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Titus Sardonicus posted:What movie is it?  The Siege of Jadotville
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The man who "discovered" America. Son of Eirik the Red who "discovered" Greenland.
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Oct 25, 2016 12:53
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FreudianSlippers posted:The man who "discovered" America. Son of Eirik the Red who "discovered" Greenland. Ah. Famous, then, was he?
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Oct 25, 2016 12:55
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FreudianSlippers posted:Turks are very Greek and Greeks are quite Turkish. Turks, Greeks and everybody else in the Balkans are all the same people. Namely, they are all Albanian.
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Oct 25, 2016 13:11
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Jerry Cotton posted:Ah. Famous, then, was he? Well we all celebrate Leif Erikson Day, with the viking helmets and paper mache boats.
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Oct 25, 2016 15:32
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FreudianSlippers posted:Turks are very Greek and Greeks are quite Turkish. Correct, except that not everyone in Anatolia was Greek. I'm actually not sure which ethnicities were living there before the Turks arrived.
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Before the Greeks there were descendants of the native Anatolians and Hittites, but they were very successfully Hellenized after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Anatolia was still pretty Greek until the genocide of the Greeks and subsequent population transfer between Greece and Turkey.
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Jaramin posted:Before the Greeks there were descendants of the native Anatolians and Hittites, but they were very successfully Hellenized after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Anatolia was still pretty Greek until the genocide of the Greeks and subsequent population transfer between Greece and Turkey. Phlegmish posted:Correct, except that not everyone in Anatolia was Greek. I'm actually not sure which ethnicities were living there before the Turks arrived. The core of Anatolia was originally Hittite but by the time the Turks arrive it had probably been converted entirely to Greek and Armenian. That reversed with the Turks and by WW1 the core was almost entirely Turkish. The Aegean and Pontic littoral and the Armenian highland and to a lesser extent Cilicia still had lots of non-Turks till the Young Turks came along though
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HookShot posted:Leif Erikson should totally be the most famous Icelander I refuse to accept that it isn't Bjork. e: Google got my back  e2: Then again, what even is that map anyway? "most influential" or something? PittTheElder fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Oct 25, 2016 |
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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fishmech posted:Well we all celebrate Leif Erikson Day, with the viking helmets and paper mache boats. I will come see you off on your papier mache boat voyage.
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Oct 25, 2016 18:42
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Oct 26, 2016 08:58
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TinTower posted:Guess the map: I've thought about this for a while and the only answer I can come up with is "countries picked at random"
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Oct 26, 2016 10:05
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First-past-the-post voting systems, guessing by its similarity to britishempire.jpg
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TinTower posted:Guess the map: 
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Llamadeus posted:First-past-the-post voting systems, guessing by its similarity to britishempire.jpg Aaaagh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#/media/File:Countries_That_Use_a_First_Past_the_Post_Voting_System.png
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what are those lines off the coast of Portugal/Morocco and a few other places?
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double nine posted:what are those lines off the coast of Portugal/Morocco and a few other places? They attach Spain, Portugal, Norway, etc. to their islands, so the map maker can use the paint bucket tool to fill in a country at once. Not the most elegant solution, and few Wikipedia maps still use it.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:They attach Spain, Portugal, Norway, etc. to their islands, so the map maker can use the paint bucket tool to fill in a country at once. Not the most elegant solution, and few Wikipedia maps still use it.
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TinTower posted:Guess the map: We're back to doing this again?
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Oct 26, 2016 17:27
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Greater Greece Greater Macedonia  Greater Bulgaria  Greater Armenia  Greater Azerbaijan   And finally for something current and very politically-loaded: Foreign Policy posted:In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey’s role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. On two separate occasions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the Treaty of Lausanne, which created the borders of modern Turkey, for leaving the country too small. He spoke of the country’s interest in the fate of Turkish minorities living beyond these borders, as well as its historic claims to the Iraqi city of Mosul, near which Turkey has a small military base. And, alongside news of Turkish jets bombing Kurdish forces in Syria and engaging in mock dogfights with Greek planes over the Aegean Sea, Turkey’s pro-government media have shown a newfound interest in a series of imprecise, even crudely drawn, maps of Turkey with new and improved borders. Greater Turkey! :cryingerdogan:  e: lol at Chalkidiki and Thessaloniki being simultaneously claimed by Greece, Macedonia and Bulgaria. Shame that even an irredentist Turkey doesn't jump on this particular bandwagon System Metternich fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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System Metternich posted:Greater Turkey! :cryingerdogan:
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Ofaloaf posted:Yes, put almost all of Kurdistan within Turkish borders. Then, united in opposition to one government, Kurdish national aspirations will surely fall apart. I'd imagine the idea is to genocide them.
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Oct 26, 2016 18:08
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Kurds? I think you mean Mountain Turks.
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Ras Het posted:I'd imagine the idea is to genocide them. Merely resettle them, friend. Turkey would never genocide someone.
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Peanut President posted:Merely resettle them, friend. Turkey would never genocide someone. I hear the bottom of the Black Sea is splendid this time of year.
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System Metternich posted:
TEHRAN IS RIGHTFUL AZERI CLAY
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Which is the piece of land with the most overlapping claims, anyway? Probably the previously mentioned Thessaloniki, or somewhere else in the Balkans, or Galicia?
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why sweden and norway?
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Whiz Palace posted:Which is the piece of land with the most overlapping claims, anyway? Probably the previously mentioned Thessaloniki, or somewhere else in the Balkans, or Galicia? I'd say that Sandžak, formerly known as the Sanjak of Novi Pazar, could be the one. Claimed by Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Albanian/Kosovar nationalists, as well as Sanjak separatists, who may be in favour or against a merger with Bosnia. fake edit: Greater Turkey as well.
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uuhhh Finns are, as everyone knows, basically Mongols, Mongols are Altaic which means they are practically Turks. or something
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Hmmm that's weird that they would stop in 1600 I wonder what happened after that.
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Whiz Palace posted:Which is the piece of land with the most overlapping claims, anyway? Probably the previously mentioned Thessaloniki, or somewhere else in the Balkans, or Galicia? The Spratly Islands? The entire group is claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. A smaller chunk is also claimed by both Brunei and Malaysia, and the Philippines also claim some. Comedy option: Parts of Texas could be claimed by neo-Confederates, Texian secessionists, Greater Mexico, Greater Spain, Greater England, Greater Deseret, Greater New Mexico, Greater California, Greater France, and of course the US of A. Golbez fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 26, 2016 |
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Is that Iran in Tibet?
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Did the decadent Turk really genocide the Greek in Anatolia?
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PittTheElder posted:Is that Iran in Tibet? Tibet is the purple bit. Iran is more in Yunnan.
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Arglebargle III posted:Did the decadent Turk really genocide the Greek in Anatolia? Don't know if I'm missing  here but in 1923 Turkey and Greece conducted a massive population exchange which is just a euphemism for the forceful expulsion of millions of Greek Anatolians and Turkish Greeks
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System Metternich posted:Don't know if I'm missing Sneaky Slovaks.
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That feel when you try to make a map about the Treaty of Lausanne but can't tell two different countries apart because they start with the same syllable.
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