tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post4058771907923146424..comments2008-10-18T08:05:00.898-07:00Comments on The Word-Nerds: A European Geography Tangentlove2learnmomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-79366836121565943342008-10-18T08:02:00.000-07:002008-10-18T08:02:00.000-07:00I was wrong about Ermland being in Kaliningrad sec...I was wrong about Ermland being in Kaliningrad sector. It is in Poland and it is called Varmie now.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-36985759114079645662008-09-30T09:00:00.000-07:002008-09-30T09:00:00.000-07:00Fascinating!Fascinating!love2learnmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10548471887979257624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056671144596990640.post-75271383606900874632008-09-30T08:30:00.000-07:002008-09-30T08:30:00.000-07:00Bukowina and Bessarabia are both in Roumania. Erml...Bukowina and Bessarabia are both in Roumania. Ermland is the part of former East Prussia that remained Catholic, even after most of it went Protestant. After WW2 East Prussia was renamed Kaliningrad enclave. It was (is) occupied by the then Soviet Union, Germans/Prussians have been driven out and replaced with Russians. You will probably not find old names on new maps. Königsberg has become Kaliningrad, but I think Ermland is very much more rural than that.<BR/><BR/>There are two Galicias in Europe - one in Poland/Ukraine, one in Spain just N of Portugal. Portuguese is in that other sense a Galician dialect gone official language.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.com