Actually, without Western Ukraine, most of it formerly part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth/Austrian Galicia/Interbellum Polish Republic it wouldn't be a Nationalistic Ukraine to fight Russia. In a...
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Actually, without Western Ukraine, most of it formerly part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth/Austrian Galicia/Interbellum Polish Republic it wouldn't be a Nationalistic Ukraine to fight Russia. In a...
Mangalore, a very well balanced point of view. However my coments were directed to other Germans that still dispute the territorial loses for Germany after WWI. As for German war reparations, imposed...
Considering the hysteria, the German hysteria after WWI for loosing VERY LIGHTELY some territories, that weren't after all undisputable German, I'm thinking of Northern Schleswig, Poznan and even the...
Curzon line was pretty fair, from a historical and demographical point of view, it's a shame Poland lost however Lvov, a great Polish cultural center.
From a value point of view Pomerania, Silesia...
Basically Poland's borders were reset to the ones of the first Polish state, a milennium ago
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/eceurope/poland9801018.gif
What's for sure, Poland is now a more consistent country, from a geographical, ethnic-demographic point of view then she was in 1939. Of course this was achieved with the sacrifice of tens of...
Roman Empire was always half Greek, half Latin, in language and culture. In fact half Greek Hellenistic (meaning the blending of Classic Greek culture with Oriental cultures). The Latin part was also...
I gave you two specifically examples when Ottomans had as declared objective to instaure direct rule/pashalik in Romanian Principalities. In the last example, as a reaction to Michael the Brave...
There are at least two documented moments when Ottomans tried effectively to make Wallachia and then Wallachia and Moldavia as pashaliks and rule them directly.
The first is in 1522 when Pasha of...
Dear Edlfred now you seem to give up on the Slav-Turks, but you make now a distinction between Dacians and Getae, finding for Getae another fantastic origin, with origins in ... Anatolia. Your bias...
Goths/Visigoths/Ostrogoths, Vandals, Gepids passed and temorarily settled Romania and Balkans long before Slavs. I gave you this article you continue to ignore >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walha...
It is an endonym, 2000 years old, since Roman times, it comes from "ROMANUS" evolving in Romanian into "RUMĀN/ROMĀN", it is atested as early as XVth century by Italian travelers telling that the...
Indeed, Italy was disposed to guarantee Austrian independence back then, obviously Italians weren't that happy to see Germany on their doorsteps.