Earth-Fred maps and flags

This is a thread in which I'll be collecting together the maps and flags that I've already posted elsewhere in these forums for my 'Wider Still, And Wider' TL (https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=243080&highlight=Dettingen) -- the actual writing of which has been put on hold due to a combination of RL presures and my realising how much more research I need to do -- as well as new maps and flags for that setting.

I've made some changes to previously-posted maps (at leats to those for the world in 1903, the world in 1913, and Africa showing changes 1903 to 1913). Points that some of you might notice are _

1. There's a Spanish colony, centred on Oran, in the NE of [OTL] Algeria
(and northern Morocco extends slightly further east than in OTL, too.)

2. Zanzibar is still united with Muscat/Oman.

3. NE New Guinea & the adjacent 'Metternich Archipelago' (OTL 'Bismark Archipelago') are Austrian, not German.

4. In the 1903 world map the Russian empire includes an Armenian "princely state" whose territories extend into OTL Turkey.

Situation before the 'Great War' of 1905-'12.

Here’s another copy of the world-map for my ‘Wider Still, And Wider’ (or ‘Earth Fred’) TL as of somewhere around mid-summer in 1903ASD, this time with some locations marked by numbers and with a key explaining these posted next. It depicts a world that is temporarily, although of course only too temporarily, at peace… Well, more or less so, anyway… There are some relatively minor ‘colonial’ conflicts going on here and there, in cases where for one reason or another the locals are being reluctant to accept “the benefits of civilised rule”, but northern Mexico and the Laotian client-states that France recently took from Siam are the only two areas in which the fighting is currently extensive enough to seem worth showing on this map. The previous [un-annotated] version of this map is at https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?p=7944493&highlight=Danzig#post7944493.

Some notes

The city-state of Danzig is a member of the German League in its own right, and has been one since 1813, although it was occupied by Prussian forces during the Great War. Both ITTL and IOTL it was annexed by Prussia at the First Partition of Poland, having been self-governing under Polish rule until then, and apparently IOTL at the Congress of Vienna it actually asked for a return to that status instead of continued Prussian rule: It made the same request ITTL, and as the Prussians had spent too much of the preceding ‘Jean-Charlesian Wars’ allied to France to have as much credit with the Congress as their IOTL counterparts this ‘League City’ status (as also held by, e.g., Frankfurt-am-Main, Hamburg, or Nuremberg) was considered the best solution instead.

Italy owns all of Valais, and Ticino, instead of those being Swiss, but Switzerland has both Mulhausen (with the Sundgau) and Konstanz -- both of which it lacks IOTL -- instead. This has been the cvase since 1813.

The eastern border of the United Netherlands is slightly further east than the OTL Dutch border [and has been since 1813].

Roussillon belongs to Spain rather than France [and has done so since 1813].

The Habsburgs managed to keep the southern end of Bukovina as a part of Hungary when they lost that dukedom’s northern end [along with eastern Galicia] to Russia in 1843 as the price for Russian aid in suppressing rebellions elsewhere.)

There is a distinct & separate ‘imperial canton’ [in 1903] or ‘province’ [1913] in the ‘Eastern Cape’ area of South Africa.

Some of the boundaries between the political divisions in ‘Terrae Australis’ are a bit less convergent on those of OTL than was previously indicated. (Also, although the cantons & colonies there weren’t organised into a Kingdom until a point somewhere in between the dates for these two maps and so the fact wouldn’t be obvious from looking at the 1903 picture, ‘Maori-Land’ chooses to remain outside of that federation until after the situation shown by my corrected version of the 1913 map.)

Key to the numbers on the above map

1903. The world is, more or less, at peace… Well, the bits of it that “civilised” people bother about are, anyway. The British Empire is unquestionably the leading power, by a long margin, but… Has it been relying too much on everybody knowing that it’s #1, and too little on making & keeping friends? How will the widespread belief amongst the Americans that they now deserve an even greater say in the Empire’s management (and perhaps even to have the role of Imperial Capital transferred to one of their cities) be handled? Are its armed forces really strong enough to cope if a high proportion of the various situations in which present tensions seem potential threats the Pax Britannica were to erupt in quick succession to one another?


