Article is recalled about French bits of land in part of Central Europe (7)
I believe the answer is:
silesia
'part of central europe' is the definition.
(region in central Europe)
'article is recalled about french bits of land' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'a' (the indefinite article in English).
'recalled' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'french bits of land' becomes 'iles' ('islands' in French).
'a'+'is'='ais'
'ais' in reverse letter order is 'sia'.
'sia' enclosing 'iles' is 'SILESIA'.
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for silesia that I've seen before include "Region of central Europe" , "European region" , "Polish area" , "Central European area" , "part of Europe" .)