ITT: facts most of you didn't know until now.
I start: there is native buddhist folk living in Europe.
>czechia
>Catholic
>>59690449
I think it's more about culture than actual belief.
tfw nobody wants to talk with you even on 4chan
>>59690928
Nobody here reads anything beside posts on 4chan, you expect us to post little known facts?
The Franks weren't French.
>>59691062
/int/ was far more interesting back in the days..
weed is legal in best korea
>>59691157
weed is illegal in Jamaika
Americans eat about 50 billion hamburgers a year.
>>59691400
Average American is weights 31kg more than average Bangladeshi.
Present day koreans originally only inhabited a tiny sliver of the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula.
>>59690348
Me living here
>>59691746
Why is the green area different than the rest ?
>>59691798
Because it's Sunni Islam there?
>>59691798
tatars
>>59691849
And Bashkirs
China has the longest express roads infrastructure in the world.
2nd longest has the USA and 3rd Canada.
>>59691798
Soviet Union collapsed before the inhabitants could be either exiled, murdered or russified?
>>59690348
http://gbtimes.com/life/first-buddhist-temple-europe-was-built-belgrade
A number of Kalmyks moved to Belgrade after the October revolution, but left again after commies took over here. The temple was destroyed in 1944 I wanna rebuild it ;_;
>>59691877
Yes m8 like they russified Finland 1808-1918
oh wait
>>59691877
Nobody tried to -
>exiled, murdered or russified
volga tatars during the soviet era.
It's even obligatorily for russians to learn tatar language at school here.
>>59692211
hmm that's interesting why they chose Serbia?
>>59690348
You need to be circumcised to get into US Army.
>>59692316
>>59692211
They tried to russify Finland hard, when they thought they had convinced them that they weren't Swedes anymore. They failed.
>>59691746
Chelyabinsk?
>>59690348
What is that country to the south of the UK?
>>59692463
France
>>59692489
Ok. Thanks.
Didn't realize Russia's little enclave on the Baltic is orthodox
>>59690348
Since there are a russians and poles here something from our history - Stepan Bandera leader of a ukrainian nazi nationalists was assasinated in Munich in 1959 by a pole working for KGB using hydrogen cyanide pistol which caused heart attach and remained undetected by authorities.
>>59692761
Only Russians live there. All Germans were sent from Kaliningrad right after WWII
>>59690348
Does anybody know who are these protestants on the east Hungary and the middle of Romanis?
bulgars and hungarians are from a turkic tribe called onogur
>>59692856
wtf? I love KGB now
filthy calvinists
>>59692933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Church_in_Hungary
As for the Romanians, those are Hungarians as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9kely_Land
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarians_in_Romania
>>59693215
I heard that name of ancient Hungarians - Onogurs, came from ancient turkic language on which ancient Bulgarians were speaking and it means 'ten tribes' - 'on ogur'. Thats how ancient Bulgarians called ancient Hungarians. But they weren't one tribe. And Hungarians weren't even a turkic tribe.
How did you not know that? It's in your country even
>>59693452
the word comes from on-oguz, or the ten-oguz. it was a name given to a group of western oguz tribes. anatolian turks, azeri turks and tukmens also derive from the oguz tribes
there is a group left over(that is not slavified fully) in modern day moldova from these tribes called the gagauz(gok-oguz), they still speak an oguz turkic language that is intelligible with turkish but have accepted orthodox christianity as their religion rather than islam
>>59693765
> but have accepted orthodox christianity as their religion rather than islam
Why would they be muslims? As far as I know, at the time they settled in their current homeland they were pagans. And then it's logical that they converted to orthodox cause all of their neighbors were orthodox as well.
>>59694048
>cause all of their neighbors were orthodox as well
that is correct, i am not saying they shouldn't have. they are just turkic tribes that went west from the northern side, whilst other tribes that formed seljuks, ottomans etc went south first, conquering the persians and accepting islam instead of christianity
> they were pagans
not really, tengrism is a form of single-god-rule-over-many type religion with shaministic stuff added in
>>59693215
kek
>>59694271
Is there any relations today between Gagauz and Turkey? Cultural, economic, etc. I am asking because I'm from Tatarstan and we have a lot of projects with Turkey, even after this accident in November.
>>59692933
The map is oversimplified, they are not just in the east.
>>59690348
>Russia
>Europe
YOU WISH JEW
>>59694659
t. Taras
>>59690348
>>59693215
WE
>>59694818
Southern Italy was Eastern? Wtf?
>>59695070
Byzantine Empire
The rate of Irish immigration to Liverpool was so high that an Irish nationalist candidate actually won a seat there in the 1918 general election.
>>59694442
i don't know of any relations outside of the "hey we are all turks" type events
>>59694822
its more of a THEY, the separation occurred around a thousand years ago
the only proper relations today are the ancestorial and linguistics
>>59690348
Лoл, я caм ceгoдня yвидeл кaлмычкy в интepнeтe и зaгyглил "кaлмыкия", oхyeл, чтo oнa тaм, a нe гдe-тo в Cибиpи.
>>59695468
That's incredible, SNP note well
>>59694818
The holy land was mostly Christian still in 1060, as was Spain. This map just indicates the religion of the rulers
Brits bought some wood from Poles. Asked what wood they were selling, they replied:
>z Prus
which means "from Prussia". Now Brits call the wood spruce.
>>59698242
Interesting
>>59698242
fuck the Brits
I am Greek
I didn't know until a month ago that a small part of Kazakhstan is in Europe.
