Just back from a 17 day trip to the Balkans - Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro.
Quote from: ColoSwiss on October 03, 2017, 04:23:38 AMJust back from a 17 day trip to the Balkans - Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro.Austria does not belong to the Balkans ...
One interesting point; a shop in Frankfurt airport was selling Vic Classics. This inside the security zone.
Quote from: Peter1960 on October 03, 2017, 09:45:09 AMQuote from: ColoSwiss on October 03, 2017, 04:23:38 AMJust back from a 17 day trip to the Balkans - Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro.Austria does not belong to the Balkans ... We are the Balkans. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
Quote from: lister on October 03, 2017, 10:14:48 AMQuote from: Peter1960 on October 03, 2017, 09:45:09 AMQuote from: ColoSwiss on October 03, 2017, 04:23:38 AMJust back from a 17 day trip to the Balkans - Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro.Austria does not belong to the Balkans ... We are the Balkans. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile. Few years ago everyone was up at arms in Croatia about being counted as the Balkans. Later same thing went on with every Slovenian I've met. In a decade or two entire Europe will be the Balkans
I really must go back there, I haven't been since the early 90's and the sight seeing wasn't up to much at the time.
Quote from: Smashie on October 03, 2017, 02:35:39 PMI really must go back there, I haven't been since the early 90's and the sight seeing wasn't up to much at the time. That was indeed not the best of times for most of Balkans...
Quote from: Peter1960 on October 03, 2017, 09:45:09 AMQuote from: ColoSwiss on October 03, 2017, 04:23:38 AMJust back from a 17 day trip to the Balkans - Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro.Austria does not belong to the Balkans ...I support that. Very true. Austrians had a strong influence and overlordship on the North of the Balcan and Italian peninsulas for centuries, but never belonged to either.The Balcans have been the epicenter of western civilization for about 3000 years, with about 500 years of it under Italian influence and rule. The North flourished fairly recently, after the 4th Crusade, the fall of Constantinople, Luther and Gutenberg, all combined. Everyone had his historical opportunities,m few had much stamina.
Many people don't know exactly where in Europe New Zealand is....
Not even forever lasts forever. Some say that time itself wont last forever and it didn't always exist either.Being Balkanian isn't derogatory for me. Or Dutch, New Guinean, Inuit, Khoisan, whatever.
You might joke but some years back we had the brilliant idea to try and relocate Slovenia. Basically we were thinking of exchanging Slovenia for New Zealand.
Quote from: styx on October 04, 2017, 08:18:51 AMYou might joke but some years back we had the brilliant idea to try and relocate Slovenia. Basically we were thinking of exchanging Slovenia for New Zealand.Let me guess.... we said "No deal"?
It's more grumpy old politicians trying to bolster their ratings with squabbling over a few square feet of territory...
Do we really need to let any leave? It does not sound like a good idea. As for the food I propose this: We simply eat all of it. No more problems with what to eat.
So, the plural form "The Netherlands", is it about the 4 countires or the 12 counties?There's no such country as "Greece" also. It was always called Hellas. But Romans first met one of the many Hellenic tribes, the Graekoi, and that's why you call this place with that name. From the other side, the East, Persians, Arabs and Turks first met the greatest Hellenic tribe, the Iones, and they still call us Yunani (Indonesians call as Yunani too). I think that only in Norway and Cyprus they use the proper name.For similar reasons, we call the French Galloi, the Swiss Helvetoi and the Dutch Hollandoi and many of you call the Deutch Germans. We talked about that before.Balkans is a Turkish word. In Greek we sometimes call it with the classical name, Haemus Chersonissos (Peninsula). Haemus is a mountain and its name means blood.
Do we really need to let any leave? It does not sound like a good idea.
Having crushed the Bulgarians, Basil exerted his vengeance by cruelty - he was said to have captured 15,000 prisoners and blinded 99 of every 100 men, leaving one one-eyed man in each cohort to lead the rest back to their ruler. Samuel was physically struck down by the dreadful apparition of his blinded army and died two days later, on 6 October 1014, after suffering a stroke. Although the mistreatment of the Bulgarian prisoners may have been exaggerated, this incident helped give rise to Basil's Greek epithet of Boulgaroktonos, meaning "the Bulgar-slayer"