Why is the Eurasian Union being underreported?

[Kyriakos]

There are Turks in Greece, aren't there? I thought that Greeks pronounced it "Thessaloniki," and so assumed "Thessalonike" was the Turkish pronunciation.

Uh

No.

I think that in the arabic letters used in the ottoman regions up to 1922, the name of the city was Selanik. Thessalonike is the same as Thessaloniki, both transliterations to english, but the former at least keeps the nike part closer to the original ending, where it is a heta letter (Θεσσαλονίκ&#951. The only Greek terms ending in an 'iota' are neutral, while Thessalonike was originally a female name, iirc of the sister of general Kassander (one of the diadochoi, following Alexander's death), who founded this city around 2300 years ago.

 

[Borachio]

I'm looking forward to the Eurasian African Union.

But I'm quite far-sighted, it has to be said.

 

[Winner]

I'm looking forward to the Eurasian African Union.

But I'm quite far-sighted, it has to be said.

The right term for that is Eurafrasia

 

[Borachio]

Nah! That's too hard to say. Eur afr asia. Isn't it? Still, maybe it comes with practice. YOU RAFE FRAZIER.

 

[Kyriakos]

Asafriceu sounds better.

although still ugly.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Afropia.

There, solved it.

 

[Aleksey_aka_al]

[EU-Russia] sounds good enough

 

[Dachs]

The only Greek terms ending in an 'iota' are neutral, while Thessalonike was originally a female name, iirc of the sister of general Kassander (one of the diadochoi, following Alexander's death), who founded this city around 2300 years ago.

Thessalonike was Philippos V's daughter, and Kassandros' wife. She was named after the Makedonian victory at the Krokion field (in Thessaly) over Onomarchos' army in the Third Sacred War.

Kassandros did name the city after her, though. It was a refoundation and expansion of the previous port there, Therme.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thessalonike was Philippos V's daughter, and Kassandros' wife. She was named after the Makedonian victory at the Krokion field (in Thessaly) over Onomarchos' army in the Third Sacred War.

Kassandros did name the city after her, though. It was a refoundation and expansion of the previous port there, Therme.

Thank you

Indeed you are correct, she was his wife (joke taken out later on )

I did not know the name meant a victory in Thessaly, not because the term itself does not obviously link to that, but since it seemed more like a common error to make that it would signify this. I am not sure if any other term exists in this form, about a victory in an area, used as a personal name.

Btw, Therme is being studied (excavations and so on) for quite some time now. Although an inland part of the periphery of this city is now called Therme, indeed it is argued that the original Therme was a coastal settlement.

 

[red_elk]

Asafriceu sounds better.

although still ugly.

European Autonomous Soviet Socialistic Republic.
And African one.

 

[Kyriakos]

European Union (of) Soviet Socialist Republics (EUSSR) is already a reality.

 

[gay_Aleks]

European Union (of) Soviet Socialist Republics (EUSSR) is already a reality.

More like "European Union (of) Former Soviet Socialist Republics (EUFSSR)".

Unless you're really hellbent on calling Scandinavians socialists.

 

[Kyriakos]

^The EUSSR is named (what else would you expect) in the vein the HRE was named. Without much connection to the title, but still a design for a realm to collapse in a major war, supposedly internal.

 

[Borachio]

Actually, I'm not keen on this hammer and sickle icon. It just seems too much concentrated on the lumpen proletariat - albeit an agricultural-industrial union.

I was thinking of changing this thing completely.

How about the Quill and Shovel?

That should cover the field: intellectual and worker, artist and artisan, bureaucrat and producer.

So, I propose a Quill and Shovel entwined in black on a white rectangle (preferably portrait A4 size) superimposed on a red circle (for the rivers of blood, of course).

What do you think of a circular flag, btw? Rectangular ones are so last century.

 

[Kyriakos]

Best EUSSR image ever:

 

[Yeekim]

Indeed.
Poor Greece, cruelly occupied and gang-pressed into EUSSR. I can totally relate. You bravely resisted for such a long time... but what was Greece to do, so completely surrounded by hostile EUSSR countries? Remind me, how many thousand German soldiers were keeping your parliament hostage as they were beaten into ratifying the accession "treaty" that enabled those barbarians to steal all the riches from Greek people?

 

[Kyriakos]

^Almost 300 of them. They were/are called parliament members. Not regular soldiers, more like barons and other oligarch scum
(of course this country entered the EEU decades ago. It entered the single currency a decade ago. And it was not known by the public what would happen at 2008/09).

 

[Tahuti]

EUSSR: Because the EU also invaded Afghanistan and totally destroyed the country, commenced the Holodomor, raped 2 million German women and banned freedom of association.

 

[Borachio]

Let's not forget the bent banana and curved cucumber, in this EUSSR bashing-fest. Ah, takes me back to glory days before 2008. The EUSSR is only a shadow of its former self.