1860 — Duncan Forbes, The History of Chess, page 201
I shall in proof of this, insert here the earliest Chess anecdote which I have yet seen in reference to Central Europe, and if the circumstance there related can be established not only as highyl probable, but historically authentic, the correctness of all subsequent anecdotes, &c., respecting the game, found in our old chronicles and romances before the time of the Crusaders, will need no further confirmation.
1898 — L. C. Miall, "A Yorkshire Moor", Nature No. 1504, volume 58 (Aug 25), page 404
Species which are now isolated, at least in Central Europe, occupying moors or other special tracts, and surrounded by a population with which they have little in common, were formerly continuous over vast areas.
To understand the present situation, we must apprehend with vividness what an extraordinary centre of population the development of the Germanic system had enabled Central Europe to become. Before the war the population of Germany and Austria-Hungary together not only substantially exceeded that of the United States, but was about equal to that of the whole of North America.
The economic crisis in Germany and Central Europe last June rose to the dimensions of a general panic from which it was apparent that without assistance these nations must collapse.
1996 — Lonnie R. Johnson, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, p. 4
Western Christendom's centuries-long confrontation with the Oriental and Islamic empire of the Ottoman Turks also helped define Central Europe as a cultural and historical region.
2002 — Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of Central Europe, 2nd ed., p. xiii
It has also become clear since 1989 that the articulate elements in many countries of this region consider eastern or even east-central to carry a negative connotation and prefer to be considered part of Central Europe.
