Capital of european country

Isn't it weird how Bratislava is right there next to Vienna yet reading history the city (Bratislava) is never once mentioned? I feel like there should be more significant events taking place so close to an imperial capital.

That's because Helsinki was founded opposite Tallinn on purpose to compete with it.

Pozsony was one of the most important Hungarian cities historically, it was even the capital of Hungary (or more like coronation place), maybe the problem is that Bratislava is a made up name that only came to existence after WW1 so you can't find much about it

owned that danetard

affairs with Sweden

nice euphemism for "one-sided buttrape" lmao

the real question is why Greenland is still part of Denmark if it's closer to America than to Denmark
don't you think it should be fixed, purely for aesthetic reasons?

Pressburg was one of the most important German cities historically, maybe the problem is that Bratislava is a made up name that only came to existence after WW1 so you can't find much about it.

lol, you forgot there was also history before the Deluge
the Vasa dynasty king seized power in Poland in 1587, the capital was moved to Warsaw in 1596, while the "Swedish buttrape" happened only in 1655 and it was the last stage of the Polish-Swedish affairs over that ~70 year long period during which the relations were different, sometimes better, sometimes worse (because the Polish Vasa kings wanted to get the Swedish crown and sometimes they succeeded and Poland and Sweden were bounded by a personal union, sometimes they failed and then a war started).
And also during this time we won a fair number of battles and wars against Sweden.

It's impossible to have a capital in the center of this country because our geographic center is in Bosnia.
Zagreb is kinda in the center because most people in the country live in Zagreb and north of it so it's close to over 60% of the country.

It's impossible to have a capital in the center of this country because our geographic center is in Bosnia.

that's why Knin should be your capital

That's why croatia is jugoslavia

Turns out bratislava has been part of roman empire, avar empire, ottoman empire, holy roman empire, german empire, soviet empire and EU empire

What the fuck does this mean? How can a capital be "closer to other countries than your own country", when your capital is literally in your country?

distance to other countries: >0km

distance to your own country: =0km

stop being so autistic or AI-brained
every human being knows what he meant, that's why we are different from robots, we understand contexts, mental shortcuts and so on

German cities

amerisharts should be banned from discussing history

Moscow should be independent from Russia, though.

wasn't Pozsony majority German at one point, tho?
actually weirdly enough, out of all Hungarian lands, Slovakia probably had most Germanized cities, wonder why

Take your meds

No really, what does it mean? If he meant something along the lines of "his capital is near the border" he should have said so. Fucking retards

wasn't Pozsony majority German at one point, tho?

so was Buda, yet it would be retarded if anybody called it a "German city"

That part of Croatia is basically empty and it was rendered a ruined shithole by Ottomans and Serbs. It's a desolate mountainous terrain far from economic centers. It's economy is a bit of tourism and buying chickens from inbred farmers with last names Milanović and Jovanović.
It's much more logical to have a capital far from balkan warmongers, even Zagreb is dangerously close to Republika Srpska being only separated by a few km of flatlands and rivers.
Varaždin should be the capital. It was until a local fire destroyed it and the title was transferred to Zagreb.

at part of Croatia is basically empty

exactly, so moving the capital there would help boost its economy
just the same way how thirdies build new capital cities in the middle of nowhere to strengthen local economy + relieve housing shortage in their biggest city

what happened with all these Germans in Hungary, did they magyarize over time or remained vehemently German until WW2 and were only expelled afterwards?

at least in Poland most Germans from the medieval colonization gradually polonized (that's why we have so many German surnames in Poland now), only those who came here from 19th century onwards usually exhibited typical German nationalist attitude.

To be fair, Berlin used to be a lot more central

bad existing infrastructure and difficult terrain to build big roads, railways, airports

horrendous climate with freezing winters and scorching summers

it just gets destroyed and pillaged again when Serbs decide to chimp out

No thanks

yet it would be retarded if anybody called it a "German city"

No it wouldn't?
We frequently say stuff like "Brasov was a German city" and nobody bats an eye here.

Make YORK great again

Ustasa wanted the capital to be Banja Luka

when Serbs decide to chimp out

don't worry, Thompson will singlehandedly defend Knin again

We frequently say stuff like "Brasov was a German city" and nobody bats an eye here.

afaik you only say that not to say that it was a Hungarian city

Ukrainians constantly do the same with Lviv, they always say that it was an Austrian/German city, never Polish

the old capital used to be in the middle, but sofia makes more sense as it's far easier to protect because of its geography being around mountains

though still Ostdeutschland was always economically and culturally irrelevant comparing to the west, so probably even back in 19th century travelling east of Berlin felt like crossing the border between Europe and Asia

that's why German architects developed Posen following examples from Berlin, it was even called Klein Berlin, because it was supposed to be the capital of Deutsche enlightenment over the barbarian Ossiland

let me guess, you don't call Kolozsvár a Hungarian city

some of them assimilated, some of them got deported. there are still some left

Bratislava is a made up name

I thought it means something like the glory of brothers

Do they actually? I thought we were never a majority there

we were never a majority there

anon must be very old desu

That's true, but moving the capital west would have only made the issue worse. Much easier to justify funding for a railway through empty Pomerania and Brandenburg, if it's to connect Silesia/Prussia to the capital, than if there were another 200km between those areas and the rest of civilization

But it genuinely was majority German for many centuries
About Lvov, I don't know exactly, but the situation wasn't like that

it does but my point was that this name is not historical and was never used before, you can even feel how artificial this name is (though since most placenames in America are artificial too, maybe you cannot feel it)
Germans were never a majority in Lviv in absolute numbers but obviously since Lviv was in AH, German culture was very strong there as state culture, German language was official or coofficial one (depends on the period) so nationalist Ukrainians feel more comfortable with calling this city historically German than Polish (because Germans don't voice any claims to this city while there are some nationalist Poles who do, though it's a minority)

I suppose we actually don't

well, yes
i can imagine that it must be a real burden and economic obstacle for Berlin to be so close to the eastern border, means far away from the economic centres of Germany and not having a wealthy partner over the border to trade with
I guess most Berlin development nowadays is thanks to federal funding, state administration and so on