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jrittenhouse

Poh-tayh-toe:

Jul 21, 2009 07:34

Coming Anarchy also highlights multiple historical places with the same name; Albania, Iberia, Alexandria, various African nations, and Guinea. They don’t have one for Galicia, but they ought to.

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seawasp July 21 2009, 13:13:55 UTC

And where is Grand Fenwick?

jrittenhouse July 21 2009, 13:17:44 UTC

Last I heard, it was absorbed by Ruritania.

ckd July 21 2009, 14:24:57 UTC

Which is itself now a province of West Xylophone.

stickmaker July 21 2009, 14:25:16 UTC

Or was it Freedonia, which turned Marxist?

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jrittenhouse July 21 2009, 15:32:12 UTC

The commonality on all of the Galicians is the whole Gaul/Gaelic sort of thing.

aisb23 July 21 2009, 15:49:30 UTC

Maybe that's why an old Galitzianer (my family comes from Pincow and Nowy Targ) like me likes Celtic music so much.