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Transatlantically originally Europe (and Africa) means to north and South America beyond the Atlantiks convenient, or overseas in the sense of the relationship.
By the political development for approximately 1850 the term in the linguistic usage consolidated itself to the relations between Europe and North America (special to the USA), while at the same time the in central and South America loosened the connections of the earlier colonies to the Spanish motherland rather. Only in the last years here - promoted by king Juan Carlo - a trend moving in opposite directions is to be determined.
In the majority of the terms, which contain the word transatlantically, therefore a special connection (or also a looked for distance) between the USA and Europe is meant. Examples of this meaning are among other things:
In the policy
- Transatlantic relations - especially between European Union and the USA
- Transatlantic Policy network (TPN) - an organization of European and American companies, which want co-operation the EUROPEAN UNION USA beeinflussem by Lobbying
- NATO - North Atlantic Treaty organization
In economics and traffic
- Transatlantic foreign trade zone
- Transatlantic Telefonkabel (ACT) or briefly transatlantic cable - in the meantime numerous submerged cables for the telephone and data traffic, laid at the bottom of the sea. First went already 1858 (for few weeks) into enterprise, 1919 warenes 13, since [1960] ern about 20 coaxial cables in enterprise was already taken, e.g. TAT-1 to TAT-14
- Transatlantic tunnel as the Atlantic of underrunning railway tunnels
- Transatlantic flights (also "Atlantic flight") - steadily increasingly since the pioneer flight of Lindbergh 1927
- the continental counterpart of a transatlantic connection is (even longer) the Trans-Siberian railway
Within range art, culture and sport
- transatlantic - a literature magazine between 1980 and 1992 (publisher Hans Magnus Enzensberger. One for 2001 planned revival copyrights opposed
- TransAtlantic - a Supergroup from four musicians of the progressive skirt scene (for approximately 2000)
- Transatlantic Challenge - an annual, for the first time around 1900 held Segelregatta between New York and England
- transoceanic cultures - from European view e.g. the Maya, the culture of the Osterinsel etc.
See also
- Transnationalism, European parliament and congress of US,
- Transavia, Transaero airlines, TransFair, transit agreement
- Transamerica corporation, Transalp
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