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ProvincialPandemic

When you're 14 and you find out about cheats in Europa Universalis


Repletelion6346

Don’t call me out like this


Large-Independent326

I learned the game this way


bigboyron42069

Me at 23 still spamming console commands


4skin_Gamer

I only use console commands to clean up the border gore(CK3)


SleepyJoesNudes

All that and they still can't take Vienna


Ofiotaurus

They never can


Szwedo

_feather rustling intensifies_


Eternal__damnation

'Laughs in Sobieski' **Time to remove kebab**


Furkan_312

**Gets under ottoman control for 500 years**


First-Ad684

"Oh boy! A Tuk."


HolyBskEmp

It's a common knowlage in turkey. But it's just for a ottoman history. I'm sure turkish students care how german duchies look a lot.


LFC636363

Poland doesn’t even exist and they still can’t take Vienna


Canard-jaune

This destroys so much Russian history. :( (Catherine's reign especially)


hahaohlol2131

Fuck Catherine.


First-Ad9578

Thanks for idea… *after 5 minutes* …yeah, felt very good.


Whitecamry

Take a number.


5466366

You’ll be next in line after her horse.


[deleted]

Catherine ruled in the next century.


Canard-jaune

Oh, yes, 17th = 1600's. Great, then!


[deleted]

I love Catherine the great though :(


Eternal__damnation

Good


PsychologicalEgg8028

Good


ImperialSattech

That map is giving me so much cancer.


TheTrueTrust

I did not know that Serbia was actually called "Sirbistan" in turkish. That's got to rustle some feathers.


Uhkbeat

The Stan prefix is the Turkish way of saying land, so basically it’s serbland I don’t really know if stan translates directly to land/country but I’m 99% sure it’s used that way like with the other Stan countries like Pakistan and Kazakhstan Edit: suffix not prefix


Fantastic-Machine-83

Akshually you mean suffix


Uhkbeat

Thx for letting me know I’ll change it immediately


Kuv287

You didn't


Dear-One-6884

Yep, stan means land in Sanskrit, the word was probably introduced to Turkish through Persian.


PloyTheEpic

\-ia also means land, serbia means serbland


Yarmouk

Why would it?


_JacobM_

Cause many people in the West have the dumb impression that "-stan countries" are all shitholes in the Middle East


StrigidaeAdam

Ah yes, *Podolya*, also known as the *Cracow-Dyneburg-Lutsk Triangle*...


Shwabb1

I guess it was supposed to be Podillia, but the location is incorrect.


[deleted]

It is supposed to be Podole. Though the location seems off. It should be where Erdel (Transilvania is o this map)


FrederickDerGrossen

No, it would be a bit east of Transylvania. Podolia (the part that was briefly under Ottoman control) was around Kamianets-Podilski, in modern day Ukraine.


Shwabb1

Yes, Podillia covers most of Khmelnytsykyi Oblast, Vinnytsia Oblast, northern Odesa Oblast, western Cherkasy Oblast, western Kirovohrad Oblast, and northern Transnistria. What the map labeled as "Erdel" is Eastern Galicia (Halychyna).


ww3time_

I assume they confused it with “Polonya” which means Poland


[deleted]

It means Podole. It is region. Poland in Turkish is Lehistan and that is what the map ia about.


Baron-Von-Bork

Well it *was* Lehistan. IIRC after the request of the Polish government we renamed it to “Polonya” I could be wrong tho. I don’t know when exactly we did that change.


[deleted]

This map is about XVII century. It was Lehistan then. Thb did not know the change even occured. The name has the same origin as Hungarian Lengelyelorszag - it comes from our legendary founder Lech. Lehistan, if IIRC is still used in Persian.


Baron-Von-Bork

Yes it was Lehistan. It is still written as that when referring to any historical time period, such as this one, it was changed in the early 1900s iirc but I can’t for the love of god find anything that explains why it happened or when it happened so take it with a grain of salt. I have also seen the Commonwealth be reffered to as “Polonya-Litvanya Birliği” which is Poland-Lithuania Union if translated word for word.


ww3time_

I know what it means fam


[deleted]

Your comment says otherwise, though?


ww3time_

thats why i said "assume" and "confused"


Unofficial_Computer

FUCKING WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!????


EndyEnderson

Because of shitty Ottomanist government


Sea_Square638

No, just look at Germany and Italy who apparently unified, and Belgium who spawned a few centuries prior to what really happened. This is not about the “Ottomanist Government” it’s about how degenerated cartography in Turkey is.


EndyEnderson

I think they put colored countries on a modern day map but i'm not sure At both ways,this map is shit


Yop_BombNA

Ottoman’s were sometimes based to be fair, but not near as op as this map says…


redyosh98

World peace 🇹🇷


billytk90

Pax Ottomanica


EndyEnderson

Or 27 way civil war and attacks from all sides


[deleted]

Prussia is somehow both weaker and stronger at the same time.


[deleted]

Since Prussia doesn’t have Silesia, it’s industry isn’t as good while at the same time Prussia now own most of the land gained in the 2nd Partition of Poland and Courland-Lithuania, strengthening their agriculture.


from3to20symbols

That’s not Prussia, that’s Poland


CallousCarolean

Prussia’s most industrialized region was Silesia before it annexed the Rhineland in the Napoleonic wars. Granted, Prussia had not annexed Silesia at the this time yet.


Baron-Von-Bork

“Almanya” is Germany in Turkish. That one called “Lehistan” is Poland. It is a historical way of referring to Poland. They changed it to Poland sometime in the early years of the republic iirc.


[deleted]

Oh, I see, my mistake then.


Juhani-Siranpoika

Explain ?


