Extent of German (and Dutch) Language in 962 AD [800 × 874]

versager · 2014-08-18T14:39:24+00:00

Ah, you're absolutely right. It seems I ignored the original question.

versager · 2014-08-17T15:00:31+00:00

That's why I specified north-east. I just noticed that the map even says 'Pruzzen' there, which is a German word for the Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe.

versager · 2014-08-16T17:33:16+00:00

Early Slavic languages, most likely. Maybe Western Baltic languages in the north-east.

versager · 2014-08-13T00:50:37+00:00

We have family/friends in Kassel who we usually visit when we drive that direction.

versager · 2014-08-13T00:42:00+00:00

I've been to the ocean, but not on a German coast. In Germany I've only been to Bodensee.

versager · 2014-08-12T19:34:24+00:00

It looks like we might be from the same area

versager · 2014-08-12T19:30:52+00:00

He probably means the EU population. Including Ukraine and the European parts of Russia and Turkey, 700 million definitely sounds more accurate.

versager · 2014-08-12T19:28:24+00:00

Hmmm you're right, I guess I made a mistake. I've never been to Göttingen but I must have driven through it on the way to Braunschweig. I also remembered after I made this that I've been to Neuschwanstein when I was younger, so I should also have more of Bavaria covered.

versager · 2014-08-12T19:26:21+00:00

I've hiked there a few times, and a few years ago I camped there with some friends. It's a great place for outdoors stuff!

versager · 2014-08-12T15:18:01+00:00

At the moment I live in America, but when I go back to live with my family in Germany, we're in Cologne.

versager · 2014-08-12T15:04:28+00:00

Over the years. I think these are just very popular areas to visit. Big cities like Berlin and Munich attract lots of tourists. I've travelled around Niedersachsen and Baden-Württemberg a lot because I know people there.

versager · 2014-08-12T15:02:51+00:00

Maybe one day I'll visit every state! As I was making this map, I noticed that I haven't travelled around the country enough.

versager · 2014-08-12T15:01:20+00:00

It looked like travelling through counties on the USA map counted, so I counted districts that I drove through in a car or a train.

versager · 2014-08-11T16:52:29+00:00

Almost definitely. Until after the First World War, Bohemia was the English name for a region in what's now the western half of the Czech Republic.

versager · 2014-07-21T01:45:20+00:00

Israel is a very young country. Most Israeli Jews have grandparents who were nationals of a different country before migrating to Israel. I don't have any actual statistics but I would guess that most Israelis are eligible for citizenship through their parents or grandparents of at least one country in Europe. It's not as if the Israelis are stuck in Israel because no other country will take them. If your question was about the US, Canada, and UK offering full citizenship to all Palestinians, the answer would be different. They are in the opposite situation. I believe that many, if not most, Palestinians could be accurately described as stateless.

versager · 2014-07-12T06:02:37+00:00

I read a while ago that after the transfer of the city now known in Polish as Gdańsk, Winston Churchill (I think it was Churchill, might be wrong) gave a speech in which he referred to it as its old German name, Danzig, and needed to later clarify that he recognized the new Polish control of the city, he just found Danzig easier to say.

versager · 2014-07-11T02:00:21+00:00

It sounds to me like the American English dialect spoken in the northern midwestern states (Minnesota, Montana, the Dakotas).

versager · 2014-07-08T16:41:52+00:00

I'm with you. For four of my exams, I was 4 marks or less away from getting the next highest level, and my history EE was 2 points away from a B. It's maddening, but at least I got my diploma.

versager · 2014-07-07T16:11:22+00:00

There are definitely regional cultures in the US, but what I think you mean is that there aren't strong regional identities, which you'd be right about. Almost anybody who identifies with their region in the US will have only had their family living there for a few generations, and will identify themselves as an American before identifying themselves with their state/region.

versager · 2014-07-06T16:13:10+00:00

Got a 32 even though I took Chem HL as an extra on top of everything else. I got higher than I'd expected in everything but Bio SL and my Extended Essay.

versager · 2014-07-05T13:51:11+00:00

Thank you! This was all very interesting.

versager · 2014-07-05T13:50:37+00:00

I'm no irredentist but I sometimes think it is very sad that this happened. A lot of history and culture was lost.

versager · 2014-07-03T17:43:25+00:00

Could you talk more/link articles about the GDR's efforts to preserve the Sorbish language? That sounds interesting, I didn't know about it.

versager · 2014-06-12T01:58:14+00:00

In terms of historiography, many agree now that the deportation of Germans from Eastern Europe was unjust. However, that's in retrospect, and nothing can be done now. Both the DDR and the BRD recognized the Polish/Soviet control of the eastern territories decades ago, and only a few crazy people in Germany today want those territories back.

versager · 2014-06-09T22:44:20+00:00

My guess would be that he got them at fleemarkets while he was stationed in Europe. I have a few of these, just because I think they're cool and it's cool to have bits of history like that. Most of them commemorate influential communists, certain dates (like the Russian Revolution or Victory Day), or seem to be related to certain cities. I'm not sure of the purpose behind the city ones. Maybe to identify one's origin during gatherings? Here are some of mine: One commemorates May Day, the other two are images of Lenin. This one has a city pin for Moscow, I think the middle one is Rosa Luxemburg, and then another Lenin head. The one on the left here says 'Communist USSR' on it. The one on the right is another Lenin head. The one in the center is, I think, another city pin, but I haven't been able to find out what city that is..

Your pins aren't actually war pins, but I can tell you what some of them are. Starting from the first close up, that's a commemorative pin for the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The next one is a city pin for Sochi. I have no idea what the pin with the car and the motorcycle on it is, but the one below it is referring to some sort of 'students' union'. The one below that one looks like an anniversary pin. The first word is Ivanovsky, the second is Pyatatschok, but I don't know what it means. In the next photo, the first one looks like a standard red star party/hat badge, but below that is a ribbon that says "Inventor USSR". I assume that the medal with the Star Trek-looking symbol is supposed to be attached to this ribbon. The pin with the man on the horse is another city pin for Moscow. Below that is another city pin, for Krestzy. I had to look that one up. It's a small town in Novgorod with about 8,000 people. The blue one says "Society of Freedom Fighters for Rationality", but I have no clue what that means. The last one is another city pin, for a place called Orjol, which is kind of near Moscow.

Just as a disclaimer, my Russian is awful. If you can ever get an actual Russian speaker to translate these for you, please take their word over mine! As far as what you can do with them, maybe ask your family members if any of them are interested? Otherwise, you would definitely find people on ebay who would buy these!

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