yeah, it's boring and?
I prefer to regard it as realistic. Nice one Professor.
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I prefer to regard it as realistic. Nice one Professor.
SOUTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION
Founded 18 August 1856
Major founder members Austrian Empire*, Bavaria, Wuerttemberg
Joined 1 March 1863: Baden
Current flag adopted 1 January 1857
* Kingdom of Hungary (including Slovakia, Transylvania and Banat) independent 15 March 1851
In a deliberate attempt to break with the past, the flag proposals involving a double-headed eagle were rejected in favour of ‘Germania’ – to illustrate the Confederation’s aspirations to be the leader of the German states and ultimately to pave the way for total German unification. ‘Germania’ for the flag was based on a portrait of the actress Carla Fuehring (1831-1894), which was also used in the first postage stamps of the Confederation (20 Heller stamp reproduced below); despite much criticism of the overall design, these stamps remained in use until 1901.
20 Heller postage stamp:
The flag:
Founded 18 August 1856
Major founder members Austrian Empire*, Bavaria, Wuerttemberg
Joined 1 March 1863: Baden
Current flag adopted 1 January 1857
* Kingdom of Hungary (including Slovakia, Transylvania and Banat) independent 15 March 1851
In a deliberate attempt to break with the past, the flag proposals involving a double-headed eagle were rejected in favour of ‘Germania’ – to illustrate the Confederation’s aspirations to be the leader of the German states and ultimately to pave the way for total German unification. ‘Germania’ for the flag was based on a portrait of the actress Carla Fuehring (1831-1894), which was also used in the first postage stamps of the Confederation (20 Heller stamp reproduced below); despite much criticism of the overall design, these stamps remained in use until 1901.
20 Heller postage stamp:
The flag:
Cheers. I always strive for realism where possible.
I basically think what would win the final vote if there was a nationwide school competition for a flag
The flag of the South German Confederation, which soon became the South German Republic. It arose as a result of somewhat more successful 1848 revolutions, and French intervention, which prevented, among other things, Russia from fully propping up the Hapsburgs, who ended up in control of a rump Empire consisting of those lands not part of the South German Republic, less Lombardy, Venetia and the remainder of the Tyrol, which were united with the Republic of Piedmont-Sardinia, which was shortly renamed the Republic of Northern Italy. Having as its major constituents Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemburg (as well as some of the adjacent smaller principalities), and Austria (more or less OTL Austria, with additional territories from South Tyrol at a line somewhat south of Bolzano eastwards to the Sava, then north, encompassing most of the contiguous German-speaking districts, including those portions of the Sudetenland adjacent to Bavaria). The flag is a combination of the flags of those countries, forming a cross and quartering a gold field, harkening back a bit, I suppose, to the HRE.
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It was Inkscape. That was the time-consuming part of the flag - the tricolour was simple.
Thank you all!
Hmm...
Flag Challenge 95
I Would Walk Five Thousand Miles
For this week's challenge, you must design a flag for a country that originated in an alternate migration. For example: OTL, the Magyars migrated from Central Asia to Central Europe and became the nation of Hungary. But what if, say, the Uyghurs had made that trip instead? What if the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes had gone east to Sweden instead of west to England? What is the Bantus had migrated into North Africa? What if... This can be ASB if necessary.
Challenge begins: Monday, July the 1st
Challenge ends: Monday, July the 7th (Midnight EST)
Voting begins: Tuesday, July the 8th
Voting ends: Tuesday, July the 15th (Midnight EST)
Hmm...
Flag Challenge 95
I Would Walk Five Thousand Miles
For this week's challenge, you must design a flag for a country that originated in an alternate migration. For example: OTL, the Magyars migrated from Central Asia to Central Europe and became the nation of Hungary. But what if, say, the Uyghurs had made that trip instead? What if the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes had gone east to Sweden instead of west to England? What is the Bantus had migrated into North Africa? What if... This can be ASB if necessary.
Challenge begins: Monday, July the 1st
Challenge ends: Monday, July the 7th (Midnight EST)
Voting begins: Tuesday, July the 8th
Voting ends: Tuesday, July the 15th (Midnight EST)
autonomousoblast
Banned
Thank you all!
Hmm...
Flag Challenge 95
I Would Walk Five Thousand Miles
For this week's challenge, you must design a flag for a country that originated in an alternate migration. For example: OTL, the Magyars migrated from Central Asia to Central Europe and became the nation of Hungary. But what if, say, the Uyghurs had made that trip instead? What if the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes had gone east to Sweden instead of west to England? What is the Bantus had migrated into North Africa? What if... This can be ASB if necessary.
Challenge begins: Monday, July the 1st
Challenge ends: Monday, July the 7th (Midnight EST)
Voting begins: Tuesday, July the 8th
Voting ends: Tuesday, July the 15th (Midnight EST)
This is the best challenge in some time.
Abraham Lincoln was done fighting wars. He was determined to be the nation's great peacemaker, regardless of the fact that some Southrons still seemed determined to fight on. He would not allow cowardly assassination attempts to change his course on Reconstruction. Still, it was another reminder that the South would be slow to change its ways. And what true guarantee of safety could he give the freedmen in a land like that? He had once thought that they could be colonized in another area, Africa or South America, but that was neither politically nor economically viable. What to do? Seward had recently mentioned some overtures from the Czar about selling his Alaskan territory. Lincoln was already planning a southern homestead act - perhaps a northern counterpart could give America's newest citizens some room to breathe...
