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Article: Central Europe, Art in
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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CENTRAL EUROPE, ART IN
CENTRAL EUROPE, ART IN.
The fluctuating nature of the cultural and political geography of Europe, together with the actual extent of the physical surface of the continent from the Urals to the Atlantic, has meant that the notion of a European center ha
s been diversely interpreted. In physical terms, since the continent is conventionally regarded as stretching from 10
°
west to 60
°
east longitude and 70
°
to 35
°
north latitude, its center is somewhere near the Polish city of Lublin. The site of the conception of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569
—
the political alliance largely responsible for the political face of central European ...
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