1/ Great Britain: This country is the centre of the British Empire, of course, but would still have to be considered one of the world’s leading powers even if none of Her Majesty’s other seven kingdoms existed at all. Prosperous on the whole, and rather smug… but the working class isn’t seeing as many benefits as “their betters” and is getting a bit noisy about this.
2/ Spain: The most recent amongst Europe’s nations to have lost a war against the British Empire (1871-’72, when the military junta that was then in control pushed a dispute over some “executed” British and American sailors too far and the Empire — in a bellicose mod itself at the time — responded by ‘liberating’ the Philippines and seizing most of Spain’s remaining colonies as ‘reparations’…), and still unhappy about Britain’s longer-term control of both Gibraltar and the Balearic Islands. Its government is getting rather close to that of France, despite what happened last time around…
3/ France: It seems that being probably the most powerful nation on Earth outside of the British Empire might not be enough for their current [‘Boucherist’] government, which is making noises about being entitled to a greater place in the sun and — slightly more quietly — gathering allies… but surely they aren’t going to be so stupid as to start another ‘world war’?!?
4/ Germany and Prussia: The states and people of the League have elected Queen Augusta of Hanover (i.e. Queen Augusta of Great Britain, [etc], the Head of the British Commonwealth-and-Empire) as their ‘Reich-Protector’ (i.e. constitutional head of state). The current King of Prussia, whose father was her main rival in that election, is grumpy about this and has had his ministers working to reduce the League’s importance within his lands. A drive for colonies so that Prussia will be seen as a world power, even though it “came late to the table” and has mainly had to settle for areas that nobody else wanted much, a ship-buying programme so that it can “protect its colonial trade”: Sometimes it looks as though he’s deliberately trying to provoke the British…
5/ The Habsburg Lands: Reorganised into three kingdoms (namely Austria, Hungary-Croatia, and ‘the Lands of the Crown of St Wenceslaus’ [i.e. Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and the Habsburg-owned section of Lusatia]), each of which has its own parliament although the monarchs — with the Emperor of Austria as “first among equals” for these — retain significant levels of power too. Slightly more stable than their OTL counterparts. They were traditionally allied with [and subsidised by] the British Empire in the event of European wars that affected both powers, but are feeling a bit “neglected” nowadays… and are involved in an argument with Italy, another long-term ally of the British, into the bargain.
6/ The Ottoman Empire: Crete has been placed under “international” administration following a widespread rebellion, which the British & their allies wouldn’t let the Turks ship massive reinforcements in to crush, there; Cyprus is technically “leased” by Britain as a base from which to counter potential Russian aggression against the Turks. Neither fact is appreciated by the current Ottoman government, which is trying to introduce modernising reforms (without making political concessions) and would prefer to be running all of its territories for itself.
7/ Finland: Unhappy about recent attempts at russification.
8/ Poland: Unhappy about attempts at russification in the Russia-owned ‘Principality of Poland’, and about foreign rule in general. The Habsburgs have hinted quietly that they might consider turning their share into a separate (but still “allied”) kingdom, which has actually increased rather than decreased the levels of public unrest across the entire land and has consequently irritated the governments of both Russia and of Prussia. Might yet another rebellion here be the flashpoint that triggers the next major war?
9/ Russia: Tsar Ivan VIII had successfully reclaimed all of the powers that his grandfather had ceded to a ‘duma’ [i.e. parliament], limited in scope though that body was anyway, but Russian armed forces’ recent defeat at the hands of the Japanese ( *<Shock!>* *< Horror!>* ) has led some people to question — amongst themselves — whether having an all-powerful monarch is really a good idea in these modern times after all. Still, there’s always a place for any such doubters… a place in the depths of Siberia, that is.
* In the meanwhile, France and [to a lesser extent] Prussia are helping Ivan to develop some parts of his country. British Imperial intelligence services would really like to be able to get a better idea of just what is being built in some of those places… (This is not a ‘steampunk’ TL; and tThis is not going to become a ‘steampunk’ TL…. but the Axis must have SOMETHING that they think will let them get an invasion force safely past the British Empire’s navies and across the Channel…)
10/ Sebastopol: One thing that has Ivan and most of his subjects agreeing with each other, however, is that the British Empire really shouldn’t have retained this stronghold as a “leased” ‘treaty port’ after the Crimean War. To be honest, there are people in Britain now who would agree in private that doing so was “tactless” at best and probably unnecessary too, but even most of them strongly dislike the idea the loss of face that would be involved if Britain gave in to his [rather blunt] demands on the subject.
11/ Manchuria: Russia and Japan vie for influence in what is not only a part of China but the actual ancestral homeland of the latter empire’s ruling Qing dynasty into the bargain.
12/ The Ottoman Empire (again): The current government’s attempts at modernisation seem to place more stress on centralising administration and more thorough tax-collection than on improving things for the provincials, at least as far as most provincials can see.
13/ Persia: Penned in between three other empires, at least two of whom are — reluctant though the Persians themselves might be to acknowledge this — significantly stronger than them. Unhappy.
14/ Afghanistan: King Mohammed Amnaullah died last year, “of natural causes” (because for a leader in that part of the world, getting stabbed during a public audience still is a “natural” cause of death…). Two of his sons and one of his cousins are now “arguing” about who will succeed him on the throne. The petty vassal-kingdom of Dardistan (or, as most outsiders still call it, ‘Kafiristan’) continues to go it own way, under its half-British king. And, of course, various other tribes up in the highlands are largely going on in their own ways — which in some cases involve raiding across what are supposed to be international borders — as well.
15/ India: Nationalist pressure is rising. Will they be offered ‘Kingdom’ status within the Empire? Will they accept this as enough? Are the nationalists actually unified enough in their views for their actions & reactions to be predicted accurately?
6/ Thibet: This country is a mystery wrapped within an enigma, or maybe contrariwise. Its government disagrees with China about where their border should lie, and is quite politely outright
17/ China: Various defeats by European powers, with the loss of some ports and and forced opening-up to foreign influences as results. Defeat by Russia. Defeat by Japan. Defeat by Russia, again. Has the Qing dynasty lost “the Mandate of Heaven”… and, if so, then who will take their place?
18/ Japan: They’ve beaten China, they’ve beaten Russia, but which way will they turn next?
19/ Arabia: Saud, the Emir of Nejd, has managed to unite many of the peninsula’s tribes behind his banner and the Wahabbi creed... and the promise of loot.
20/ Siam: Unhappy about having had its Laotian vassal-states taken under French “protection”, it now finds Britain expressing interest about some of its Malay vassals as well.
21/ South China Sea: Lots of little islands, several conflicting claims…
22/ The Philippines: Currently a protectorate within the British Empire, but with a high level of internal self-rule in most matters. Some of the local leaders are angling for ‘Imperial Canton’ status.
23/ Lord Mulgrove’s Range: Prussia bought these islands from Spain shortly after the latter nation had just lost the Philippines and various other islands to the British. Their location isn’t quite enough to make Prussia “an empire on which the sun never sets”, whatever the King of Prussia likes to think.
(This name was actually suggested for those islands by Captain Marshall, their “discoverer”, after whom they are named instead IOTL.)
24/ Terrae Australis: the British Empire’s colonies and cantons out here have started talking to each other about the possibility of forming a federation.
25/ Hawaii: Although this kingdom is still run by its native monarchy, under the British Empire’s protection & guidance, settlers from outside the islands are becoming increasingly influential there. The empire’s navies have a base, although so far only a fairly minor one, at Port Cook (OTL = Pearl Harbour).
26/ France controls the Tuamotu Archipelago outright, but shares control over…
27/…the Gambier Islands with Italy (as a ‘condominium’), and…
28/ …the Society Islands with the British Empire (ditto).
