* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

Azerbaijan also maintains good relations with the European Union, in the framework of its Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy ( See Azerbaijan and the European Union ).

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

Modern-day Arab telephone keypad with two forms of Arabic numerals: Western Arabic / European numerals on the left and Eastern Arabic numerals on the right

Both countries are full members of the Southeast European Cooperation Process, of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative, of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and of the Council of Europe.

The U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and Support for Eastern European Democracies ( SEED ) has played a large role in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, including programs in economic development and reform, democratic reform ( media, elections ), infrastructure development, and training programs for Bosnian professionals, among others.

However, Bulgaria ranks 51st in the Ease of Doing Business rank list, higher than most other Eastern European states, and 28th in the Economic Freedom of the World index, outperforming the Netherlands and South Korea.

| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Hungarian composer, pianist, and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music

Central Europe, sometimes referred to as Middle Europe, is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe.

In a June 5, 1947 speech, comporting with the Truman Doctrine, Marshall announced a comprehensive program of American assistance to all European countries wanting to participate, including the Soviet Union and those of Eastern Europe, called the Marshall Plan.

This also brought a large wave of immigrants from European and Middle Eastern countries.

Its combination of modern innovation ( such as mixed gender seating ) and traditional practice particularly appealed to first and second-generation Eastern European Jewish immigrants, who found Orthodoxy too restrictive, but Reform Judaism foreign.

Klaus von Beyme, who developed the method of party categorization, found that no modern Eastern European parties could be considered conservative, although the communist and communist-successor parties had strong similarities.

The literature of European archaeology, in general, avoids the use of ' chalcolithic ' ( the term ' Copper Age ' is preferred ), whereas Middle Eastern archaeologists regularly use it.

Fraying amongst the members of the Warsaw Pact nations and instability of its western allies, first indicated by Lech Wałęsa's 1980 rise to leadership of the trade union Solidarity, accelerated, leaving the Soviet Union unable to depend upon its Eastern European satellite states for protection as a buffer zone.

Before Delaware was settled by European colonists, the area was home to the Eastern Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the Delaware valley, and the Nanticoke along the rivers leading into the Chesapeake Bay.

For example, dentists graduated from Israeli dental schools may recommend more often for the removal of asymptomatic impacted third molar ( wisdom teeth ) than dentists graduated from Latin American or Eastern European dental schools.

Dairy products are commonly found in European, Middle Eastern and Indian cuisine, whereas they are unknown in traditional East Asian cuisine.

*** Smetana, Central and Eastern European variety of sour cream

In the years prior to World War I similar art had already risen in Bucharest and other Eastern European cities ; it is likely that DADA's catalyst was the arrival in Zurich of artists like Tzara and Janco.

Animals sacred to Apollo included wolves, dolphins, roe deer, swans, cicadas ( symbolizing music and song ), hawks, ravens, crows, snakes ( referencing Apollo's function as the god of prophecy ), mice and griffins, mythical eagle – lion hybrids of Eastern origin.

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources research scientist Brent Patterson has revealed findings that most coyotes in Eastern Ontario are wolf-coyote hybrids and that the Eastern wolves in Algonquin Park are, in general, not interbreeding with coyotes.

Spain, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus Mountains still have virgin forest areas that are not only home to sizable deer populations but also for other animals that were once abundant such as the wisent, Eurasian lynx, Spanish lynx, wolves, and Brown bears.

That said, residential development in the greater West Island suburban region ( including the Vaudreuil-Soulanges area and parts of Eastern Ontario ), has resulted in occasional sightings of black bears, wolves, lynx and cougars ( which are generally believed to be extinct though sightings and some physical evidence suggest otherwise ) as they themselves are pushed out of their habitats.

On March 31, 2010, a presentation by Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources research scientist Brent Patterson outlined key findings about the Eastern Wolf ( and coyotes ): Most coyotes in Eastern Ontario are wolf-coyote hybrids ; wolves in Algonquin Park are, in general, not inter-breeding with coyotes ; and the buffer zone around Algonquin Park is a great success with mortality rates down and populations remaining stable.

