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	Borogravia - Discworld & Pratchett Wiki
		Borogravia is a small, backward country, engaged in near-constant war with its neighbours.
		This is despite the fact that Borogravia was, and in some quarters still is, regarded across the Disc as a centre of chocolate-making excellence.
		In Monstrous Regiment we learn that Borogravia has been the aggressor in many wars with the neighbouring countries and the military seems to control the country in The Duchess's name.
	wiki.lspace.org /wiki/Borogravia (305 words)

	Borogravia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Borogravia is a fictional country in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of novels.
		Borogravia is located Rimwards of Überwald, on the Discworld's unnamed main continent.
		Borogravia is a Duchy, and as such is ruled by a Duke or Duchess.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borogravia (501 words)

	Monstrous Regiment (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The book is set in Borogravia, a country that is in dire straits because the populace worships the dying god Nuggan, who in his death throes has decreed (among other things) that crop rotation, women wearing men's clothes and doing men's work, the color blue, chocolate, and sneezing are all Abominations.
		Borogravia is supposedly ruled by a Duchess, who is also worshipped, but no one has seen her for decades.
		Borogravia's Eastern European feel echoes the former Yugoslavia, but the society bears a closer resemblance to Afghanistan under the famously misogynist and theocratic Taliban: Nuggan's ever-increasing list ludicrous "abominations" parallels their stream of bizarre edicts (placing bans on flying kites, brown paper bags and Leonardo di Caprio hairdos).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monstrous_Regiment_(novel) (1857 words)

	Borogravia Moldavi - NSwiki
		The lower deltas and plains of Borogravia are firmly sealed under the control of Kasamov.
		Stephan Kasamov is mortally wounded at the Battle of Kronigstan, prompting the military council of Greater Moldavi to sue for peace with the forces of Borogravia.
		The land barons of Borogravia and Greater Moldavi establish a parliamentary body that is elected by the peoples of The Empire.
	ns.goobergunch.net /wiki/index.php/Borogravia_Moldavi (1468 words)

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		It is small and extremely war-intensive, and closely resembles Yugoslavia in a number of respects, the most obvious being the prevalency of war, the similarities of the Serbo-Croatian and Borogravian languages, and the fact that Borogravia, like most of the Balkan countries, had a name ending in '-ia'.
		Borogravia is located Rimwards of Überwald, on the Discworld (world) Discworld's unnamed main continent.
		The recent history of Borogravia consists mainly of fighting wars with every other country in the area (most notably Zlobenia), in the name of Discworld gods#Nuggan Nuggan.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Borogravia.html (445 words)

	Marie Brennan - Book Recommendation
		Borogravia is at war with Zlobenia -- well, they've been at war with anybody close enough to attack for quite some time.
		Most of Borogravia's able-bodied men have already enlisted, gone off to war, and come back missing body parts if they came back at all.
		And, despite the fact that they say Borogravia is winning the war, this sorry-ass band of recruits gets no equipment, no training, and no orders but to head straight for the front -- where there may or may not be an army left to join.
	www.swantower.com /marie/recs/2007/mar07rec.html (696 words)

	Terry Pratchett: Die Scheibenwelt-Romane
		Polly möchte in den Krieg ziehen - das heißt, eigentlich liegt ihr nichts ferner, aber: Ihr Bruder wurde eingezogen und gilt nun als verschollen.
		In dem streng religiösen Land Borogravia, in dem fast alles verboten ist, sollen Frauen natürlich keine Soldaten werden.
		Auch Vimes (Mumm) taucht kurzzeitig auf - in Borogravia durch politische Propaganda als "Vimes the Butcher" bekannt ;)
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	SF REVIEWS.NET: Monstrous Regiment / Terry Pratchett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Borogravia's state religion is the worship of Nuggan, a god with an annoying habit of adding to his list of Abominations on an almost weekly basis (recent additions: rocks and accordion players).
		The problem is that Borogravia is hopelessly losing its war, despite official statements to the contrary.
		But Borogravia itself, a pipsqueak little country with no industry and fewer resources, can't really be said to be an analogue of America; the only thing noticably American about Borogravia is its religious irrationalism.
	www.sfreviews.net /monstrousreg.html (888 words)

	ipedia.com: Borogravia Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Borogravia is a fictional country in Terry Pratchett 's Discworld series of novels.
		Location Borogravia is located Rimwards of Überwald, on the Disc's unnamed main continent.
		Borogravia is ruled by a Duke or Duchess.
	www.ipedia.com /borogravia.html (183 words)

