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	Borduria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Borduria is a fictional country in the adventures of Tintin.
		Borduria seems to have a preference for military governments or governments with a facade of democracy but with military powers pulling all the strings behind the scenes.
		Borduria seems to be relatively well equipped in terms of its military.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borduria (522 words)

	Borduria: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Borduria conquered the country 1195 until Ottokar I drove them away in 1275...with its neighbor Borduria when a plot tried to oust king Muskar XII.Situation was very similar...
		Borduria is a fictional military state in the adventures of Tintin
		By 1956, Borduria was reminiscent of a stereotypical Eastern Block country but with its own military dictator, Plekszy-Gladz (and his whiskers).
	www.encyclopedian.com /bo/Borduria.html (238 words)

	Borduria: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Borduria is a fictional Fictional country quick summary:
		Borduria is still looking for superior weapons to impose their will upon the world.
		Tintin and the picaros (originally tintin et les picaros) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by belgian writer and illustrator...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/borduria.htm (1401 words)

	Borduria: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Borduria is a fictional (fictional: a fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life....
		By 1956, Borduria was reminiscent of a stereotypical Eastern Bloc (Eastern Bloc: during the cold war, the eastern bloc (or soviet bloc) comprised the following...
		Colonel Sponsz of Borduria features in Tintin et les Picaros (Tintin and the Picaros (Tintin and the Picaros: tintin and the picaros (originally tintin et les picaros) is one of a series of classic...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/borduria (652 words)

	Syldavia
		The modern Syldavia was formed in 1127 when a tribal chief Hveghi drove away Turkish conquerors and took the name Muskar.
		Borduria conquered the country 1195 until Ottokar I drove them away in 1275.
		King Ottokar IV decreed that the ruler of Syldavia must have hold on the sceptre of power or he loses his authority.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/s/sy/syldavia.html (307 words)

	Colonel Sponz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Former Bordurian Chief of Police of Szohôd, Sponz masterminded the plot to kidnap Professor Calculus in The Calculus Affair.
		Sponz intended to force Calculus to hand over his plans for the ultrasound weapon, or be imprisoned in Borduria for the rest of his life if the proposition is refused.
		In Tintin and the Picaros, Sponz is "lent" as an advisor to General Tapioca, under the pseudonym Colonel Esponja.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonel_Sponz (291 words)

	Syldavia
		King Ottokar IV decreed that the ruler of Syldavia must have hold on the scepter of power or he loses his authority.
		In the 1950s Syldavia also had a secret but successful space program in the area of Sbrojd.
		Agents of both Syldavia and Borduria later kidnapped one of the prominent scientists of the program, Cuthbert Calculus[?], when they attempted to get hold of his plans for a revolutionary weapon.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sy/Syldavia.html (267 words)

	The Adventures of Tintin - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Assouline, Pierre (1996) Hergé, Folio (p218), and is threatened by neighbouring Borduria — an attempted annexation appears in King Ottokar's Sceptre — this situation parallels respectively Czechoslovakia or Austria and expansionist Nazi Germany prior to World War II.
		In The Calculus Affair, Borduria is used as a metaphor of a Communist state.
		San Theodoros in South America, a prototypical banana republic where US-based companies and Borduria (meant as an allusion to the USSR) vie for power, with "advisors" of local generals.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Tintin (2736 words)

	Borduria: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Borduria is a fictional (A fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life....)
		Borduria was reminiscent of a stereotypical Eastern Bloc (During the cold war, the eastern bloc (or soviet bloc) comprised the following central and eastern europeeastern...)
		Borduria is still looking for superior weapons to impose their will upon the world, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/borduria (1500 words)

	Spotlight on Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Republic of New Borduria is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service.
		New Borduria's national animal is the Thal, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Kaled.
		New Borduria is ranked 36th in the region and 53,815th in the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
	www.nationstates.net /cgi-bin/index.cgi/-1/page=display_nation/nation=new_borduria (157 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Northeast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Borduria (Tirap), Jan. 3: A rogue elephant has been causing trouble to the local population of Borduria in the Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh for the last four years.
		The elephant, which was owned by a person of Atonkhua village, lying within the Borduria reserve forest, is now roaming with wild herds.
		This being the season when wild elephants roam with their young ones, local people are having a tough time saving their crops.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040104/asp/northeast/story_2748262.asp (274 words)

