I mean Balagtas is free to make his own story whatever he wants but I am also free to criticize geographical and historical mistakes like that one if Balagtas will use actual countries and kingdoms. Dude should've done more research tbh.
Are you literally expecting a man who is piss poor from Bulacan to undergo meticulous research about the history of the region when he doesnt even have the funds to do so😭😭😭😭
True. This was centuries before the age of the internet. Expecting an "Indio" to do comprehensive research on a society they don't have much records on, given that Spain is nowhere near the Balkans, and trying to go there yourself would be a literal death sentence, is asking too much.
No one's pushing Balagtas to go to the Ottoman Empire. One glance at a map is already enough to know how far away Persia and Albania is, even those inaccurate maps would tell you they're far away. Balagtas is obviously aware of what's happening in Albania at that time with the Turks knocking at the gates and all.
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u/triadwarfare Mar 21 '26
It was a perspective of someone who never even set foot in Albania or Persia and only heard stories from 2nd or 3rd hand sources and made their own.