29/Easter Island was taken under the Empire’s protection shortly after a raid by ‘blackbirders’, who sold many of the natives to Peruvian mining businesses, in 1861. Peru was “persuaded” to return the captives, but smallpox came with them and the population is still lower now than it was before that incident
30/ Selkirk Islands: Chili ceded any potential claims that it might have to these islands to Britain, in gratitude for [i.e. as a part of the price for] Imperial help in maintaining its independence… and still gets a share of any profits from business activities there anyway. Chili generally acknowledges that this was a good deal.
31/ Aleutian Islands: Tsar Ivan’s government has been trying to claim recently that Russia’s sale of its interests in North America to the British didn’t extend to cover these islands. The wording of the actual treaty says that it did do so.
32/Some people in Columbia are seriously considering the suggested possibility that all three of the empire’s constituent ‘Kingdoms’ in North America could merge into a single, very powerful nation. Most of them, however, are concerned about the possibility of finding their own interests subordinated to “eastern” ones if such a union were to go ahead.
33/ Canada is even less interested than Columbia in that possible union, but does wonder whether it might be possible for this kingdom — by itself, alone — to absorb one or both out of Newfoundland (with Labrador) and Rupert’s Land
34/ Mexico rashly sided with Spain during Anglo-Spanish War of the 1870s, and Columbia established an autonomous’ administration in the formerly Mexican province of [southern] Baja California as a result of that conflict…. and now Mexico has lost control over its other northern provinces to rebels, whose behaviour has started the North Americans looking south with what seems all-too-serious interest (from a Mexican viewpoint) again…
35/ ‘Cibola’ is the name finally chosen for the ‘Autonomous Province’ that was established within the British Empire — under the combined supervision of America, Columbia, and Missouri — to include almost all of the other lands that Mexico lost to the Empire in 1872. Mexico still wants it back, of course, but while the Mexican government can’t even control those provinces that are internationally recognised as being unequivocally its own any dreams of irredentism will obviously have to be set aside. Not that a Mexico that did have firm control of all the provinces up to the current internationally-recognised border could do much against the might of the British Empire — not by itself, anyway — of course…
36/ Texas has its own share of the lands that Mexico lost back then, too, and administers them — under the name of ‘West Texas’ — as an integral part of its territories. However the government of the Kingdom of America has so far refused to sign-off on their formal incorporation into that province.
37/ ‘Shawnee Territory’ is the southern remnant of the former ‘Indian Reserve Territory’ whose northern districts (‘Illinois’ and ‘Miami’) were combined to form the ‘canton’ of Westmoreland twenty-some years ago. It actually has enough people living there now to qualify as a canton too, but continuing disagreements over the extent of “valid” native land-claims are still holding up this process.
38/ The Kingdom of America is now the most populous kingdom within the Commonwealth-and-Empire, and if it isn’t quite the wealthiest of them as well (I haven’t yet decided whether it’s overtaken Britain in that role…)then it’s certainly heading in that direction. Many Americans therefore believe that it should have an even greater say in the Imperial Council than is currently the case, and perhaps even that the Council itself should be relocated to American soil… Well, either that or that America should be less subject to the Council’s authority in the first place (or even, in some people’s opinions, that it should have a greater say in the Council and be less subject to the Council’s authority…). American politicians and business leaders — including certain ‘press barons’ — are also, as one would probably expect, the leading force behind the idea of unifying North America.
39/ San Domingo and Puerto Rico were added to the Kingdom of America as ‘Territories’ after the Anglo-Spanish War. Many of the locals are still unhappy about this fact, even though those islands have since been upgraded [in combination with each other] into a ‘Province’ instead.
40/ Panama: This former province of Gran Colombia rebelled eleven years ago, and called successfully for Imperial protection at a time when the Empire was involved in a dispute with the Colombians (re the western borders of British Guiana) anyway. Construction of a canal linking the Caribbean [& thus the Atlantic] to the Pacific began barely a year after that, and was completed last year. The government of Gran Columbia still refuses to give Panamanian independence recognition de jure, rather than just de facto.
41/ Eastern Gran Columbia: And now the Colombian government is worried about rebelliousness in this province, too. Renaming it from the more traditional ‘Venezuela’ was meant to send a message, but seems not to have helped… The fact that some dissidents have been able to take refuge in British Guiana doesn’t help much, either.
42/ The Perus: Concern about potential threats from their neighbours is the main factor holding this confederation together. Well, that and the army, anyway….
43/ Brazil: So far the emperor Paulo III, in alliance with the country’s ‘Liberals’, is managing to hold on to power in the face of pressure from their society’s more oligarchic elements…. As far as the cities of the east coast are concerned, anyway
44/ Paraguay didn’t have the OTL, http://library.eb.co.uk/all/eb/topic?idxStructId=347866&typeId=13Francisco Solano López, but it had another leader of similar overconfidence during the same period instead. After the dust had cleared, the United Republics of Banda Oriental somehow found themselves with a protectorate over this remnant of the former Paraguayan nation.
45/ The United Provinces of La Plata find themselves under the rule of a military dictator… again. He isn’t interfering with international trade, but he is still far from being Britain’s beast friend in the region.
46/ Araucania and Patagonia, Kingdom of: The British Empire’s administrators in these lands wonder why, and regret the fact that, the Empire gave in to temptation and accepted the request (which had been made only by an Italian who’d spent a few years living there and claimed to have been proclaimed king by the natives, not by the actual natives themselves) to take the place under its protection. There might be strategic reasons for holding on to ‘New Skye’ (alias ‘Tierra del Fuego’, if you prefer) as well as the Falklands, at least before the Panama Canal was opened, but the mainland… The climate, both of the neighbouring nations having their own ideas about who should own the place, the ungrateful & unruly [& sometimes downright disgusting] native tribes, the lawlessness of the European & American whalers and prospectors who’ve somehow found their way there, the Welsh settlers’ self-righteousness, their massed choral singing… Oh gods, their massed choral singing…
47/ The Ottomans strengthened their control over Tripolitania and re-established direct control over Cyrenaica in the aftermath of Britain’s intervention in Egypt. Britain, hoping to keep the Ottomans friendly, actually supported this policy.
48/ Egypt: Nominally a part of the Ottoman Empire, although with a high degree of autonomy, but effectively run by British ‘advisors’.
49/ Sudan: Sort-of run from Egypt until the Mahdist Rebellion; nominally ‘Anglo-Egyptian’, but effectively just British-run, since that was suppressed.
50/ Liberia: There was some disquiet amongst elements of the British Empire’s “white” populace when this “black”-run colony was granted ‘Imperial Canton’ status… At least with the cantons in the West Indies, for comparison, most of the key jobs were still effectively monopolised by the “whites”.
51/ French Congo: Rumours leaking out from the depths of this land suggest that the French aren’t being as “enlightened” here as they are — or try to be seen as being, anyway — in their other colonies.
52/ Katanga: British and French expeditions arrived in this region, and started making treaties and claims there, at about the same time as each other. The situation nearly triggered as war, but cooler heads prevailed on both sides and a ‘condominium’ arrangement — albeit a rather shaky one, so far — was eventually established.
53/ South-West Africa is the Prussians’ largest colony in terms of land area
54/ The two Boer republics of ‘Transvaal’ and ‘Northern Free State’ are both nominally under British supervision although effectively independent in most respects. They both have reasons for wanting full independence, and their cause has some support amongst other Boers further south as well.
55/ Madagascar was traditionally seen as falling into France’s sphere of influence, at least by the French, although in practice they hadn’t had any significant presence there for approximately a century. Now the British have stepped in and established a formal protectorate over the kingdom, instead. France is not amused…
56/ …and has formally claimed all of these islands, while they were still available, “just because”.

