Editing Central Europe (section)

====River transport and canals====
Before the first railroads appeared in the 1840s, river transport constituted the main means of communication and trade.{{sfn|Magocsi|2002|p={{page needed|date=October 2023}}}} Earliest canals included Plauen Canal (1745), Finow Canal, and also [[Begej|Bega Canal]] (1710) which connected [[Timișoara]] to [[Novi Sad]] and [[Belgrade]] via the Danube.{{sfn|Magocsi|2002|p={{page needed|date=October 2023}}}} The most significant achievement in this regard was the facilitation of navigability on the Danube from the [[Black Sea|Black sea]] to [[Ulm]] in the 19th century.

The economies of Central Europe tend to demonstrate [[List of countries by economic complexity|high complexity]]. Industrialisation reached Central Europe relatively early beginning with Germany and the [[Czech lands]] near the end of the 18th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.erih.net/how-it-started/industrial-history-of-european-countries/czech-republic |title=On the industrial history of the Czech Republic|access-date=20 May 2021}}</ref>

The industrialization of the cities of Romania<ref>{{cite book|author=Alin Rus|title=The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century|publisher=[[Lexington Books]]|year=2022|page=1|isbn=978-1666915440|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJKbEAAAQBAJ&dq=industrialization+started+in+romania+interwar+period&pg=PA1}}</ref> and Serbia<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mauro Pinho|author2=Marco Antonio Schueda|author3=Danielle do Rocio Brostulin|title=Principles and concepts for development in nowadays society|publisher=[[University of South Carolina Press]]|year=2022|page=315|isbn= 9798218077921|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WffTEAAAQBAJ&dq=serbian+industrialization+interwar&pg=PA315}}</ref> started in the [[interwar period]], and did not make significant progress until the post ww2 era.