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1 Location

Borogravia is located Rimwards of Überwald, on the Disc's unnamed main continent. The capital city is PrinceMarmadukePiotrAlbertHansJosephBernhardtWillhelmsberg.

2 History

The recent history of Borogravia consists mainly of fighting wars with every other country in the area (most notably Zlobenia ), in the name of Nuggan. Borogravia is ruled by a Duke or Duchess.

3 Miscellaneuous facts

• The god of the country is or was Nuggan.
• At some point (see Thief of Time) Borogravia was noted for its chocolate. However, since Nugganism prohibits chocolate (as well as garlic, mushrooms, gingerGinger can refer to the following: Several plants originating from the East Indies. Ginger root, a cooking ingedient from the plant Zingiber officinale''. Ginger”, a pre-release codename for the Segway Human Transporter. A reddish-brown or yellowish-brown and nearly everything else), the chocolatiers have either stopped or left the country. At least one firm has found a home in Ankh-MorporkAnkh-Morpork is a fictional city-state which features in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels. As cities go, it is on the far side of corrupt and polluted, and is subject to outbreaks of comedic violence and brou-ha-ha on a fairly regular.
• Despite the way it sounds, 'Borograv' and its component sylables do not actually mean anything in either Serbian or Croatian.

4 Mentioned in:

• The Colour of MagicThe Colour of Magic is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the first of the Discworld series. It was published in 1983. It is also one of only five Discworld novels to be divided into chapters, the others being the 2004 book Going Postal, and the th (if a reference to the Borogravian language counts)
• Carpe JugulumCarpe Jugulum is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty third in the Discworld series. It was first published in 1998. In Carpe Jugulum Terry Pratchett pastiches the traditions of vampire literature, playing with the mythic archetypes and fe
• Thief of Time
• Night WatchNight Watch is the 29th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in 2002. The hero of the novel is Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. The cover illustration of the British edition, by Paul Kidby, is a parody of Rembr
• The Last HeroThe Last Hero is a short novel of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. It was published in 2001 in a larger format than the other Discworld novels and illustrated on every page by Paul Kidby. The Silver Horde, a group of aged barbarians introduced in
• Monstrous Regiment