Mitteleuropa (Central/Middle Europe) is a German term equal to Central Europe. In Germany and Austria, the term usually refers to the territory covered by the modern states of:
and often includes regions that were part of Austria-Hungary and Baltic and western regions of the Russian Empire:
- Vojvodina in Serbia
- Parts of Romania
- Croatia
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- (small parts of) Italy (specifically South Tyrol and the city of Trieste, sometimes also the whole Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto include themselves in Mitteleuropa - now parts of the Alpe Adria region)
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Parts of Western Belarus
- Parts of Western Ukraine
Before the First World War, this part of Europe was divided between the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire, and the Russian Empire.
