Neighboring Countries Who Get Along

Originally posted by Flipper Historically speaking, we count count Greece - Armenia - Cyprus. Both Greeks and Greek Cypriots have been neighbouring with Armenians (even sharing villages). According to Strabo the Thessalian Greeks were kinsmen of the Armenians in their distant past, since Armenus, the founder of Armenia was from Armenion in Thessaly. Also...Greeks & Georgians. Historically speaking Georgians were sharing with Anatolian Greeks the same Kindom (Pontus). Cypriots can be paired with Lebanese and Syrians. All of them have noticeable communities in each others countries.

Edited by evilbu - 30-May-2009 at 17:37

I would say Greece and Egypt.

Egypt is counted as a neighbour of Greece because both countries share sea borders. Historically both had friendly contacts with each other. Egyptian is the first ethnonym ever mentioned in Greek language. The Greeks traded with the Egyptians and exchanged knowledge. Greeks had their own city in Egypt. One of the major cities of Greece was named after an Egyptian one. One of the largest Greek communities was in Egypt and it is the longest surviving. Until the first half of the 20th century Egypt had the largest Greek community. There have been Egyptians living in Greece since day 0. There's a big number of Greco-Egyptians in both countries, so big that one wouldn't even imagine. The Byzantines supported the large population of Konstantinoupolis (in it's wealthy days) with the help of Egyptian imports. Old Greek heroes/tribal leaders make triumphic return from Egypt.

There are so many things to mention...The only negative event in the last 4000 years in the Nasser regime, but nobody really takes that personal.

Turkey and Greece have been good neighbours at all time :)

Well, the Vatican and the Italian state have had some pretty strained relations in the beginning (in the 19th century, that is).

I'm sure Romanians have a lot of sympathy for the Serbs, although in recent years Romania has been forced by its NATO allegiance to allow the use of its air space for strikes against Serbia. Given that, I'm not sure how friendly Serbs are towards Romanians...

Spain and Portugal have been on officially friendly terms for a long time, but there is no real friendship there. The Portuguese are quite touchy when they talk about anything Spanish. They still harbour resent over the loss of colonies when they regained independence after the period of common rule (under Philip II and III of Spain, named Philip I and II of Portugal). It's not hostility, but neither is it a sense of friendship.

Since Mexican- US wars we have not been on the best terms with Mexico and some dream of retaking their former territories but most Mexican I know here do not agree with that. I would love to go down to see the inland see between the mainland of Mexico and the Baja peninsula but going down there is risky, although, I might go with a group to see Casa Grandes next Spring- The Hohokham ruins. It will be fun and once I am down there I really enjoy the people. I spent almost three months in Mazatlan, Mexico and made some friends there. Reading "War of a Thousand Deserts" is teaching me so much about the native Ameircan relations with the Spanish and later the Mexicans. Brian Delay is the author!
My hope is someday these drug wars will end and it will become safer to enter Mexico but I do not count on that happening soon.

Well ... we did burn Buffalo down, after the Americans burned down Newark. 

Originally posted by The Canadian Guy So, they came from Canada, so we did burn Washington. As for the barbarian part, war is not a party; we all get "barbaric".

There were no Canadian forces involved in the attack on Washington whatsoever. They were British overseas forces who made a landing on the coast. No Canadian forces ever penetrated that far - we got into Ohio and parts of New York, Vermont etc but not that far south.

I suppose I must introduce the Scotland/England thing here.

The English, (and their predecessors) have been historically not very nice to the inhabitants of Scotland.

Historically, we have been not very nice right back at them.

Don't worry though we've managed to nearly civilise the poor (English) buggers.

Originally posted by edgewaters All we did was demolish their land fronts against us, at Battle of Queenston Heights, at the Siege of Detroit, and at Crysler's Farm.