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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#2876) Consolidated nations class/legend and updates patch
From: "Eric S. Raymond via RT" <rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:27:47 -0800
Reply-to: rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Goes with Raimer's new selection dialogue, but will work fine with
clients that don't have that feature yet.  Tested.

Index: american.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/american.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 american.ruleset
--- american.ruleset    2003/01/12 18:04:07     1.7
+++ american.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:21:54
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("American")
 plural=_("?plural:Americans")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Formally named the United States of America.  Independent from \
+Great Britain after a revolution in 1776-1783 AD.")
 leader="George Washington",
        "John Adams",
        "Thomas Jefferson", 
Index: arab.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/arab.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 arab.ruleset
--- arab.ruleset        2001/12/11 16:16:43     1.3
+++ arab.ruleset        2003/01/22 05:21:56
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 name=_("Arab")
 plural=_("?plural:Arabs")
-leader="Mohammad", "Umar", "Harun al-Rashid", "Saladin"
-leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The Arab/Islamic civilization of 622AD-1495AD.")
+leader="Mohammad", "Umar", "Harun al-Rashid", "Saladin", 
+       "Al-Mansur", "Al-Hakim"
+leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag ="f.arab"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "Classical"
@@ -22,12 +25,16 @@
 wonder="Oracle"
 government="Monarchy"
 
-;Arab Peninsula and Near East
+; Arab Peninsula and Near East.  City names are mostly from the Ummayyad 
+; and Abbasid periods.  These are Arab spellings rather than Anglicized ones;
+; thus, Dimashq = Damascus, Al Qahira = Cairo, etc.
 