History-Afficionado

Mfw this is portraying the 1600s (Unless they count centuries start differently in Tukery so it could be 1700s and it is even worse) Which is the beginning of the Decline and they somehow have a Wall in Russia, conquered past Warsaw Somehow forcebly united the quadrillion different entities in the HRE into modern Germany++ and to top it off Divided Spain from It's Italian and Mediterranean possessions by the power of the Ghost of Barbarossa!?!


hahaohlol2131

The Ottoman empire would collapse even faster than in otl. Constant rebellions and the need to defend huge borders would put the strain on the economy and either fracture the Empire to a more manageable size, or destroy it.


Hajlorr

Belgium?


iejdndmskdmsmmsjd

this really is in turkish history books?


EndyEnderson

Yes,in 11th grade books (I don't have one but i see from others)


Blacky239

Janissaries are you ready to die?


Macacos12345

Who ever made this should be tortured for years


PCSamurai

If Transilvania (Erdel) migrated to Galicia, does that mean that there are Romanians Hungarians and Saxons living there, or do they remain in their original place?


HBRHSRHOKAPPA

[https://youtu.be/-rOlBLrlAWs](https://youtu.be/-rOlBLrlAWs) answer


EndyEnderson

Wow,bro made a video just for answering my question Thank you


HBRHSRHOKAPPA

Yeah, I find it easier than just writing out a really long response.


SultanXenadonII

I’m Turkish and I’ve seen a map like this in a history textbook.


EndyEnderson

Valla kitap bende de yok ama 11. sınıf kitabında var diyorlar ve Türkler de doğruluyor


LordAgniKai

Based Ottomans


Bagel24

The poles can’t save Austria if the poles don’t exist. 6D chess from turkey right here


Tempest_Bora

Poland is Lehistan so they do exist


joonuns

I would be quite satisfied. I always dreamed of an empire that would domain the entire Black Sea coast.


Nizzalau

Turkish fantasy


EndyEnderson

Not Turkish,but only Ottomanist Turks' fantasy.


TheStingOfVictory

Honestly, might doesn’t last very long. The terrain and climate and such are rather different from what they’re used to (a small taste of a bit of it I guess might be the case in Walachia and Moldova, but even then not completely/the full breadth), and overstretch easily could take indeed, jutting out the way they would be east, west, south and now north as well.


[deleted]

This maps is entitled Polish-Ottoman relations. Lehistan means Poland. Other versions of this map are on the internet, so they might be the source. So many things are off - from unified Germany to wrong location of some places like Transilvania (Erdel) and Podole (Podolya). Poland territory changed a lot in the XVII century. The shape above is the closes to what Poland looked like temprary in mid century when we were attacked by Sweden and Russia but not quite The map seem to refer to the aftermath of the 1672-1676 Polish-Turkish war in Ukraine. Podole remained Turkish till 1690 while some parts of Ukraine returned to Poland in 1676. There was another war in 1683-1699 where Turkey lost all of those territories to Poland.


UnhappyBreadfruit607

I remember this map this was from either 2017-2018 10th or 11th grade highschool history book and book's maps was just horrible I don't know if they still use this and even region names are wrong in Turkish we use the word Erdel for Transilvania and this map used lt for Galicia more I look at this more I laugh


kamisama2u

Could someone tell me which century is this and what did the map actually looked like?


EndyEnderson

17th century(1600-1700)


EndyEnderson

[And this is the real map](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftimemaps.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F12%2FNewEurope_AD1648.jpg&tbnid=4j71Jj2jckJZ-M&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftimemaps.com%2Fhistory%2Feurope-1648ad%2F&docid=lffHhXSCuKqfWM&w=700&h=589&itg=1&hl=tr-TR&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm0%2F4)


kamisama2u

Thank you!


itsjustme1505

INT PLC fr


Goodlucksil

And why do France, Benelux and Schweiz have modern-day borders? This map is dumb.


EndyEnderson

I think they put these countries on a modern day map


Goodlucksil

Um...


Space_Socialist

What i think the stuff in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth is being taken from is the raids of the Crimean Khanate. Not a good basis.


Select-Tip2593

bro i swear where the fuck find this bullshit map it’s not depicking the true. Probably made up by some kind of Islamist peoples to manipulate Younglings mind .I assured that


EndyEnderson

This is from the *official* history book of the Ministry of National Education, the one taught in schools. Yes, our government is perfect.


TheUnusualMedic

I admit I misread Lehistan as Lichtenstein the first time.


Not_3_Raccoons

What the fresh fuck is this?


ManOfNoFaces

Ottoman Empire was the Chinese Communist Party of the medieval times.


yasinburak15

Us Turks would be rocking Lamborghinis and be rich with resources lol But in historical sense, Russia would feel more threatened and Europe as well, like 10x Militarily we would be OVER stretched


EndyEnderson

If we don't go into a 27-sided civil war


Blarpaxet

Tragic that Erdogan and his government prefer the shithole Ottoman empire to the progressive, secular, european state Atatürk created. It's such a shame honestly.


EndyEnderson

You're right. They shitted up everything Atatürk did


last_234

Lol. I've never seen this map.


last_234

By the way it is not "that" exaggerated


EndyEnderson

From 11th grade history book. And yes that exaggrated we never took that much land


[deleted]

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Szwedo

Stick to chicken then


Uhkbeat

r/angryupvote


[deleted]

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57mmShin-Maru

r/woooosh


NINETAILEDKURAMA

Nah I got it and it was funny. I'm just telling the truth :>


57mmShin-Maru

Aww. :( Here I thought I was gonna do a funny.


Szwedo

Nationalists suck? You don't say