This map shows the approximate situation as I currently think it would have been in the summer of 1913 AD, replacing the version that I posted in May last year. That internal date allows time for the peace conference [held at Amsterdam] that followed the 1905-’12 ‘Seven Years War’ or 'Great War’ and for applying the treaties that had been signed there. The main POD was in 1743 AD, so this is after 170 years of accumulated changes. (This means, of course, that by the time that I finish writing the TL — if I ever do — some of the details shown here might actually have had to be changed…)
It’s still only a work in progress, because I still need to make some more decisions about — at the very least — the internal divisions of Germany (where the Prussian branch of the Hohenzollerns, who weren’t as powerful as IOTL anyway, have just lost most of their domains) and which bits of India would be ‘Princely States’ rather than directly under Imperial rule (still shown here as an almost identical situation to OTL, which would obviously be ridiculously convergent: Whatever changes I do end up making to them, though, you can probably expect to see their overall share of India’s lands, general distribution, and limited coastal access, remain fairly similar to this on the whole), but those details will need not only quite a bit more research & TL-writing but also access to better maps of the relevant areas OTL than I have managed to find so far. I’ll probably reduce the degree of convergence on OTL by changing some of the other borders in Asia slightly as well, and perhaps some in Africa and/or the interior of South America too, but again you can take the overall pattern shown here as fairly close to the likely final results. At least some of the apparent convergence can actually be justified, I think, on the basis of pre-POD borders (or, at least, trading posts), pre-POD ethnic boundaries, and/or natural features.

