What is European?
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Nov-2025 12:11 ET (14-Nov-2025 17:11 GMT/UTC)
Many people have one-sided or distorted ideas about what is European. The Würzburg professor Dag Nikolaus Hasse demonstrates this in a book that is now also available in English.
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