	Monstrous Regiment (Discworld Novels (Paperback)) : Berichte, Bewertungen, Informationen, Preise
		Polly becomes Private Oliver Perks, who is on a quest to find her older brother, who's recently MIA in one of the innumerable wars the tiny nation of Borogravia has a habit of starting with its neighbors.
		Whether Sergeant Jackrum knows her secret or not, he can't afford to be choosy as Perks and her/his comrades are among the last able-bodied recruits left in Borogravia.
		This collection of misfits includes the aforementioned vampire (reformed and off the blood, thank you), troll, and macabre Igor, who is only too happy to sew you a new leg if you aren't too particular about previous ownership.
	www.medfools.com /shopde/product/0060013168/Monstrous_Regiment_(Discworld_Novels_(Paperback)).html (866 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Monstrous Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Borogravia is a weak, unstable, backward country; nevertheless always at war with all or most of its neighbors.
		The government is broken, as the beloved monarch hasn't been seen in a long time and is probably deceased, with this truth concealed by the state.
		She has to work hard, but her life is frankly better than many in Borogravia.
	www.sfsite.com /10a/mr161.htm (807 words)

	TerryPratchettBooks.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers on the small, insufferably arrogant, strictly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on it's ability to beat up on its neighbors for even the tiniest imagined slight.
		This time, however, it's Borogravia that's getting its long overdue comeuppance, which has left the country severely drained of young men.
		Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess,her family's inn -- even though the revered national deity Nuggan has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination (with, among others, oysters, rocks, and the color blue).
	www.harpercollins.com /catalog/pratchett/site/books/description.asp?isbn=006001315X (300 words)

	Monstrous Regiment (Discworld Novels (Paperback)): Current Amazon Germany One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Polly Oliver has disguised herself as a boy to join the army of Borogravia, which is always at war and bursting with patriotism, though the Borogravians are often less than clear on why they are fighting.
		In Borogravia (ein Staat in der Nähe von Überwald) ist immer Krieg.
		However, since it is one of the numerous "abominations unto Nuggan" for a woman to own pubs in Borogravia, she realizes that if she wants to keep the Duchess, she needs to get her brother Oliver back from the front.
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	TERRY PRATCHETT - MONSTROUS REGIMENT
		Borogravia is famous for only one export, war.
		Polly, now known as Ozzer slips a serving girl's outfit over her soldier outfit and becomes a girl pretending to be a boy pretending to be a girl.
		As they near the front, and the impregnable Keep that overlooks the Kneck valley where Borogravia's troops are bogged down, they are fiercely hunted by the Prince's men.
	books.jayslair.com /pratch_monstrous.html (705 words)

	Monstrous Regiment
		For instance, babies and the color blue have recently been added to the list of Abominations to Nuggan, though the sky is blue and babies are necessary to perpetuate the population of believers.
		At least she does, if the rumors of her death are not true.
		That is the reason Borogravia is at war with neighboring Zlobenia.
	www.myshelf.com /scifi_fantasy/03/monstrous1regiment.htm (277 words)

	Monstrous Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The story itself is a classic adventure story, or at least that's how it starts out, with a girl, Polly Perks, who became a boy, Oliver Perks (or Ozzie) to enlist in the mighty army of Borogravia to search for her brother, who joined a year ago and was never heard from since.
		Borogravia is at war with Zlobenia at the moment, an annual reoccurence, as the border river has a tendency to wander...
		The Duchess, whose portrait is everywhere in Borogravia and who is as much revered as the local god, though never been seen since her husband died, will surely protectthe army.
	www.cloggie.org /books/monstrous-regiment.html (631 words)

	The Best Reviews: Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment Review
		Over the last three decades, the Duchy of Borogravia has declared war on all of its neighbors.
		Their actions bring them to the attention of the Alliance who is inspired by the courage of the MONSTROUS REGIMENT and hesitates to invade their country.
		Terry Pratchett seems to write a light-hearted comical fantasy but in reality he is using humor to provide a very deep condemnation of terrorists and nations that make war inevitable.
	www.thebestreviews.com /book7102 (573 words)

	Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
		At one point in the book it is pointed out that nobody in Ankh-Morpork had ever heard of Borogravia until they knocked down the clacks towers*, and neither have longtime readers of Discworld novels.
		Borogravia is constantly at war with its neighbors and is currently having a hard time drumming up recruits, partly due to the fact that there are no more young men to recruit.
		This is especially true of the character Wazzer, who also brings a bit of religious fanaticism to the table by praying to the Duchess, the theoretical leader of Borogravia who is rumored to be dead.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Nov03/monstrous.htm (859 words)