	Tintinophile » Tintin historian
		Syldavia and Borduria are the most successful of Hergé’s imaginary countries.
		Finally, with its architecture and the methods of its police, Borduria is similar to a country of the eastern bloc.
		Syldavia and Borduria could easily represent the confrontation between the two blocs, as they represented in the past the conflict between western democracies and Germany.
	www.oberle.org /tintin/history/historian (1025 words)

	Borduria - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is a parody of a stereotypical Eastern bloc country.
		It unsuccessfully attempted to take over its neighbour Syldavia, which it is historically linked to.
		By 1956, Borduria was reminiscent of a stereotypical Eastern Bloc country but with its own communist military dictator, Plekszy-Gladz (and his whiskers, the Kurvi-Tasch) and the "taschist" ideology.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Borduria (204 words)

	The historical and political background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The real idea behind this Tintin episode is easy to determine: Syldavia and Borduria are only fictive, but both represent different states.
		Like Austria, annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938, the year of the publication of this Tintin album, Syldavia is the victim of complots carried out by the Bordurians, who want to invade the country.
		Borduria represents undoubtedly the communist bloc, while Syldavia stands for an allied of Western countries.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/lion/110/Tintin5.html (538 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bjorla Karalan, the senior drummer with the Bordurian Dance Troupe, had recently performed with two famous rock musicians and recorded with one of America's leading jazz musicians.
		Leading the musicians are eight dancers who perform a variety of the lively folk dances native to Borduria.
		Borduria's President Sponsz has ordered their immediate imprisonment should they return to the country.
	www.btinternet.com /~hthelwell/nclaitsrc/unit6dtp/musicians.txt (294 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He floated around Geneva with his sketchpad drawing houses and villas, all of which contributed to the realism of the story.
		The end of the story unfolds in Borduria, last seen in King Ottokar's Sceptre.
		The relationship between Syldavia and Borduria is similar to a confrontation between the two blocs, just as it had earlier mimicked the conflict between the Western democracies and Hitler's Germany.
	www.tikkel.nl /kuifje/engels/calculus.html (439 words)

	[No title]
		BORDURIA, India (UCAN) -- The abandonment or killing of deformed babies and infant twins is becoming a thing of the past in a tribal area Missionaries of Charity nuns serve in northeastern India.
		D. Bosai, a Nocte and the district's public relations officer, says the villagers traditionally believed twins or deformed children would bring death to their fathers, and famine, fire and poverty to the village.
		Wanglin Lowang Dong, chief of Borduria, acknowledges that in the past the birth of twins was considered a bad omen.
	www.tgmmt.org /ucanews/0304/031004.htm (4510 words)

	archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On 5th June 2002 some NSCN (K) along with Indian security forces went to one Ransiat Ruttum’s Ex.Assam Regiment (age 40 yrs) house, resident of Borduria village and assaulted the villagers.
		On 8/06/02 all the villagers of Borduria were gathered in the football ground from morning 7 am.
		The villagers are warned not to come out of their house after 6 pm.
	www.nscnonline.org /webpage/archive/thro_release.htm (785 words)

	Moon adventures: who are the saboteurs trying to steal the rocket? - Tintinologist.org Forums
		He seems under the assumption that in the moon books the rival power behind the plot to steal the rocket(s) is Borduria.
		This would infer that they were not operating from Borduria (being a neighbouring country) and were perhaps not even in Europe, although they certainly appear European and the chief refers to one of his cohorts as “my dear Baron” a couple of times.
		However, Boris was involved with Borduria in "King Ottokar Sceptre".
	www.tintinologist.org /forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=1&topic=439 (839 words)

	DVD Times - Herge’s Adventures of Tintin
		Aside from that, though, there's too little to these adaptations and much of the adventure in the stories is lost in a bid to simplify them.
		Indeed, the producers of these films appear to have given up on that entirely and have reduced the stories to a series of shootouts and chases, in the mountains of Borduria and Peru as well as under the water.
		That strain of globe-hopping adventure, alongside the characters, is almost all that actually makes it through from Hergé's work and in such classic, aesthetically pleasing works, even to the eyes of children, that's not enough.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=61116 (2139 words)

