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It's funny that apart from a few regions... * Bessarabia (an old name for the region where current day Moldova is) * Moravia (an important region in Czech rep
by eCa 14y ago
It's funny that apart from a few regions...
* Bessarabia (an old name for the region where current day Moldova is)
* Moravia (an important region in Czech republic)
* Transsylvania (central Romania)
...most of those with country names are actually not in the countries themselves:
* Hungary in Slovakia
* Iraq in Kuwait
* India in Pakistan
* Ethiopia in Eritrea
* Albanian in Kosovo
* And of course British, Frech, Portuguese, Spanish and Soviet all over the place.
Also interesting is Sweden, though our history certainly was defined by war we are only two years away from reaching 200 years of no war.
- michaelt 14y agoGiven that for Ireland the word is 'Northern' (as in 'Northern Ireland') I assume the person who made the map excluded the country's name.
- robin_reala 14y ago‘No war’ for Sweden is only defined in terms of not declaring war on another country; Sweden has still sent soldiers to Congo, Afghanistan and Libya to take part in military action in more recent times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedish_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedish_wars
- hkj 14y agoThere is a big difference between being at war and sending peace keeping troops. Defining the use of military in an area to prevent further violence and war as being at war is very wrong.