Mountain ranges and bodies of water of Europe: Mountain ranges of Europe , as Ural Mountains from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan, forms part of the conventional boundary between the regions of Europe and Asia - Main European drainage divides separating catchments including the basins of the rivers that empty into the Mediterranean Sea , the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea , to the endorheic basin of the Caspian Sea in Russia in the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean , the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
Social and economic history of Europe: Social history of Europe listed by today's countries - Economic history of Europe since Middle Ages following the decline and downfall of the Roman empire - Slavery in Europe European seas and countries: European seas, as Europe's boundaries are primarily maritime. The Baltic is entirely within Europe. Each of these is subdivided into smaller seas and straits , as the Caspian Sea between Europe and Asia is situated east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau of Western Asia - List of European countries by the number - from 0 to 14 - of other countries they border , putting France in 2nd place in the 21st century - still including overseas departments and territories - and Spain on 5th place still including Ceuta and Melilla in northern Africa, as Great Britain the later United Kingdom and the Netherlands found other ways to benefit from former colonies The European Environmental Agency EEA divides Europe into a total of eleven terrestrial biogeographical regions and seven regional seas.
Bernhard', 'Maloja', 'Morgins', 'Simplon', 'St. July-September Siege of Nuremberg: July-September Siege of Nuremberg, a battle campaign that took place in about the Imperial City of Nuremberg during the Thirty Years' War - Simplicius Simplicissimus, written in by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and probably published the same year, inspired by the events and horrors of the 'Thirty Years' War' which devastated Germany from to , and regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece.
Organization of medieval 'Free imperial city' states: Organization and development of medieval 'Free imperial city' states in Europe. Since 15th century development of medieval 'Free imperial city' states in central Europe including later Switzerland: 16th and 17th century, a number of Imperial Cities separated from the Empire, including cities connected to the 'Old Swiss Confederacy', gaining its formal independence from the Empire in after de facto independence since , as also tthe independence of the Imperial Cities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St.
Territory of independent city-state Nuremberg, and after city of Bern left to join the Old Swiss Confederacy in Territory of independent city-state Nuremberg, comprising some 1, square kilometres, making it one of the largest imperial cities territories, after the Imperial City of Bern left to join the Old Swiss Confederacy in , only the Imperial Cities of Ulm and Strasbourg had anything like the same amount of land.