	Independent, The (London): Where in Wallonia? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Herge, the creator of the Tintin comics, was fond of inventing plausible-sounding names for the countries to which he sent his fictional reporter.
		Places such as Borduria and Syldavia stood in for his adventures in Eastern Europe, and San Theodoros camouflaged various Central American republics.
		But Tintin himself, who celebrates his 75th birthday this year (see page VIII) was - famously - Belgian, and he would no doubt relish the irony that within Belgium's borders lies a land that much of his international readership would find hard to locate on the map.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200405/ai_n12782390 (436 words)

	Régime: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		...Régime Régime Technically the word régime refers to any system of control, but...vicious oppressive régime of Borduria ; but seldom of the régime in Washington or of the current...
		Technically the word "régime" refers to any system of control, but it has become a largely pejorative synonym for "government" or "administration", implying moral disapproval and/or political opposition.
		Thus one can speak of "the vicious oppressive régime of Borduria"; but seldom of "the régime in Washington" or of "the current Blair régime".
	www.encyclopedian.com /re/Regime.html (144 words)

	King Ottokar's Sceptre (The Adventures of Tintin)
		A plot by Fascists based in neighboring Borduria is hatched to unseat King Muskar, involving the seizure of the symbol of the Syldavian monarchy, the mediaeval King Ottokar's Scepter.
		It seems there is a major loophole in the laws of the monarchy, for if the King were to lose possession of King Ottokar's Sceptre, he would lose the right to rule and have to abdicate.
		This would work to the advantage of the bad guys across the border in Borduria, so it is up to Tintin and Milu to save the day.
	www.textbooksrus.com /search/BookDetail?kbid=1010&isbn=0316358312 (1042 words)

	Ottokar's Sceptre and Calculus Affair: Borduria's symbol change - Tintinologist.org Forums
		I would say that Borduria in Ottokar was right-winged but the Borduria in Calculus Affair looks more eastern-bloc and could therefore maybe be considered communistic.
		The placement of Borduria in eastern europe would have it more connected with Soviet than anything else.
		The Ottokar adventure takes place when Germany was on the rise and therefore then it was more fascistic but as the world history changed with east-european countries joining (being forced) in with Soviet the Borduria of the fifties should be member of the Warsaw Pact also.
	www.tintinologist.org /forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=1&topic=1140 (799 words)

	[JOYnet] JY- Fulltimers- sharing- No.9
		In Borduria she worked as a teacher and concentrated rest of her time in village visit.
		First she was in dilemma thinking over her inefficiency to speak ‘Longo’ their local language.
		As a teacher in Borduria she reminds about her class where there was a problem boy who was very cruel and wretched to all.
	www.mail-archive.com /joynet@jesusyouth.org/msg04482.html (487 words)

	Beta Baseball looking for three before entering its 10th season - OOTP Developments Forums
		And is there a process to get original player names in, or was that done long ago at the founding of the league?
		Borduria and the Axelite Republic are the two countries making up Beta Island.
		Borduria has English as the main language and the Axelite League has French, German and Dutch, hence the players' names.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=96027 (890 words)

	\| Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan Historiography \| The American Historical Review, 105.4 \| The History Cooperative
		In King Ottokar's Sceptre, Tintin finds himself in southeastern Europe in the fictive "Syldavia," next to the similarly invented "Borduria," at war with anarchists, corrupt military police, mustachioed fez-wearing bandits, and all manner of narghile-smoking Balkan buffoons.
		The apparent absurd confusion of Balkan history is lampooned in Hergé's faux chronicle of Syldavia, which Tintin eagerly reads as he flies in over the mountains: "In 1275 the people of Syldavia rose against the Bordurians, and in 1277 the revolutionary leader, Baron Almaszout, was proclaimed King.
		Hermann Keyserling's wry observation, "If the Balkans did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them," was perhaps understated.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/105.4/ah001218.html (6653 words)

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