The map’s key is split between this post itself and the following one, for practical reasons. Most of the colours being used are basically as per RCS, with some changes to allow for the existence of various non-OTL nations. I’m giving the Kingdom of America the shades which that system assigns to Australia, and the area that’s shown in the more ‘traditional’ “USA green” here is actually the breakaway (but still friendly & allied) ‘American Federal Republic of Missouri’ instead. (Could I get away with changing the order of words in its name to ‘Federal American Republic of Missouri’, for the acronym ‘FARM’, or would you think that choice too “silly” to have been made in-TL?)
Also, as I’ve managed to find colours for every nation and for the dependencies of each nation that has any, I’m using white (as assigned by UCS to ‘Other independent states’ ) for Antarctica… and as every piece of land outside of that continent is at least claimed (although not necessarily, at the moment, effectively controlled) by one nation or another this leaves the shade of green that UCS assigns foe showing ‘Unpopulated or sparsely populated’ lands & RCS for ‘Terra Nullus (Unorganised land)’ free… and I’ve “borrowed” that to indicate the areas that are either under “international” administration or are assigned to specific nations to run but only under mandates from the new Council of Nations.

The Great War’s winners: the British Empire and its allies, the most important of these being [in no particular order] the Habsburgs’ ‘Triple Monarchy’, the German League, Italy, the United Netherlands, Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Japan, ‘Missouri’, and Portugal.
The Great War’s losers: the ‘Continental Axis’ of France, Spain, Prussia, Russia, and the Ottomans, with some help from both Gran Colombia and China. (Yes, the Russians and the Turks actually were on the same side, at least for most of the war, although still not really friends: This was due to a combination of mutual concern over British expansion and hopes to profit at the expense of both Britain and the Habsburgs…)

Yes, that is a British ‘zone of occupation’ in northern & western France.

(The previous "latest" version is at https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=7881104&postcount=3269, with its key spreading into the two posts that follow that one as well.

