English

Proper noun

Eurasia

1. The largest landmass on Earth, consisting of Europe and Asia; sometimes also including neighbouring islands.
2. A region comprising parts of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia; the countries of the former Soviet Union and the sphere of influence of Russia.
   • 1997, Stephen K. Batalden, Sandra L. Batalden, The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics, Greenwood Publishing Group (ISBN 9780897749404), page 197

     This bureaucratic security-minded elite has invariably weathered changes in government by maintaining the personal ties that continue to dominate political life in the newly independent states. Political patronage continues to thrive in Eurasia.

   • 1998, Bruno Coppieters, Alekseĭ Zverev, Dmitriĭ Trenin, Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Psychology Press (ISBN 9780714644806), page 191

     The Failure of Regionalism in Eurasia and the Western Ascendancy over Russia's Near Abroad

   • 2014, Piotr Dutkiewicz, Richard Sakwa, Eurasian Integration – The View from Within, Routledge (ISBN 9781317572848), page 226

     Turkey is one of the regional actors with ambitions to influence regional developments in Eurasia, which is geographically a very large land mass between Eastern Europe and China.

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America ^{(Category: en:Continents)}

Synonyms

• (geopolitical region): Soviet Union (historical)

Hypernyms

• Afro-Eurasia

Hyponyms

• (landmass): Asia, Europe
  • Arabian Peninsula, Balkans, Caucasus, Iberia, Indian subcontinent, Levant, Middle East, Far East
  • See also Category:en:Countries of Asia, Category:en:Countries of Europe

Translations

Latin

Proper noun

Eurasia f ‎(genitive Eurasiae); first declension

1. Eurasia

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Spanish

Proper noun

Eurasia f

1. Eurasia