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s4s3S2S1To Hell or to HereConnachtUlsterMeathMunsterWhere Europe Kept Its Memory on CalfskinIcelandThe Viking Lowland at the Top of the MapCaithnessSutherlandRoss & CrommartiAberdeenThe Dry, Bright Country of the Real MacbethElginshireThe County That Cracked Down the MiddleInvernessStirlingPerthSmoked Haddock and a Letter to the PopeKinkardine & AngusA Beggar's Mantle Fringed with GoldFifeOld Volcanoes, New Ideas, and the Shore That Gave Scotland Its TongueLothianThe Shire That Lost Its Town and Found Deep TimeBerwickshireTweedaleUtopia by the Waterfall, Coal Under the OrchardsLanarkshireRoxburghThe Anvil at the Bottom of ScotlandDumfriesshireThe Corner Scotland Never Quite TamedGallowayThe Corner That Missed the Domesday BookCumbriaNorthumbriaYorkshireLankashireRhwng Gwy a HafrenThe Kingdom That Wrote Its Name in Two AlphabetsDyfedYstrad TywiMorgannwg(Glamorgan)MerciaThe Almost-Island That Buried a King in a ShipEast AngliaFlat, Salty, and First in Line for Every InvasionEssexThe Doorstep Where England Keeps Getting InvadedKentSussexThe County That Keeps England's First DraftsDorsetSomersetAlmost an Island, Never Quite EnglandCornwallTwo Coasts, Two Moors, and Cream Before JamDevonThe Rainy Kingdom at the End of the RoadGaliciaThe Kingdom That Started in a CaveAsturiasMinhoA River Taught to Carry WineDouro(Porto)Trás-os-MontesA Legion's Camp That Mistook Itself for a LionLeonWhere Portugal Keeps Its Granite and Its GrudgesBeiraWhere Europe Runs Out of LandEstremaduraThe land that moves at the speed of corkAlentejoWhere the ancient world came to watch the sun drownAlgarveThe Tenth Century's Capital of EverythingCórdobaSevilleA Sea of Olives with a Castle on Every WaveJaénThe Pomegranate That Took Two and a Half Centuries to FallGranadaA Stage So Flat the Windmills Pass for GiantsLa ManchaMurciaValenciaThe Poor, Proud Land That Toppled Two EmpiresExtremaduraThe Town That Hangs Its Houses Over a GorgeCuencaToledoHeresy's High BalconyFoixRoussillonThe landlocked kingdom that ran a Mediterranean empireAragonWheat, wine, and the quiet capital of the BasquesAlavaNavarreSoulePérigordQuercyRouergueNiceProvenceThe Province Every Future King Had to WearDauphinéVivaraisThe Rainy Attic Where France Parked Its Generals and Raised Its BeefLimousinThe Buffer Zone That Went Off and Built ParisLa MarchePaper upstream, brandy downstreamAngoumoisSaintongeThe Pocket Province That Salted Europe's FishAunisOld Fire Under Green GrassAuvergneTwo Rivers, Two Hills and a Very Serious LunchLyonnaisThe Chicken That Wears the TricolorBresseThe Province That Preferred Its King Far AwayFranche-ComtéBourgogneThe Water God Behind Half the Thrones of EuropeBourbonnaisNivernaisPoitouSoumuroisTouraineThe Quiet Middle That Bankrolled Kings and Bred WitchesBerryOrléanaisBeaucePercheWhere Kings Were the Local Export CropAnjouThe Kingmakers' Country Between the Loire and the SeaMainePays RennaisSaint-MaloSeint-BrieucVannetaisTrégorWhere the Sea Keeps a City and the Land Runs OutCornouailleCalvaries, Cauliflowers and Onion Men on BicyclesLéonPays de BrayPays de CauxA Granite Fist Shaken at EnglandCotentinPicardySoft Center, Hard HistoryBrieWhere Kings Were Crowned and Bubbles Were a DefectChampagneHalf