Research Europe

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The United Nations divides the continent of Europe into these regions:

Eastern Europe	Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Ukraine
Northern Europe	Åland Islands, Denmark, Estonia, Faeroe Islands, Finland, Guernsey, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Southern Europe	Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Gibraltar, Greece, Holy See, Italy, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Western Europe	Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Switzerland

Contents 1 Eastern Europe 2 Northern Europe 3 Western Europe 4 Southern Europe

Eastern Europe

Human trafficking/slavery in Russia and Eastern Europe

Northern Europe

Western Europe

Research Anti-Semitic Issues in Europe

Southern Europe

Greece

The Athenian plague 430 B.C.

What did Thucydides say about the plague? Read some of his writings....
• Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War, book I-book II, ch. 65 : a companion to the English translation by Rex Warner ; with introduction & commentary / by Thomas Wiedemann. Imprint Bristol : Bristol Classical Press, c1985. Location and call number.
How did the Athenian plague compare to other ancient pandemics?
• Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence : from ancient times to the present / George Childs Kohn, editor ; [foreword by Mary-Louise Scully]. Imprint New York : Facts on File, c2001. Location and call number.
What other theories have been put forth to explain the plague? For fulltext articles on the topic, dating back to the 1930s, search J-STOR.
• Example: Plague or Poetry? Thucydides on the Epidemic at Athens. by Thomas E. Morgan. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) > Vol. 124 (1994), pp. 197-209
• Thucydides' Description of the Great Plague at Athens. D. L. Page. The Classical Quarterly > New Series, Vol. 3, No. 3/4 (Jul., 1953), pp. 97-119
Need authoritative descriptions of diseases? Try the ebook The Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases in NetLibrary. What did Athens look like during the time of the plague? Look for the Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization in the Oxford Reference Online database. There are some nice maps in that ebook as well!