Key to the numbers on the above map

0. The German League: I haven’t decided about all of its internal divisions and their boundaries yet, but the Hohenzollerns (who weren’t as powerful as IOTL anyway) have just lost Brandenburg and most of their other lands which are under federal administration for now. Unfortunately the whole country is in rather a mess at the moment, having been one of the main theatres of conflict during the recent war, and their defeated enemies aren’t in a suitable condition to pay much in the way of reparations either. This has led to outbreaks of unrest, some of them quite serious, which members of the Minoritarian Populist (who are as close as TTL gets to Bolsheviks) faction have been trying — unsuccessfully, so far — to turn into a full-scale revolution. Augusta II, Prince-Electress of Hanover (and also, incidentally, Queen of Great Britain, Queen of Ireland, Queen of America, & etc…) is the elected ‘Reich-Protector’, following her mother Augusta I in that role.
1. France: A defeated nation, stripped of all its last set of colonies except for Algeria, with various strategic areas of the mainland under military occupation — and in some cases even being considered for annexation — by neighbouring Allied nations too (although even most of the Allies aren’t really taking Austria’s hints about the restoration of an independent Duchy of Lorraine [under a Habsburg-Lorraine duke] seriously). Almost the final action of the wartime government was to sign a preliminary peace-treaty: It was then overthrown, and its members killed, by a combination of the Paris mob and gangs of disillusioned ex-soldiers. Allied forces have finally restored order to Paris, where a coalition involving both Majoritarian and Minoritarian Populists had been trying to run things, and a Constitutional Convention has been called at Orleans to decide (under Allied oversight) what the country should do next…
2. Spain: A civil war has begun between the newly restored monarchy and the even more recently revived republic… Which side should (and which side will) other countries recognise as the legitimate government? Will newly autonomous Catalonia remain loyal to the Spanish Republic, or will it try for full independence instead? And whichever side wins, how content will they be to acknowledge the British Empire’s continued possession of the Balearic Islands?
b. The Baltic: Sweden has not only regained Finland from Russia but also, at least for now, pushed its troops and authority eastwards for some distance beyond the old Fenno-Russian border as well; Estonia has become an independent principality (with a Danish-Norwegian prince), Livonia & Courland & Lithuania have been left under ‘White’ Russian administration for now as the lesser of several evils, the area known as Memel-land and the city of Danzig are both currently under international control while their future is decided, West Prussia is being run by the German League (ditto), and East Prussia has been left as a residual domain for the [Brandenburg-Prussia branch of the] Hohenzollerns.
3. Poland, its independence newly restored, is considering its options and has therefore chosen to call its government a ‘Regency’ for now. After all, the French and the Russian revolutionaries between them have given the idea of ‘Republics’ rather a bad name (Okay, so there a few in South America, but they’re a long way off...) Does it really owe the Habsburgs enough, and forgive them enough for past partitioning, to accept the offered arch-duke from that family as its king? Probably not, so they might choose to crown a prince from one of the minor states within either Italy (as the Roumanians, a generation earlier, did with the Duke of Bourbon-Parma) or the Catholic parts of Germany instead.
4. The lands currently still ruled by members of the Habsburg dynasty now constitute a ‘Triple Monarchy’ in which the Austrian Emperor is “first amongst equals” to his cousins the King of Hungary-Croatia and the King of ‘the Lands of the Crown of Saint Wenceslaus’ (i.e. Bohemia-Moravia and its associated provinces). Having chosen to remain allied with Britain rather than joining the Continental Axis, they came through the recent war damaged but still basically viable although following referenda (promised, in the hope of increasing support for the Habsburg cause, at a point when their armies looked perilously close to defeat) they have recently withdrawn [reluctantly] both from the last of their former Polish territories and from most of the lands that they had still been holding in Venetia:. A district around and including the city of Trieste is under joint Austrian-Italian administration, for now, while its final disposition is still being discussed.
5. The Balkans: After the initial surge of support for the new nation of ‘Jugoslavia’, much of whose territory and population has only recently been freed from Ottoman rule, how well will the Bulgars and Serbs actually hold together? Would trying to challenge Italy for a port on the Adriatic (where Montenegro has accepted Italian protection, whilst some of the Albanians have formed a principality that is actually counted as an autonomous division within Italy itself) help to unify them, or would it just result in defeat and collapse? To the north-east of this, Roumania is busy thanking God that it chose the ‘Allied’ side in the war that’s just ended and is consolidating control over the provinces that it gained (from Russia, as well as from Turkey) as a result of this… and although it still has unmet ambitions in Transylvania, its government realises that those couldn’t realistically be achieved by declaring war against the Habsburgs and all their other allies. An area around the mouth of the Black Sea has been placed under international administration for now, and although Greece has ambitions to see this territory added to its own lands (which have already been extended through ‘Pontic’ [i.e. coastal] Thrace, as well as in the Aegean islands, although Crete currently remains separate while the Allies discuss how well the substantial Greek-speaking-but-Muslim element in its population would fit within Greece proper) it isn’t very likely that those aims will be met in full. The government of Greece also has hopes of incorporating the ‘Ionian Islands’ into its territories too, of course, but (to that regime’s surprise, as well as its rather disappointed annoyance) a referendum revealed that those islands’ voters still considers continuing as a self-governing canton within the British Empire preferable to ‘enosis’ [i.e. reunion with Greece] by a ratio of approximately 3-to-2.
6. Although the Allies’ forces didn’t penetrate far into Russia, the strains added by the war were enough to topple an already-unsteady Tsar and his regime. Most of western Russia is now controlled (to varying extents) by a ‘Revolutionary Alliance’ whose leadership is mainly drawn from the Left-Constitutionalists and the Majoritarian Populists, with some Minoritarians also involved — but rather bolshie — in the Moscow and Petrograd areas.
7. However one group from the Right-Constitutionalist faction, in alliance with both a ‘White’ army and local nationalists (and with some support from the Allied powers, too), is holding out against that regime’s forces in the Ukraine… except for the Crimea, where Britain has established a protectorate around its former ‘treaty port’ of Sebastopol.
8. “Here be Cossacks.”
9. There’s a confused situation in the Caucasus/Transcaucasia region, with a [Minoritarian Populist/Armenian Nationalist/Georgian Nationalist]-run ‘Trans-Caucasian Republic’ but various other statelets and disputed territories existing too… and, at present, Turkish forces propping up an “independent” regime in the formerly-Russian half of Azerbaijan.
