Sloburg

Sloburg is secondary nation of Polandball and Mapping Slovenia.

Pre-Carniolan times (before 689)
Before the Duchy of Carniola was formed, territory of modern Sloburg was part of Roman empire. After Roman empire fell, Slavic people began to populate the land. In 689, the Duchy of Carniola was formed by Janez I (John the First of Carniola).

Duchy of Carniola (689 - 907)
Carniola was formed in 689. It was located in modern Slovenia, it's capital was Kranj. The country had a lot of problems with Avars, but it was successfully defended. The capital was Celovec (Klagenfurt). In 907 Sloburgians, a new dynasty, gained the throne of Carniola. The country was renamed to Sloburg the same year.

First Sloburgian kingdom (907 - 1364)
First Sloburgian king (Matej I - Matthew l) moved the capital to the town of Škofja Loka, where Sloburgian dynasty had it's residence. Sloburgians were big competitors to the Habsburg dynasty. They had 3 wars with them. The last war (Slovene - Austrian war) was fought from 1358 to 1364. Sloburgians won the war. They succeded to gain all of Habsburg's lands. With that, Sloburg renamed to Sloburgian empire. Below you can see Sloburg castle in Škofja Loka.



Sloburgian empire (1364 - 1918)


The map shows all the Sloburg's dynastyes greatest extent. The red one is Slovenian dynasty in 1678, the blue one is Spanish dynasty in 1633 and the green one is Armenian dynasty in 1501. Sloburgian dynasty has left a great mark in the history of Europe. Many cities that are located outside modern Sloburg have a big Slovene population (examples: Krakow, Zagreb, Prague...). Spanish Sloburgian dynasty also owned colonies in America and Africa. Unfortunately, it became extinct, when the last king Karel lV (Charles the fourth) died without male descendant. Armenian Sloburgian dynasty became extinct when Turks attacked Erebuni (Yerevan) in 1523 and whole royal family was killed. That is also one of the reasons for Turkey's bad relations with Sloburg. Slovene Sloburgian dynasty was important especially because of it's defense against the Turks. Vienna became the capital of Sloburg right after Sloburgians won the last Austrian - Slovene war. Turks attacked Vienna 3 times, but they always failed. Last time when Turks went to Vienna was in 1675. Sloburg won and they gained a lot of land ( Hungary, Croatia, Transylvania, Bosnia, Montenegro...). With that, Sloburg became the 2nd biggest country in Europe (behind Russia). Unfortunately, Sloburg lost a lot of land (Silesia) when the Prusso - Sloburgian war occured. Sloburg didn't participate in partitions of Poland. When Napoleon became the Emperor of France in 1805, Sloburg sold modern Belgium to him and after that, Sloburg and France became allies. Napoleon unfortunately lost the Napoleonic wars and Sloburg needed to release Veneto and Lombardy and needed to give Montenegro and Bosnia to the Turks. A big reform in Sloburg happened in 1848, when king Vid the III gave autonomy to Croatia, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Romanian Transylvania and to the remaining German parts in Sloburg (Tyrol, Linz and Sudetenland). Sloburg remained neutral in WW1. The end of Sloburgian empire happened when the last Sloburgian emperor (and the first king of Second Sloburgian kingdom) John the XVII released all land that wasn't populated with Slovenes. 4th June 1918 is the official date of the end of Sloburgian empire.

Second Sloburgian kingdom (1918 - 1940)
After the fell of the empire, Sloburg remained on the land, populated mostly by Slovenes (Slovenia, Carinthia, Styria, Istria and northern Austria). The country felt the consequences of the economic crisis in 1929. Fortunately it was one of the first countries to recover their economy. Unfortunately Nazis and Italians started to conquer Sloburg in 1939 (right after the WW2 started). Sloburg was fully conquered in 1940. This was the end of Sloburgian dynasty, even though their descendants still live.

Occupied Sloburg (1940 - 1944)
Sloburg was split between Germany and Italy (north to Germany, south to Italy). After Italy capitulated, whole Sloburg became part of Germany. Around 1 million Slovenes died because of mass extermination. Sloburg was liberated by the allies in 1944. But after that, a civil war occured because some people wanted democracy and others wanted communism.

Sloburgian civil war (1944 - 1945)
The war occured because people wanted different goverments. Some wanted democracy, others wanted communism. At the start of the war, communists were winning, but after USA started to help democratic camp, they started to lose. Capitalists won and Republic of Sloburg was formed. Below you can see capitalist flag (left) and the communist flag (right).

