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[Ribannah]

That one is easy, the name was imported from the Slavonic languages.
Now try to explain why we call Hungary Hungary

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Explain why it's called Németország in hungarian, then.
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[Fiji]

The netherlands are called Holland bacause of something called pars-pro-toto
which is latin for part-for-all
or in other words, you refer to a part a something when you're talking about the whole. Kind of like you call someone a *****.
For a long time, Holland was the most inportant part of the netherlands, so people say Holland when they mean the netherlands.

as for the germany thing.
Every country bordering on germany has a name for that country that is not translatable to any other language. contrary to belgium for example. Belgium is the country of the angry people (in old dutch, to be belgian, or "gebelgd" was to be angry) every language refers to belgium as the country of the angry people (italian: belgio, dutch: belgie, french: belgique, english: belgium) but this isn't true for germany.
the reason is that gemany is a recent political union. So every language refers to germany by refering to the tribe (or previous political entity) that originally bordered their language area:
denmark bordered the tysk tribe: tyskland
France bordered the allemanen tribe: allemagne (sp)
England never border germany, but they refer to the first known german tribe: the germans
Belgium and the netherlands bordered the Deutche tribe: Duitsland
The same goes for the Polish and Czechic names but they escape me for the moment

clear now? cause i'm getting confused myself

Fiji

[Ribannah]

quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk on 03-04-2001 11:17 PM Actually, I thought that Holland was just another name for the Netherlands... Please feel free to blame the same education system that taught me that Great Britain and England are synonomous...

* Blaming *

It gets even worse. In the English language, the citizens of The Netherlands are called "Dutch" instead of simply "Netherlanders", while you call their neighbours in the east, the citizens of Deutschland, "Germans" instead of "Dutch". In reality, (most of the) Nederlanders, the Deutschen and citizens of several other nations all descent from the original Germanic tribe.



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[The Mad Monk]

Actually, I thought that Holland was just another name for the Netherlands...

Please feel free to blame the same education system that taught me that Great Britain and England are synonomous...

I think the provinces are divided to be able to cover most of the historical borderlines of any one country...

[Ribannah]

Actually, today there are provinces "Noord-Holland" (with ao Amsterdam) and "Zuid-Holland" (with ao Den Haag (The Hague) and Rotterdam as major cities). But they are still situated in the west part of the country. The Netherlands have 12 provinces altogether.


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[Henrik]

quote: Originally posted by Ribannah on 03-02-2001 07:35 PM Holland is, a province "Holland"

As most people know Holland is a province in netherlands

[Ribannah]

quote: Originally posted by Christmann on 02-27-2001 06:43 PM Ribannah, could you please expand on that, since I don't know what you mean?

Take The Netherlands, for example. A province "The Hague" - a city - where Holland is, a province "Holland" in the east(!), a giant province "Zeeland" (in reality a small province in the SW with a tiny population). The powers that were: Holland (in the west!), Gelre in the east, Brabant in the south (and Fryslan in the north).

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[ravagon]

quote: I've been watching the EU scene closely and as soon as I heard it was released I called EB Southland in Melbourne. They've never heard of it. They called their head office in Sydney, and they said it'll be about two to three months before it hits the shelves here.

Darnit! I was relying on EB to get mine too and in WA they'd never heard of it either. This is not good news...

Anybody know of any reliable online sources?

[Christmann]

Ribannah, could you please expand on that, since I don't know what you mean?

[Ribannah]

I've just looked at the "provinces" of NW Europe as shown in the screenshots, they vary from silly to ridiculous. Down 10 points IMHO.

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[Dale]

I've been watching the EU scene closely and as soon as I heard it was released I called EB Southland in Melbourne. They've never heard of it. They called their head office in Sydney, and they said it'll be about two to three months before it hits the shelves here.

I'm sure you northerners can here my crying sobs from there.

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[Gwap]

I've had EU now for about 4 days, played almost through the entire weekend, and IT'S MUCHO FABULOSO!!!

Ok, there is a bit of a learning curve, but I guess that for regular Civ/CtP players like all you it shouldn't pose too much of a problem. Well, apart from the RTS element. To alay some of your fears: the pause really pauses. Dead stop! Handy for when a lot is going on.

In all, go to the CGN forums (or the ones on www.europa-univeralis.com) and read all about it.

O, and spend your well-earned cash on it, it's definitely worth it.


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There's an E. U. thread in the other games forum here.

Also there's a dedicated E.U. forum at Civgaming.net (follow the link in my sig.)

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