in France, Half in the Empire, and Stubborn ThroughoutBarroisEight Hundred Years of Being Ruled by a Bishop and Arguing With HimLiègeNamurThe County That Mislaid an EmperorHainautThe Province That Taught Water to ClimbArtoisWool Money and the Habit of RevoltFlandersThe Duchy That Made Its Dukes Sign FirstBrabantUtrechtA Mountain in the Sea, Perfumed and ArmedCorsicaSardiniaCreteSicilyThe Toe That Stayed Greek for a Thousand YearsCalabriaOtranteWhere Christ Stopped, According to the NeighborsBasilicataThe Sailors Who Stole Santa ClausBariThe Wheat Plain Where an Emperor Kept His FalconsCapitanataMoliseWhere the Popes Went When Rome Became UnbearableLazioHappy Land, Angry MountainCampaniaThe roof of the peninsula, where the wolves held onAbruzzoSabinaRomaUmbriaMarcheTuscanyRomagnaEmiliaPiedmontTicinoVenettoItaly's Engine Room, Kept Under a Blanket of FogLombardyTrentinoWhere the Rhine Learns to Walk and the Car Was Once a CrimeGraubündenSavoyThe Duchy Named for a City It Never KeptGenevoisVaudValaisWhere French and German Split the BillFribourgWhere Long Winters Turn into WatchesJuraThe Canton Switzerland Loves to MockAargauThe Bear That Ran a Small EmpireBernThe Lamp at the Top of the Lake That Kept the Old FaithLucerneUriSchwytsWhere Democracy Still Raises Its Hand in the RainGlarusSaint-GallZürichThurgauTwo Rivers, a Double-Barred Cross, and a Border That Would Not Sit StillLorraineFour changes of country without leaving the houseAlsaceThe Kingmaker's Vineyard That Kept Getting Burned DownLower PalatinateThe Little Fortress That Bred Emperors and Then Pulled Down Its Own WallsLuxemburgSaarlandTwo Provinces, One Borrowed Name, and a Castle That Belongs to NeitherLimburgWhere the River Slows Down and Starts Speaking DutchLower RhineThe Stubborn Duchy at the Frayed End of the RhineGelderlandProudly the Back Corner of the NetherlandsAchterhoekVoralbergTyrolThe Sunny Corner That Reinvented the Wheel, TwiceBadenWürtembergUpper PalatinateThe Land Bavaria Swallowed but Never DigestedFranconiaThuringiaRented Regiments and the Woods Where Fairy Tales Come FromHesseWestphaliaTwenteOverstrichtNothing Ever Happens Here, Except PrehistoryDrentheOmmelanden(Groningen)The Coast That Refused Both Lords and the SeaFrisiaThe Bog That Ate Centuries and Spat Out Cruise ShipsEmslandA Duchy That Retired Into Fine Print and Fairy TalesAngriaA Republic with a Spare Head in the CellarBremenForever Undivided, Frequently PartitionedHolsteinSchleswigThe Garden Where Fairy Tales Learned to WalkFunenA Sugar Bowl Behind a Very Long DikeLollandZealandThe Island That Buried Its Silver and Built Ninety SteeplesGotlandVikenA Whole Country Folded into a PocketDalslandBohuslänWest GötalandA Beach Worth Several WarsHallandSkaniaBlekingeSmålandThe Flatland That Kept Deciding SwedenEast GötalandNärkeSödermanlandUpplandVästmanlandVärmlandSouthern NorwayThe Gentle Side of a Vertical CountryEastern NorwayTrøndelagThe North's Front Door, Woven from Steel and StrawGästriklandThe Peasants Who Built Themselves PalacesHälsinglandWhere Sweden Goes to Feel Like SwedenDalarnaSweden's Empty UpstairsHärjedalenMedelpadWhere the ground remembers the weight of the iceÅngermanlandNorrbottenThe Coast That Paid Its Taxes in CodHålogalandSápmiGranite, Reindeer and Reactors