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EUROPEAN HEADS OF GOVERNMENT

1. Most European countries have split the functions of head of state and head of government; only in (Southern) Cyprus and Switzerland the two functions are combined in one person.
2. Most countries call their heads of government prime minister. There are some however, that call them simply head of government or chief minister or something alike. Germany and Austria have chancellors.
3. At this moment Germany, Iceland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Denmark and San Marino, as well as the Finnish autonomous province of the Åland Isles, have women leading their governments.

ABOUT THE ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The countries on these pages are listed in alphabetical order by their original names. This means that e.g. Albania can be found under S, because the country is called Shqipëri in Albanian. Additionally there are some original names that are written in other than the western alphabets, and some use the western alphabet with additional signs. I have put all those extra signs in the western alphabet according to their general transcriptions. So the Scandinavian å equals a, Czech č equals c, Abkhazian ҧ equals p, etc. Some letters however equal more than one western sign: Cyrillian х equals kh, so South Ossetia (called Хуссар Ирыстон or Khussar Iryston in Ossetian) is listed before Kibris (Turkish Cyprus), which starts with ki-. Armenia and Georgia can be found under Hayastan resp. Sakartvelo, written in their respective unique alphabets.