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Forester pawb.social Forester@pawb.social
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Never heard of Transylvania before?

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arctanthrope lemmy.world arctanthrope@lemmy.world
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Never heard of Transylvania before?

fun fact Transylvania literally means "the place on the other side of the forest" in Latin

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LifeInMultipleChoice lemmy.dbzer0.com LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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fun fact Transylvania literally means "the place on the other side of the forest" in Latin

Ah, Sidney must mean the place on the other side of the bush then

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SCmSTR lemmy.blahaj.zone SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

Furrowed brow blue flaming Terminator skull with fangs covered with cracks

The furrowed brow on the actual skulls always kills me. Like how do you take it seriously that person would look so stupid

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TheTechnician27 lemmy.world TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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Never heard of Transylvania before?

Note: a few of the more authoritarian ones moved to the breakaway state of Transnistria.

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Evil Kitty europe.pub Una@europe.pub
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trans flag, blue represents meth, white represents Walter White and pink represents Jesse Pinkman

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dohpaz42 lemmy.world dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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Not gonna ask again

Proceeds to ask…

#winning

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Klear quokk.au Klear@quokk.au
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fun fact Transylvania literally means "the place on the other side of the forest" in Latin

Which is weird, because when you go there, you'll find that you're standing on this side of the forest...

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affenlehrer feddit.org affenlehrer@feddit.org
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fun fact Transylvania literally means "the place on the other side of the forest" in Latin

Siebenbürgen

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its_kim_love lemmy.blahaj.zone its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#11 · Quote Reply

And goblin boys

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texture lemmy.world texture@lemmy.world
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this is extremely my kind of shitpost. bravo.

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darkdemize sh.itjust.works darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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fun fact Transylvania literally means "the place on the other side of the forest" in Latin

Another fun fact, Pennsylvania means "the other end of the pencil".

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fayoh sopuli.xyz fayoh@sopuli.xyz
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Never heard of Transylvania before?

Transsexual Transylvania maybe? Dr Frank-N-Further is kind of cute.

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swab148 lemmy.dbzer0.com swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Transsexual Transylvania maybe? Dr Frank-N-Further is kind of cute.

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FerretyFever0 fedia.io FerretyFever0@fedia.io
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Oh, that's Poland.

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𝜯𝐞𝐡 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐢 lemmy.world TehBamski@lemmy.world
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!the_pack@lemmy.world would like this.

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dmention7 midwest.social dmention7@midwest.social
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this is extremely my kind of shitpost. bravo.

WELCOME TO THE PACK BROTHA! AWOOO!

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sad_detective_man sopuli.xyz sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
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!the_pack@lemmy.world would like this.

HELL YEAH BROTHER I'LL CRANK TO THAT BUT WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING?

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ToastedRavioli midwest.social ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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Another fun fact, Pennsylvania means "the other end of the pencil".

The business end or the oopsie poopsie side of it?

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𝜯𝐞𝐡 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐢 lemmy.world TehBamski@lemmy.world
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HELL YEAH BROTHER I'LL CRANK TO THAT BUT WHY ARE YOU WHISPERING?

Because we aren't on the community page. I don't want to scare the others.

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Kurtagag lemmy.ca Kurtagag@lemmy.ca
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fun fact Transylvania literally means "the place on the other side of the forest" in Latin

Wow TIL

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dream_weasel sh.itjust.works dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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#23 · (edited) Quote Reply

Another fun fact, Pennsylvania means "the other end of the pencil".

Hmmm...

...

..

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Nope.

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SeductiveTortoise piefed.social SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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I know this face, but it's been a while. Time feels warped. Like... I can almost remember the name, but then my brain takes a jump to the left.

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OpenStars piefed.social OpenStars@piefed.social
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I know this face, but it's been a while. Time feels warped. Like... I can almost remember the name, but then my brain takes a jump to the left.

"That guy, who's in all the stuff"

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SeductiveTortoise piefed.social SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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"That guy, who's in all the stuff"

In all the stuff, like a Curry? I could go for a Curry right now.

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OpenStars piefed.social OpenStars@piefed.social
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In all the stuff, like a Curry? I could go for a Curry right now.

img

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darkdemize sh.itjust.works darkdemize@sh.itjust.works
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The business end or the oopsie poopsie side of it?

Dealer's choice.

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WanderWisley lemmy.world WanderWisley@lemmy.world
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CAN I GET A HELL YA BROTHA!

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tomiant piefed.social tomiant@piefed.social
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#30 · Quote Reply

It's the flag of Urgay.

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a_non_monotonic_function lemmy.world a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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Never heard of Transylvania before?

After a few pages of scrolling it appears that they have sport.

https://www.transy.edu/1780/2024/05/transylvania-baseball-softball-swing-into-ncaa-tournament-action-this-week/

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kittenzrulz123 lemmy.dbzer0.com kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Never heard of Transylvania before?

