Redrawing the Map

[Tee Kay]

No "real" national identity- perhaps just a strange amalgamation of some Germans, some French, and some magnificent, majestic, and marvellous Italians.

Considering they've been together as a nation for 800 years, it seemed illogical to break them up now.

 

[emzie]

Considering they've been together as a nation for 800 years, it seemed illogical to break them up now.

What he said. If the cantons want to leave that's different -- though legally, I think they cannot.

 

[Rossiya]

Considering they've been together as a nation for 800 years, it seemed illogical to break them up now.

Perhaps yes, I was only putting forward an argument for what someone was asking.

 

[warpus]

And then Finnish, which is close to Hungarian:

Minä rakastan sinua.

And Finland is usually united to Scandinavia in these maps...

Actually, that's what I thought too, until I had an interesting conversation with a hungarian girl @ a bar last night.

Apparently recent research of some sort shows that the two languages have nothing in common with eachother.. and the Hungarian language becomes even more mysterious than it already was.

Of course I have no links to back this up with, as I am sick and too lazy to search, but the girl seemed to know a lot about languages and her own culture, so I wouldn't dismiss what she said out of hand.

 

[Mirc]

Well, I just came back last week from Odorheiu Secuiesc, the city with the highest concentration of Magyars outside Hungary, where something like 96% of the people speak Hungarian, and everyone was telling me lots about the similarity of their language with Finnish, and some in some aspects even with Turkish.

 

[Guangxi]

Well, I just came back last week from Odorheiu Secuiesc, the city with the highest concentration of Magyars outside Hungary, where something like 96% of the people speak Hungarian, and everyone was telling me lots about the similarity of their language with Finnish, and some in some aspects even with Turkish.

well, if i remember rightly the turks and magyars both came from central asia at around the same era, so some resemblance in language isnt too surprising;

 

[mythmonster2]

Well I can at least understand why the eastern part of Ukraine is given to Russia. Because Russians are in majority there, but why give the western part to Romania/Hungary?

Furthermore, why split Poland between Germany and Russia as most Poles hate either one or the other or both?

And why on earth give Copenhagen to Sweden, which is preposterous? Why not rather give Skåne to Denmark ?

Is the reason lack of information, perhaps?

Oops! I thought Copenhagen was on the islands I let Denmark keep. And to all other posters who commented on mine: Because I'm 12 and me likes to draw lines.

 

[mythmonster2]

- What's so unique about Bulgaria to make it independent in a world where EVERYTHING joined something?

Well, I couldn't exactly fit it in to a group.I gave it some Greek land so it could have a port on the Medditeranian Sea (P.S can a mod merge these two posts?)

 

[Azash]

Subi, it's bad enough when Perf posts huge maps.. Don't quote them

Let the people living in said areas decide. If a nation wants more, it will attempt to have it, and that's the nation's problem.

 

[Pokurcz]

Ingvina Freyr

Well "Blot" is illegal in Sweden because hanging animals upside down from trees and then slitting their throats is seen as cruel (damn hippies), as I have been led to understand it.

But now as the amount of Muslims is on the rise, killing animals according to halal rules is becoming open to debate. So change might be nigh...