10. King Abdullah of the Northern Arabs insists that he isn’t just a British puppet, even though he’s acknowledged the British and Italian mandates (from the Council of Nations) to govern Palestine and ‘The Levant’ respectively, Britain is running “his” share of Kurdistan — as much as anybody is doing so, anyway — for now, and there is also a temporary British administration still sorting things out in southern Mesopotamia…
11. …whilst the Emir of Hail, is wondering whether he can balance this new kingdom to his north against Nejd to his south (the death of whose King Saud, in a battle against the Turks, has delayed a planned attack against Hail), as he formerly did the Ottoman Empire, to preserve his own position…
12. …but the Sheikh of Mohammerah is very happy to have been granted a treaty formalising the fact that he rules under Britain’s protection.
13. However the protection that Britain is giving to the Constitutionalist government in the Russian province of Transcaspia is both less official and probably shorter-term in its nature.
14. The King of Afghanistan also made the mistake of joining the Axis cause, and his forces were easily defeated by Indian and British forces. Afghanistan hasn’t actually been deprived of any of its own territory as a result of this defeat, but was required to formally acknowledge that it doesn’t control the petty kingdom of Dardistan (or, as it more commonly known amongst outsiders, “Kafiristan”) — even though all of the lands immediately surrounding that enclave are at least nominally under Afghan rule — and the Dards’ king (who is actually part-British in ancestry) has just applied for his kingdom’s incorporation into the Indian Empire as a ‘princely state’. On the bright side, though, Afghanistan — unlike any of the Axis’s founding members — has already been granted a seat of its own in the Council of Nations.
15. These sections of the former Russian Empire are currently disputed territories within each of which no single faction holds clear control.
16. There is a new Khanate, centred on Kashgar, whose leader apparently has not only ambitions but also the ability and resources needed for carrying out his plans with (at least so far) considerable success. He claims to be descended from Genghiz Khan… but then, don’t they all?
17. Outer Mongolia has successfully re-asserted its freedom from Chinese control while its former master is wracked by civil war. Yes, those are Prussians (or Prussian-commanded Mongolian & Chinese troops, anyway) who’ve helped to bring the outlying province of Tuva — which had been more-or-less controlled by Russia for several decades before the beginning of the Great War — back into the fold: It’s a long story…
18. To the north of that, although not as far north as the arctic & subarctic belt that remains at least nominally ‘White’-owned simply because none of the other factions has yet got around to installing a proper administration of its own there, the “official” Right-Constitutionalist government of Russia, is finding itself increasingly squeezed between the revolutionary coalition that’s expanding its control outwards from the broken nation’s western lands and the forces of the Japanese Empire…
19. …which has helpfully volunteered to “protect” that country’s more easterly provinces…
20. …and had already controlled Chinese Manchuria, just to the south of this region, for several years.
21. China proper is also undergoing a civil war, with a Qing-dynasty imperial government in the north and a revolutionary (but not Populist) republican regime in the south: A warlord of uncertain origins (widely believed to be of Manchu origins rather than actually Chinese, and according to some rumours graduated from a European university in either medicine or science) controls most of Szechwan province, and offers at least nominal allegiance to the new republic, whereas it’s questionable whether anybody at all effectively controls much of Yunnan.
22. Another consequence of the Great War is that the former ‘French Indochina’ now finds itself (less the Laotian districts that had been its most recent acquisition, which have now been returned to Siamese suzerainty instead) divided between Dutch and Japanese administrations that are both operating under Council of Nations mandates.
23. Japan has also been granted a mandate over the islands of Lord Mulgrave’s Range, from which its forces had expelled the former Prussian administration: How much of an advantage the natives will find this changeover remains to be seen.
n. The two ‘Phosphate Islands’ (i.e. Nauru and Banaba) were a Prussian colony before the war but were promptly occupied by British Imperial forces after the conflict began. They have now been handed over to Denmark-Norway, to run as a mandated territory, as recompense for that nation’s wartime service to — and losses in — the Allied cause.
24. Morocco has been liberated from the former situation where it was divided between French, Spanish, and Prussian control. The victorious Allies promise that they will restore full power to the King as soon as this is practical, but in the meantime, Britain and the German League are administering the former Spanish zone in the north and Prussian zone in the south respectively, whilst a council on which several other nations are also represented alongside that pair is overseeing the transition in the former French protectorate that comprises the bulk of the overall country.
25. Italy took advantage of the war to seize Tripolitania from Ottoman control, and this change was confirmed at the peace conferences as was the official transfer of Cyrenaica from Ottoman to Egyptian (and thus, effectively, British…) rule too although in fact the latter province had already been being administered from Egypt — theoretically on the Ottomans’ behalf — for several decades before the outbreak of the Great War: Some of the native tribes are still putting up significant resistance against European (and “Egyptian”) rule, in the case of Cyrenaica largely through the Senussi movement which had already been raiding into Egypt occasionally anyway.
26. The man who was then the Sultan of Darfur was another leader who foolishly took up arms against the Allies: He has been deposed, and Darfur — which had previously been a nominal vassal of Egypt anyway — is now being incorporated into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
27. What had previously been the French Congo was given to the Kingdom of the United Netherlands to run post-war, its small coastal province (around the city of Louisville, its main administrative centre) transferred outright as an expansion for the existing Netherlands Congo and its interior turned into a ‘mandated territory’ (called Inner Congo) under the Council of Nations’ authority: After some debate, the ‘Ubangi-Shari’ area to the north of this, which had also been a French colony, was placed under Dutch rule too.
28. The province of Katanga had been under a rather unstable Franco-British joint rule before the war: It is now under solely British control.
29. Although the Second Boer War (which was already in progress when the Great War broke out) has officially been over for several years by now, and there is a reasonably secure state of peace in the Transvaal, small groups of Boer “commandos” continue to maintain an intermittent guerrilla campaign in parts of the South African province that they call the ‘Northern Free State’ but that Imperial authorities are currently calling ‘Trans-Limpopo Province’.
30. Another land with some unrest amongst Dutch-descended people is the United Netherlands’ colony of Nieuw Holland, many of whose inhabitants are agitating —but peacefully, so far — for an equivalent of ‘dominion’ status such as was granted collectively to the various British colonies in ‘Terrae Australis’ to its east just before the war.

