There are many historical regions of Central Europe. For the purpose of this list, Central Europe is defined as the area contained roughly within the south coast of the Baltic Sea, the Elbe River, the Alps, the Danube River, the Black Sea and the Dnieper River.
These historical regions were current in different time periods – from medieval to modern era – and may often overlap. National borders have been redrawn across those regions many times over the centuries, so usually a historical region cannot be assigned to any specific nation. The list below indicates which present-day states control the whole or a part of each of the listed regions.
Belarus
- Black Ruthenia
- Polesia (divided between Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Russia)
- Suwałki Region (mostly in Poland)
- Vilnius Region (part in Lithuania)
- White Ruthenia (part in Russia)
Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast)
- Bartia (mostly in Poland)
- Gdańsk Pomerania (mostly in Poland)
- Lithuania Minor (small part in Lithuania)
- Natangia (small part in Poland)
- Sambia
Slovenia
- Carniola
- Inner Carniola
- Lower Carniola
- White Carniola
- Upper Carniola
- Lower Styria (part of the region of Styria, mostly located in Austria)
- Prekmurje
- Slovene Carinthia (part of the region of Carinthia, mostly located in Austria)
- Slovene Littoral
Western and Central Ukraine
- Galicia (part in Poland)
- Moldavia (mostly in Romania and Moldova)
- Bessarabia (mostly in Moldova)
- Budjak
- Bukovina (part in Romania)
- Hertsa
- Podolia (small part in Moldova)
- Polesia (parts in Belarus, Poland, and Russia)
- Right-bank Ukraine
- Red Ruthenia (part in Poland)
- Pokuttia
- Transcarpathia
- Maramureș (part in Romania)
- Volhynia
- Yedisan (small part in Moldova)
Former Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Cisleithania
- Transleithania
- Bosnia and Herzegonvina:
- Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The kingdoms and lands represented in the Austrian Imperial Council (Cisleithania)
Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (Kingdom of Hungary or Transleithania)
Other regions
See also
- Contemporary related subdivisions
- Austria
- Belarus
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- Poland
- Historical related regions
- Croatia
- Hungary
- 1000–1920
- 1941–1945
- In Slovakia
- Lithuania
- Poland
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Ukraine