Where is Poland?

[cardgame]

The land extends under the ocean as well....

It's not land when it's underwater - it's water. silly.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Europe itself is a cultural definition.

okay (well not only, there is also the factor of being a peninsula, while where the peninsula ends is, well, arbitrary in the sense as (look, there is this long mountain range which looks just like ab boarder - horay!)... But this "boarder" also is a significant geographical boundary and hence its cultural implications are not purely imaginary but at least participially born out of sheer practical necessity of exterior factors (BIG MOUTNAINS - HUGH!)

Thus it makes sense to divide Europe in cultural boundaries,

okay

dwhere Poland is clearly central european along with it's neighbors Czech Rep., Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. (As well as Bavaria)

ha....HAHAHAHA.....ha

 

[Pokurcz]

Is Europe a subcontinent like India? India is a separate continental plate that has rammed Asia from the south, whilst Europe seems to be more of a large peninsula of Asia that is getting bent northwards by the onslaught of Africa.

Poland is on Neptune and Belarus is on Uranus.

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

India .... rammed Asia from the south, whilst Europe seems to be ..... a large peninsula..... that is getting bent northwards by.... Uranus.

Wherever Poland is, it's definitely getting larger.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Central Europe: Poland, Czech, Austria, South/Eastern Germany, Hungary,...

 

[holy king]

Thus it makes sense to divide Europe in cultural boundaries,

agree

where Poland is clearly central european along with it's neighbors Czech Rep., Slovakia, Hungary and Austria. (As well as Bavaria)

come on, your language is basically a glorified version of russian.

 

[TheLastOne36]

come on, your language is basically a glorified version of russian.

Language is irrelevant.

Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary are catholic countries, who were for over a thousand years aligned with Rome and the Catholic church, just like our western Germanic neighbors.

Now you can debate how much of an impact religion had on European culture (which is pretty much everything) but it is just idiotic to group up central european catholic countries with eastern european orthodox countries with vastly different histories, cultures and values.

Especially considering the shared history Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary has had with it's Western neighbors.

 

[azzaman333]

Your entire post is irrelevant, because Poland is in Eastern Europe.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Your entire post is irrelevant, because Poland is in Eastern Europe.

Your entire island is irrelevant.

 

[W|M]

I'd say Poland has had much more history involving Lithuania than it has with Hungary or Bohemia.

 

[azzaman333]

Your entire island is irrelevant.

But not in Eastern Europe, unlike Poland.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I'd say Poland has had much more history involving Lithuania than it has with Hungary or Bohemia.

It's a shady area, while true that Poles colonized lands owned by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the years of the union, and that Poland tried to stay neutral in western European politics, Poland when it was an independent state, was never a part of the eastern sphere of influence like Ruthenia was, just merely affected by the politics that affected Ruthenia(Cossacks for example).

If anything, areas under the eastern sphere of influence (Ruthenia) tried to emulate the Polish culture. (Especially Ruthenian nobles who polonized their names, copied Polish culture, learned and wrote in Polish language etc.)

 

[Cannae]

As a polish person I've always viewed Poland being part of Eastern Europe.

 

[metatron]

austria is in southern germany.

Austria is on the Balkans.

 

[cardgame]

I'm gonna say Austria is outside of the Balkans.

 

[NickyJ]

I'm balkan at where to put Greece. But at least I'm not stalin at decidin' where I'm gonna be a putin Russia.

 

[timtofly]

That makes Poland look like the eye of a one-horned canine.

 

[Pokurcz]

Lithuania is also Catholic and also has the Roman alphabet, but Lithuania is in the Lithosphere whilst Poland is bipolar.

That is the Rino Dog of Ruthenia, it has magical powers. Its horn is ground and used in a potion that keeps garden gnomes at bay.


Furthermore it is only Austrias tail that lays south of Germany; the body and the head (Wienna) lay south of Czechia and Poland. When you see an animal on the pillow you determine its position by where its body is, not where the tail might have slid off to.

 

[holy king]

Austria is on the Balkans.

pretty much, but then, the balkans are in berlin.

 

[Angst]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe