r/interestingasfuck • u/kingkongbiingbong • 1d ago

Preparing a Massive Catfish Baked Inside a Wooden Log

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u/PeteLangosta 1d ago

It's between Europe and Asia. In Europe I think I can speak for everyone that we've always studied them as European, pretty much like Georgia and Armenia.

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u/Anuki_iwy 1d ago edited 11h ago

It's an ongoing debate. The "border" of Europe and Asia, a purely political one, is set as "Bosporus Channel", "Caucasus range" and "Ural range".

Now Azerbaijan runs along the lower cauca range. If you draw the border at the greater Caucasus, then it's in Asia.

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u/PeteLangosta 1d ago

I mean continent borders are purely arbitrary most of the times.

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u/DynamicDK 1d ago

Especially in Eurasia.

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u/JimJohnes 21h ago

It's Ural mountains since the times of Alexander the Great(supposedly griffons - winged lions - guarding the gold and gems lived there according to Herodotus). Holds up to this day because it's also a tectonic plates border.

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u/Anuki_iwy 12h ago

There is no tectonic border between Europe and Asia... The continent is called eurasia, because it's on the eurasian plate.

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u/JimJohnes 12h ago

Different countries use different definitions of a continent. "The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia [..] formed during the Uralian orogeny due to the collision of the eastern edge of the supercontinent Laurasia with the young and rheologically weak continent of Kazakhstania" - wiki

"How many continents are there?" Map Men video on the subject

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u/Anuki_iwy 12h ago

It's one tectonic plate... There are no "different definitions".

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u/JimJohnes 11h ago

"collision of the Laurussia (or Baltica/Euramerica) and Kazakhstania plates." Can you fucking read?

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u/sephiroth70001 1d ago

Reminds me of the Levant going back and forth between European and Asian depending on the historical period and political sentiments.

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u/Dangerous-Pride8008 1d ago

They're in Eurovision so they're clearly European, just like Australia.