Message from @KoalaBear
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Oh yeah, the old Kingdom of Hungary included a lot of Croatian territory.
Slovene horvath and serb horvath that's the Horvath nation
Actually, the hungarians claimed all of the "croatian" nation
You must understand
It was an old Personal Union or something.
Hervat means "border guard" "someone who fights feircly"
Herat means to skin off and Vard - Vart -Vat means "guard"
Kewl
Originally croatia was a province in modern day Lika
Then the mercinaries came and settled in with the indeginous people, the dalmatinci-slovenes
With the ottoman empire spreading, they had to retreat to "slavonia" which is a falesly translated version of the dialectical "slovenijeh"
Remember that latin pronounciation thing"
Well the latins had a hard time pronouncing "slo"
Yes, I do.
Hrvat (Croat)
see?
Hrvatska, Croatia.
Hrovat or hungarian Horvath
The -ska- suffix means "land of"
Land of the Croats
-ish land
Originally it was a frontline right?
Hence border guard
hervat
Right.
I mean the smallest nations have the most history
you look at macedonia
Ehhhhhh.
Macedonia was brave enough to keep the old name
I personally think the Macedons were rightfully Greeks.
We had to change ours 3 times in history
I believe the macedon high class was greek
The people were veneti
Props to them for keeping their name, though.
I mean you can still technically rule them
The slavs nowadays are used to that
But the people were something else
I mean I'm from the north right
Roight.
That was a whole different roman province