Ukraine's European Revolution?

[Queequeg]

A history of religious diversity that has recently been interrupted, linguistic diversity, on the border between continents, peak Imperial power in the Early Modern followed by long, humiliating decline due to prolonged religious conflict.....I think the climate is pretty similar in a lot of respects, but I haven't been to Spain.  There's some interesting culinary parallels, too. 

[Admiral Yi]

Squeeljack

[Iormlund]

Heh. Spain hasn't been religiously diverse for five centuries.

I'll give you the climate thing, although Anatolia is higher, so winters are noticeably harsher. Food in Turkey is much spicier and sweeter.

[Ed Anger]

*downs the entire fucking bottle*

Christ.

[Queequeg]

I think there's a lot of structural similarities between the Reconquista Kingdoms and the Uc Beyliks of the Turks, and some similarities between the Byzantines and Andalucians. 

Isn't quite a bit of Spain hilly?  Though yeah, Turkey is actually quite mountainous and hilly outside of the core Turkish steppe zone from Ankara to Konya. 

[Queequeg]

I also think the core mentality is very similar.  Turks and Spaniards are both mongrels who pretend to not be mongrels. 

[PDH]

*downs the entire fucking bottle*

Christ.

I was afraid you would see this.

[Valmy]

I also think the core mentality is very similar.  Turks and Spaniards are both mongrels who pretend to not be mongrels. 

Something no pureblooded Frenchman would ever consider doing.

[Iormlund]

Isn't quite a bit of Spain hilly?

Very, but in general altitudes are lower than in Anatolia and most of the population lives in the valleys or the coast. Much of the interior is sparsely populated.

I also think the core mentality is very similar.  Turks and Spaniards are both mongrels who pretend to not be mongrels.

Culturally you are very much correct. Genetically Spaniards are amongst the most homogeneous populations in Europe.

[Sheilbh]

I also think the core mentality is very similar.  Turks and Spaniards are both mongrels who pretend to not be mongrels.

Isn't that Europe in general?

*downs the entire fucking bottle*

Christ.

[Queequeg]

Isn't that Europe in general?

I think Britain is actually pretty coherent as a unit, both genetically and culturally.  Same with Scandinavia, to a certain extent Germany. 

Genetically Spaniards are amongst the most homogeneous populations in Europe.

It was a last glacial maximum refugia, it's a peninsula and is thousands of miles away from the Steppe, Europe's traditional entry point for new genetics.  Besides that I think there's probably a difference between multi-generational inhabitants of the Basque country or Pamplona and an inhabitant of Cadiz. 

[Sheilbh]

Isn't that Europe in general?

I think Britain is actually pretty coherent as a unit, both genetically and culturally.  Same with Scandinavia, to a certain extent Germany. 

So Britain's a country of not-mongrels who pretend to be mongrels?

[Queequeg]

Isn't that Europe in general?

I think Britain is actually pretty coherent as a unit, both genetically and culturally.  Same with Scandinavia, to a certain extent Germany. 

So Britain's a country of not-mongrels who pretend to be mongrels?

If you look at the genetics that's pretty much what it is. 

[Queequeg]

The vast majority of the Isles speak English, share a Capitalist and Liberal culture and are united by the experience of the Empire and shared educational and cultural establishments.  Also, the Norse-Anglo Saxon genetic contribution to the British Isles (it's close to impossible to tell the difference) reaches like 30% in East Anglia and York, a bit higher in Kirkwall, and...that's about it. 

[Admiral Yi]

I would not take it amiss if a kindly mod where to create a new thread from the Squeeljack.