Border confusion in the Northeastern Carpathians

Day 1,277, 02:13 • Published in Hungary Hungary • by Nalaja

Some of you know well, I'm quite interested in maps, it is a part of my RL profession. The recent Galicia-Lodomeria issue offers a good opportunity to hve a review of the borders in the North-eastern Carpathians, at the northern extremity of Romania.



In eRepublik, it is, and it always was, an issue. last summer, when Hungary advanced through Ukraine to get Podolia from Romania, the process was slowed by the fact, that the regions of Subcarpathia and the Ukrainian Bukovina are not bordered; Subcarpathia connects only to Galicia and Lodomeria in the territory of Ukraine. If you check it now, it is still the present situation. This is in contradiction with the eRepublik map of the area (see above), however when Hungary protested in July, there were no answers and no modifications.

Interestingly enough, there is (or, more precisely, till this morning, there WAS) a border between the Ukrainian region of Galicia and Lodomeria (G&L) and the Romanian region of Maramures. A striking co-incidence, that this border was deleted from the game exactly while Poland, the brand new conqueror of G&L were voting about the NE against Romania. Deleting the border aborted the voting process.

First of all, what could have been in the background of the OLD border system? If we have a look to the RL regional borders of Ukraine, it is clear that G&L does have a border to Romania (and Subcarpathia is really blocked from Bukovina) - the eRep map does not follow the real regional borders. So, the old (now changed) border logic followed the real map, and not the eRepublik map. Now, it follows neither the RL map, nor the eRepublik one. A more detailed topographic map from the Soviet time (see below) further supports this; the rayon on Ivano-Frankovsk (G&L) does connect to Romania.



Any consequence in the eRepublik game flow? Not so much. It means cca. 1.5 days of delay in Poland's original plans and a lot of moral raise there. I want to avoid the charge of 'public debate' so I don't qualify the timing of Plato's quick border change.

Now the NE Carpathians are a real obstacle: cannot be crossed nor from north to south, neither from west to east.