#aph caucasus

[gruzdoesstuff]

It be like that sometimes 🇬🇪🇬🇪

(She loves them)

#countryhumans but they are actually humans #countryhumans #hetalia oc #art #hws oc #hetalia Georgia #countryhumans Georgia #hetalia caucasus #aph georgia #hws Georgia #hws sakartvelo #hetalia sakartvelo #oc

[ask-the-eternal-state]

 A Big Thank You to @gleepglorp and @ottomanliest for letting me borrow their Caucasus characters for this post! also thanks jade for the constant info spam about the Caucasus as well ily

[Armenia - @gleepglorp | Azerbaijan & Georgia - @ottomanliest ] 

I’d be happy to go into more detail about each character but I’d rather give each character their own individual post. There’s a lot to go over and I’d hate to miss anything. The Caucasus is a very sensitive hot-topic politically and I would hope that my followers understand that it is a very difficult subject to describe so broadly. 

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[ps: Unfortunately my tablet, as you know it has given me problems in the past, has finally kicked the bucket. I’m taking requests on my Ko-fi to save up for a new one! ]

#aph turkey #aph armenia #aph georgia #aph azerbaijan #aph caucasus #historical hetalia #more like political hetalia #fml #i tried my best #i hope this doesn't become a controversy magnet #ask #anonymous

[kavkasia]

Ex-Soviet Chess Headcanons

I’ve been watching The Queen's Gambit and it made me want to write out some of my thoughts on the major chess playing nations of the former USSR.

For context, chess was an incredibly popular pastime in the USSR. During the 20th century, the country became the most dominant chess nation in the world and the government worked very hard to maintain that dominance as a way to prove themselves as intellectually superior. Due in part to the government’s efforts, several Soviet republics became big names in the chess world.

1. Russia

The undisputed chess king who has been playing the game for centuries. Your confidence will be obliterated if you play a match against him.

He is the winner of 95% of the games against the other ex-Soviet republics.

During the Cold War, he would play games against the other Soviet republics to test their skills—and he does not hold back with his critique.

He is an all-around brilliant tactical and positional chess player.

He also has an excellent poker face.

When he had the opportunity to do so, he enjoyed attending parts of USSR Chess Championships.

2. Ukraine

Chess has long existed in Ukraine, and as a player she is incredibly skilled!

She can be quite intense when she plays serious games, and this intensity can also appear in casual games too if things get competitive.

She has had the pleasure of beating Russia more than once.

She actually prefers a game of football over a game of chess.

3. Armenia (OC)

An excellent player. He has been playing for centuries, but the Soviet era was the time when he became notably skillful in the game.

As a strategy, he tends to play more defensively and wait for an opportunity to present itself.

Even if it is a friendly game against someone much less skilled, he refuses to ever go easy on his opponents.

He will not shut up about Tigran Petrosian once you get him started.

4. Azerbaijan (OC)

Another very strong chess nation who is on par with Armenia. She also played chess prior to being a part of the USSR, but the late 1960s was when she started sharpening her skills.

Her style of chess is quite aggressive and overwhelming.

You can tell she is a sore loser when you see her get beaten by certain nations.

She is very proud of Garry Kasparov despite the fact he isn’t even Azerbaijani.

Prior to her time with Russia, she would get destroyed by Iran in games of shatranj.

5. Georgia (OC)

He isn’t the strongest player when compared to everyone above. Georgia isn’t a patzer by any means though, he just falls in a weird area where he isn’t as strong as Azerbaijan and Armenia but is still more skilled when compared to the ex-Soviet republics ranked below him.

It’s really easy to see when he is having a tough time because his poker face will start cracking immediately.

He is more likely to go easy on lady nations in casual games (at least until he realizes he’s put himself in a difficult situation by doing so).

He hates playing against Russia because continually losing to him hurts his pride (if they were playing a game of nardi instead he would be much more inclined because at least with that he stands a chance).