>>59691524
The average American is probably 20cm taller than the average bangladeshi, so it doesn't mean too much
Greek culture influenced buddhism a lot. There were no pictures or statues of Buddha before Alexander conquered Middle Asia. And Greeks were first who created Buddhas statue. His hairstyle on statues is typical mediterranian hairstyle.
>>59690348
That map is way too simplified.
>>59697290
ye every perso nwas christian they suddenly turned muslims thansk to ottomans, you fucking retard
>>59699053
neat
>>59699026
Well, average american weignts 15kg more than average french, so it means something.
>>59699182
okay you got me
im observing this thread
The first Buddhist temple in Europe was built in Belgrade, Serbia to accommodate Buddhist Tsarists who escaped from the Soviet Union.
>>59701120
Is there any explanation why they chose Serbia to move?
>>59690348
>>59701171
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia welcomed Russians with open arms as brothers, and was VERY anti communist. Communist parties and press were banned.
>>59690348
>>59694818
>tfw the great schism happened
Saddest thing ever tbch
>>59690348
I have known very long.
>>59699069
Actually if you read a little about it, you'll see that yes, in 1060 a good portion of the Middle East was still christian.
>>59692211
>>59692933
triggered
>>59692138
Fucking gommie scum
>>59692418
Fuck sw*den
>>59692220
>It's even obligatorily for russians to learn tatar language at school here
what? why??
>>59712160
Because they live in Tatarstan.
>>59690348
They aren't European tho
>>59712209
They live in Europe for 300 years. They have Russian culture, which is kinda European in some aspects.
>>59712199
still, i dont get why russians have to learn it. i didnt know autonomous regions have that much power
>>59690348
a pity that polish protestants were catholicisied or expelled to germany after 2nd world war. We'd have a little bit more diversity
>>59690348
Russians are East Slavic invaders on foreign lands.
>>59690348
>Kalmyk mongoloid sub humans
>Native to Europe
>>59690348
>czech is catholic
Glorious Habsburgs
Hussites BTFO
>>59712477
>still, i dont get why russians have to learn it
Because there are two official languages in Tatarstan - Russian and Tatar.
And to be honest, nobody takes learning Tatar for serious. Tatar kids know it anyway(sometimes not), Russian kids don't understand why they should learn it and they don't learn it and teachers understand them and don't try too hard. So at the end of the school nobody of Russian kids excepts some extra nerds can say at least a sentence in Tatar.
>i didnt know autonomous regions have that much power
After all shit happened in 90s we have. Central government understands that its much easier to be friends with your minorities and give them some rights than to fight with them. Pity you government don't understand.
>>59713363
do you know tatarcha?
and didnt you declare independence in 90s but russia didnt accept it so you had nothing to do? at least thats how i know
>>59713363
>Pity you government don't understand.
Russia have tons of little minorities and still Russian population is %80 of Russia.
However in Turkey, Kurds are the only significant minorities and They represent %30 maybe %35 of Turkish population. Giving autonomous state to them means creating bicephalous governance in Anatolia. Which probably will ends with great civil war.
>>59713877
>do you know tatarcha?
Yes, but there is lack of vocabulary because I don't speak it on a daily basis.
>and didnt you declare independence in 90s but russia didnt accept it so you had nothing to do
Kinda, but it wasn't Chechen-style when they started to murder Russians immediately after declaring independence. I guess it was more like a trick in order get some tax preferences and guarantees that current Tatar government will continue working on their posts. Central government agreed so we live in peace and everybody is kinda satisfied.
>>59714402
>when they started to murder Russians immediately after declaring independence
And again, r*ssian projects his propaganda.
>>59690348
Protestant Christianity confirmed the whitest religion.
>>59714629
My sweet summer child, you've never met an actual Chechen, and I have. So I don't have to listen anyone's propaganda to know what they are able to do.
>>59714877
I've met Chechens here and they were extremely kind and polite. They were just fighting for their independence, those who have comitted war crimes are you, fucking r*ssiaroaches.
>>59715095
t. chechen
>>59714877
Этoт "швeд" caм чeчeн, пpитoм пoeхaвший, дaжe нe пытaйcя c ним cпopить
>>59715095
Johar pls stop.
Chechnya was independent and for time of that indepence it was more like isis - with all that kidnapping and sharia stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_abduction_of_foreign_engineers_in_Chechnya
>>59715587
>The slayings were a major blow to the efforts of the breakaway republic to gain international recognition of its declaration of independence. Kidnappings had become common in Chechnya, procuring over $200 million during the three year independence,[2] particularly since the end of the First Chechen War in 1996, as the ruined region's fledging separatist government failed to maintain law and order
>particularly since the end of the First Chechen War in 1996, as the ruined region's fledging separatist government failed to maintain law and order
> the ruined region's fledging separatist government failed to maintain law and order
Just read your links before, pidor*ssian. This shit only happened because r*ssian scum killed secular president Johar and thus weakened the secularists positions in Chechenia.
>>59715922
>pidor*ssian
Boт ты и cпaлилcя, Maгa.
where the word Slav actually came from, contrary to many memesters beliefs, it was not slave
>>59693215
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musala
this peak was named "tangra" before ottomans come, and they renamed it to musala.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangra
also atakek believed that turks originated from a continent named mu, and even paid researchers for investigate with taxes of starving people. he was a literal tinfoil and even he believed sumerians were turkic because sumerian meaning of "god" was dingir(tengir tengri) and there are many sumerian words that's actually same/very similar with turkic languages. also aleister crowley named his son ataturk.
anyway the guy was a literal tinfoil with weird background. noone even knows his exact birthdate.
