Identify these Mediterranean Countries

Identify these Mediterranean Countries

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Challenging game! Includes governments and languages. Most of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean are included but not all.

Category: Geography Games

Created by Dal, 17 Mar, 2008

Tags: Countries, governments, languages, Mediterranean

Rating: 4.5, from 3 votes
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Dal  1 year ago

I pulled this quote from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain#Languages

"Castilian", most commonly known in the English language as "Spanish" (though called both español and castellano in Spanish) is the official language in all Spain. Nonetheless, other languages, proper to its constituent communities, have been declared co-official with Spanish in the territories in which they are spoken...

Dal  1 year ago

@tickman

According to my source Spain only has one official language and is not the Catalan language.

"It is also spoken, although with no official recognition, in the autonomous communities of Aragon (in La Franja) and Murcia (in El Carxe) in Spain, and in the Roussillon region of southern France, which is more or less equivalent to the département of the Pyrénées-Orientales."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

tickman  1 year ago

It is confusing. Must be some minor differences in formal structures that they are talking about.

Also, I thought Spain had 2 official languages (I think the second was Catalan?).

But anyway, good game in the way you set it up and kept categories straight.

Dal  1 year ago

To be honest with you BoboLo, I am a little unclear on the distinctions myself. I used wikipedia as a source for this game and generally I find it to be pretty accurate. I looked up each country seperatley to gather my information.

Israel is listed as a Parliamentary democracy here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel

and Italy a Parliamentary republic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy

I assume Wikipedia is correct, but I don't entirely understand the distinction either.

BoboLo  1 year ago

So flummoxed, that I have belatedly realized that it was Israel, not Jordan, that was the 'parliamentary democracy'. But I'm still confused. Why is Italy a 'parliamentary republic' and Israel a 'parliamentary democracy'. Both have 'constitutional' presidents with few powers, and both are democratic ...

BoboLo  1 year ago

I must confess to being really confused about some of the distinctions between forms of government. Some of these strike me as arbitrary and certainly debatable. Jordan, for example, is hardly a parliamentary democracy when the King is such a powerful figure. Equally, 'constitutional monarchy' means very different things in Morocco and Spain. More generally, it splitting hairs to distinguish between 'parliamentary republic' and 'republic', and between 'semi-presidential republic', and 'unitary semi-presidential republic'!

Yours truly flummoxed, BoboLo

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Highscores — Identify these Mediterranean CountriesPlace 1 - 10
 Player NameScoreTimeDate of Play
1BoboLo100%1:03.6 min.19 Mar, 2008
2espen100%1:06.4 min.26 Apr, 2008
3Giovanni20100%1:08.1 min.19 Mar, 2008
4timpat100%1:10.9 min.19 Mar, 2008
5georg10100%1:15.7 min.25 Jun, 2009
6rosabranca100%1:26.0 min.19 May, 2008
7emili100%1:27.0 min.31 Jul, 2009
8apokar100%1:27.2 min.22 Feb, 2009
9oxphos100%1:28.2 min.2 Aug, 2009
10AlGhouti100%1:30.5 min.23 Aug, 2008
Scores: 1 2 4

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