#aph russia #aph ukraine #aph georgia #aph armenia #aph azerbaijan #hetalia #aph oc #hetalia oc #my headcanons #aph oc georgia #aph oc armenia #aph oc azerbaijan #it looks like i just shoved the caucasus in there for no reason but they really are ranked like that LMAO #i also would have gone more into their histories and stats but i don't want this post to be an essay

[ottomanliest]

TAG GAME

Tagged by @mavkkk! (Thank you!! <3)

Rules: Tag people you’d like to get to know better

Nickname: Nothing really that’s commonly used. Sometimes Jadie?

Gender: Female

Astrological sign: Scorpio

Height: 5′3″ / 160cm

Hogwarts house: Like a Gryffinpuff.

Favourite animal: Not sure tbh. I do like big cats, pronghorns, mustelids, and nighthawks.

Number of blankets: 2

Where I’m from: British Columbia, Canada

Dream trip: Honestly, I really want to go see Europe, the Middle East and Central + South America. To have more specific areas though, I’d love to see the Caucasus, the Balkans, Romania, Turkey and Iran.

When I created this blog: Almost 6 years ago yikes.

Why I created this blog: I think Tumblr blocked me from viewing posts in search after they changed it so you needed a Tumblr blog? Or I just got tired of hoarding blogs in tabs. I think I also wanted to interact with some of the Cool Kids(tm) in the APH fandom.

Tagging: Anybody who wants to? <3

#i feel like i had a tag for this but it's been so long #tag game #but yeah if anyone wants to please tag me so i can see your answers!! <3

[kavkasia]

@portu-cale​​​ ACTUALLY they were united a couple times (and it never worked out).

Caucasus Viceroyalty (1801–1917)

I’d say this technically counts, but they were their own subdivisions and not really overtly representing the Viceroyalty. They still had to get together for certain events and administrative things.

Georgia also has the capital (Tbilisi) (and this continues for every single time they unite which is sexy). Honestly, I’m not entirely sure why, but I can guess... 

Closest to Russia

Christian

Biggest population

Most developed

Economically doing alright

Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic (1918)

After the Bolsheviks took over St. Petersburg, the biggest groups in the Caucasus (Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians and Russians) got together to create a government to try and stabilize the region (and be anti-Bolshevik).

However, they all had wildly different ideas of what they wanted.

Georgia was a socialist, Armenia was a different type of socialist, and Azerbaijan was pan-Turkish and pan-Islamist.

Azerbaijan wanted to become very involved with the Ottomans (which Georgia and Armenia both did not want).

Georgia needed Azeri oil and wanted a federation but Azerbaijan instead wanted a confederation (which means a constitution was never agreed on).

The Ottomans were pushing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on the TDFR and threatening to go to war if they didn’t give back the lands the dead Russian Empire had taken from Turkey, and Georgia and Armenia were not willing to give up what was their land.

They all lowkey-highkey really wanted to be independent by themselves.

There’s more but basically it’s all bad.

Georgia was the first to declare independence after he realized the union wasn’t going to work. Azerbaijan left shortly after (and then tried to shift the blame away from herself when accused of being the cause of the breakup which... yeah). Armenia declared independence and was left to fend for himself.

This all took place over a couple months too.

Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (1922–1936)

It’s the TDFR Part 2: Electric Boogaloo (but Socialist and Soviet). The Soviet republics of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Abkhazia are united into the TSFSR. I’m not sure about the others, but Georgia had some resistance to being put in a union again.

The TSFSR becomes a founding member of the Soviet Union (alongside Russia, Ukraine and Belarus).

Strangely enough, the major issues between them hadn’t just disappeared! They continued to have problems for years and it was to the point where it became very difficult for the TSFSR to make any major decisions.

Finally, with the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union (which gave Russia a huge amount of control over the USSR), the TSFSR was dissolved and they all became their own Soviet republics (aside from Abkhazia who got demoted).

Have a horrible history fact: In the same year (1936), Stalin and his ally Lavrentiy Beria (both Georgians) worked to try to bring Armenia’s population down through executions and deportations so they could justify Georgia absorbing Armenia. 🙃 The USSR is great.

#[uses that as an excuse to talk tldr caucasus history] #portu-cale #jade talks #aph oc georgia #aph oc azerbaijan #?? i guess i don't really talk about the characters much LOL #whatever it's their history and it's my blog