 cities =
-  "Mekka", "Medina", "Rijadh",  "Jidda", "Al Hufuf",
-  "Buraydah", "At Taif", "Sana", "Al Hudaydah", "Aden",
-  "Al Mukalla", "Taizz", "Masquat", "Abu Dhabi", "Dubai",
-  "Doha", "Al Manamah", "Ad Damman", "Kuwait", "Al-Jahrah",
-  "Amman", "Damascus", "Beyruth", "Hamah", "Aleppo", "Hums",
-  "Al Ayn"
+
+  "Makkah", "Al-Madinah", "Al-Rijadh", "Al-Qahira", "Baghdad",
+  "Timbuktu", "Sijilmasa", "Jidda", "Al-Hufuf", "Buraydah", "At Taif", 
+  "Sana'a", "Al-Hudaydah", "Al'Adan",
+  "Al-Mukalla", "Taizz", "Masquat", "Abu Zaby", "Dubayy",
+  "Ad-Dawhah", "Al-Manamah", "Ad-Damman", "Al-Kuwayt", "Al-Jahrah",
+  "Al-Amman", "Dimashq", "Bayrut", "Hamah", "Aleppo", "Hums",
+  "Al-Ayn", "Al-Basrah", "Khorramshar"
Index: argentine.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/argentine.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 argentine.ruleset
--- argentine.ruleset   2002/05/03 17:12:04     1.7
+++ argentine.ruleset   2003/01/22 05:21:57
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 name=_("Argentine")
 plural=_("?plural:Argentines")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Argentina is located on the south-eastern coast of South America.")
 leader="José de San Martín", "Juan Manuel de Rosas", "Justo Urquiza",
        "Bernardino Rivadavia", "Domingo Sarmiento", "Juan Domingo Perón",
        "Eva Duarte de Perón", "Carlos Saúl Menem"
Index: australian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/australian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 australian.ruleset
--- australian.ruleset  2002/04/30 12:52:55     1.5
+++ australian.ruleset  2003/01/22 05:21:59
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Australian")
 plural=_("?plural:Australians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Australia was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It is the \
+only country on earth to occupy an entire continent.")
 leader="Robert Menzies"
 leader_sex="Male"
 flag="f.australia"
Index: aztec.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/aztec.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 aztec.ruleset
--- aztec.ruleset       2002/11/18 19:46:25     1.4
+++ aztec.ruleset       2003/01/22 05:22:01
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 name=_("Aztec")
 plural=_("?plural:Aztecs")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The Azteca, a group of barbarians from the Sonoran desert, \
+seized control of the Toltec-derived civilizations of Central Mexico \
+during the 15th century AD, reviving the practice of human sacrifice.  \
+They were conquered by the Spanish under Cortez in 1524.")
 leader="Montezuma", "Cuahtemoc", "Itzcoatl", "Axayacatl"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.mexico"
Index: babylonian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/babylonian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 babylonian.ruleset
--- babylonian.ruleset  2002/12/17 22:40:57     1.5
+++ babylonian.ruleset  2003/01/22 05:22:02
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Babylonian")
 plural=_("?plural:Babylonians")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("Babylon was the dominant city of Mesopotamia from the 18th to \
+7th centuries BC under a succession of peoples including Amorites, \
+Kassites, Assyrians, and Chaldeans.")
 leader="Hammurabi", "Sargon", "Nebuchadnezzar", "Tiglath-Pileser"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag = "f.iraq_old"
Index: barbarian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/barbarian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 barbarian.ruleset
--- barbarian.ruleset   2002/12/17 22:40:57     1.5
+++ barbarian.ruleset   2003/01/22 05:22:04
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 name=_("Barbarian")
 plural=_("?plural:Barbarians")
-leader="Genseric", "Alaric", "Theodoric", "Stilicho", "Attila"
-leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
+leader="Genseric", "Alaric", "Theodoric", "Stilicho", "Attila", "Boadicea"
+leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Female"
 flag="f.barbarian"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "European"
Index: bavarian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/bavarian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 bavarian.ruleset
--- bavarian.ruleset    2001/12/11 16:16:43     1.3
+++ bavarian.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:22:05
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Bavarian")
 plural=_("?plural:Bavarians")
-leader = "Ludwig II", "Maximilian", "Joseph", "F.J.Strauss"
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("Bavaria, before national unification in 1870, was one of the \
+largest of the German kingdoms.") 
+leader = "Ludwig II", "Maximilian", "Joseph", "Franz-Joseph Strauss"
 leader_sex = "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.bavarian"
 flag_alt = "-"
Index: boer.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/boer.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 boer.ruleset
--- boer.ruleset        2002/04/30 12:52:55     1.5
+++ boer.ruleset        2003/01/22 05:22:07
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 name=_("Boer")
 plural=_("?plural:Boers")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The Boers were Dutch settlers in British-controlled South \
+Africa from 1650AD.  They briefly controlled two republics, the \
+Transvaal and the Orange Free State, before being defeated by the British \
+in the war of 1899-1902.")
 leader= "Jacobus Pretorius", "Louis Botha", "Wessel Pretorius",
        "Paulus Krüger", "Piet Retief", "Jan Smuts"
 leader_sex= "Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: brazilian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/brazilian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 brazilian.ruleset
--- brazilian.ruleset   2002/11/18 19:46:25     1.7
+++ brazilian.ruleset   2003/01/22 05:22:17
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Brazilian")
 plural=_("?plural:Brazilians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Brazil was founded as a colony of Portugal but became \
+independent in 1822. It is the only country in the New World that \
+has been the seat of a monarchy.")
 leader="Dom Pedro I", "Princesa Isabel", "Marechal Deodoro",
        "Tancredo Neves", "Juscelino Kubitscheck", "Getúlio Vargas"
 leader_sex="Male", "Female", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
Index: canadian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/canadian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 canadian.ruleset
--- canadian.ruleset    2002/04/30 12:52:55     1.4
+++ canadian.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:22:18
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Canadian")
 plural=_("?plural:Canadians")
-leader="Pierre Trudeau", "John A. MacDonald", "John Diefenbaker"
-leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Modern")
+leader="Pierre Trudeau", "John A. MacDonald", "John Diefenbaker", "Mackenzie 
King"
+leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.canada"
 flag_alt = "f.united_kingdom"
 city_style = "European"
Index: carthaginian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/carthaginian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 carthaginian.ruleset
--- carthaginian.ruleset        2001/12/11 16:16:43     1.3
+++ carthaginian.ruleset        2003/01/22 05:22:20
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Carthaginian")
 plural=_("?plural:Carthaginians")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The Carthaginians, descendendents of Phoenician traders, \
+ran a naval empire in the Mediterranean from the 5th to 2nd centuries \
+BC. Carthage was destroyed by Rome in 146BC.")
 leader="Hannibal", "Hasdrubal", "Hamilcar", "Dido"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Female"
 flag="f.tunisia"
Index: catalan.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/catalan.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 catalan.ruleset
--- catalan.ruleset     2002/05/03 17:12:04     1.7
+++ catalan.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:22:22
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Catalan")
 plural=_("?plural:Catalans")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("Catalunya (aka Catalonia in English) is the north-eastern-most \
+coastal region of Spain near the southern foot of the Pyrenees.")
 leader="Guifré el Pilós", "Ramon Berenguer IV", "Jaume I", "Pere II",
        "Lluis Companys", "Josep Tarradellas"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male",
@@ -28,6 +31,9 @@
 wonder="A.Smith's Trading Co."
 government="Republic"
 
+; This city list does not actually correspond to medieval Catalonia,
+; but rather to the "Països Catalans" of modern ethnolinguistic
+; nationalists.
 cities =
   "Barcelona", "Tarragona", "Lleida", "Girona", "Perpinyà", "Valencia",
   "Tolosa", "Ripoll", "Vic", "La Seu d'Urgell", "Cardona", "Tortosa",
Index: chilean.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/chilean.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 chilean.ruleset
--- chilean.ruleset     2002/06/12 07:54:32     1.9
+++ chilean.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:22:23
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 name=_("Chilean")
 plural=_("?plural:Chileans")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Chile is located on the south-western coast of South America.")
 leader="Pedro de Valdivia", "Bernardo O'Higgins", "José Miguel Carrera",
        "Manuel Blanco Encalada", "Diego Portales", "Manuel Montt",
        "Arturo Alessandri", "Augusto Pinochet"
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@
   "San Antonio", "La Calera (hills)", "Chillán", "Talcahuano", "Osorno",
   "Valdivia", "Puerto Varas (ocean)", "Llanquihue", "Ancud", "Castro",
   "Calama", "Arica", "Constitución", "Chañaral", "Cauquenes",
-  "Puente alto (river, hills)", "Talagante", "Melipilla", "Peumo",
+  "Puente Alto (river, hills)", "Talagante", "Melipilla", "Peumo",
   "Puerto Natales (ocean)", "Lota", "Ovalle", "Huasco", "Mejillones",
   "Victoria", "San Felipe", "Frutillar", "Illapel", "Angol",
   "San Fernando", "Toltén", "Curicó", "Pisagua", "Tocopilla",
Index: chinese.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/chinese.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 chinese.ruleset
--- chinese.ruleset     2002/11/18 19:46:25     1.4
+++ chinese.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:22:25
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@
 