at the Top of the MapKolaUpper SaxonyBlack Earth, Grey Cathedral, and a Law That Conquered the EastMagdeburgMecklenburgThe Lion's Share of Old SaxonyEastfaliaWest PomeraniaPuddle Country, Where the Easter Riders Still Speak SlavicLusatiaMeissenOstrobothiaThe Pomeranians Who Refused to DisappearKashubiaThe Down Payment on a Crusader StateChełmnoMedieval Europe's Favorite Security DepositDobrzyńThe Cradle That Doubles as a Salt CellarKuyaviaThe Nest Where the White Eagle HatchedGreater PolandA Devil in the Cellar and a Parliament on the MeadowŁęczycaWieluńSieradzSileziaBohemiaUpper AustriaRome's Old Gate to the East, Kept by FarmersFriuliSalzburgThe Duchy Where Peasants Crowned the DukeCarinthiaWhere the Ground Is Hollow and the Dragons Are PaleCarniolaStyriaThe Four Quarters Wrapped Around a Capital That Moved OutLower AustriaPrešporokZáhorieMoraviaThe Volcano That Paid for EmpiresHontNitraPovažieSteep, Poor, Stubborn, and Zigzagging UphillKysuceTunecOravaTwo Tatras, a Drowned Valley, and a Great Deal of Sheep CheeseLiptovPodpolanieNovohradIron Underfoot, Angels OverheadGemerTatryZamagurleSpišWhere Upper Hungary Kept Its Rebels and Its GoldKošiceThe Well-Watered Anteroom Between Vienna and BudapestKisalföldPodunajskoTransdunabian MtnPestMezőföldFigs on the Hillside, a Minaret on the SquareBaranyaGlažSlavoniaWhere Rivers Vanish Underground and People Refuse ToLikaBosanska KrajinaThe Coast That Outlived Everyone Who Bought ItDalmatiaTropoljeUsoraSoliThe Valley That Named Everything Around ItBosnaA Duke's Title Carved into Sunburnt KarstHerzegovinaPomoravijeŠumadijaStary VlahRaškaMontenegroThe Highlands Where a Promise Outranks the StateGegëriaWhere the Law Is Older Than the StatMalësiaWhere the Law Lived in Memory, Not MarbleDukagjiniThree Seas, Two Alphabets and One Very Long MemoryKosovoRasinaNishavaPirotToplicaPoplars, Peppers, and an Emperor's Vanity ProjectJablanicaPčinja A Homeland With Three Passports and One Very Famous SonMacedoniaWhere Even the Songs Are Sung by CommitteeLabëriaThe Wild West of Ancient GreeceAcarnaniaRaw meat, javelins, and an early draft of the federal stateAetoliaWhere Winning Got Its Warning LabelEpirusThessalyPhocisThe Island That Taught Rome Its AlphabetEuboeaThin Soil, Sharp TonguesAtticaBoeotiaMegarisThe Toll Booth Between Two SeasCorinthiaThe Region That Named the GreeksAchaeaThe Farm County That Refereed the Ancient WorldElisOld gold, cursed kings, and a theater that still worksArgolisParadise on paper, hard country underfootArcadiaMasseniaThe Valley That Taught the World to Say LessLaconiaThe Island Everyone Conquered on the Way to Somewhere ElseCyprusThraceTroadWhere Greek Colonists Argued About Wine and Left Ruins EverywhereAeolisThe Shore Where Somebody First Asked WhyIoniaMysiaThe Kingdom That Wrote Rome Into Its WillBithyniaPhrygiaThe Country That Invented Money and Then Lost EverythingLydiaSea Queens and the Original MausoleumCariaTombs With a Sea View and a Constitution Worth StealingLyciaPisidiaBandit Country with a Throne in the AtticIsauriaThe Dry Table Where the Poets Learned to SpinLycaoniaPirates, Saints, and a Kingdom in the Wrong PlaceCiliciaThe Country That Solved Its Problems by DiggingCappadociaThe Gauls Who Never Went HomeGalatiaPaphlagoniaPontusA Pocket