Map Thread IX

[Future8]

Well, I'm probably never going to complete this, so here it is.

The attached is a map in a world where Queen Isabella marries the Portuguese guy instead, so Aragon stays independent in a way that Portugal does in OTL. They eventually become explorers just like the Portuguese in OTL. However, since they don't have a coast with the Atlantic Ocean, they make a deal with the Moroccans for a thin strip of land going through North Africa that allows them to get to the Atlantic Ocean. This map was originally going to detail that strip of land, with forts, oases, cities, and other stuff, but I just got bored.

[Nilats]

Originally Posted by Future8

Well, I'm probably never going to complete this, so here it is.

The attached is a map in a world where Queen Isabella marries the Portuguese guy instead, so Aragon stays independent in a way that Portugal does in OTL. They eventually become explorers just like the Portuguese in OTL. However, since they don't have a coast with the Atlantic Ocean, they make a deal with the Moroccans for a thin strip of land going through North Africa that allows them to get to the Atlantic Ocean. This map was originally going to detail that strip of land, with forts, oases, cities, and other stuff, but I just got bored.

I could see them allowing them to build a highway on which they would have use to but splitting their nation in half??? Never. Why not just buy a port on the atlantic?

[Xhavnak]

Originally Posted by Future8

SNIP

Interesting idea but I imagine the Aragonese are going to be majorly paranoid about Moroccan politics and their land. Probably end messily if it was ever tried.

[Falastur]

Originally Posted by Xhavnak

Interesting idea but I imagine the Aragonese are going to be majorly paranoid about Moroccan politics and their land. Probably end messily if it was ever tried.

I would imagine that - given Nilats mentions a string of forts protecting the strip - that the Moroccans will get majorly paranoid about Aragonese politics and their land...

[Nilats]

Federation of Southern Germany

[Nietzsche]

Originally Posted by Nilats

Federation of Southern Germany

Ehhhhhhhh. Depending on when your PoD is, I don't see Protestant Saxony locking arms with the Catholic south.

[Nilats]

Originally Posted by Nietzsche

Ehhhhhhhh. Depending on when your PoD is, I don't see Protestant Saxony locking arms with the Catholic south.

That was a last minute addition maybe you are right.

[Zuvarq]

700 CE mapgame in 1089 CE.

Much of it may seem ASB but (most of) it isn't once you know the chain of events that led to it.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by Simreeve

Okay, here's an 'Empire-only' version of my map: Sorry about the large amount of blank space where the rest of the more-detailed version's key was, but I can't edit taht out on this computer...

Hooray for Super Missouri!

[Future8]

Originally Posted by Nilats

I could see them allowing them to build a highway on which they would have use to but splitting their nation in half??? Never. Why not just buy a port on the atlantic?

I suppose it would be more like a highway. The Moroccans would cross the strip of land freely. They just won't build cities and stuff on it.

A port, huh? Why do I never think of the simplest things?

Originally Posted by Xhavnak

Interesting idea but I imagine the Aragonese are going to be majorly paranoid about Moroccan politics and their land. Probably end messily if it was ever tried.

Yeah, probably.

[Nilats]

Originally Posted by Future8

A port, huh? Why do I never think of the simplest things?

In all honesty they don't really need a port. Why can't a ship just travel through Gibraltar?

[Zuvarq]

Originally Posted by Nilats

In all honesty they don't really need a port. Why can't a ship just travel through Gibraltar?

Gigantic Andalusian Sharks.

[Future8]

Originally Posted by Nilats

In all honesty they don't really need a port. Why can't a ship just travel through Gibraltar?

Because I wanted Aragon to be enemies with Spain, (friends with England, maybe even Protestant,) so Spain won't let them use Gibraltar.

[Zuvarq]

Originally Posted by Future8

Because I wanted Aragon to be enemies with Spain, (friends with England, maybe even Protestant,) so Spain won't let them use Gibraltar.

Why not just sail along the Moroccan coast then?

Or make a canal connecting two of the rivers in Morocco?

[Nilats]

Originally Posted by Falastur

I would imagine that - given Nilats mentions a string of forts protecting the strip - that the Moroccans will get majorly paranoid about Aragonese politics and their land...

I never said anything about forts.

Originally Posted by Future8

Because I wanted Aragon to be enemies with Spain, (friends with England, maybe even Protestant,) so Spain won't let them use Gibraltar.

Ceuta to Tangiers

[TurkishCapybara]

Originally Posted by Nilats

Ceuta to Tangiers

They could just ally with the Moroccans against the Spainugese, with the Aragonese have rights to access Moroccan Ports.

[Rosenheim]

This is my first foray into map-making both in Inkscape and on the forums, for a planned Crusader Kings II AAR.

The focus is on both the Republic of Venice and the County of Treviso:



Are there any easily spotted mistakes to fix or improvements to make?

[deathgod]

Originally Posted by Rosenheim

This is my first foray into map-making, for a planned Crusader Kings II AAR.

The focus is on both the Republic of Venice and the County of Treviso:



Are there any easily spotted mistakes to fix or improvements that to make?

If you're using modern Italian, it should be Serenissima Repubblica Veneziana, I think.

[Rosenheim]

I think it actually would be Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, but I'm using Venetian.

[Klisz]

Originally Posted by deathgod

If you're using modern Italian, it should be Serenissima Repubblica Veneziana, I think.

Originally Posted by Rosenheim

I think it actually would be Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, but I'm using Venetian.

I'm no expert on Italian but I think either are acceptable - the former uses an adjective, the latter a genitival phrase. (In English they'd be translated, resepctively, "Most Serene Venetian Republic" and "Most Serene Republic of Venice".)