we do not care for Santa Claus but American cultural hegemony says it is the North Pole . All the kids might say it is up there , the cultural elite will say otherwise . Orthodox Christians know the actual guy was one of their saints before Coca Cola stole him and dressed him as a clown . And Demre, Antalya by the Med is most definitely not the North Pole . Yugoslavs , them former ones , probably will refuse to like us forever and Bulgarians no doubt started claiming that they had removed the grave and whatnot in nation building period in the Ottoman times . The Spanish case is the odd one , should look up for that .
edit: Three Wise Men who brought gifts for baby Jesus ... who came from the East and Persia was the East .