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minus-squareCrackhappy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·2 months agoI feel like I’m missing the joke. Would someone kindly explain it without being an a-hole about it?
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up78·edit-22 months agoIt’s a historical boundary of the Hungarian empire which has occupied and lost much of this territory a few times
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoohhhhh i thought it had to do with vampires because i think it has wallachia in there
minus-squareidegenszavak@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoNo Wallachia is on the other side of the Carpathians, from the circled area Transylvania and Partium are parts of Romania at the moment. Wallachia was occupied by Hungary for a very little time in the middle ages, and lastly in 1918 for some months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Bucharest_(1918), quickly overturned in the Hungarian Romanian war of 1919
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoA couple decades ago I read a book that made me want to go visit Târgoviște and Bucharest and i am told they are lovely.
minus-squareTriasha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·2 months agoThere used to be a country roughly that shape but it was politically unstable and started world war 1.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoAustria-Hungary was a LOT bigger than just the Carpathian Basin. Though that was part of it.
minus-squareSculptor9157@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoThen the front fell off?
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoActually the problem was the front stayed mostly stable while the mountain rivers ran red with the blood of slave soldiers
minus-squareTriasha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYeah it’s a stretch. Maybe I’m wrong.
I feel like I’m missing the joke. Would someone kindly explain it without being an a-hole about it?
It’s a historical boundary of the Hungarian empire which has occupied and lost much of this territory a few times
ohhhhh i thought it had to do with vampires because i think it has wallachia in there
No Wallachia is on the other side of the Carpathians, from the circled area Transylvania and Partium are parts of Romania at the moment. Wallachia was occupied by Hungary for a very little time in the middle ages, and lastly in 1918 for some months: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Bucharest_(1918), quickly overturned in the Hungarian Romanian war of 1919
A couple decades ago I read a book that made me want to go visit Târgoviște and Bucharest and i am told they are lovely.
There used to be a country roughly that shape but it was politically unstable and started world war 1.
Austria-Hungary was a LOT bigger than just the Carpathian Basin. Though that was part of it.
For example it included Austria.
For a start
Then the front fell off?
Actually the problem was the front stayed mostly stable while the mountain rivers ran red with the blood of slave soldiers
Yeah it’s a stretch. Maybe I’m wrong.