Borduria

English thumb|Borduria, imaginary country, location. thumb|Flag of Borduria, imaginary country. Etymology 1 From en fr Bordurie, from fr bordure border. Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre. Proper noun en fiction An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Syldavia, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. en w:Patrick Leigh Fermor w:A Time of Gifts https://filmtexture.com/blog/dual-book-spotlight-a-time-of-giftsbetween-the-woods-and-the-water https://web.archive.org/web/20221113083104/https://filmtexture.com/blog/dual-book-spotlight-a-time-of-giftsbetween-the-woods-and-the-water 2022-11-13 1st w:New York Review Books 1977 9781590171653 Graustark, Ruritania, Borduria, Syldavia and a score of imaginary kingdoms, usurped by tyrants and sundered by fights for the throne, leap into mind: plots, treachery, imprisoned heirs and palace factions abound and, along with them, fiendish monocled swordsmen, queens in lonely towers, toppling ranges, deep forests, plains full of half-wild horses, wandering tribes of Gypsies who steal children out of castles and dye them... en June 19, 2014 Hannah Ellis-Petersen Decaying east London tower block to house 12-hour Macbeth production https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/19/east-london-balfron-tower-macbeth-production https://web.archive.org/web/20220519164521/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/19/east-london-balfron-tower-macbeth-production May 19, 2022 w:The Guardian The play will be set in Borduria, the fictional state originally created in Hergé's Tintin that resembles a 1970s eastern European state. en May 22, 2017 Utkarsh Srivastava A Tintin Mystery: Why Hergé's comics continue to fascinate, 88 years after their debut https://www.firstpost.com/living/a-tintin-mystery-why-herges-comics-continue-to-fascinate-88-years-after-their-debut-3466440.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210128100112/https://www.firstpost.com/living/a-tintin-mystery-why-herges-comics-continue-to-fascinate-88-years-after-their-debut-3466440.html January 29, 2022 w:Firstpost He made up two fictional countries, Borduria and Syldavia, and the struggles between the two were actually a satire on the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany. en September 3, 2022 Srinivas Krishnan The automotive adventures of Tintin https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/others/leisure/the-automotive-adventures-of-tintin/articleshow/60343826.cms https://web.archive.org/web/20221110030605/https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/others/leisure/the-automotive-adventures-of-tintin/articleshow/60343826.cms November 10, 2022 w:Mumbai Mirror Hardly any of the cars in the Tintin comics are exotic, while a few of them — like the stretch black limousine driven in a convoy in Tapiocapolis in the final, complete adventure Tintin and the Picaros and the open-topped roadster used to rescue Professor Calculus from the prison fortress of Bakhine in Borduria — are an imaginary combination of real cars. en November 4, 2022 Aleksandar Brezar What is Listenbourg? Why is it going viral on Twitter? Why did the meme become so big in Europe? https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/11/02/what-is-listenbourg-why-is-it-going-viral-on-twitter-why-did-the-meme-become-so-big-in-eur https://web.archive.org/web/20221107200945/https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/11/02/what-is-listenbourg-why-is-it-going-viral-on-twitter-why-did-the-meme-become-so-big-in-eur November 7, 2022 w:Euronews Borduria and Syldavia, both fictional Balkan countries appearing in the Adventures of Tintin graphic novel, also merit a mention as places used to highlight the stereotypes about the southeastern parts of the continent. en The Newsroom When Tintin the intrepid fictional reporter came to Scotland w:The Scotsman https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/when-tintin-intrepid-fictional-reporter-came-scotland-1445869 https://web.archive.org/web/20221110025200/https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/when-tintin-intrepid-fictional-reporter-came-scotland-1445869 2022-11-10 Journal 7 2017 2022-11-10 The reporter’s future adventures took him far and wide - even to outer space - and to a handful of fictionalised countries including Balkan states Borduria and Syldavia and the South American countries of San Theodoros, São Rico and Nuevo Rico. en Vikas Datta The small nation which beat the superpowers, global