyrol in south europe ? in this region people speak a kind of german and look like to Austrians !...
This definition of south Europe is too much unprecise...
If we refer to latin cultures as "south european", all France should be included, even the northen part. There is a lot of differents definitions of what is south Europe (areas of mediteranean climate (this would exclude milano, torino or Madrid whose climate is not mediteranean but include nice, Marseille or Montpellier and corsica) areas of latin and hellenic cultures, etc...)
Map problem
I would like to point out that the map for this page does not match the countries listed, many are missing from the map.
definition of the definition
We currently have one opinion that it's just pt/es/it/gr, and that it's all of the Mediterranean countries. If we go either way, there's need to acknowledge the other one. --Joy [shallot] 11:58, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The definitions given of the different "regions" of europe seems strange, it seems to be very abitrary. monaco in south Europe while the other cities of french rivera won't because being in France... What makes France a country so different from its spanish and Italian neighbours for not being part of south Europe ?...
I don't know either where your definition of western Europe comes from. Why limiting western Europe to england, benelux and France ? Those countries don't share very much together culturally (France is a latin/catholic country, england and netherlands a germanic/protestant ones and geographically are not more western than iberian countries.
Geographically I could understand that Germany would be excluded from western Europe because it is more eastern, but why are Spain and Portugal excluded from western Europe ?!
I think the only way of dividing Europe in regions or group of countries is to group them by cultural affinities and not abitrary grouping like is is done. Us, Europeans we usually group ourselves this way, by lminguistic-cultural groups, Then : - The northern Europe consist of germanic countries (germany, england, netherlands, scandinavia, flemnig belgium, iceland..) - The southern Europe consist in latin countries (Italy, Portugal, Spain, France) - The eastern Europe consist of the slavic countries (poland, tchek rep., Slovaquia, Russia, Ex-Yougosalvia, Bulgaria, etc.
