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This ÖAMTC Travel Guide manages to mix up Slovenia and Slovakia. Click to enlarge.
I first thought this was a photoshop. In my heart, I still hope it is. I can’t imagine that the Austrian automobile service ÖAMTC (of all organizations) would fall into the infamous Slovenia/Slovakia trap. What makes it even worse, if it’s true, is that:
1) It’s a map, which is to say: it’s a work of geographical reference to help people navigate through a country. And yet the cover has the German word for Slovenia (Slowenien) together with a picture of the Slovenian coast, the flag of Slovakia, and the country outline of Slovakia. Which is it? No one knows.
2) The Republic of Austria, home of the ÖAMTC, borders both Slovenia and Slovakia, so if anyone on God’s good earth is in a position to distinguish between the two, it’s them.
I’d love to know what’s actually inside the guide. Slovenia? Slovakia? Maybe a road map of Slavonia?
(Many thanks, Freddie!)
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I’ll check on that.
rammstein song remake
we`re all living in slovakia,
slovakia, it`s wunderbar…we`re all living in slovakia…slovakia …slovakia…
ahem;)
Incredible. It only shows the ignorance of our neighbours. European. And it means G. Bush was not the only one!!!
I believe it.
Several years ago, Rand McNally (another Map maker) released a book of World Facts that had under the entry of Slovenia that “Western Slovenia was still being contested by the Serbs.”
It’s confirmed. A friend of mine contacted someone at OAMTC, who apologized to him and said they would be re-releasing a fixed version shortly.
If I find out anything else, I’ll note it here.
Well I don’t blame them - someone misunderstood the name, which is to be quite honest, pretty alike, pasted the wrong country and flag, which is almost identical, and that was it. Probably there is no control before printing those maps. We should get used to it or do something about it.
Bozidar: Are you implying that if you had a company, you’d have no problem with your employees being so negligent?
Regarding our flag, I propose that we simply lose the red stripe and move the emblem to the center.
I if they move the National emlem to the centre like the Croatian flag I may eliminate confusion.I believe they should still keep the pan slavic tri color Red Over White Over Blue.