Asami
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Maybe during British rule or upon independence, they'd adopt English as a neutral auxiliary language between the various ethnic groups like Singapore does? Thrace-as-Singapore is pretty appealing actually.
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Maybe during British rule or upon independence, they'd adopt English as a neutral auxiliary language between the various ethnic groups like Singapore does? Thrace-as-Singapore is pretty appealing actually.
Hmm. A thought about Thrace. Britain wants it to be multiethnic, so I wonder if they'll allow Japanese immigration to Thrace. That would be interesting...
The only word in the English language with six silent letters.
My sister and I having been raised on the importance of our Ulster Protestant heritage by my grandmother, my sister caused a great deal of trouble at her Catholic all girls school for refusing to call it Derry in a history lesson...But -derry is only 5 letters.
But -derry is only 5 letters.
It probably roughly corresponds with the Adrianople Vilayet plus the Constantinople Vilayet.So, I am curious now on the demographics of that damned Thracian state.
The only word in the English language with six silent letters.
But -derry is only 5 letters.
My sister and I having been raised on the importance of our Ulster Protestant heritage by my grandmother, my sister caused a great deal of trouble at her Catholic all girls school for refusing to call it Derry in a history lesson...
Add all these figures together and we get a total Thracian population of:
430,000 Greeks (29%)
350,000 Turks (23%)
380,000 (Orthodox) Bulgarians (25%)
115,000 Pomaks (8%)
115,000 Armenians (8%)
52,000 Jews (3%)
40,000 British (3%)
22,000 other (1%)
Total population: 1,500,000 people.
Thanks! I'll just give a few comments:*stamps with 'official seal of approval'*
2) Constantinople had about 900,000 residents before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. About 65% of these people were Turks. ITTL, most of the Turks have now fled to Turkey, and according to my calculations, Constantinople now only has about 450,000 people as a result of this flight. There will obviously be a lot of empty houses in Constantinople previously inhabited by Turks– although many of these houses may have been destroyed in the war. My question is, have these houses been reoccupied (whether by Christian refugees from Anatolia, by Britons, or by anyone else), or will Constantinople remain a smaller city of only about 500,000 people for now?
The city is being renovated after the war damaged large portions of it. People are coming into the city for varying reasons-- Christian refugees from Anatolia are starting to come into the nation as the Ottoman government is stepping up their authoritarian treatments of some of the Turkish non-Muslims (however few there may be). Many Armenians are returning to Armenia (which is a democratic republic); but there is a growing number of non-Muslims from the Assyria and Iraq; along with Britons.
Strangely, there is a growing group of Austrians and French whom have taken up home in Thrace after the communist revolution in their homelands; they see Thrace as a new opportunity. Some have gone to the US, some to Germany, some to fight for Free France--but growing numbers in Thrace.
I'd say, add another ~20,000 French, ~30,000 Austrians, halve the number of Armenians, and add some Assyrian Christians who decided not to stay in Assyria (somewhere between 9 to 16 thousand)
Not until a Yew-archetype defusing ethnic tensions in the city.Thrace seems like a fascinating place, and rather unique. Hope we can see it prosper and maintain its independence!
(Revised) Thrace demographics 1931.
Greek 441,580
Bulgarian 441,730
Turkish 316,291
Armenian 137,663
Jewish 57,740
British 51,330
Austrian 27,640
French 18,913
Albanian 16,401
Assyrian 11,488
Breton 8,318
Basque 4,118
Catalan 3,118
Japanese 2,276