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one of the oldest ethnic groups in Easter Europe is Albanians
Balts, Bulgars, and Romans.
There are hundreds of ethnic groups in Eastern Europe. The largest would have to be the Russians, the Ukrainians, the Romanians, the Greeks, and the Turks. Large immigrant ethnic groups would be such as Chinese, Afghani, Pakistani, and Indian.
It let the ethnic groups have there own independence and freedom
There are many opposing ethnic groups in Eastern Europe. Their feuding has led to many wars.
During the Roman times many groups of people fled into Europe to escape various hordes like the mongols and the huns, In most cases the Romans wouldn't let them into their land, and they owned all of western and central europe, so they would have to live on the border in eastern europe.
Baltic (Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian) German.
Answer: Russians, Poles, Serbs, Ukrainians, Czechs, Bulgarians, and Slovaks.
Over 160 separate ethnic groups.
Every country in Europe has many ethnic groups. For example, in the United Kingdom you will find people of European descent, African descent, Asian descent, Middle Eastern descent, etc. You will find this in all European countries.
Largely due to ethnic and religious conflict. Eastern Europe has a large number of ethnic groups that often come into conflict. Lands that are predominantly Christian and lands that are predominantly Muslim also border each other here.
There are too many to name. There are hundreds of ethnic groups present in Europe, native alone. Some examples are English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Polish, Serbian, Turkish, Sami, Basque, Corsican, and Sicilian.