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    Which European region is thought to have taken its name from trees that were nourished by the blood of those fallen in a battle? What is probably the most famous literary reference to this region?

    Question #60279. Asked by gmackematix. (Oct 30 05 9:22 PM)


    JoshCaleb12

    		You wouldn't be talking about Bukovina, located between Romania and Ukraine, by any chance?

    "On the field of battle littered with the corpses of the fallen, a forest of beech trees grew up, nourished by the blood of both sides - admittedly a rather gruesome, poetical, and, likely apocryphal, image."

    Above paragraph quoted from:

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


    Oct 30 05, 11:58 PM
    gmackematix

    		Yay, Josh! That Wiki article mentions "Dracula" and his castle is described as being in the Carpathian Mountains on the border between Transylvania and Bukovina. Somehow the former got all the press.

    Oct 31 05, 12:33 AM

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