"LINCOLN, AL - One hundred years after the transfer of Alaska to the United States, another flag is lowered over this northern territory. Though the air was freezing in the capital city, no breath was visible in Du Bois Square as the Stars and Strips were lowered for the last time - only finally did the audience exhale when the new flag of the Republic of Alaska was raised, ending a political battle for autonomy the new nation's Negro residents had been waging for nearly three decades..."
Flag of the Republic of Alaska: A horizontal bicolor of blue and white defaced with the North Star in the upper band, and two arms breaking shackles in the lower
"LINCOLN, AL - One hundred years after the transfer of Alaska to the United States, another flag is lowered over this northern territory. Though the air was freezing in the capital city, no breath was visible in Du Bois Square as the Stars and Strips were lowered for the last time - only finally did the audience exhale when the new flag of the Republic of Alaska was raised, ending a political battle for autonomy the new nation's Negro residents had been waging for nearly three decades..."
Flag of the Republic of Alaska: A horizontal bicolor of blue and white defaced with the North Star in the upper band, and two arms breaking shackles in the lower
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After the horrors of the Holocaust and World War II, it was decided among the Allied forces that the German people must be forever reminded of the monstrous actions they allowed to occur. So, when the surviving European Jews wished for a homeland of their own, the eastern regions of the former Reich (or Eastern Prussia) was set aside as a Jewish refugee zone. Jews from all over Europe (a majority Yiddish speaking Eastern European and Yiddish Jews) migrated to the new refugee land. The Soviet Union quickly established a an pro-communist administration system, and by 1949, the People's Republic of Yyidysland was formed. The Soviets intended on keeping the region independent from East Germany, so as to serve as a punishment (the idea being that very people they once tried to destroy now rule over land that was once theirs). Though the state encouraged atheism, the nation was distinctly Jewish in culture. With the fall of Communism in the mid 1990s, Yyidysland was offered the option of reuniting with the Federal Republic of Germany. Due to old wounds, the offer was declined, and the Federal Republic of Yyidysland was formed, with a democratically elected government. The new flag was an imitation of the former Prussian one; not as a momento to the history of the region, but as yet another reminder to the Germans that the land they once owned no longer belonged to them.
MarshalBraginsky
Banned
This is from one of my TLs that I'm actually trying to complete but have some time constraints:
It is said that the Mongol migrations into the Balkans occurred during the reign of Sartaq Khan, for whom the Khanate of the Golden Horde was kept from the schemes of his uncle Berke. The would-be usurper of Sartaq's authority was found out as the mastermind of Sartaq's assassination attempt, which was botched because Aleksander Nevsky was killed by the pro-Berke Mongol forces on their way back to Sarai Batu. Once Berke and his faction was bloodily purged, Sartaq became more open to his idea of embracing Christianity of the Eastern rite. However, neither the Rus', the Byzantines, nor even their Bulgarian vassals were to convert them into Orthodoxy, but through the help of a tiny kingdom in the heart of the Balkans. Thus, the Mongol migrations into the Balkans ensured their annexation of Bulgaria and the eventual dynastic union with the merging of the two bloodlines: that of Genghis Khan and Stefan Nemanja.
To this day, numerous Serb and Bulgarian populations can trace their lineage to the Mongol warriors who chose to settle down in the Danube, Morava, Drina and Sava Rivers.
It is said that the Mongol migrations into the Balkans occurred during the reign of Sartaq Khan, for whom the Khanate of the Golden Horde was kept from the schemes of his uncle Berke. The would-be usurper of Sartaq's authority was found out as the mastermind of Sartaq's assassination attempt, which was botched because Aleksander Nevsky was killed by the pro-Berke Mongol forces on their way back to Sarai Batu. Once Berke and his faction was bloodily purged, Sartaq became more open to his idea of embracing Christianity of the Eastern rite. However, neither the Rus', the Byzantines, nor even their Bulgarian vassals were to convert them into Orthodoxy, but through the help of a tiny kingdom in the heart of the Balkans. Thus, the Mongol migrations into the Balkans ensured their annexation of Bulgaria and the eventual dynastic union with the merging of the two bloodlines: that of Genghis Khan and Stefan Nemanja.
To this day, numerous Serb and Bulgarian populations can trace their lineage to the Mongol warriors who chose to settle down in the Danube, Morava, Drina and Sava Rivers.
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Not sure if this quite fits the rules...
Magyar migration divides in 2 - 1 heads south into Caucausus and Anatolia, the other heads west as OTL into the Pannonian Plain.
ATL however the second group, being fewer in number, get absorbed into the Avar Khaganate [1].
The Slavic dialects thus get a further boost as a lingua franca until the country evolves into the christian slavic [2] kingdom known as the Avorak Stephanate [3]
[1] becoming a sort of Pannonian Bulgaria
[2] albeit with Turkic and Magyar influence
[3] a stephan being roughly a high king and an ATL replacement for the word kagan
Magyar migration divides in 2 - 1 heads south into Caucausus and Anatolia, the other heads west as OTL into the Pannonian Plain.
ATL however the second group, being fewer in number, get absorbed into the Avar Khaganate [1].
The Slavic dialects thus get a further boost as a lingua franca until the country evolves into the christian slavic [2] kingdom known as the Avorak Stephanate [3]
[1] becoming a sort of Pannonian Bulgaria
[2] albeit with Turkic and Magyar influence
[3] a stephan being roughly a high king and an ATL replacement for the word kagan
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