 name=_("Chinese")
 plural=_("?plural:Chinese")
-leader="Mao", "Cixi", "Wu Zetian", "Li Shimin", "Liu Bang", "Qin Shihuang",
-       "Liu Bei", "Cao Cao", "Sun Quan"
-leader_sex="Male", "Female", "Female", "Male", "Male", "Male",
-           "Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("China has the largest population of any nation on earth.")
+leader="Mao Zedong", "Sun Yat-Sen", "Cixi", "Wu Zetian", "Li Shimin",
+       "Liu Bang", "Qin Shihuang", "Liu Bei", "Cao Cao", "Sun Quan",
+       "Jiang Qing"
+leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Female", "Female", "Male", "Male", "Male",
+           "Male", "Male", "Male", "Female"
 flag="f.china"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "Asian"
Index: cornish.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/cornish.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 cornish.ruleset
--- cornish.ruleset     2002/04/30 12:52:56     1.4
+++ cornish.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:22:27
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 name = _("Cornish")
 plural = _("?plural:Cornish")
-leader = "Arthur", "Jonathen Trelawny", "Thomas Flamank", "Michael Joseph"
-leader_sex = "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("Cornwall is a region in the extreme southwest of England, \
+traditionally the home of the legendary King Arthur.")
+leader = "Arthur", "Jonathen Trelawny", "Thomas Flamank", "Michael Joseph",
+       "William Bligh"
+leader_sex = "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag = "f.cornwall"
 flag_alt = "f.england"
 city_style = "European"
Index: croatian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/croatian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 croatian.ruleset
--- croatian.ruleset    2001/10/12 12:22:21     1.3
+++ croatian.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:22:28
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 name=_("Croatian")
 plural=_("?plural:Croatians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend="Croatia is the region of the Southern Slavs that was held by the \
+Austro-Hungarian Empire, rather than coming under Ottoman rule after the \
+collapse of Byzantium. During most of the 20th century it was part of the \
+Yugoslav Federation."
 leader="Ljudevit Posavski", "Borna", "Trpimir", "Domagoj", "Branimir",
        "Tomislav", "Stjepan Drzislav", "Petar Kresimir IV", "Zvonimir",
        "Nikola Subic Zrinski", "Matija Gubec", "Petar Zrinski",
Index: czech.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/czech.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 czech.ruleset
--- czech.ruleset       2001/12/11 16:16:43     1.3
+++ czech.ruleset       2003/01/22 05:22:30
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 
 name = _("Czech")
 plural = _("?plural:Czechs")
-
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Today's Czech Republic was until 1993 part of Czechoslovakia, \
+which had been until 1918 part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.")
 leader = "Jan Lucembursky", "Otakar II", "Karel IV", "Vaclav", "Jiri z 
Podebrad",
          "Jan Zizka", "Jan Hus", "Zavis z Falknstejna", "Libuse",
          "Kunhuta", "Alzbeta Pomoranska", "Eliska Premyslovna", "Anezka",
Index: danish.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/danish.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 danish.ruleset
--- danish.ruleset      2002/12/17 20:10:19     1.6
+++ danish.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:22:32
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Danish")
 plural=_("?plural:Danes")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("The founding of the Danish kingdom is generally assigned to the \
+reign of Harald Blåtand, who unified what is now Denmark between 958 and 
988.")
 leader=
   "Gudfred", "Gorm den Gamle", "Harald Blåtand", "Svend Tveskæg",
   "Knud den Store", "Hardeknud", "Svend", "Knud", "Valdemar",
Index: dunedain.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/dunedain.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 dunedain.ruleset
--- dunedain.ruleset    2002/11/18 19:46:25     1.6
+++ dunedain.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:22:33
@@ -6,8 +6,12 @@
 
 name=_("Dunedain")
 plural=_("?plural:Dunedan")
-leader="Elros", "Tar-Ancalimë", "Míriel", "Elendil", "Isildur", "Aragorn"
-leader_sex="Male", "Female", "Female", "Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Fictional")
+legend=_("The Men of the West from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth fantasies.")
+leader="Elros", "Tar-Ancalimë", "Míriel", "Elendil", "Isildur", "Aragorn",
+       "Tarannon Falastur", "Thorongil", "Ar-Pharazon", "Beruthiel"
+leader_sex="Male", "Female", "Female", "Male", "Male", "Male",
+       "Male", "Male", "Male", "Female"
 flag = "f.dunedain"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "Classical"
@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@
   "Armenelos", "Romenna", "Meneltarma (mountains)", "Andúnië",
   "Eldalondë (ocean)", "Nindamos", "Vinyalondë (ocean)", "Lond Daer (ocean)",
   "Emerië", "Hyarastorni", "Osgiliath", "Minas Anor", "Minas Ithil",
-  "Pelargir", "Erech (hills)", "Umbar", "Aglarond", "Angrenost", "Annúminas",
+  "Pelargir", "Erech (hills)", "Umbar", "Aglarond", "Annúminas",
   "Amon Sûl (hills)", "Fornost", "Ethring (river)", "Dol Amroth",
   "Edhellond (ocean)", "Linhir", "Calembel", "Tharbad", "Elostirion (hills)",
   "Isengard (hills)", "Belfalas", "Anórien", "Bree (hills)", "Staddle",
Index: dutch.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/dutch.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 dutch.ruleset
--- dutch.ruleset       2002/07/11 12:43:17     1.6
+++ dutch.ruleset       2003/01/22 05:22:38
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Dutch")
 plural=_("?plural:Dutch")
+class=_("Modern")
 leader="Willem", "Maurits", "Emma", "Wilhelmina", "Juliana", "Beatrix"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Female", "Female", "Female", "Female"
 flag="f.netherlands"
Index: egyptian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/egyptian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 egyptian.ruleset
--- egyptian.ruleset    2002/12/17 20:10:19     1.4
+++ egyptian.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:22:40
@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@
 