capitalism https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/small-nation-which-beat-superpowers-global-capitalism-50038 https://web.archive.org/web/20221113070504/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/small-nation-which-beat-superpowers-global-capitalism-50038 2022-11-13 w:The News Minute September 18, 2016 2022-11-13 But the name of Grand Fenwick doesn't occur in any history book, or show up in any atlas, unless it also maps Ruritania, Syldavia, Borduria, Oz or even Shangri-La. en by extension A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Syldavia. en Yoram Amiel 2 Thinking about Inequality: Personal Judgment and Income Distributions https://books.google.com/books?id=5h__4e8kGSoC&pg=PA9 https://web.archive.org/web/20221110080541/https://books.google.com/books?id=5h__4e8kGSoC&pg=PA9 2022-11-10 Cambridge University Press 2000 9 https://books.google.com/books?id=5h__4e8kGSoC&pg=PA9 9780521466967 Is Syldavia a more unequal society than Borduria? For an inequality comparison to be meaningful, then the answer "yes, Syldavia is more unequal than Borduria" must also imply, in the other direction, "Borduria is less unequal than Syldavia." en Daniel S. Kirschen; Goran Strbac 8 Fundamentals of Power System Economics https://books.google.com/books?id=I9hhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA278 https://web.archive.org/web/20221110082916/https://books.google.com/books?id=I9hhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA278 2022-11-10 1st Wiley 2004 278 https://books.google.com/books?id=I9hhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA278 9780470845721 Under these conditions, the prices in Borduria and Syldavia are 19 and 35 $/MWh, respectively. The value of transporting one additional megawatt-hour from Borduria to Syldavia is thus only 16 $/MWh. This is also the maximum price that consumers in Syldavia would agree to pay for the transport of a megawatt-hour that they have bought in Borduria for 19 $/MWh. en 15 Graziella Caselli; Jacques Vallin; Guillaume Wunsch Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set: A Treatise in Population https://books.google.com/books?id=nmgNXoiAiU4C&pg=PA201 https://web.archive.org/web/20221113053340/https://books.google.com/books?id=nmgNXoiAiU4C&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false 2022-11-13 1st Academic Press 2006 201–202 https://books.google.com/books?id=nmgNXoiAiU4C&pg=PA201 9780127656601 Consider two sets of death rates by age for two imaginary countries, Syldavia (S) and Borduria (B), as in Figure 15-1. en Michael Blake 5 Justice and Foreign Policy https://books.google.com/books?id=CXDcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 https://web.archive.org/web/20221111012147/https://books.google.com/books?id=CXDcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 2022-11-11 1st Oxford University Press 2013 121 https://books.google.com/books?id=CXDcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 9780199552009 Demand for mangoes is such that this can be expected to double the per capita income in Borduria. Syldavia offers the metal to Borduria, but offers it only in exchange for Borduria signing a treaty for mutual defense. en Jorge E. Núñez 6 Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics: A Distributive Justice Issue (Routledge Research in International Law) https://books.google.com/books?id=pDAlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 https://web.archive.org/web/20221110073734/https://books.google.com/books?id=pDAlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 2022-11-10 1st Routledge 2017 134 https://books.google.com/books?id=pDAlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 9781138636842 On the contrary, Borduria is one of the largest sovereign States in the world in terms of territorial size, but not densely populated. Bordurians are mainly Hindus and their economy is based on agriculture. en Michael Blake Justice, Migration, and Mercy https://books.google.com/books?id=ETG-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 https://web.archive.org/web/20221111032754/https://books.google.com/books?id=ETG-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false 2022-11-11 Oxford University Press Oxford University Press 2019 55 https://books.google.com/books?id=ETG-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 9780190879556 Imagine, for instance, that all states in the world - Borduria and Syldavia are the only ones, perhaps - are flourishing, and exceed whatever line of