Syldavia ( Cyrillic: Зилдaвиa ) is a fictional Balkan kingdom featured in The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé.

Syldavia is a monarchy, ruled at the time of the King Ottokar's Sceptre story by King Muskar XII.

The population of Syldavia is 642, 000 with 122, 000 living in Klow, suggesting the country is similar in size to Montenegro.

The exact location of Syldavia is not given in the comics, and nothing more is known than that it is located in Balkan peninsula, bordering another fictional country Borduria, and that it has an access to the sea.

Syldavia has a small coastline and two known towns on it: Douma, the seaplane service harbour, and Dbrnouk, whose name might be inspired by Croatian city of Dubrovnik, although the fisherman on the brochure's photo, described as its inhabitant, is certainly Muslim typical for south Montenegrin ( Ulcinj ) and Albanian coast.

However, the king is noticeably absent from the other stories set in Syldavia such as the launch of the moon rocket.

The Sprodj Atomic Research Centre, seen in Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon is located in Syldavia.

The sprawling complex is located in the Zymylpathian Mountains of Syldavia ( a play on the Carpathian Mountains ), located close to rich deposits of uranium.

The capital of Syldavia is Klow.

* Painting and narcotics ; at the Sondenesian embassy ( see Flight 714 ) a grand soirée is held, which is attended by ambassadors for Saboulistan, San Theodoros, Borduria, and Syldavia.

It is located in the Balkans and has a rivalry with the fictional neighbouring country of Syldavia.

Despite the fact that Hergé was in favor of the neutrality of Belgium, King Ottokar's Sceptre ( 1938 – 1939 ) could be read as anti-Nazi: Müsstler ( a possible contraction of Mussolini and Hitler ) is the leader of a conspiracy that seeks to merge the kingdom of Syldavia with its old enemy Borduria.

The modern Syldavia was formed in 1127 when a tribal chief called Hveghi drove away Turkish conquerors defeated at the battle of Zileheroum and took the name Muskar ruling until 1168.

Quarterly, first and fourth Or a pelican displayed sable, second and third gules two increscents in fess argent ; for a crest, on a barred helmet affronty or, mantled azure doubled Or, the Royal Crown of Syldavia proper ; behind the shield the Royal Sceptre of Syldavia and a sceptre of justice in saltire ; the motto " Eih bennek, eih blavek " on a scroll below the shield, pendent therefrom the badge of the Order of the Golden Pelican.

In 1939 Syldavia was nearly invaded by its neighbor Borduria, part of it was a plot to oust King Muskar XII.

In King Ottokar's Sceptre, Tintin reads a Syldavian tourist pamphlet that reveals the early history of Syldavia and its relationship with Borduria.

In 1195, Borduria annexed neighbouring Syldavia due to the weakness of King Muskar II, and was under its rule until 1275, when Baron Almaszout drove the Bordurians away and established himself as King Ottokar I.

Medieval kings of Syldavia have similarities with many Balkan rulers of Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia etc.

Tintin stories with Syldavia:

In the later Tintin stories, this ancient rivalry continues with the Bordurians continually trying to invade or undermine Syldavia.

King Ottokar's Sceptre ( written in 1939 by Hergé ) depicts an unsuccessful Bordurian attempt at staging a coup d ' état against Syldavia, trying to remove the king, and invading the country with the support from Bordurian sympathizers within Syldavia.

There are various inspirations for Syldavia.

According to a brochure read by Tintin on his plane, Syldavia gained independence from Ottoman empire early, resembling Montenegro and Serbia.

The region of Syldavia was inhabited by nomadic tribes of unknown origin until 6th century, when it was overrun by Slavs.

The King then said the motto and decreed that the ruler of Syldavia must have hold on the sceptre, otherwise he would lose his authority, as it had saved his life.

Syldavia has an extensive military, ranging from anti-aircraft guns to radar stations.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.