 name=_("Egyptian")
 plural=_("?plural:Egyptians")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("Egypt was the second-oldest of the world's civilizations.  Since \
+ancient times it has been unusually urbanized, supporting a large population \
+on silt deposited by the annual floodings of the Nile.")
 leader="Rameses", "Cleopatra", "Tutankhamun", "Narmer", "Thutmose",
-       "Hatshepsut", "Nefertiti", "Cheops"
+       "Hatshepsut", "Nefertiti", "Cheops", "Akhenaten"
 leader_sex="Male", "Female", "Male", "Male", "Male",
-        "Female", "Female", "Male"
+        "Female", "Female", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.egypt"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "Classical"
Index: english.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/english.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 english.ruleset
--- english.ruleset     2002/12/17 20:10:19     1.6
+++ english.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:22:41
@@ -2,10 +2,15 @@
 
 name=_("English")
 plural=_("?plural:English")
-leader="Elizabeth", "William the Conqueror", "Richard Lionheart", "Henry VIII",
-       "Oliver Cromwell", "Victoria", "Winston Churchill"
-leader_sex="Female", "Male", "Male", "Male",
-           "Male", "Female", "Male"
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("England was unified by Alfred the Great of Wessex in the late \
+9th century AD, only to be conquered by William of Normandy a century later, \
+in the last successful invasion of the country.")
+leader="Elizabeth", "Alfred of Wessex", "William the Conqueror", 
+       "Richard Lionheart", "Henry VIII", "Oliver Cromwell", 
+       "Victoria", "Winston Churchill", "John Lackland"
+leader_sex="Female", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male",
+           "Male", "Female", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.england"
 flag_alt = "f.united_kingdom"
 city_style = "European"
Index: estonian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/estonian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 estonian.ruleset
--- estonian.ruleset    2001/10/12 12:22:22     1.3
+++ estonian.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:22:43
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Estonian")
 plural=_("?plural:Estonians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Estonia is a small country on the south shore of the estern \
+Baltic Sea.  Its people and language are closely related to those of \
+Finland.")
 leader="Kalevipoeg", "Lembitu", "Carl Robert Jakobson", "Konstatin Päts",
   "Tunne Kelam", "Lennart Meri"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: filipino.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/filipino.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 filipino.ruleset
--- filipino.ruleset    2002/12/17 20:10:19     1.7
+++ filipino.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:22:45
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 name=_("Filipino")
 plural=_("?plural:Filipinos")
-leader="Ramon Magsagay","Jose Rizal", "Luis Taruc", "Sergio Osmena", 
"Ferdinand Marcos"
-leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("After centuries of Spanish rule, the Phillipines were ceded to the \
+Americans in 1898. They attained home rule in 1935 and independence in 1946.")
+leader="Ramon Magsagay","Jose Rizal", "Luis Taruc", "Sergio Osmena", 
+               "Ferdinand Marcos", "Imelda Marcos"
+leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Female"
 flag="f.philippines"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "Asian"
Index: finnish.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/finnish.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 finnish.ruleset
--- finnish.ruleset     2001/12/11 16:16:44     1.3
+++ finnish.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:22:47
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Finnish")
 plural=_("?plural:Finns")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Finland is a small, cold country on the northen fringe of Europe, \
+noted for exporting timber, cellular phones, and world-class operating \
+systems.")
 leader="Carl Gustav Mannerheim", "Urho Kekkonen", "Martti Ahtisaari",
        "Tarja Halonen", "Linus Torvalds"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: french.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/french.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 french.ruleset
--- french.ruleset      2002/12/17 22:40:57     1.6
+++ french.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:22:49
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("French")
 plural=_("?plural:French")
+class=_("Modern")
 leader="Napoleon", "Charlemagne", "Louis XIV", "Charles de Gaulle",
        "Vercingetorix", "Chlodwig", "Charles Martel"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
Index: german.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/german.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 german.ruleset
--- german.ruleset      2002/06/01 19:57:26     1.9
+++ german.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:22:50
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("German")
 plural=_("?plural:Germans")
+class=_("Modern")
 leader="Frederick", "Otto", "Wilhelm", "Bismarck", "Hitler",
   "Barbarossa", "Luther", "Müntzer"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: greek.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/greek.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 greek.ruleset
--- greek.ruleset       2002/12/17 22:40:57     1.6
+++ greek.ruleset       2003/01/22 05:22:52
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 name=_("Greek")
 plural=_("?plural:Greeks")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The ancient Greeks, between Mycenae and the Roman conquest.")
 leader="Alexander", "Perikles", "Leonidas", "Solon"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.greece"
Index: hungarian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/hungarian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 hungarian.ruleset
--- hungarian.ruleset   2002/05/03 16:30:22     1.4
+++ hungarian.ruleset   2003/01/22 05:22:54
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Hungarian")
 plural=_("?plural:Hungarians")
+class=_("Modern")
 leader="�rpád", "Szent István", "Károly Róbert",
        "Hunyadi Mátyás", "Mária Terézia", "Batthyány"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Female", "Male"
Index: inca.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/inca.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 inca.ruleset
--- inca.ruleset        2002/11/18 19:46:25     1.4
+++ inca.ruleset        2003/01/22 05:22:55
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 name=_("Inca")
 plural=_("?plural:Incas")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The Inca were an Amerind people of the Northern Andes who \
+conquered an empire stretching along the west coast of South America \
+from what is now southern Chile nearly to the Equator. They had the bad \
+timing to do it just a few decades before the Spanish conquistadores \
+arrived in their part of the world in the mid-1500s.")
 leader="Tupac", "Manco Capac", "Atahualpa", "Pachacuti"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.peru"
Index: indian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/indian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 indian.ruleset
--- indian.ruleset      2002/11/18 19:46:25     1.4
+++ indian.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:22:57
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 [nation_indian]
 
