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Looked at a map of Eastern Europe. My geographic literacy of it is comparable to my geographic literacy of Africa. Outside of big pieces I have no idea where anything is or what shape. There’s apparently a “North Macedonia” now. And Slovenia and Slovakia are not neighbors.
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Ukraine looks bigger than Germany. And Eastern Europe minus Russia is still bigger than Western it looks like (eyeballing it)
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If Alexander was Macedonian, why do we sorta vaguely credit his conquests to Greece? Is there a big difference between the two? Now or historically?
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People leaving in North Macedonia are Slavic, not Helenic, that’s why. There’s an area of Greece called Macedonia, hence the North. Macedonia used to be part of Yugoslavia.
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