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Syldavia is a fictional country in ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is located in the Balkans and has a rivalry with the fictional neighbouring country of Borduria. Syldavia is depicted in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'', ''Destination Moon'', ''Tintin and the Lake of Sharks'', and ''The Calculus Affair'', and is referred to in ''Tintin and the Picaros''. ==Overview== Syldavia is a monarchy, ruled at the time of ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' by King Muskar XII. The capital is Klow, formerly Zileheroum, located at the confluence of the fictional Moltus and Wladir Rivers (after Prague, which is on the Moldau/Vltava River). Other cities named in the books are Niedzdrow, Istow, Dbrnouk, Douma and Zlip. The population of Syldavia is 642,000 with 122,000 living in Klow, suggesting the country is similar in size to Montenegro. The national airline is Syldair and the official currency is the khôr (Зилдaв хор). Syldavia is also called "The Kingdom of the Black Pelican" and its flag is yellow with a black pelican in the center. It somewhat resembles the flag of the Holy Roman Empire, the Basque Arrano beltza, as well as the flag of Albania. However, the royal seal on the wall in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' bears a striking resemblance with the Coat of arms of Montenegro. In line with that, in Montenegro is located the largest resort of pelicans in Europe. The people speak Syldavian, a language that looks and sounds Slavic but is mostly based on the West Germanic Marols dialect from Brussels. It is written in Cyrillic, but curiously, the Latin alphabet is used in medieval documents, and some of the Cyrillic letters used are a straight transcription from the Latin letters (e.g., "sh" is written "сз" rather than "ш"). The kingdom's motto is "Eih bennek, eih blavek!" which Hergé translates as "''Qui s'y frotte s'y pique''" "Who rubs himself there gets stung" (in fact, the motto of Nancy, from the Latin ''non inultus premor'', referring to its emblem, the thistle; in the British edition, the translators rendered the motto "If you gather Thistles, expect Prickles"). The motto can also be interpreted as a Brussels dialect rendering of the Dutch phrase "''Hier ben ik, hier blijf ik''" ("Here I am, here I stay"). Syldavians seem to be fond of mineral water, which does not go down well with the whisky-drinking Captain Haddock, one of Tintin's travelling companions. The exact location of Syldavia is not given in the comics, and nothing more is known than that it is located on the Balkan peninsula, bordering another fictional country Borduria, and that it has an access to the sea. It is also mistaken for Greece in one instance, but explained as having very different local clothing. In ''Destination Moon'', the trail of the Syldavian-launched rocket points to a location north of the Danube. There are various inspirations for Syldavia. As Hergé noted himself the primary inspiration was Royal Montenegro,〔http://www.lefigaro.fr/voyages/2012/10/26/03007-20121026ARTFIG00665-balade-princiere-au-montenegro.php〕 but the country's history is modeled after many Balkan countries. Hergé's assistant Har Brok writes that Syldavia "may have been modelled after a country like Romania or Yugoslavia".〔Har Brok, Is Syldavisch Slavisch? Achtergronden van het Beeldverhaal nr. 2, Bovenkarspel 1979 (ISBN 90 64475 02 4).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syldavia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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