Mitteleuropa
German concept of Central Europe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a historical concept in 19th-century Austria and Germany. For the geographical region, see Central Europe. For the book Mitteleuropa, see Friedrich Naumann. For the Jazz Marca album, see Mitteleuropa (album).
Mitteleuropa (pronounced [ˈmɪtl̩ʔɔʏˌroːpa]), meaning Middle Europe, is one of the German terms for Central Europe.[1] The term has acquired diverse cultural, political and historical connotations.[2][3][4]
The Prussian vision of Mitteleuropa was a pan-Germanist state-centric imperium, an idea that was later adopted in a modified form by Nazi geopoliticians.[5][6][7]