 name=_("Indian")
+class=_("Modern")
 plural=_("?plural:Indians")
-leader="Gandhi", "Ashoka", "Chandragupta", "Indhira Gandhi"
+leader="Gandhi", "Ashoka", "Chandragupta", "Indira Gandhi"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Female"
 flag="f.india"
 flag_alt = "-"
@@ -29,4 +30,5 @@
   "Colombo", "Madurai", "Coimbatore", "Calicut", "Trivandrum",
   "Nagpur", "Chittagong", "Multan", "Amritsar", "Srinagar",
   "Agra", "Bhopal", "Patna", "Surat", "Jaipur", "Varanasi",
-  "Allahabad", "Indore", "Mysore", "Raipur", "Gaya"
+  "Allahabad", "Indore", "Mysore", "Raipur", "Gaya", "Cawnpore",
+  "Poona (hills)"
Index: irish.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/irish.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 irish.ruleset
--- irish.ruleset       2002/12/17 20:10:19     1.5
+++ irish.ruleset       2003/01/22 05:22:59
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name = _("Irish")
 plural = _("?plural:Irish")
+class=_("Historical")
 leader = "Brian Boru", "Cuchulain", "Patrick", "Ollam Fodla", "Lugh"
 leader_sex = "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.ireland"
Index: israeli.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/israeli.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 israeli.ruleset
--- israeli.ruleset     2001/12/11 16:16:44     1.5
+++ israeli.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:23:00
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 name=_("Israeli")
 plural=_("?plural:Israelis")
-leader="Solomon", "David", "David Ben-Gurion", "Ze'ev Zabotinsky"
-leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("The nation of Israel was founded in 1948 as a scattered collection \
+of cantons in British Palestine, and has gradually expanded through winning \
+a series of wars launched against it in 1948, 1967 and 1973.")
+leader="Solomon", "David", "David Ben-Gurion", "Ze'ev Zabotinsky", "Golda Meir"
+leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Female"
 flag="f.israel"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "European"
Index: italian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/italian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 italian.ruleset
--- italian.ruleset     2001/10/12 12:22:23     1.3
+++ italian.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:23:02
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 name = _("Italian")
 plural = _("?plural:Italians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("The Italian nation was unified in 1870 after decades of \
+campaigning by indigenous nationalists. It was a monarchy under the \
+House of Savoy until 1922, then a fascist state until 1945 after which \
+democracy was restored by the WWII victors.")
 leader = "Giuseppe Garibaldi", "Giuseppe Mazzini", "Palmiro Togliatti",
          "Giacomo Matteotti"
 leader_sex = "Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: japanese.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/japanese.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 japanese.ruleset
--- japanese.ruleset    2002/11/18 19:46:25     1.4
+++ japanese.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:23:03
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Japanese")
 plural=_("?plural:Japanese")
+class=_("Modern")
 leader="Mutsuhito", "Jimmu Tenno", "Hirohito", "Tokugawa Ieyasu"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.japan"
Index: korean.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/korean.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 korean.ruleset
--- korean.ruleset      2002/11/18 19:46:26     1.4
+++ korean.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:23:06
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Korean")
 plural=_("?plural:Koreans")
+class=_("Modern")
 leader="T'aejong", "Kim Ir Sen", "Pak Dzonghyi", "Wang Gon"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.korea"
Index: latvian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/latvian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 latvian.ruleset
--- latvian.ruleset     2002/06/03 21:32:39     1.5
+++ latvian.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:23:08
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Latvian")
 plural=_("?plural:Latvians")
+class=_("Modern")
 leader="Karlis Ulmanis", "Guntis Ulmanis", 
   "Vaira Vike Freiberga", "Namejs"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", 
Index: lithuanian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/lithuanian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 lithuanian.ruleset
--- lithuanian.ruleset  2001/10/12 12:22:23     1.4
+++ lithuanian.ruleset  2003/01/22 05:23:10
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Lithuanian")
 plural=_("?plural:Lithuanians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Lithuania is a small country on the south coast of the Baltic \
+Sea, northeast of Poland.  Lithuanian is the most archaic and complex of \
+the northern Indo-European languages")
 leader="Gediminas", "Mindaugas", "Vytautas", "Antanas Smetona"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.lithuania"
Index: mongol.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/mongol.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 mongol.ruleset
--- mongol.ruleset      2002/11/18 19:46:26     1.4
+++ mongol.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:23:13
@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@
 