political adequacy you think makes legitimate. Borduria and Syldavia, in short, are both doing fine. Translations Azerbaijani: az Borduriya Bengali: bn বর্দুরিয়া Basque: eu Borduria Breton: br Borduria Catalan: ca Bordúria Chinese: zh 博爾多利亞 Danish: da Bordurien Dutch: nl Bordurië Esperanto: eo Bordurio Finnish: fi Borduria French: fr Bordurie German: de Bordurien Indonesian: id Borduria Italian: it Borduria Korean: ko 보르두리아 Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Borduria Persian: fa بوردوریا Portuguese: pt Bordúria Russian: ru Бордурия Spanish: es Borduria Swedish: sv Bordurien Turkish: tr Bordurya References Joëlle K. Exclusif: la Bordurie passe à l’Est Exclusive: Borduria goes East Le Temps https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/exclusif-bordurie-passe-lest https://web.archive.org/web/20220819213758/https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/exclusif-bordurie-passe-lest 2022-08-19 journal April 2015 2022-11-10 Quoi qu’il en soit, l’ennemi bordure, pour cette école de pensée, est à l’Ouest. on Either way, the border enemy, for this school of thought, is in the West. Geopolitics In Tintin Comics: Around The World In 24 Albums Outlook (Indian magazine) Outlook India https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/books-geopolitics-in-tintin-comics-around-the-world-in-24-albums/305380 https://web.archive.org/web/20221110021841/https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/books-geopolitics-in-tintin-comics-around-the-world-in-24-albums/305380 2022-11-10 magazine January 2022 2022-11-10 Despite the fact that Hergé was in favour of neutrality of Belgium, King Ottokar’s Sceptre can be read as anti-Nazi. In this adventure, Müss­tler (a possible contraction of Mussolini and Hit­ler) is the leader of a conspiracy that seeks to mer­ge the kingdom of Syldavia with its old enemy Borduria. on Further reading Etymology 2 thumb|Borduria, location in India. en Proper noun en village s/Arunachal Pradesh c/India. en Arunachal Pradesh H. M. Bareh Encyclopaedia Of North-East India https://books.google.com/books?id=MtxjZMg6g9YC&pg=PA72 https://web.archive.org/web/20221112033613/https://books.google.com/books?id=MtxjZMg6g9YC&pg=PA72 2022-11-11 1st Mittal Publications 2015 72 https://books.google.com/books?id=MtxjZMg6g9YC&pg=PA72 9788170997870 The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas. en The Hindu Net Desk Arunachal Pradesh Assembly results live updates BJP wins 7 Assembly seats, leads in both LS seats https://www.thehindu.com/elections/arunachal-pradesh-assembly/arunachal-pradesh-assembly-results-live-updates/article27195252.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20221112045600/https://www.thehindu.com/elections/arunachal-pradesh-assembly/arunachal-pradesh-assembly-results-live-updates/article27195252.ece 2022-11-12 w:The Hindu 2019-05-23 2022-11-12 Wanglin Lowangdong, incumbent MLA of Borduria Bogapani trails in the constituency. en BJP records landslide victory in Arunachal Pradesh Assembly polls https://www.thehitavada.com/Encyc/2019/5/25/BJP-recordsvictory-in-Arunachal-Pradesh-.html https://web.archive.org/web/20221112050722/https://www.thehitavada.com/Encyc/2019/5/25/BJP-recordsvictory-in-Arunachal-Pradesh-.html 2022-11-12 w:The Hitavada 2019-05-25 2022-11-12 The Congress has retained three of the 42 seats it had won in 2014 - Sagalee seat, Mebo, Borduria-Bogapani - while wresting Pasighat West from the BJP. Translations Hindi: hi बोरदुरिया Marathi: mr बोरदुरिया Further reading Borduria, Tirap district en Fictional locations Villages in Arunachal Pradesh, India Breton br: Proper noun Borduria. Indonesian id: Pronunciation Proper noun Borduria Italian it: Proper noun f Borduria Norwegian Bokmål no: Proper noun nb proper noun Borduria. Spanish es: Pronunciation Proper noun f Borduria es Andrés Malamud El separatismo es una amenaza para la paz mundial<t:Separatism is a threat to world peace> https://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/el-separatismo-es-una-amenaza-para-la-paz-mundial-nid2071049/ https://web.archive.org/web/20221113072534/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/el-separatismo-es-una-amenaza-para-la-paz-mundial-nid2071049/ 2022-11-13 w:La Nación (Buenos Aires)<t:The Nation> 2017-10-11 2022-11-13 ¿cuántos podrían distinguir las fallidas Yugoslavia y Checoslovaquia de las ficticias Syldavia y Borduria? How many could distinguish the failed Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia from the fictitious Syldavia and Borduria?