Q158: What country

All rigthy then

What present European country is burnt to ashes in one Tintin album?

Give me the album and the name of the country with an explanation.

Good morning

This country is provedly burnt to ashes two times and presumably more than two times.

Here's a clue:

The Cyrillics alphabets will give you the answer.

There are not very many albums, which Cyrillic text is inluded in, so the task should be easier now.

tuhis

In The Calculus Affair (p.24-B1), a cigarette with the brand name
МАЗЕДОНИА (MACEDONIA) was burnt to ashes before Tintin & Haddock's arrived at Prof. Topolino's house in Nyon, Switzerland.

...and MACEDONIA is a European country!

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia

You are quite right, yamilah.

I think MA3EDONHA is readable even though one wouldn't know The Cyrillic alphabets. It is your turn now, yamilah.

Thanks tuhatkauno.
A very nice and 'avataresque' question!

Yamilah, could you explain 'avataresque'for me. I don't know its meaning.

tuhatkauno
I think MA3EDONHA is readable even though one wouldn't know The Cyrillic alphabets.
It’s an ingenious question, tuhatkauno, but I’m not certain that I share your confidence that МАЗЕДОНИА is in any way recognizable as its Roman-alphabet equivalent of Macedonia without some knowledge of Cyrillic.

All credit to yamilah for getting a well deserved point, but I think that in future we should avoid setting questions that require the reading of foreign alphabets - otherwise we’ll have question after question being set on the banners in Blue Lotus!

I’m sure some of the other moderators will chip in if they think that this is wrong, but let’s stick to plain English and Roman alphabets in the mean time, so that as many people as possible get to play.

I agree with you jock123.

The question is perhaps easier for Finns because of voluntary and involuntary cultural interaction with our eastern brothers, so the Cyrillic alphabets have become familiar to us.

No more peculiar languages.

tuhatkauno
Yamilah, could you explain 'avataresque' for me. I don't know its meaning.

"avataresque": pertaining to or connected with transformations, embodiments, incarnations, etc.

see http://www.wordreference.com/definition/avatar

Incidently, Macedonian is one of the oldest recensions of the Old Church Slavonic* language and thrived in the period between 10. and 14. centuries, i.e. around the time when old slavonic tribes invaded Syldavia, as mentioned in King Ottokar's Sceptre (p.19).

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic

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