Is there a country or a nation that you simply love even though you are absolutely unrelated to it?

>unicum
there's a joke about erasm sluts there somewhere

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Forgot pic.

We could spin the topic to connect it to the historical phenomenon of fluid identities - thus making it Veeky Forums worthy. For instance, Hungary would be a perfect example of various people's coming together over time to create the concept of nationhood. Modern Hungarians have the blood of Avars, Slavs, Magyars, Pechenegs, Cumans, Germans, Serbians, Greeks, Armenians, Jews etc.

I fucking love Hungary, also these, and Ireland, and Czechoslovakia, Ukraine e.t.c. its mostly for historic reason obviously, i just like their history, myths, culture and so on.

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that's cruel, user

>Ukraine
>history
>culture

Austria. Mainly for its incredible history as a great power and its abrupt downfall.

Why is Hungary so liked? I genuinely don't understand why so many people like Hungary; I do understand why some would like it, but not why so many do.

As an answer... as a Romanian, I'll say Rome.

Kekd.

>Place: Ireland
>City: Killarney
>Reasons: It has an amazing atmosphere of rolling green hills and sheep run around.
>Personal reason for love of city: I got wasted and danced with the locals watching a football game. I met a local with a pistol in his pocket, saying he was IRA or something new.
>pic related

>Why is Hungary so liked? I genuinely don't understand why so many people like Hungary; I do understand why some would like it, but not why so many do.

It has to me a slightly exotic feeling, i mean, they have the whole Turkic/Magyar cavalry tribe thing going, alongside a completely European history, they are unique in a way.

I guess it does.

Yet no one shows any love for our god-forsaken island of latinism :(

FUCKING HELL TELL ME YOU HAVE MORE OF THOSE PICS I AM ROCK SOLID. But i like Romania as well, especially the Dacians, its just that the Hungarians had the whole kingdom thing and very much more relevant, so they have more info and cool pics tb h

Generally unremarkable history the thumb of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans for hundreds of years. Even before that it has been overshadowed by neighbours in Byzantium, Hungary and Bulgaria.

Brazil
Guatemala
Poland
Indonesia

I have a fascination with Bulgaria, Ireland and Portugal.

bulgaria and russia

Well I could dump some of the images I have, if I can sort the more relevant ones.

This one is a crop of a painting of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 / Independence War, depicting a battle between romanians and turks.

Is it unremarkable because it is in general unremarkable, or is it because of unawareness? I personally find the following very interesting:

* Dacia, particularly Burebista's Dacia and Decebalus' Dacia
* The internal interactions in the second Bulgarian Tsardom
* The founding of Wallachia and Moldavia as independent from Hungary
* Mircea cel Bătrân
* Vlad Țepeș; Ștefan cel Mare both provide some interesting history - actually, as interesting trivia, Vlad's grandson avenged his father (Vlad's son) by personally strangling every one of the plotters
* Michael the Brave is very interesting, being the first to rule all of Romania
* Even though after Michael everything started being stale as the Ottomans fully imposed themselves, there is still Brâncoveanu who kickstarted a sort of Romanian renaissance
* Tudor Vladimirescu's 1821 revolt against the Ottomans, concomittent with the greek independence revolt
* Romania's slow 19th century rise to power through clever diplomacy, managing to get guaranteed by most great powers without being split again (check Cuza out btw - Romania wasn't supposed to last after he stopped being Domn, only did because of loopholes we snuck in) and without becoming a dependency of a different power (say... Russia, or A-H)
* as a random tidbit Royal Crown of the Kingdom of Romania was the Steel Crown

I wouldn't call all this "unremarkable". Hungary never managed to become much more after the initial expansion stopped, they failed to do much other than consolidate and eventually only managed to get split up between Austria and the Ottomans. On the other hand the Romanian principalities managed, against the odds, to not get annexed - just compare with Serbia same time period

Unfortunately don't seem to have more such images, especially not Dacia-related, so have this Spurdo.

Real shame to be honest, I wish I had more as well.

So countries with green and red in their flags?

Shit that sucks, i hate how i can't find good pics on the Dacians and Thracians.

Ireland
Hungary
Romania

Yeah it's a real shame.

Hey looking more through my Downloads folder I'm finding some more.

Mongolia, I probably like them because I'm not Asian

Here's another one I edited, I'll see if I can find original...

>Armenians
Source on that? sounds interesting.

Oh I did find the original

Have a sneaky Thracian

I'm also interested in the Mongolians and other Turanic people, but I think they were fucking assholes and the world would be better if they never existed.

They're like fucking orcs.

Same here. Nowadays Mongolia seems to be like a pacified skeleton of what once was a huge empire. Certainly they changed the History of the mankind in several ways.

I'm really into the whole Eurasian history.
Some countries that I am really obsessed with are India, Japan, Russia, and Tibet.

Somehow I ' m also wondering about travelling to Bhutan. Their monarch is called the Dragon King. I cant think about a more based combination of words.

I love all the Baltic countries.

Something about Prussia/German Empire just does it for me.

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>Why is Hungary so liked? I genuinely don't understand why so many people like Hungary
>as a Romanian
heh

>Why is Hungary so liked?
It's literally because they have the hottest porn stars

Russia, Finland, Greenland, Poland, England.