Borduria

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Borduria, imaginary country, location.
Flag of Borduria, imaginary country.

Etymology 1[edit]

From French Bordurie, from bordure (“border”).[1] Coined by Hergé in 1939 for King Ottokar's Sceptre.[2]

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Borduria

  1. (fiction) An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Syldavia, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.
    • 1977, Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts‎[3], 1st edition, New York Review Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-13:
      Graustark, Ruritania, Borduria, Syldavia and a score of imaginary kingdoms, usurped by tyrants and sundered by fights for the throne, leap into mind: plots, treachery, imprisoned heirs and palace factions abound and, along with them, fiendish monocled swordsmen, queens in lonely towers, toppling ranges, deep forests, plains full of half-wild horses, wandering tribes of Gypsies who steal children out of castles and dye them...
    • 2014 June 19, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “Decaying east London tower block to house 12-hour Macbeth production”, in The Guardian‎[4], archived from the original on May 19, 2022:
      The play will be set in Borduria, the fictional state originally created in Hergé's Tintin that resembles a 1970s eastern European state.
    • 2017 May 22, Utkarsh Srivastava, “A Tintin Mystery: Why Hergé's comics continue to fascinate, 88 years after their debut”, in Firstpost‎[5], archived from the original on January 29, 2022:
      He made up two fictional countries, Borduria and Syldavia, and the struggles between the two were actually a satire on the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany.
    • 2022 September 3, Srinivas Krishnan, “The automotive adventures of Tintin”, in Mumbai Mirror‎[6], archived from the original on November 10, 2022:
      Hardly any of the cars in the Tintin comics are exotic, while a few of them — like the stretch black limousine driven in a convoy in Tapiocapolis in the final, complete adventure Tintin and the Picaros and the open-topped roadster used to rescue Professor Calculus from the prison fortress of Bakhine in Borduria — are an imaginary combination of real cars.
    • 2022 November 4, Aleksandar Brezar, “What is Listenbourg? Why is it going viral on Twitter? Why did the meme become so big in Europe?”, in Euronews‎[7], archived from the original on November 7, 2022:
      Borduria and Syldavia, both fictional Balkan countries appearing in the Adventures of Tintin graphic novel, also merit a mention as places used to highlight the stereotypes about the southeastern parts of the continent.
    • 2017 7, The Newsroom, “When Tintin the intrepid fictional reporter came to Scotland”, in The Scotsman‎[8] (Journal), archived from the original on 2022-11-10:
      The reporter’s future adventures took him far and wide - even to outer space - and to a handful of fictionalised countries including Balkan states Borduria and Syldavia and the South American countries of San Theodoros, São Rico and Nuevo Rico.
    • 2016 September 18, Vikas Datta, “The small nation which beat the superpowers, global capitalism”, in The News Minute‎[9], archived from the original on 2022-11-13:
      But the name of Grand Fenwick doesn't occur in any history book, or show up in any atlas, unless it also maps Ruritania, Syldavia, Borduria, Oz or even Shangri-La.
  2. (by extension) A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Syldavia.
    • 2000, Yoram Amiel, chapter 2, in Thinking about Inequality: Personal Judgment and Income Distributions‎[10], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-10, page 9:
      Is Syldavia a more unequal society than Borduria? For an inequality comparison to be meaningful, then the answer "yes, Syldavia is more unequal than Borduria" must also imply, in the other direction, "Borduria is less unequal than Syldavia."
    • 2004, Daniel S. Kirschen and Goran Strbac, chapter 8, in Fundamentals of Power System Economics‎[11], 1st edition, Wiley, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-10, page 278:
      Under these conditions, the prices in Borduria and Syldavia are 19 and 35 $/MWh, respectively. The value of transporting one additional megawatt-hour from Borduria to Syldavia is thus only 16 $/MWh. This is also the maximum price that consumers in Syldavia would agree to pay for the transport of a megawatt-hour that they have bought in Borduria for 19 $/MWh.
    • 2006, chapter 15, in Graziella Caselli, Jacques Vallin, Guillaume Wunsch, editors, Demography: Analysis and Synthesis, Four Volume Set: A Treatise in Population‎[12], 1st edition, Academic Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-13, pages 201–202:
      Consider two sets of death rates by age for two imaginary countries, Syldavia (S) and Borduria (B), as in Figure 15-1.
    • 2013, Michael Blake, chapter 5, in Justice and Foreign Policy‎[13], 1st edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-11, page 121:
      Demand for mangoes is such that this can be expected to double the per capita income in Borduria. Syldavia offers the metal to Borduria, but offers it only in exchange for Borduria signing a treaty for mutual defense.
    • 2017, Jorge E. Núñez, chapter 6, in Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics: A Distributive Justice Issue (Routledge Research in International Law)‎[14], 1st edition, Routledge, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-10, page 134:
      On the contrary, Borduria is one of the largest sovereign States in the world in terms of territorial size, but not densely populated. Bordurians are mainly Hindus and their economy is based on agriculture.
    • 2019, Michael Blake, Justice, Migration, and Mercy‎[15], Oxford University Press edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-11, page 55:
      Imagine, for instance, that all states in the world - Borduria and Syldavia are the only ones, perhaps - are flourishing, and exceed whatever line of political adequacy you think makes legitimate. Borduria and Syldavia, in short, are both doing fine.
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  1. ^ [Joëlle K. (2015 April) “Exclusif: la Bordurie passe à l’Est [Exclusive: Borduria goes East]”, in Le Temps‎[1] (journal), archived from the original on 2022-08-19: “Quoi qu’il en soit, l’ennemi bordure, pour cette école de pensée, est à l’Ouest. ― Either way, the border enemy, for this school of thought, is in the West.]”
  2. ^ [“Geopolitics In Tintin Comics: Around The World In 24 Albums”, in Outlook India‎[2] (magazine), 2022 January, archived from the original on 2022-11-10: “Despite the fact that Hergé was in favour of neutrality of Belgium, King Ottokar’s Sceptre can be read as anti-Nazi. In this adventure, Müss­tler (a possible contraction of Mussolini and Hit­ler) is the leader of a conspiracy that seeks to mer­ge the kingdom of Syldavia with its old enemy Borduria.]”

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Etymology 2[edit]

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Borduria, location in India.

Proper noun[edit]

Borduria

  1. A village in Arunachal Pradesh, India.
    • 2015, “Arunachal Pradesh”, in H. M. Bareh, editor, Encyclopaedia Of North-East India‎[16], 1st edition, Mittal Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2022-11-11, page 72:
      The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.
    • 2019 May 23, The Hindu Net Desk, “Arunachal Pradesh Assembly results live updates | BJP wins 7 Assembly seats, leads in both LS seats”, in The Hindu‎[17], archived from the original on 2022-11-12:
      Wanglin Lowangdong, incumbent MLA of Borduria Bogapani trails in the constituency.
    • 2019 May 25, “BJP records landslide victory in Arunachal Pradesh Assembly polls”, in The Hitavada‎[18], archived from the original on 2022-11-12:
      The Congress has retained three of the 42 seats it had won in 2014 - Sagalee seat, Mebo, Borduria-Bogapani - while wresting Pasighat West from the BJP.
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    • 2017 October 11, Andrés Malamud, “El separatismo es una amenaza para la paz mundial [Separatism is a threat to world peace]”, in La Nación (Buenos Aires) [The Nation]‎[19], archived from the original on 2022-11-13:
      ¿cuántos podrían distinguir las fallidas Yugoslavia y Checoslovaquia de las ficticias Syldavia y Borduria?
      How many could distinguish the failed Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia from the fictitious Syldavia and Borduria?
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