East Dominica's highest peak is Pico Duarte in our world, after the Dominican Republic's most revered Founding Father, what would it be called here?
mountain dominicaEast Dominica's highest peak is Pico Duarte in our world, after the Dominican Republic's most revered Founding Father, what would it be called here?
Wikipedia gives its original name as "Monte Tina" which is kind of underwhelming in my opinion. The two peaks were at one time called Pelona Chica and Pelona Grande before Trujillo named them after himself. "Las Pelonas" refers to both of them, so I think it would be neat if people outside the Caribbean region simply (and erroneously) called the mountain itself "Las Pelonas" while the official name would be "La Pelona Grande"East Dominica's highest peak is Pico Duarte in our world, after the Dominican Republic's most revered Founding Father, what would it be called here?
Wikipedia gives its original name as "Monte Tina" which is kind of underwhelming in my opinion. The two peaks were at one time called Pelona Chica and Pelona Grande before Trujillo named them after himself. "Las Pelonas" refers to both of them, so I think it would be neat if people outside the Caribbean region simply (and erroneously) called the mountain itself "Las Pelonas" while the official name would be "La Pelona Grande"
What's the comci book industry like ITTL? Do Marvel or DC exist?
Cape Comics:
Superman and Batman, in one version of DC canon, are located on opposite sides of Delaware Bay, both of which are in Christiana, so my headcanon (of course, everything in this post is headcanon) is that cape comics got started there, but spread further by mid-century, and today the various animated series are mostly produced in New Amsterdam. Superman was based in part on circus performers of the era, and Batman was based on Zorro, an earlier pulp fiction vigilante; I'm thinking comic books started as adaptations of various legends from around the ASB; at one point, a few of them are written into modern stories as heroes and villains, and the subgenre explodes in popularity. Instead of being given powers by alien technology or science experiments gone awry, most capes TTL get their powers from ancient spirits and other supernatural sources.
Huh. I never realized the highest point in the ASB was in East Dominica.
The highest point on the mainland would then be Mount Mitchell, which is either in Watauga or on the Carolina-Watauga border.
That is really interesting. I like the idea of calling both peaks Las Pelonas, it's fitting. What about the name for Mount Mitchell? in OTL it's named for a geologist originally from Connecticut. It's certainly conceivable that such a person would come to Carolina in TTL, what with Carolina and Connecticut both being loyalist states, and New England probably having a surplus of academics that Carolina would draw on. Nevertheless, there could be a better alternate name.
I started working on a list of state symbols and I figured I might as well open it up to contributions, particularly on state birds/animals and plants/trees/flowers.
Yes, and I think I added the cities that I could from extant maps.Have you also contributed to a Gazeteer I've been making (basically a list of cities and their OTL equivalents)
The only area I didn't add for the League was Tientsin seeing as China is already on the map. There are probably canon errors in this map, however I thought I'd try my hand at updating it. If there are any blatant inaccuracies please let me know!Members of the League of Peoples (an Italian version of the Commonwealth of Nations):
Empire of Ethiopia - OTL Ethiopia minus the Ogaden and border regions with Eritrea - Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Free City of Tientsin - OTL Tientsin concession - Unitary presidential republic
Principality of Cyrenaica - OTL Cyrenaica region - Absolute monarchy
Republic of Eritrea - OTL Eritrea while in Italian East Africa - Unitary presidential republic
Republic of Fezzan - OTL Fezzan region - Unitary presidential republic
Republic of New Guinea - Northwestern New Guinea - Federal parliamentary republic [****]
Republic of New Tuscany - That one map - Unitary parliamentary republic
Republic of Sabah - OTL Sabah - Unitary parliamentary republic [****]
Republic of Somalia - OTL Greater Somalia - Federal parliamentary republic
Republic of Tripolitania - OTL Tripolitania region - Unitary presidential republic
Republic of Tunisia - Territory as in OTL - Unitary presidential republic
[****] It could've happened.
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I know I've not really contributed much to the thread, however I thought I'd try working on updating the map a bit by polishing a few borders, adding @Etruscan-enthusiast35 and @ST15RM 's additions to Mozambique and the Middle East respectively, and adding members of the League of Peoples (essentially the Italian Commonwealth of Nations) as described by @Neoteros :
The only area I didn't add for the League was Tientsin seeing as China is already on the map. There are probably canon errors in this map, however I thought I'd try my hand at updating it. If there are any blatant inaccuracies please let me know!
Honestly I think the latter colonial empire makes more sense given Italy's history ITTL as a far more decentralized state; the only thing I would maintain is that I still think Italy would go after Libya seeing as it's right across the Mediterranean. Ultimately though it's up to @False Dmitri .I did a version of Italy's colonial empire based on this post, but I'm sure the two visions can be reconciled!
Other than that, Tristan da Cunha has also been established as an overseas territory of the ASB.
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I don't know if Australia's been expanded on at all
Honestly I think the latter colonial empire makes more sense given Italy's history ITTL as a far more decentralized state; the only thing I would maintain is that I still think Italy would go after Libya seeing as it's right across the Mediterranean. Ultimately though it's up to @False Dmitri .
Also, I was thinking about other parts of the world, and one of the areas I was thinking about was Australia. I don't know if Australia's been expanded on at all, but I had a few thoughts; obviously alternate colonization from other European powers (primarily the Dutch, French, and Portuguese), as well as possibly a greater extent of pre-European contact between the northern Aboriginals and the Makassar people of Indonesia. However, I've also thought a bit about the history of the Aboriginals themselves. I'm aware that while there isn't really a set POD, it's agreed upon that it's somewhere in the 16th or 17th century. However, I wonder if it would be too against the nature of the TL to have a much earlier (but largely contained) POD in Australia to facilitate the growth of some more advanced Aboriginal civilizations. Nothing too insane like the survival of any megafauna; what I'm thinking is something more along the lines of Lands of Red and Gold, where a single additional crop (the red yam) allowed more advanced societies to eventually rise to prominence. While I know that having such an early POD would be a large divergence from how the world has been developed so far, I think it would fit well into the world as a whole, with an ASB-like nation forming in Australia through an alliance of native states and European colonies/former colonies.
I don't expect this to be implemented due to how different it is from the rest of the world so far, however I just wanted to share the idea.