Which countries make up Southern Europe?

[Peikko]

I don't understand Europe's need to divide itself into all these super small regions. Eventually you just end up splitting hairs.

Actually it's usually the Americans, who make these divisions.

[eeroli]

Spanish, italian and Greece. And maybe southern balkans.

[Chieftain]

Greece is Balkans. Countries like FYROM, Albania, Bulgaria have much more in common with Greece than Italy, Spain, etc.

I presume that Greece is more linked to other southern european countries such as Italy and Malta(in terms of culture and other criterias) than the slavic balkanic countries.

I also believe(I might be wrong) that Albania fits more into the southern european group, than the eastern european group, I think that they're closer to greeks than to other slavic balkanites(such as serbs, bulgarians) and so on.

[Ouistreham]

Epidemiologic mapping of Southern Europe:


Leishmaniasis in southern Europe. Distribution of the endemic disease; relative proportion of autochthonous (visceral, cutaneous) and imported human cases and seroprevalence in dogs.

The symptoms of leishmaniasis are skin sores which erupt weeks to months after the person affected is bitten by sand flies. Other consequences, which can manifest anywhere from a few months to years after infection, include fever, damage to the spleen and liver, and anemia.
In clinical medicine, leishmaniasis is considered one of the classic causes of a markedly enlarged (and therefore palpable) spleen; the organ, which is not normally felt during examination of the abdomen, may even become larger than the liver in severe cases.
Leishmaniasis may be divided into the following types:
- Visceral leishmaniasis is the most serious form, and is potentially fatal if untreated.
- Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form, which causes a sore at the bite site, which heals in a few months to a year, leaving an unpleasant-looking scar. This form can progress to any of the other three forms.
- Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis produces widespread skin lesions which resemble leprosy, and is particularly difficult to treat.
- Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis commences with skin ulcers which spread, causing tissue damage, particularly to the nose and mouth.





Leishmaniasis can be transmitted in many tropical and subtropical countries, and is found in parts of about 88 countries. Approximately 350 million people live in these areas. The settings in which leishmaniasis is found range from rainforests in Central and South America to deserts in West Asia and the Middle East. It affects as many as 12 million people worldwide, with 1.5–2 million new cases each year. The visceral form of leishmaniasis has an estimated incidence of 500,000 new cases. More than 90 percent of the world's cases of visceral leishmaniasis are in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan, and Brazil. As of 2010 it caused about 52,000 death down from 87,000 in 1990.

Leishmaniasis is found through much of the Americas from northern Argentina to southern Texas, though not in Uruguay or Chile, and has recently been shown to be spreading to North Texas. Leishmaniasis is also known as papalomoyo, papa lo moyo and ulcero de los chicleros in Latin America. During 2004, an estimated 3,400 troops from the Colombian army, operating in the jungles near the south of the country (in particular around the Meta and Guaviare departments), were infected with leishmaniasis. Apparently, a contributing factor was that many of the affected soldiers did not use the officially provided insect repellent, because of its allegedly disturbing odor. Nearly 13,000 cases of the disease were recorded in all of Colombia throughout 2004, and about 360 new instances of the disease among soldiers had been reported in February 2005.

The disease is found across much of Asia, and in the Middle East. Within Afghanistan, leishmaniasis occurs commonly in Kabul, partly due to bad sanitation and waste left uncollected in streets, allowing parasite-spreading sand flies an environment they find favorable.[28][29] In Kabul, the number of people infected was estimated to be at least 200,000, and in three other towns (Herat, Kandahar and Mazar-i-Sharif) there were about 70,000 more, according to WHO figures from 2002. Kabul is estimated as the largest center of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the world, with approximately 67,500 cases as of 2004.

Africa, in particular the East and North, is home to cases of leishamaniasis. The disease is spreading to Southern Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leishmaniasis

[cally]

Bulgaria and Montenegro added to the poll!

[Smeagol]

Portugal ? Lol not likely. Parts of Spain yes but not as a whole.

What are they then? Definitely not Northern Europe.

[Smeagol]

I consider them Western not Southern but that's just me. You could break it up by phenotypes, geography, culture, etc.

Southwestern.

[Smeagol]

Everything on the poll + south France.

[Stormer99]

I don't understand Europe's need to divide itself into all these super small regions. Eventually you just end up splitting hairs.

I don't understand the need for people to act like all places in Europe are the same thing.

[Stormer99]

Slovenia I consider more Central Europe than Southern Europe btw.