 name=_("Mongol")
 plural=_("?plural:Mongols")
-leader="Genghis", "Ogodei", "Timur", "Batu", "Tokhtamysh"
-leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("In the centuries after their unification by Genghis Khan, the \
+Mongols conquered the largest empire in human history, encompassing most \
+of the continent of Asia.  They became notorious for the utter ruthlessness \
+in warfare.")
+leader="Genghis", "Bortai", "Ogodei", "Bayan", "Timur", "Batu", "Tokhtamysh"
+leader_sex="Male", "Female", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.mongolia"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "Asian"
Index: mordor.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/mordor.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 mordor.ruleset
--- mordor.ruleset      2002/11/18 19:46:26     1.4
+++ mordor.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:23:15
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 name=_("Mordor")
 plural=_("?plural:Mordors")
-leader="Sauron", "Angmar", "Gorthaur"
-leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Fictional")
+legend=_("The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron, from J.R.R. Tolkien's \
+Middle Earth fantasies.")
+leader="Sauron", "Angmar", "Gorthaur", "Melkor"
+leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag = "f.mordor"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "Tropical"
@@ -27,5 +30,7 @@
   "Minas Morgul", "Cirith Ungol", "Moria", "Angmar", "Gorgoroth",
   "Morgai", "Nurn", "Khand", "Rhûn", "Harad", "Dagorlad", "Ephel Dúath",
   "Ered Lithui", "Emyn Muil", "Núrnen", "Poros", "Harnen", "Lugbúrz",
-  "Angband", "Carn Dûm", "Utumno", "Amon Amarth", "Uruk-hai", "Olog-hai",
-  "Azog", "Bolg", "Gorbag", "Shagrat", "Grishnákh", "Glamhoth"
+  "Angband", "Carn Dûm", "Utumno", "Amon Amarth",  "Thangorodrim", 
+  "Orthanc", "Angrenost", "Mount Fang", "Cirith Gorgor", "Moontower", 
+  "Hells of Iron", "Udûn", "Havens of Umbar", "Phurunargian", "Khand", 
+  "Rhûn", "Sammath Naur"
Index: persian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/persian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 persian.ruleset
--- persian.ruleset     2001/12/11 16:16:45     1.3
+++ persian.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:23:16
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Persian")
 plural=_("?plural:Persians")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The first Persan (Achmaenid) Empire lasted from 55BC-330BC; \
+the second (Sassanid) from 226AD-642AD.")
 leader="Cyrus", "Darius", "Xerxes", "Ardashir"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.iran"
@@ -30,5 +33,5 @@
   "Zadrakarta", "Herat", "Drapsaka", "Karmana", "Pura", ;modern cities
   "Teheran", "Isfahan", "Tabriz", "Hamadan", "Rasht",
   "Ahraz", "Shiraz", "Kerman", "Yazd", "Mashhad", "Zahedan",
-  "Bushehr", "Qazrin", "Lhasa", "Bulgar", "Hormuz", "Baghdad",
+  "Bushehr", "Qazrin", "Lhasa", "Bulgar", "Hormuz",
   "Esfahan", "Mosul"
Index: polish.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/polish.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 polish.ruleset
--- polish.ruleset      2002/07/10 13:38:32     1.10
+++ polish.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:23:18
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Polish")
 plural=_("?plural:Polish")
+class=_("Modern")
 leader="Mieszko I", "Wladyslaw Lokietek", "Kazimierz Wielki", "Jadwiga",
        "Wladyslaw Jagiello", "Stefan Batory", "Jan III Sobieski",
        "Stanislaw Poniatowski", "Kosciuszko", "Pilsudski"
Index: portuguese.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/portuguese.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 portuguese.ruleset
--- portuguese.ruleset  2002/05/03 17:00:45     1.4
+++ portuguese.ruleset  2003/01/22 05:23:20
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Portuguese")
 plural=_("?plural:Portuguese")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Portugal founded the first of the great mercantile empires \
+in the 1400s on the shipbuilding advances funded by Prince Henry the \
+Navigator.")
 leader="Afonso Henriques", "Afonso IV", "João II"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.portugal"
Index: roman.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/roman.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 roman.ruleset
--- roman.ruleset       2002/12/17 22:40:57     1.8
+++ roman.ruleset       2003/01/22 05:23:21
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Roman")
 plural=_("?plural:Romans")
+class=_("Historical")
 leader="Caesar", "Augustus", "Vespasian", "Nero", "Trajan", "Marcus Aurelius",
        "Tiberius", "Constantine",
        "Livia", "Messalina"
Index: russian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/russian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 russian.ruleset
--- russian.ruleset     2001/12/11 16:16:45     1.3
+++ russian.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:23:23
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Russian")
 plural=_("?plural:Russians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Russia originated as the Kievan Rus, territory seized during the \
+early medieval period by Vikings from what is now Sweden.")
 leader="Catherine II", "Ivan the Terrible", "Stalin", "Peter", "Anne"
 leader_sex="Female", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Female"
 flag="f.russia"
Index: scottish.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/scottish.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 scottish.ruleset
--- scottish.ruleset    2002/04/30 12:52:57     1.7
+++ scottish.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:23:25
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Scottish")
 plural=_("?plural:Scots")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Scotland was an independent kingdom before the Union of Crowns \
+with England in 1701.")
 leader="Henry McLeish", "Donald Dewar", "Charles", "James",
        "Robert the Bruce", "William Wallace", "Mary Stuart"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: serbian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/serbian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 serbian.ruleset
--- serbian.ruleset     2001/10/12 12:22:24     1.4
+++ serbian.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:23:26
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Serbian")
 plural=_("?plural:Serbians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Serbia is part of the region of the Southern Slavs that was \
+conquered by the Ottomans after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire.  \
+During most of the 20th century it was part of the Yugoslav Federation.")
 leader="Vlastimir", "Caslav", "Vojislav", "Mihailo", "Bodin", "Nemanja",
        "Stefan Prvovjencani", "Stefan Uros", "Milutin", "Dusan",
        "Karadorde Petrovic", "Milos Obrenovic", "Aleksandar Petrovic",
Index: silesian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/silesian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 silesian.ruleset
--- silesian.ruleset    2003/01/10 10:03:39     1.4
+++ silesian.ruleset    2003/01/22 05:23:28
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Silesian")
 plural=_("?plural:Silesians")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("Silesia is a region of southern Poland that was at one time an \
+independent kingdom.")
 leader="Wladislaw the Exile", "Henryk the Godfearing"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male"
 flag="f.silesia"
Index: singaporean.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/singaporean.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 singaporean.ruleset
--- singaporean.ruleset 2002/11/18 19:46:26     1.5
+++ singaporean.ruleset 2003/01/22 05:23:30
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
 
