User:NhazUl

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Second Bulgarian Empireball - the old avatar was really beautiful, but based on an incorrect flag. This one is from a 1385 nautical chart.



This is a mystery... the flag appears on a number of nautical charts, but centuries after Bulgaria was conquered by the Ottomans. I'm almost certain those maps were relying on obsolete information.

Second Bulgarian Empireball comic
I found out that the flag associated with the Second Bulgarian Empire on Wikipedia has no historical basis, being only a conjecture. On multiple portolan maps dating from the years depicted in this comic (1325, 1339, 1385 and 1421 AD), Bulgaria has been represented by different, if similar, flags, contrasting the consistency seen in the representation of the Serbian and Byzantine empires on the same maps.

I tried posting the comic on Reddit, but it was rejected. The mods at /r/Polandball found the joke about Bulgariaball not knowing how exactly his dad looked to be unfunny and overly complicated. I was met with some ignorance, with such things happening as the mods mistaking the medieval flags for Neolithic ones (because, see, one of them contains a N-like symbol, that's some solid logic there) or the Serbian Empire for... Germany? (and blaming it on some "vision problems" of mine, to boot). Then when I tried to explain, I received another refusal with the motif that one "shouldn't have to read half a dozen history books" even if everything there was to understand is clearly exposed in the comic itself. Oh well.