/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10283164
Let's settle this for once and for all. Geographically speaking, Southern Europe is everything on the European continent that is located below the Alps. "European" is a diffrent term though. If we are talking in a sense of common culture and shared values, then a lot of countries that were historically under muslim-occupation are not European because they adapted a lot of oriental values over time and they even genetically intermixed with orientals. Spain used to be under muslim occupation at some point in the early middle ages, but the native population refused to submit and they managed to completely get rid off the invaders and all their influences. Then were are countries like Bosnia and Albania who were also under muslim rule for a long time under the Ottoman Empire. But other than Spain those countries submitted, intermixed with their occupants and even assimilated to their religion and customs and hold those values until today.