Republic of Fast Talk and Three-Part SongGuriaMingreliaSvanetiRachaThe Last Stop of the ArgoImeretiThe Province That Became a Country's SurnameKartliThe Kingdom That Outlasted Everyone Who Tried to Own ItArranShivranA Country of Cellars With Some Mountains AttachedKakhetiA Talent for RefusalChechnyaThe Mountain of Tongues Behind the Gate of GatesDagestanPrayer Wheels, Saiga and a Chessboard in the SteppeKalmykiaTwo Peoples, One Mountain and the Tallest Roof in EuropeKabardino-BalkariaSavoniaTavastiaThe Country That Sang Itself into ExistenceFinlandUusimaaThe Island That Rose from the Sea and Learned to DeadpanHiiumaaSaaremaaThe Pocket Duchy That Went to SeaCourlandSamogitiaA Grand Duchy Long Before It Was SmallLithuania ProperBlue Lakes, Rosaries and a Different Way to Spell YourselfLatgaleNamed for a Vanishing People, Governed by Everyone ElseLivoniaThe Land That Sang Its Way Out of EmpiresEstoniaPskovThe Marsh That Had a Capital Dropped on ItIngriaPomoryePoshekhonyeThe Pale Lake at the Back of Russia's MindByelozorieTverThe Lake Town That Tried to Out-Moscow MoscowGalichMeroviaZavolochyeVychegda PermThe Taiga That Banked Persia's SilverGreater PermVyatkaMarimlandVolga BulgariaMeshcheraMordvaRyazanNizovskye(Ponisovie)MuskovyVerkhovyaSmolenskVitebskPolotskMinskNavahrudakDzūkijaSudoviaWarmiaPodlachiaMazuriaMazoviaOlteniaTimokWhere Rome Kept a City and Serbia Keeps the Lights OnBraničevoWhere the Eurasian steppe finally runs out of roadAlföldNorth Hungarian MtnAn Ark of Reeds Between Two Slow RiversBodrogköz The County That Got Erased From the Map and Kept Living AnywayŠarišThe Wine-Soaked Borderland Where Empires Kept Changing Their MindsZemplinThe Valley Where Wood Still Outranks StoneMaramuresTen Thousand Soldiers, Paid in TownsHajdúságSzékely(Székelyföld)The Plain Below the Mountains That Everyone on Horseback Had to CrossWallachiaWhere the Danube Changes Its MindDobrujaThe Steppe Corner Where Everyone's Minority Lives Next to Everyone Else'sBudjakThe Territory Between Rivers That Every Empire Passed Through and Nobody Could Agree to LeaveBessarabiaThe Wedge Between Mountains and Plains That Nobody Planned to Make RemarkablePokuttiaThe Little Vienna That Forgot It Was in the CarpathiansBukovynaThe Steppe That Grew a City It Didn't Deserve and the City That Never Looked BackYedisanThe Peninsula That History Keeps Returning To Whether It's Welcome or NotCrimeaThe Sea That Everyone Passed Through and Nobody Quite OwnedPryazoviaThe Land That Coal Built, Politics Broke, and Everyone Claims to UnderstandDonnechynaThe Land That Built Itself From Scratch, TwiceSloboda UkraineThe Rapids That Made History and the Dam That Drowned ThemZaporizhzhiaThe Land That Everyone Wanted and No One Could HoldVolyniaThe Plateau That Stood Between Everyone and Everyone ElsePodoliaThe Land at the Edge of Everything That Happened NextSiveria(Starodubshchyna)The River That Built a Civilization and Kept the ReceiptNaddniprianshchyna(Dniepr Ukraine)Where Empires Go to Argue and Leave Their Furniture BehindHalychynaThe Steppe That Fed Empires and Asked Nothing in ReturnTavrydaThe Principality That Outlasted Everyone Who Tried to Absorb ItMoldovaPartiumHalf a Dozen Countries Without Leaving HomeCarpathian RutheniaEurope Assembled by