八个与众不同的小国

2015-03-16 17:52
时代英语·高二 2015年1期
关键词:骑士团塔罗艾瑞克

Except for those countries with official recognition in the world, there are also some personalized “nations”. Lets have a look—here are some creative and strange tiny nations.

世界上除被正式承认的国家,还有一些颇具个性的“国家”。让我们去看看吧——下面就是一些具有创意的“奇葩小国”。

Kingdom of Elleore  艾里欧里王国

Kingdom of Elleore, on the island of Elleore, Roskilde Fjord, Denmark, was purchased by a group of Copenhagen teachers in 1944 as a summer camp, but it turned into a gentle parody of the government structure and royal traditions of Denmark. The novel Robinson Crusoe is banned on the island, and everyone uses Elleore Standard Time, which is 12 minutes behind Danish time. It has had six monarchs in the last 70 years.

艾里欧里王国,位于丹麦罗斯基勒峡湾的艾里欧里小岛上,1944年一群来自哥本哈根的教师买下它来举办夏令营,但之后就宣布独立成国并开始效仿丹麦政府体系和皇家传统。小说《鲁滨孙漂流记》在岛上是被禁止的,而岛上的每个人都使用艾里欧里标准时间,它比丹麦时间晚12分钟。在过去70年里该国已经更换了6位君主。

Freetown Christiania  克里斯蒂娜自由城

Freetown Christiania declared a self-proclaimed autonomous neighborhood in Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark in 1971, and was regarded locally as a large commune with special laws since 1989.

克里斯蒂娜自由城是1971年在丹麦哥本哈根的克里斯钦港宣布成立的自治社区,1989年之后被当地认为是一个拥有特殊法律的公社。

Principality of Seborga  塞波加大公国

The Principality of Seborga, founded in Seborga, Italy in 1963 by Giorgio Carbone, who claimed that the town had never become part of the modern Italian state. The small constitutional elective monarchy with less than half a hundred inhabitants is now led by Prince Marcello I. The town issued a local currency named luigino between 1994 and 1996, and they still have two orders of knights (The Order of Saint Bernard and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre).

塞波加大公国,由乔治·卡波恩于1963年在意大利的塞波加建立,创建者声称从此这座城镇不再受当代意大利的统治。这座实行宪法选举制的小君主国拥有不到50名居民,目前由马塞洛一世领导。该国曾在1994年至1996年期间发行了一种称为路易吉诺的货币,而该国还拥有两个骑士团(圣伯纳骑士团和圣慕堂骑士团)。

Aerican Empire  艾瑞克帝国

Aerican Empire, founded in 1987 by Eric Lis, without any territory of its own, but its few hundred members (about 400 in 2009, 233 in July 2013) started to claim sovereignty over some disconnected territories: a house-sized area in Montreal, Canada, a colony of Mars, an imaginary planet, the northern hemisphere of Pluto, an island in the middle of a lake in New Zealand, and a square kilometer of land in Australia, among others.

艾瑞克帝国于1987年由埃里克·利斯创立,这个国家没有属于自己的领土,但该国的上百名公民(2009年约有400人,到2013年7月有233人)开始对一些毫不相干的地区宣布主权,比如加拿大蒙特利尔一处只有房子大小的土地、火星上的殖民地、一个虚构的星球、冥王星的北半球、新西兰某个湖中心的小岛、澳大利亚某个1平方公里的土地等等。

Principality of Sealand  西兰公国

The Principality of Sealand, on a WWII installation to guard the port UK, was named HM Fort Roughs then. It stands around six miles from the coast of Suffolk. The place was occupied by a British pirate radio broadcaster named Paddy Roy Bates (Prince Roy) and his family in 1967. Eight years later the Principality was established, and Roy led this until his death at the age of 91. He named his son Michael as the new leader of the nation.

And heres an opportunity to become a Lord, Lady, Baron or Baroness for only a few bucks, and a Count or Countess for almost $340.

西兰公国是二战时为保护英国的港口不受入侵而建立的,当时称作怒涛堡垒。它距离萨福克郡海岸6英里(约10公里)左右。此地在1967年被一个叫作帕迪·罗伊·贝茨的英国海盗之声的播音员及其家人占领。8年后公国建立,由罗伊领导,直到其在91岁时去世。他任命他的儿子迈克尔作为这个国家新的领导人。

在这个国家只要几美元就可以成为大人、夫人、男爵、男爵夫人,成为伯爵或伯爵夫人也只要340美元。

Kingdom of Talossa  塔罗萨王国

The Kingdom of Talossa, founded in 1979 by a 14-year-old boy named Robert Madison in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US.

This micronation had the first national Webpage in November 1995 and it has an Anthem titled Stand Tall Talossans. Now it has a king named John I, and the current population is 222. A group of dissidents left the Kingdom, and created the Republic of Talossa in 2004, but they returned in 2012.

The nation has some wild territorial claims—stretching from part of Milwaukee to an uninhabited French island and a large part of Antarctica.

塔罗萨王国成立于1979年,是由一名叫罗伯特·麦迪逊的14岁男孩在美国威斯康星州的密尔沃基建立的。

这个微型小国在1995年11月有了第一个国家网站,它的国歌叫Stand Tall Talossans。目前它的国王叫乔治一世,拥有人口222。一群持不同政见者曾离开该国并于2004年创建了塔罗萨共和国,但2012年他们又回到了该国。

这个国家声称拥有广阔的野外领土——从密尔沃基的一部分延伸到法国一个无人居住的小岛,还包括南极的大部分。

Filettino  菲莱蒂诺

Filettino, a small village about 40 miles (70 km) east of Rome, Italy, with a population of 577, became an “independent state” in 2011, when the Italian government announced that all villages with under 1,000 inhabitants must merge with nearby ones, to save money.

菲莱蒂诺,一个距意大利罗马约40英里(70公里)的小村庄,拥有577人,在2011年意大利政府宣布所有人口少于1000人的村庄都必须与附近的村庄合并以节约开支的时候,这个村庄宣布成为“独立的国家”。

Republic of Kugelmugel  库格穆格尔共和国

The Republic of Kugelmugel, a spherical house in Vienna, Austria, was designed by Edwin Lipburger. The micronation declared independence 30 years ago after some arguments between the artist and Austrian authorities due to lack of building permits.

库格穆格尔共和国是一座由埃德温·李普伯格设计的位于奥地利维也纳的球形房子。30年前该设计师和奥地利政府之间因缺乏建筑许可等问题发生争执,于是宣布该微型小国独立。

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