Let's try and get 1,000,000 replies to this post

The Flash said:
"Hallway" isn't used in the same sense in Turkey so I was a bit confused.
Click to expand...

In an apartment block I would class hallway as the space that all the individual apartment doors lead onto. In general, I would say a hallway is just something that isn't really a room, it's not somewhere you will go for a specific purpose (socialise, eat, etc etc). We have a downstairs entrance hall and an upstairs hallway between the bedrooms.

Either way, by outside I generally meant the great outdoors, or possibly a better definition would be 'public space'.
 
MacDuck?

tartanLargeImage.aspx

Edit: Crrrap, broken picture link.
 
Prussia (or Preussen) was a kingdom in the northeastern part of modern-day Germany, extending east into what is today Poland. The unification of Germany under Bismarck started from Prussia. Am I onside with this, @Perun ?
 
Prussia was originally a region in the Baltic Sea around what is now the Kaliningrad Oblast and the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It got its name from a Baltic people originally residing there, called the Pruzzians. They were Christianised by the Teutonic Order from ca. 1200 onward, and ever since, the region was a home base to that order. Their emblem was a black cross on white ground.
The area, eventually known as Prussia, became a more or less independent principality after the Middle Ages. Things picked up when the margrave of Brandenburg, the area around Berlin, became king of Prussia in a personal union. So Brandenburg and Prussia became one state, and eventually, what was originally Prussia became known as East Prussia, as the entire kingdom was now known as Prussia. The Prussians eventually became the dominant state in Germany, and it was a consequence of their expansionist policy that Germany became united, under Prussian dominance. Prussia ceased to exist after the Second World War, because Prussian militarism was what was held responsible for Germany's negative role in the world, but within Germany, the word 'Prussian' still more or less stands for somebody from the general northeast of Germany.

That's it in very, very brief terms.
 
By the way: I have heard that southern Germany is more dominated by Catholics and is in many aspects more conservative than northern Germany. Is it correct, and did those divisions in any way follow the Preussen/Bayern division?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top