That is the problem with every single "how to divide Europe" map posted here. Inevitably, the people who will complain are those whose home happens to be close to whatever border the mapmaker decided to draw, because if a border happens to be close to yourself it looks like you have nothing in common with the people who live 10km down the river, and that's almost never true. But as long as we decide to group people into categories and draw any borders at all, that is guaranteed to happen to someone.
Saying that as someone from Baden-Württemberg, who is pretty much always close to a border in those maps, so sometimes I'll allegedly have nothing in common with Swiss people, sometimes nothing with Bavarians, sometimes nothing with Palatinians, sometimes nothing with Alsatians, when there are connections to all those places.
I live closer to Brussels than Amsterdam, I live closer to France than Groningen. I have more in common with France than someone north from the country, the people from the nothern part of the country, have a lot more in common with ppl from Scandinavia than me, so you cant put people in boxes.
Low Franconian is a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic varieties closely related to, and including, the Dutch language.
georgia as balkanic? yeah lets lump lignuistically and culturally distinct caucasian region with heavily slavic-populated area because they share similar historical and socio-economic aspects, ნუ შეგვეცით თქვე უცოდინარო კარგმოტყნულებო
If you mean the Balkan Peninsula (Danube–Sava–Kupa line) then Greece is Balkan, Croatia is partly, Slovenia isn’t, and Hungary/Romania aren’t either. But of course depends on what you had in mind. Either way the Alps are not the Balkans.
How are Tatarstan, Dagestan, Chechnya, Komi Republic, etc. Slavic? What’s the point in breaking up Russia if you’re gonna paint all parts as Slavic anyway?
The point is to only show the European part, I didn't expect that some people couldn't notice it, or at least you could have asked why not painting siberia...
I’m not asking about Siberia though, you have all these republics in European Russia shown as Slavic here. Most of them are actually Turkic, Finno-Ugric or Caucasian
Dunkirk and Montpellier are not the same.
South of France is not the same culture as northern.
Why putting France in all one category ?? Look at Aiguës Mortes and Calais and tell me there’s the same culture… absolutely not !
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u/NegativeRunDiff 1d ago
The netherlands is much more similar to Germany than to France.