Cultural areas of European civilization

Abstract

Integrated cultural-spatial systems of wide ranges can be called civilizations, while their peripheral areas or civilization borders – limitrophes. Nowadays, eight great civilizations can be distinguished at the world map – Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, European (Western), Russian Latin American and African – they infiltrate one into another, depending on the level of communication’s development. The aim of this article is to stress the basic specifics and individualities of Western, Central-Eastern Russian-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, as cultural areas of the European civilization.

Integrisane kulturno-prostorne sisteme velikih razmera možemo nazvati civilizacijama, a njihove rubne prelazne prostore ili civilizacijske granice – limitrofima. Danas se na karti sveta izdvaja osam velikih civilizacija indijska, kineska, japanska, islamska, evropska (zapadna), ruska latinoamerička i afrička – koje se međusobno prožimaju u meri razvoja komunikacija. Cilj ovoga rada je da istakne osnovne specifičnosti i individualnost kulturnih areala Zapadne, Centralno-istočne, Rusko-istočne i Jugo-istočne Evrope.