In 2005, after a court ruled that ranchers could not shoot wolves caught attacking livestock, the Associated Press reported that " Sharon Beck, an Eastern Oregon rancher and former president of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association, said the ruling leaves ranchers little recourse but to break the law -- known around the West as ' shoot, shovel and shut up ' -- when wolves move into their areas ".

On March 31st, 2010, a presentation by Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources research scientist Brent Patterson outlined key findings that most coyotes in Eastern Ontario are wolf-coyote hybrids and the Eastern wolves in Algonquin Park are, in general, not inter-breeding with coyotes.

Prior to European settlement, the area also supported woodland caribou ( a relative of the Arctic caribou which inhabited northeastern North America ), as well as the Eastern Cougar and wolves.

Fladry lines have been used for this purpose for several centuries, traditionally for hunting wolves in Eastern Europe.

This is a 567 km² reservation in Eastern Carpathians with brown bears, lynx, gray wolves, black capercaillies and eagles.

Unlike wolves in North America, many Eurasian wolf populations are forced to subsist largely on livestock and garbage in areas with dense human activity, though wild ungulates such as moose, red deer, roe deer and wild boar are still important food sources in Russia and the more mountainous regions of Eastern Europe.

Western European nations tend to have more restrictions on gun ownership and use than Eastern European nations.

As the lakes in the Eastern Rift have no outlet to the sea and tend to be shallow, they have a high mineral content as the evaporation of water leaves the salts behind.

In modern times, supporters of the more literal readings tend to also be politically conservative, and argue that it is the UN, or the EU, or that some Middle Eastern confederacy is the fourth empire of that will " devour " the world.

The communities in the Eastern and Western halves of Jefferson County tend to not mingle much, because of the barrier dividing the county.

Eastern portions of Decatur tend to act more suburban and traditional, while western portions tend to look more metropolitan and contemporary.

As opposed to food from Eastern Japan, food in the Kansai area tends to be sweeter, and foods such as nattō tend to be less popular.

An Eastern Screech Owl will tend to frequent areas in its home range where it hunted successfully on previous nights.

Most species tend to avoid humans, so they are not well known, though the Eastern Towhee P. erythrophthalamus is bolder as well as more colorful.

Eastern gray squirrels are crepuscular, or more active during the early and late hours of the day, and they tend to avoid the heat in the middle of a summer day.

By contrast, stations that are affiliated with Fox, The CW, MyNetworkTV, or that are independent stations tend to have newscasts at 10: 00 p. m. ( Eastern / Pacific ), 9: 00 p. m. ( Central / Mountain ; in these time zones, the 9: 00 news is often marketed as a " prime time " newscast ).

A more recent one is an egalitarian tradition among the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe in which the powerful were often mocked subtly, rather than attacked overtly — as Saul Bellow once put it, " oppressed people tend to be witty.

Ruthenian parishes tend to stress the importance of unity with the Bishop of Rome and the whole Catholic Church, albeit with an Eastern expression.

The music of the Muslim populations of South Asia ( Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, with Nepal and Sri Lanka ) merged Middle Eastern genres with indigenous classical musical modes, and is generally distinct in style and orchestration, yet due to the strong links encountered between the Middle-East, Central Asia, and South Asia, it is closer to Middle-Eastern styles than those of the periphery of the Islamic world, which tend to be purely indigenous.

However, the casualty statistics of the Eastern war tend to lend credence to many of the claims made by the former general as to the tactical superiority of the German army during the period 1939 – 1944, especially over its Soviet counterpart.

The term is most common in the Catholic Church and in the Anglican Communion, which includes the Episcopal Church ; the Eastern Orthodox Churches tend to avoid Latin terminology.

While most tropical systems in the vicinity tend to continue northward along the Eastern Seaboard, the cyclone curved westward and moved ashore near the Florida – Georgia state border after achieving a peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of.

The Far Eastern collectors who dominate this market tend to prefer chamber music, and solo violin and cello.

Eastern lowland gorillas tend to be sociable and very peaceful, living in groups of 5 to 30.

As of March 2009, approximately 17 % of the college roll are foreign nationals with the trend now being that new arrivals tend to be from Eastern Europe, primarily Poland and Lithuania as opposed to Portugal, where the many of the initial arrivals came from.