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Old 08-28-2007, 03:54 AM
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Originally Posted by catalina_marina View Post
Oh, the one I remember was all nice and new... Back then. Germany was one country again, Tsjechoslowakije (you can translate that for yourself) was broken up, Yugoslavia had fallen apart, and Russia wasn't completely whole anymore either. But I learned (and so it said in the Atlas too) that the capital of Yugoslavia, or small-Yugoslavia, as my teacher liked to call it, was Belgrado. Now, apparantly, that country doesn't exist anymore either.
Okay, yeah -- there was a lot going on in a short stretch of time, there.

Still, that sort of thing is always going on, and Yugoslavia was a sort of artificial construct anyway, cobbled together by the Allies at the end of WWI to show the (soon-to-be out-of-business) Austro-Hungarian Empire who was in charge. Czechoslovakia, as a country, also dated from the same time. In fact, you only have to go back 50 years or so before that to see Germany and Italy being assembled out of what had previously only been separate smaller bits.

Borders are nice, as ideas; so are country names; they look kinda cool on maps and all that, but historically, they tend not to have much in the way of permanence. Just in my lifetime, the maps of places like Africa and Southeast Asia have been overhauled pretty dramatically, and the Middle East and South Asia only a few years before that.

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I wondered that my own self. I suspect though that it's so she has a good idea where to send her armies first...
Okay, that would work. Should have thought of it myself.
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