Wednesday, 6 March 2024

Bakony, around Veszprem


And this finishes Lake Balaton.  The landscape all around is farmland with commercial centres designed to collect food and alternately process it or take it on to somewhere that does.  I think I failed to say before that the region is under the control of the Ottomans, so the general direction of food transport is south and east, not north towards Budapest or Vienna ... and yes, those cities dearly miss the good old days of the 15th century when this land was theirs.  It hasn't been since 1526, however.

Consider, that means 5 or 6 generations between the lost Battle of Mohacs and the time of my game world.  There isn't a person left alive who remembers when this was Hungarian territory ... though people do tend to maintain a great deal of nostalgia for past times, even when those happened a long, long time ago.  To put it into perspective, imagine that the United States had been under the control of the Mexicans since the year 1900 ... 124 years.  That's the space of time between Mohacs and my game world.  Would the residents of the Atlantic Seaboard, the Midwest and the Pacific Coast today, having been Mexican citizens all these years, still pine for the old America of late 19th century imperialism, second-rate presidents and a disastrous post civil-war reconstruction (which must have failed if the Mexicans invaded successfully) ...?

I think probably yes.  Though they'd have no idea what exactly they were missing.

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