Mahukuntan tsakiya sun kasance gamayyar kasashe a lokacin yakin duniya na daya wanda ya kunshi Jamus, Austria-Hungary, Daular Usmaniyya, da Bulgeriya. Kalmar “Tsakiya” tana nufin wurin da suke a tsakiyar Turai, sabanin ƙawayen da ke yammacin Turai. Har ila yau, a wasu lokuta ana kiran Ƙungiyoyin Tsakiyar Ƙungiyoyin Hudu ko Ƙungiyoyin Ƙungiyoyin Sau Uku, dangane da ƙayyadaddun haɗakar ƙasashen da abin ya shafa.