	Come Hear Books
		You have Monstrous Regiment, the characteristically charming novel by Terry Pratchett.
		And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, insufferably arrogant, strictly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its ability to beat up on its neighbors.
		Ever since her brother Paul marched off to battle a year ago, Polly Perks has been running The Duchess, her family's inn -- even though the revered national deity, Nuggan, has decreed that female ownership of a business is an Abomination.
	www.comehearbooks.com /CatDetail.php?recordID=97 (544 words)

	Terry Pratchett Message Board: Monstrous Regiment Discussion Spoilers
		Borogravia, the scene of the novel is a small country, surrounded by other small states with whom they are constantly at war.
		Monstrous Regiment is an allusion to the blistering sermon of that title by John Knox, the Calvinist/Scottish minister who thundered out against women having the audacity to think they might rule or be anything except subservient to their natural, god-given superiors-men.
		While Borogravia sounds a bit Balkan and Uberwaldish, the attitudes Pratchett bitingly satirizes could easily be found in Afghanistan or any fanatic Muslin country (although the strictures they lay down are not a part of the Koran).
	www.terrypratchettbooks.com /ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=004437 (1663 words)

	The View from the Foothills: Monstrous Regiment, by
		The little country of Borogravia has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, often with next-door neighbor Zlobenia, but generally with anyone who's handy.
		And the leading nations of the Discworld have paid little attention, for Borogravia and its neighbors are far-off, backwards, and dull.
		And then Nuggan, the god worshipped by the Borogravians, decrees that the line of semaphore towers built by Ankh-Morpork on the border between Borogravia and Zlobenia are an Abomination Unto Nuggan--and they are torn down.
	foothills.wjduquette.com /archives/000493.html (303 words)

	BWS Review - "Monstrous Regiment"
		That having been said, this is one of Terry Pratchett's slyest, darkest, and yet wondrous and fulfilling, forays into that mad mirror to our world, the universe of Discworld.
		Borogravia is a tiny duchy which finds itself constantly at war with its neighboring countries.
		A vampire, a troll, an Igor (famous as assistants to mad scientists, they are a joy on the Napoleonic-style battlefields of Discworld.
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue82/books.html (477 words)

	Monstrous Regiment
		It is not an unusual story; a woman dresses as a man to get into the army, for various reasons; this story can be seen in history as well as fiction.
		Polly Perks wants to join the army-specifically, the army of Borogravia, which is a small country with a short temper, ruled by Duchess Annagovia (at least in name).
		Borogravia also has an irritating habit of taking lands that really doesn't belong to it.
	members.cox.net /storytellersarchivist/monstrousreg.html (674 words)

	Bookreporter.com - MONSTROUS REGIMENT by Terry Pratchett
		It was headed "From the Mothers of Borogravia!!" The mothers of Borogravia were very definite about wanting to send their sons off to war Against the Zlobenian Aggressor!!
		I didn't ask you for one, Polly thought, quite annoyed at being taken for being a frightened young lad when she was quite sure she'd come over as quite a cool, non-ruffled young lad.
		She heard the sound of a match striking, and a sulfurous smell that only improved the general conditions.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/006001315X-excerpt.asp (1843 words)

	Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		His latest novel begins as the tiny and rather mad country of Borogravia runs out of steam -- and able-bodied young men -- to fight its latest war.
		Because the border of Borogravia and its neighbor Zlobenia is defined by a river that changes course regularly, some structures built in what was once Zlobenia find themselves on the wrong side of the border after a heavy rain.
		Polly Perks is desperate to find her slow but patriotic brother, who went to war but has not returned.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/pratchett-monstrous.htm (1007 words)

	Slapstick, satire return in 'Monstrous Regiment' - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Like most nations suffering through a protracted war, the duchy of Borogravia is operating at half-strength, and its economy is in the dumper.
		Its women are called upon to take over the jobs once performed by men now either fighting at the front or incapacitated as a result of the war.
		In the meantime, political leaders are more interested in shifting their portion of the blame than in creating a path to peace.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/books/s_160774.html (1012 words)

	Monstrous Regiment (Pratchett, Terry) - Terry Pratchett - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the small, constantly warring country of Borogravia, it is against the local religion for women to own a business.
		That means that Polly Perks won't be able to keep running her family's inn after her father dies.
		And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/51766167.html (908 words)

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