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Adriatic Hochlands

A City Journal by Vopos

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An Austro-Hungary-based Kingdom,in an Adriatic sea that you have never seen!

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Vopos
To don't misunderstand this journal,please,first read these introductions: http://community.simtropolis.com/journal/4747/entry-22649-let-me-take-you-to-hochlands/ 1) and http://community.simtropolis.com/journal/4747/entry-22657-adriatic-hochlands-introduction-and-facts/ 2) "If you're a stranger and you have to reach the mainland of Hochlands,you have to ask to the seaport security a permission to do that. So,with a dirty,simple and ruined paper of the local sea transport company "Koterlinien",with the...
Vopos
"At 20.35 I took the only boat to the nearest location to the mainland,because reaching the mainland in one journey from here,Kreisitz,is impossible and dangerous. This boat,called in german "Dobrauerboot" (Dobrau's boat) will take me to the small island of Lissein,a location supposed to be very close to the mainland. I don't have many informations about it,but if it can take me to the true Hochlands,I'll take it. So,with a bilingual ticket (German and Croatian),a one-way ticket to this unknown (to me)...
Vopos
"The ferry to Trestau was blocked because of a worker's strike in that same city. But I had to reach the Hochlands immediately! I was desperate. Sat on a bench in a Venice's dock looking to the sea,trying to distinguish ,in the horizon,the Hochlands' first pieces of land,I saw a fisherman talking to a merchant with a slight slavic accent: <<So you have to go to the Hochlands? There's a boat to the isle of Kreisitz,once there you can take other boats to the rest of the region! It's the only one for the...
Vopos
With 4 different cultures,5 different languages and many different traditions, the Adriatic Hochlands were one of the most interesting regions of the Habsburgic Empire. These lands,extended by the southern Velebit area (nowadays Croatia) to the italo-slovenian borders with Austria ,until the Habsburgic conquest,had different origins,stories. The northern province,Hochlitoral-Krain,once was a Venetian puppet state called Free Borderlands. The southern provinces of Innistrien and Koter,were independent lands...
Vopos
Austro-Hungarians,many,many years ago,wanted to have a piece of that sea,the Adriatic,that once was only Venetian. They wanted to expand their power. They found the perfect place to do that,in a small corner of nowadays Istria. They arrived there,well armed,against the defenceless local peoples. Italians,Croats,Slovenes. They just couldn't resist. The Austro-Hungarians destroyed many towns,to rebuild them with a more "germanic" architecture. They also built new,powerful,towns. Those towns were true...
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