Republic of Sloburg (1945 - present)
After the end of WW2, Sloburg gained back it's former German lands (Tyrol, upper Austria). The country joined NATO at the start of the Cold war. It was also one of the founding countries of European Coal and Steal community, the predecessor of the European Union. After the Cold war ended, Sloburg recognized all the countries that seceded from the USSR and Yugoslavia except Azerbaijan. The reason were Sloburg's relations with Armenia (read the Sloburgian empire section). Sloburg is (along with Armenia) only country that recognizes the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. This didn't led only to complete destruction of Sloburgian - Azeri relations. Sloburg also recognized the Armenian genocide, the second reason for bad relations with Turkey. In 1996, Croatia, which just seceded from Yugoslavia, tried to gain Istria, what led to Slovene - Croatian war, in which Sloburg won. It gained whole Dalmatia. Even today, Sloburgian - Croatian relations are bad. The Republic of Sloburg remains a strong and solid state, which has an important position Europe.

Regions
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Laws
- Smoking is banned in public.

- It's banned to deny Armenian genocide and Holocaust.

- Homosexuality is legal.

- The highest time you can spend in prison is 30 years.

- It's forbidden to insult people with a different religion than you.

- Some names are forbidden to give it to your child in Sloburg.

Military
Sloburg has three military branches: Land forces, Navy and Air forces. Sloburgian army currently consist 200.000 people, including women. There are 4.5 million people in Sloburg capable to serve in army. Sloburgian army has extremely good equipment (guns, tanks, ships), 3rd best in Europe. Sloburg has 8th strongest military in Europe and 16th in the world.

Demographics
Sloburg has population of 16 million people, 12th in Europe and 65th in the world.

Ethinc groups
In 2014, 9.031.890 people consider themselves Slovene. There's no person without nationality in Sloburg, because everybody needs to register his/her nationality. After Slovenes, largest ethnic group are Croatians (3.007.000 people). They mostly live in Dalmatia and big cities. Germans (2.556.000 people) live in Tyrol, western Austria and big cities. Most of them escaped in Germany after WW2. About 1 million Italians live in western Sloburg and some big cities on the coast. Hungarians (572.830 people) live in eastern Sloburg and Vienna. Others consider them as Serbs, Jews, Bosnians, Czechs, Poles, Slovaks, Montenegrins, Greeks, Armenians, Romani people, Romanians... There are even 4000 Berbers living in Vienna. Below you can see the biggest ethnic groups map.

Sloburg in different languages
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Armenian: Սլոամրոց

Croatian: Slograd

Dutch: Slobboerg

English: Sloburg

French: Slobourg

German: Sloburg

Italian: Sloberghia

Lithuanian: Slioburgas

Hungarian: Szlokisváros

Serbian: Слоград

Slovenian: Sloburg

Sloburg in ON languages
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Religion
67% of pupulation are Christians, 25% Atheist, 6% Muslim, 1% Jewish and 1% other.

List of major cities

 * 1) Dunaj (Vienna), pop. 2.400.000 ★
 * 2) Ljubljana, pop. 1.700.000
 * 3) Trst (Trieste), pop. 1.000.000
 * 4) Gradec (Graz), pop. 500.000
 * 5) Solnograd (Salzburg), pop. 476.000
 * 6) Split, pop. 300.000
 * 7) Reka (Rijeka), pop. 250.000
 * 8) Maribor, pop. 240.000
 * 9) Kranj, pop. 200.000
 * 10) Innsbruck, pop. 150.000

Culture
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Economy
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Foreign relations
NOTE: these are special signed alliances.

Alliances (military)
NATO - 4 April 1949

Alliances (trade)
EU - 18 April 1951 (joined in the time of ECSC) USA - 4 April 1949

China - 29 November 1978

India - 1 July 1969

Russia - 13 December 1993

Australia - 4 March 1986

Serbia - 6 June 2006 (even though Sloburg recognizes Kosovo) Brazil - 23 May 1989

Alliances (trade and military)
Armenia - 23 September 1991

Morocco - 8 March 1961 Israel - 2 May 1949

Countries with no relations
NOTE: together with the country's name there are reasons, which are writtten after the name. Azerbaijan - Sloburg is allied with Armenia, recognized Nagorno Karabakh and didn't recognize Azerbaijan. Pakistan - Sloburg is allied with India and didn't recognize Azerbaijan.

Palestine - Sloburg doesn't recognize Palestine.

Western Sahara - Sloburg doesn't recognize Western Sahara.

Saudi Arabia - Slobirgian president once said: ''Saudi Arabia needs to stop with anti - gay and anti - women laws. ''That led to complete destruction of relations with S.A.

Belarus: Sloburg doesn't approve Lukashenko's regime in Belarus.

ON alliances
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