(Kingdom of Terrae Australis: Provinces (P) and Territories (T) _ NT = Northern Territory (T), CAT = Central Australia Territory (T), SA = South Australia (P), Aa = Augusta (P), NSW =New South Wales (P), SR = Snowy River (P), ND = New Devonshire (P), T = Tasmania (P), NZ = New Zealand (P), ML = Maori-Land (P), SI = Southern Isles (T); not labelled on this map, ‘Terrae Australis Capital Territory’ which is the small area where the Aa/NSW boundary would otherwise meet the sea.)

31. The “bandit country” of northern Mexico has been taken temporarily under the joint administration of the Empire’s North American members (other than Canada, which of course has no border with that area) so that the problems there — which were spilling over into its neighbours — can be sorted out in more effective ways than Mexico’s own rebellion-plagued government could manage: “How temporarily?”, the Mexicans ask.
32. The government of Gran Colombia believed the Continental Axis’s claims that British power would be broken. The government of Gran Colombia though that the Great War would therefore be a good opportunity to reclaim its ‘rebel province’ of Panama, where the British Empire had built and was running an inter-oceanic canal (Yes, it was created at an earlier date than IOTL…), and to settle an old dispute about how far east the Colombian border with British Guiana properly lay as well. The government of Gran Colombia failed to achieve either of those aims against Imperial opposition. Gran Colombia now has a new and hopefully less ambitious government, has had to recognise the legal independence of Panama, and sees its eastern provinces (many people in which were already unhappy about being ruled from Bogota anyway) broken-away as a separate nation of ‘Bolivaria’ under Imperial protection as well into the bargain. Oh, and just to add insult to Injury, Britain has annexed the Galapagos Islands.
33. The Kingdom of Hawaii is a protectorate within the British Empire, which maintains a major naval base at a site there which is now called Port Cook.
34. Look at the Line Islands! The Kingdom of Columbia, having bought-out Hawaiian interests there, now has a colony all of its very own...
35. Italy now controls outright the section of eastern Polynesia over which it only shared jurisdiction with France before the war, and those island-groups there that were then under France’s sole authority are now run as an Italian mandated territory (as acknowledged by the Council of Nations) instead.

World Map, 1920

Yes, I previously said that 1913 was the latest date for which I intended to provide a map of this TL, but I've since decided that there were soem details in the 1913 map whose future fates needed to be determined & shown.

(Key to annotations, and to extra colours, to follow...)

(reserved for extra material about the above map)

Africa, comparating the situations for 1903 & 1913

Southern Africa, comparing the situations for 1903 & 1913

(and with a key to the the names of the various territories)

North America, 1913

(page 1 of 2)

North America, 1913

(page 2 of 2)

The Kingdom of America

(Growth from 1759 to 1913, overview)

The Kingdom of America

(Growth from 1759 to 1913, as a series of sequential maps)

"Greater Missouri"

This one's really just a pipe-dream that some of TTL's 'Missourians' have...

(The other areas that are currently within the Empire they hope to win over politically; northern Mexico, they might give less choice in the matter...)

Wow, that must be a lot of works, I am gonna enjoy that.

Nihao said:

Wow, that must be a lot of works, I am gonna enjoy that.

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Thank you. Unfortunately the main project has been put on hold while I do quite a bit more research (and deal with some other matters, too), but I do hope to restart it eventually.