Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[Takhisis]

What's then up with northern Finland?

Darkness and alcohol + a profusion of firearms, I'd guess. The same factors involved in high suicide rates.

 

[Domen]

Polish versus East Slavic (Ukrainian and Ruthenian) ethnicities in Eastern Galicia in year 1900:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=387134&d=1419206303

 

[Arakhor]

Well, you're certainly cartographically consistent.

 

[cybrxkhan]

It kinda looks like a weirdly shaped pizza to me.

 

[Takhisis]

Margherita-ish. It'd be a Margherita if a white cheese had been used.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Someone put ketchup all over the place, for some reason.

Which reminds me of how our dear finance ministers used to visualise the budget with a pizza, where tomatoes where greedy Communist leftovers which only take up valuable space that would be used by the public, or the cheese.

 

[Domen]

Someone put ketchup all over the place, for some reason.

Here is the reason:

"I've captured Ruthenia with my people and the gates to this land must stand open for all of my people and merchants [and ketchup]" - King Casimir, 1353 AD

 

[warpus]

 

[gay_Aleks]

Wait, are you telling me that Turkish is as close to Italian as Italian is close to French and so on?

And stay classy, Bulgaria. Always the weird one in the room.

 

[Kyriakos]

^ "Hristos se rodi"=Christ is born?

Fyroms would claim that Hristos is their own term too

 

[warpus]

Wait, are you telling me that Turkish is as close to Italian as Italian is close to French and so on?

In terms of the etymology of "Merry Christmas" in that language.. it appears to be, yeah. (if this map is accurate)

 

[gay_Aleks]

^ "Hristos se rodi"=Christ is born?

Fyroms would claim that Hristos is their own term too

No, it's probably an unfortunate result of their desperate attempts of not being Bulgarian. They managed to manufacture a culture devoted to NOT being Bulgarian, yet have managed to make it the closest thing of being a Bulgarian without actually being Bulgarian.

I can only salute the efforts the comrade scientists that have managed to engineer this thing.

 

[Domen]

Tolni - in most of your posts you write that Bulgaria sucks.

Maybe this is why they don't want to be Bulgarian ???

 

[Takhisis]

Given that it happened in the Balkans, blame Tito.

 

[Tee Kay]

Wait, are you telling me that Turkish is as close to Italian as Italian is close to French and so on?

More like Turkey borrowed the French word when they were trying to be modern and stuff.

 

[Takhisis]

Pity the Young Turks didn't develop a 'native Turkish' form then.

 

[Tee Kay]

My impression was that the Native Turkish campaign targeted more Arabic/Persian vocabularies than Western ones.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Tolni - in most of your posts you write that Bulgaria sucks.

Maybe this is why they don't want to be Bulgarian ???

To be fair, then they'd instead want to sink their country and declare it Atlantis if they want it to stop sucking.

 

[Kyriakos]

To be fair, then they'd instead want to sink their country and declare it Atlantis if they want it to stop sucking.

According to new studies by the university of Skopje, Atlantis was where lake Ochrid is now
It was sunk sometime during the Fyrom-Fyrom civil war between Basil II and Samuel.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Because they used the first nuclear bombs, duh!