 name=_("Singaporean")
 plural=_("?plural:Singaporeans")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Singapore is a mercantile city-state located at the southernmost \
+tip of the Malaysian Peninsula")
 leader="Tengku Long", "Stamford Raffles", "W.A. Pickering", "Ong Teng Cheong",
   "S.R. Nathan", "Lee Kuan Yew", "Yusof bin Ishak", "Ah Beng", "Ah Lian"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: sioux.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/sioux.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 sioux.ruleset
--- sioux.ruleset       2002/04/30 12:52:57     1.4
+++ sioux.ruleset       2003/01/22 05:23:32
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Sioux")
 plural=_("?plural:Sioux")
+class=_("Historical")
 leader="Sitting Bull", "Crazy Horse", "Little Crow", "Red Cloud"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.cheyenne"
Index: slovenian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/slovenian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 slovenian.ruleset
--- slovenian.ruleset   2001/10/12 12:22:24     1.3
+++ slovenian.ruleset   2003/01/22 05:23:33
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Slovenian")
 plural=_("?plural:Slovenians")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Slovenia was the most western and northern republic of the old \
+Yugoslav Federation.")
 leader="Valuka", "Valtunk", "Kocelj", "Primoz Trubar"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.slovenia"
Index: spanish.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/spanish.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 spanish.ruleset
--- spanish.ruleset     2002/05/03 17:12:04     1.4
+++ spanish.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:23:35
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 name=_("Spanish")
 plural=_("?plural:Spanish")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("The modern Spanish nation was formed when the rulers of the \
+kingdoms of Castille and Aragon led the recapture of the Iberian peninsula \
+from the Moslems.  The Reconquista was completed in 1492, the same year \
+Columbus sailed.")
 leader="Viriato", "Recaredo I", "Alfonso X", "Fernando V", "Isabel I",
        "Carlos I", "Felipe II", "Carlos III", "Franco", "Mortadelo"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Female",
Index: swedish.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/swedish.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 swedish.ruleset
--- swedish.ruleset     2002/07/09 11:27:32     1.9
+++ swedish.ruleset     2003/01/22 05:23:37
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Swedish")
 plural=_("?plural:Swedes")
+class=_("Modern")
 
