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Syldavia
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English
thumb|A location called Syldavia.
Etymology
From en fr Syldavie. fr Transylvanie Moldavie 1. Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.
Pronunciation
en /sɪlˈdeɪ.vi.ə/
en eɪviə 4
Proper noun
en fiction An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Borduria, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.
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 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 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 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 June 25, 2020 Lifestyle Desk Tintin cover that mocked Hitler’s Germany to go under hammer https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/tintin-story-cover-that-mocked-hitlers-germany-to-go-under-hammer-6475624/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200626192858/https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/tintin-story-cover-that-mocked-hitlers-germany-to-go-under-hammer-6475624/ 2020-06-26 w:The Indian Express Tintin and his loyal hound Snowy find themselves trying to thwart a plot by spies to overthrow the king of Syldavia, a fictional Balkan land.
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 by extension A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Borduria.
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 1 Routledge 2017 134 https://books.google.com/books?id=pDAlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 9781138636842 Finally, the sovereignty of the island has been continuously claimed by two sovereign states, Syldavia and Borduria. Syldavia is a medium size sovereign State with a large population, mainly Muslims.
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 1 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 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 1 Oxford University Press 2013 121 https://books.google.com/books?id=CXDcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 9780199552009 Syldavia offers the metal to Borduria, but offers it only in exchange for Borduria signing a treaty for mutual defense. Is Syldavia acting in a coercive manner here?
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.
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.
Translations
Bengali: bn সিলদাভিয়া
Breton: br Sildavia
Chinese: zh 西爾達維亞
Danish: da Syldavien
Dutch: nl Syldavië
Esperanto: eo Sildavio
Finnish: fi Syldavia
French: fr Syldavie f
German: de Syldavien
Indonesian: id Syldavia
Italian: it Syldavia f
Japanese: ja シルダビア
Korean: ko ^실다비아
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Syldavia
Persian: fa سیلداویا
Portuguese: pt Sildávia f
Russian: ru Сильдавия f
Spanish: es Syldavia f
Swedish: sv Syldavien
Turkish: tr Sildavya
References
fr 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 Syldavie est la contraction de TranSYLvanie et MolDAVIE, deux provinces roumaines. on Syldavia is the contraction of TranSYLvanie and MolDAVIA, two Romanian provinces.
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
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en terms derived from fiction
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Etymology
es fr Syldavie, a fr Transylvanie Moldavie 1 1. Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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en Syldavia
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?