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Anglo Disease: Optimism and Dismay in the Narrative | 36 comments (36 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Baltic Metropolii (none / 1)
It's starting to happen. And why isn't Scotland in this? And was Helsinki part of the original?

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Dec 8th, 2007 at 06:23:47 PM EST
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Re: Baltic Metropolii (4.00 / 3)
Scotland (or rather, most of it) is in a couple of other different EU zones: the "Northern Periphery" covers the Highland and Islands and much of the North; the rest has a very strange name.

I don't think Helsinki existed back then: Tallinn was quite important though.

The key Hanseatic cities were the German coastal cities eg Lubeck, Hamburg, Danzig as was, although London and Bergen were both very important trading hubs which had "Kontors" - sort of trading enclaves: London's "Steelyard" was where Cannon Street station is now.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Dec 8th, 2007 at 06:34:22 PM EST
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Re: Baltic Metropolii (4.00 / 2)
Turku/Åbo certainly existed ;-)

But anyway Chris - let's just continue with our program of re-education for everything in Europe north of 52 degrees lat. ;-)


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by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Dec 8th, 2007 at 06:47:47 PM EST
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Anglo Disease: Optimism and Dismay in the Narrative | 36 comments (36 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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