DecreeBanatSalt, Kings and a Trumpet That Stops Mid-NoteLesser PolandThe Primeval Heart of Eastern EuropePolissiaPrussiaNovgorodThe Singing Forest Between Two AlphabetsKareliaCatherine's Gift, with Steppe, Sea and Cossacks IncludedKubanThe Country That Lives Mostly in ExileCircassiaThe Mountain Kingdom That Outlived Its Own MapGreater ArmeniaWhere Iran Keeps Its Crown Princes and Its RevolutionsIranian AzerbaijanThe Highlands Rome Kept on Its Side of the RiverArmenia MinorToskëriaRemnants of the RemnantsCentral CroatiaTransdanubiaNeumarkHow to Build a Kingdom Out of SandBrandenburgVästerbottenBog Bodies, Birth Certificates and a Wind That Never Clocks OffJutlandOldenburgThe Kingdom That Never Quite Agreed to Be GermanBavariaRhinelandThe Waterlogged County That Out-Traded Every Empire in SightHollandNormandyVexinThe Country That Says Yes DifferentlyLanguedocThe Province That Preferred Its Customers to Its KingGuyenne(Aquitaine)The Province That Bragged Its Way into the DictionaryGasconyThe Little Country That Exported KingsBéarnNine Months of Winter, Three Months of EmpireCastileThe Factory That Insists It Is a CountryCataloniaWessexWhere the Sky Does Most of the WorkLincolnshireThe Land That Sank When They Dried ItFensFirst Stop for Every Invader, Last to Change Its MindGwentPowysThe Province That Opened the Door and Never Got It Shut AgainLeinsterThree Rivers and a Zero MeridianCrișanaTransylvaniaVojvodinaHexameters and Heresy on the Wrong Side of the BorderLithuania MinorHorse Milk, Wild Honey, and the Last Ridge of EuropeBashkiriaSemigalliaThe Hot Floor Between Two Mountain WallsKur-ArasA Garden of Fortresses Where Every Stone Has Two NamesKarabakhTwelve Islands, Give or Take an EmpireDodecaneseA Ring of Marble Around a Holy VacancyCycladesVenice's Back Porch, Britain's Cricket PitchIonian IslandsŠopluk MoesiaSandžakPodrinjeSyrmiaThe Gulf That Changed Flags Like ShirtsKvarnerTekovTriesteThe Coast Everyone Wanted and Nobody Could KeepEast PomeraniaTiny Courts, Enormous HobbiesAnhaltTromsFarmers' Republic, Lake Monster IncludedJämtlandMøreWestern NorwayRogalandÖlandSix thousand islands, no soldiers, and their own stampsÅland MonThe Gentle End of DenmarkFalsterStedingenSwabiaWhere a raised hand is a ballot and a sword counts as IDAppenzellThe City That Fired the Bishop but Kept His CrookBaselSolothurnNeuchatelThe Crescent That Faced the Sea and Kept Its ReceiptsLiguriaA Fortress That Speaks Arabic and Prays in LatinMaltaZeelandThe Island That Grew a KingdomÎle-de-FrancePays NantaisSeven Popes and a Very Long LeaseComtat VenaissinThe Leftover Kingdom That Gave France Its Favorite KingLower NavarreThe Coast That Taught Europe to Surf and France to Eat ChocolateLabourdFrom Stone Slingers to SuperclubsBalearic IslandsThe Kingdom That Dissolved Into HedgerowsErgyngThe Green Desert With a Drowned Kingdom OffshoreCeredigion(Cardiganshire)A Kingdom Held Together by Lawbooks and In-LawsDeheubarthA Fortress Made of WeatherGwyneddWhere the druids made their last standAngleseyThe Kingdom That Slept on a LakeBrycheiniogThe seaboard where Scotland was inventedArgyllOld Rock and Older Weather at the Atlantic's Front DoorHebridesThe County of Seven Stills and a Secret SeminaryBanffshireOrkneyShetlandWhere the Weather Is the GovernmentFaroe