Map Thread XXI
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In this TL, Panama sitll belongs to Colombia, because the Nicaragua Canal is built instead of Panama.
Huh, China has pretty similar borders in a TL I'm working on. IG it's not that hard to converge on China losing Manchuria and Xinjiang to the Communists but keeping Tibet.Quick rough concept sketch for "A Brighter Sunrise," a timeline in which the Japanese government is more likely to apologize (unequivocally) to China and Korea for atrocities committed before and during WWII, and ends up better off than in OTL.
(base map from Wikipedia)
The smaller "Bamboo Curtain" (Soviet-influenced Manchuria, Mongolia, and East Turkestan) incentivizes reconciliation between the Republic of China, Korea, and Japan, instead of causing a red scare that enables Japanese war criminals and revisionists back into power.
While the US occupation believes retaining the Japanese monarchy is necessary for stability, Hirohito abdicates, allowing the new government to distance itself from the old regime. The Heisei era starts in the 1950s instead of 1989.
The two Chinas reunite after the Cold War, leading to more sincere apologies from Japan on the crimes of Unit 731.
The Korean War still happens to stimulate Japan's recovery (but the south wins), and the bubble economy and lost decades are averted because Japan is not as dependent on the US for trade.
A stronger left-leaning (but not authoritarian socialist) presence in the Japanese Diet combined with competition with China leads to more economic and social reforms in the workplace and daily life.
Today, Japan's electronics industry is still globally competitive, and they also have a crewed spacecraft called "Fuji."
Well, keep in mind, the Sorbs are called Serby in their own language, and the o is used only to distinguish them from Serbs, who also used to be called Serbi, but the vowel has since been lost and now the endonym is Srbi.
Honestly, given how the Sorbs were fairly strong even after "half of their people" (may be an exaggeration but that's what the Serbs told the Greeks upon arriving) travelled south to become the Serbs, the large presence of Croats in northern Bohemia even post migration and the (assumed) dialect proximity between the Sorbs and White Croats, the two kind of fusing and taking over Bohemia isn't too out there.
Also, ofc, keep in mind, South Slavs in the Balkans doesn't mean Serbs and Croats, they were late arrivals, it could be that the proto-Serbs stayed in the north and the Balkans are inhabited by the Antes that came before. They'd speak a language kind of akin to Bulgarian or Macedonian minus Turkic Bulgar loanwords.
I love to see the Sorbs getting some love though @Crazymachines.
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I'd love to see some more lore.
It's got some of my favorite early medieval situations/not really tropes. Alternate Pannonians, wanked Oltenia, Lombard HRE, and cool stuff with the Slavs.
Actually I did a Lombard HRE and not wanked but present alt-Oltenia in a long-time TL of mine that I've yet to post. Nice to see others playing with the idea, Lombard HRE has a lot of potential.
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I was aware it might be other Slavs down in the Balkans, and that was just a momentary thought as I decided there were enough butterflies that the names may not be the same. As with much of the map (though naturally South Slavs will always be in the South, even if they are not the same ones.). And yah, I recall also how the Russians called the Kazakhs Kirghiz so as to not confuse them with the Cossacks. People localize things in whatever way is easiest to comprehend. