Oh My Gosh Aedoc Is British - Blog Posts

The inhabitants of Kiersau Abbey (plus Amalie and Andreas) and, roughly (roughly), where they're originally from:

Aedoc - St. Ives (Cornwall, England)

Amalie - Völklingen (Saarland, Germany)

Andreas - Nuremberg (Bavaria, Germany)

Cecilia - Augsburg (Bavaria, Germany)

Ferenc - Pécs (Hungary)

Florian - Poznań (Poland)

Gernot - Munich (Bavaria, Germany)

Gertrude - Hof (Bavaria, Germany)

Guy - Dijon (Burgundy, France)

Illuminata - Perugia (Umbria, Italy)

Lijsbet - Utrecht (Netherlands)

Lukas - Fügen (Tyrol, Austria)

Margarete - Krimml (Salzburg, Austria)

Mathieu - Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Matilda - Kempten (Bavaria, Germany)

Piero - Verona (Veneto, Italy)

Rüdeger - Bad Tölz (Bavaria, Germany)

Sophie - Birgitz (Tyrol, Austria)

Volkbert - Mittenwald (Bavaria, Germany)

Wojslav - Plzeň [Pilsen] (Czechia)

Zdena - Tábor (South Bohemian region, Czechia)

(obviously these are modern national borders and names, not necessarily how these characters would have perceived themselves vis-à-vis ethnic and cultural and contemporaneous national background, etc etc)

Sebhat - Sadai, Ethiopia

Sadai is the only one of these cities/towns that no longer exists; it was destroyed in the 16th-century Ethiopian-Adal War.

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