 leader=
   "Erik Segergäll", "Olof Skötkonung", "Gustav Vasa", "Erik", "Karl",
Index: thai.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/thai.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 thai.ruleset
--- thai.ruleset        2002/11/18 19:46:26     1.5
+++ thai.ruleset        2003/01/22 05:23:39
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Thai")
 plural=_("?plural:Thai")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("The Thai kingdom was the only country in Southeast Asia to \
+preserve its independence throught the colonial era of the 18th and \
+19th centuries.")
 leader = "Rama Thibodi", "Chao Phya Chakri", "Maha Mongkut", "Chulalongkorn",
          "Pibul Songgram", "Seni Pramoya"
 leader_sex = "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: turk.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/turk.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 turk.ruleset
--- turk.ruleset        2002/06/20 15:26:11     1.4
+++ turk.ruleset        2003/01/22 05:23:40
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 name=_("Turk")
 plural=_("?plural:Turks")
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("Modern Turkey is the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, which \
+collapsed and was dismembered by the victors in World War I after backing \
+the Central Powers.  The country was subsequently reformed and secularized \
+by Kemal Mustapha, the hero of the defense of Gallipoli.")
 leader="Kemal Atatürk", "Süleyman", "Osman", "Murat",
        "Selim", "Mehmet"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male",
Index: ukrainian.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/ukrainian.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 ukrainian.ruleset
--- ukrainian.ruleset   2001/12/11 16:16:45     1.3
+++ ukrainian.ruleset   2003/01/22 05:23:42
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 
 name=_("Ukrainian")
 plural=_("?plural:Ukrainians")
-leader="Khmelnistkyi","Petlura"
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("The Ukraine is a vast region on the westernmost marches of the \
+former Soviet Union. It includes some of the most fertile black-soil \
+cropland on Earth.")
+leader="Bohdan Khmelnitskyi","Simon Petlura"
 leader_sex="Male","Male"
 flag="f.ukraine"
 flag_alt = "-"
Index: vietnamese.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/vietnamese.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 vietnamese.ruleset
--- vietnamese.ruleset  2002/11/18 19:46:26     1.4
+++ vietnamese.ruleset  2003/01/22 05:23:43
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 
 name=_("Vietnamese")
 plural=_("?plural:Vietnamese")
-leader="Ly Bon", "Gia Long", "Bao Dai", "Ho Chi Minh", "Ngo Ding Diem"
-leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
+class=_("Modern")
+legend=_("The Vietnamese nation was founded in the first century AD by \
+twin sisters who became the war leaders of a revolt against a Chinese \
+military governor.")
+leader="Trung Trac", "Trung Nhi", "Ly Bon", "Gia Long", "Bao Dai", "Ho Chi 
Minh", "Ngo Ding Diem"
+leader_sex="Female","Female", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.vietnam"
 flag_alt = "-"
 city_style = "Asian"
Index: viking.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/viking.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 viking.ruleset
--- viking.ruleset      2002/12/17 20:10:19     1.4
+++ viking.ruleset      2003/01/22 05:23:45
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 name=_("Viking")
 plural=_("?plural:Vikings")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The Vikings raided and traded along the coasts of Europe \
+between 800 and 1100. Viking raids eventually became the rulers of \
+Normandy, Russia, and a short-lived kingdom in Sicily.")
 leader="Erik Blodøks", "Harald Hårfagre", "Hrolf Gangr", "Rollo",
        "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "Haakon VII", "Aud Ivarsdottr"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", 
@@ -26,6 +30,7 @@
 
 ;Norwegian (and Icelandic) names.
 ;Norwegian places listed up in the order it struck my mind.
+;Thorshavn and Hedeby (Haithabu) were Viking cities in the premodern period.
 
 cities =
  "Oslo", "Bergen", "Kaupang", "Stavanger", "Nidaros", "Narvik", "Tromsø",
@@ -36,7 +41,7 @@
  "Lillehammer", "Lillestrøm", "Strømmen", "Fredrikborg", "Halden", "Karmøy",
  "Kragerø", "Fauske", "Bodø", "Andenes", "Stokkmarknes", "Svolvær",
  "Sortland", "Moss", "Honningsvåg", "Hammerfest", "�s", "Os", "Tynset",
- "Longyearbyen", "Mandal",
+ "Longyearbyen", "Mandal"
 
 ; Eg skal ikkje gløyme kvelden, det var ein augustikveld,
 ; VÃ¥rherre heldt fest for folket i Fjaler prestegjeld,
@@ -47,4 +52,3 @@
 ; added to Freeciv by Gaute Strokkenes RCNUWC 96-98
 ; for sentimental reasons.
 
- "Fjaler"
Index: welsh.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/welsh.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 welsh.ruleset
--- welsh.ruleset       2002/04/30 12:52:57     1.4
+++ welsh.ruleset       2003/01/22 05:23:47
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 name=_("Welsh")
 plural=_("?plural:Welsh")
+class=_("Historical")
+legend=_("The Welsh at one time controlled all of what is now England \
+until being driven into the mountainous western reaches by invading Saxons.")
 leader="Llywelyn ap Gruffudd", "Hywel Dda", "Owain Glyndwr"
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male"
 flag="f.wales"
Index: zulu.ruleset
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/freeciv/CVS/freeciv/data/nation/zulu.ruleset,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 zulu.ruleset
--- zulu.ruleset        2002/12/20 12:28:06     1.7
+++ zulu.ruleset        2003/01/22 05:23:49
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 name=_("Zulu")
 plural=_("?plural:Zulus")
+class=_("Historical")
 ; /*
 ; According to <http://www.anglo.50megs.com/zulu_kings.htm>, this is the
 ; complete Zulu king list.  It's in regnal order, except that Utshaka
@@ -12,6 +13,9 @@
        "Unkosinkulu", "Umageba",  "Upunga", "Undaba", "Ujama", 
        "Usenzangakona", "Udingana", "Umpande", "Ucetywayo", "Udinuzulu", 
        "Usolomona"
+legend=_("The Zulus are a warlike Bantu people who migrated from \
+west-central Africa into southern Africa beginning in the early 1700s, \
+conquering the native Khoisan peoples and clashing with European settlers.")
 leader_sex="Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", 
            "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", 
            "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", "Male", 

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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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