I CONSIDER EASTERN EUROPE TO BE THE SLAVIC PART OF EUROPE...
STARTING IN PRAGUE...THE OLD KINGDOM OF BOHEMIA...WHICH WAS THE MOST WESTERLY EXTENSION OF THE SLAVIC PEOPLE...
VIENNA WAS GERMAN...BUT THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE HAD MANY CATHLOIC SLAVS IN IT...BY CHOICE OR BY FORCE!
THESE PEOPLE ARE MAINLY THE CZECHS, POLES AND SOME UNIATE UKRAINIANS...WHO STILL RETAIN THE ORTHODOX RITES...ALSO THE CROATS AND THE SLOVENIANS...
THE "CROATS" BEING THE MORE WESTERLY AND THEREFORE "CATHOLIC" SERBS...WHILE "EASTERN" SERBS ARE MOSTLY ORTHODOX...
THE EASTERN SLAVS BEING THE BELORUSSIANS, THE MALORUSSIANS ...OR UKRAINIANS...AND THE RUSSIANS...COMPRISE THE GREAT MASS OF ORTHODOX SLAVS.
FINALLY, THE BULGARIANS TO SOME EXTENT...A VERY ANCIENT CULTURE....
AND THEN THE YUGOSLAVS... THE WORD "YUGO" SIMPLY MEANS "SOUTH" IN MOST SLAVIC LANGUAGES....
ALL THESE ARE THE GREAT SLAVIC ORTHODOX NATIONS...OF EASTERN EUROPE...TO THIS DAY.
THE DIVIDE BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC SLAVS AND THE ORTHODOX SLAVS WAS HUGE... AND PERSISTS EVEN TO THIS DAY...
WITH THE UNIATE RUTHENIANS AROUND LVIV ....BECOMING SORT OF... HALF CATHOLIC AND HALF ORTHODOX...WITH THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE CATHOLIC POPE ...BUT RETAINING THE EASTERN ORTHODOX RITES...
ALL THIS HAPPEN BECAUSE OF AN OLD TREATY MAKE BY THE POLES WITH THE POPE ...CONCERNING THE RUTHENIANS AROUND LVIV AND IN THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS...
THE HUNGARIANS ARE NOT SLAVS... RATHER A GROUP OF INVADING PEOPLES... FROM THE URALS, WHO ARE SOMEWHAT RELATED TO THE FINNS...AND NOT THE "HUNS" AS MANY THINK...
FINNISH AND HUNGARIAN LANGUAGES ARE NOT INDO-EUROPEAN ...AND HAVE ALMOST NO SIMILARITY TO SLAVIC LANGUAGES... MANY EUROPEANS HAVE A HARD TIME WITH THESE LANGUAGES.
