One think that has always bugged me about the Harry Potter universe is the fact that Transsylvania has its own quidditch team, instead of there being a unified Romanian team. Today, at last (because what, do you imagine this is something I've spent significant brainpower on for the past fifteen years?!) I found an explanation. Basically, if Transsylvania's quidditch team has been inherited from the times of Habsburg monarchy, which also means that Wallachia has its own team as well. Jury's still out if Moldovan team also includes Ukrainian nationals from former Bessarabia, or if it's even called Moldovan and not Bessarabian. This would ALSO imply teams such as Dalmatian and Istrian instead of Croatian, separate teams for Morava and Silesia, and the existence of Slovak team being in question, as Slovakia did not exist even as a historical region before the creation of Czechoslovakia (although there were projects of delineating Slovak-majority parts of Hungary as a separate political entity as far back as 1792). In this essay on political geography of the Harry Potter universe I will-