Not a country, thats a region and im pretty sure its not even controlled by a single country

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kittenzrulz123 lemmy.dbzer0.com kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#33 · Quote Reply

Thats the flag of :3

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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#34 · (edited) Quote Reply

TRANSNSISTRIA BROTHER AROOOO

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SeductiveTortoise piefed.social SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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Siebenbürgen

Sechs! Wait, are we haggling right now?

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affenlehrer feddit.org affenlehrer@feddit.org
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#36 · Quote Reply

Sechs! Wait, are we haggling right now?

A lot of the region there was settled by Saxons in the middle ages but I've no idea why they called it Siebenbürgen

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SeductiveTortoise piefed.social SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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A lot of the region there was settled by Saxons in the middle ages but I've no idea why they called it Siebenbürgen

Probably because it was between seven mountains? (Sieben Berge/bergen?)

Or it's from guarantor (Bürge)? Ginge me a sec, I'm intrigued now.

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SeductiveTortoise piefed.social SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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Probably because it was between seven mountains? (Sieben Berge/bergen?) Or it's from guarantor (Bürge)? Ginge me a sec, I'm intrigued now.

Unclear. Burgen, Berge, Bürgen, Stühle (?), lots of possibilities.

(Wikipedia)

Die Herkunft des deutschen Namens Siebenbürgen ist nicht abschließend geklärt. Vermutungen gehen dahin, ihn auf sieben von Siebenbürger Sachsen gegründete Städte zurückzuführen: Hermannstadt, Kronstadt, Bistritz, Schäßburg, Mühlbach, Broos und Klausenburg (in dieser Reihe wird fälschlicherweise oft Mediaș genannt, das aber erst 1534 vom Markt zur Stadt erhoben wurde). Auch die Sieben Stühle, Einheiten der eigenen Gerichtsbarkeit – jeder Stuhl besaß einen Königsrichter, der alleine dem ungarischen König unterstellt war –, sind möglicherweise Teil der Namensgebung. Daneben stehen ältere Herleitungen vom Fluss Zibin (rumänisch Cibin, ungarisch Szeben), nach dem wiederum Hermannstadt (rumänisch Sibiu, lateinisch Cibinium) benannt worden sei, das als traditionelle Hauptstadt seinen Namen dann der Region als ganzes gegeben habe.[6] Walter Schuller dachte mit Verweis auf eine Reihe von Parallelen im deutschen Sprachraum an eine wörtliche Deutung als (bei den) sieben Bürgen, als die „toponymische (Über-) Betonung eines für ihr [d. h. das siebenbürgisch-sächsische] Exemtionsgebiet essentiellen Rechtsverhältnisses“. Die Umdeutung auf sieben Burgen oder auch sieben Berge sei dann schon früh wegen der Lautähnlichkeit der Wörter erfolgt.[7]

Der Name ist zunächst in deutschen Quellen aus dem 13. Jahrhundert als Septum urbium, Terra septem castrorum und ähnlichen Varianten verzeichnet.[8] In deutscher Niederschrift hieß es Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts erstmals Siebenbuergen und bezeichnete damals nur den Bereich der Sieben Stühle als administrative Einheiten oder Gebietskörperschaften der Hermannstädter Provinz. Erst später hat sich der Begriff räumlich erweitert, umfasste schließlich denselben Raum wie Erdély und Ardeal und ersetzte dadurch die frühere Lehnübersetzung von Ultrasilvania Überwald (13. und 14. Jahrhundert).

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Sarah Valentine (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#39 · Quote Reply

Thats the flag of :3

uwu7

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affenlehrer feddit.org affenlehrer@feddit.org
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Unclear. Burgen, Berge, Bürgen, Stühle (?), lots of possibilities. (Wikipedia) Die Herkunft des deutschen Namens Siebenbürgen ist nicht abschließend geklärt. Vermutungen gehen dahin, ihn auf sieben von Siebenbürger Sachsen gegründete Städte zurückzuführen: Hermannstadt, Kronstadt, Bistritz, Schäßburg, Mühlbach, Broos und Klausenburg (in dieser Reihe wird fälschlicherweise oft Mediaș genannt, da...

Thank you for the research. I've been there once, mostly around Kronstadt / Brasov and it's really beautiful and a lot of historical buildings still exist

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SeductiveTortoise piefed.social SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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Thank you for the research. I've been there once, mostly around Kronstadt / Brasov and it's really beautiful and a lot of historical buildings still exist

That wasn't research. I was interested and opened Wikipedia. The family of a friend comes from somewhere in that region and he showed me pictures. Those were pretty breathtaking.

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texture lemmy.world texture@lemmy.world
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#42 · Quote Reply

WELCOME TO THE PACK BROTHA! AWOOO!

LFG WOOOOO

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