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minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 months agoRussia west of the Ural mountains is Europe, east is Asia. But the Caucasus mountains are also a border between Europe and Asia.
minus-squareJubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoThus proving the almost total arbitrariness of defining Europe as a “continent” but here we are.
minus-squareVindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoThat’s how the Romans divided the world thousands of years ago and it stuck.
Russia west of the Ural mountains is Europe, east is Asia. But the Caucasus mountains are also a border between Europe and Asia.
Thus proving the almost total arbitrariness of defining Europe as a “continent” but here we are.
That’s how the Romans divided the world thousands of years ago and it stuck.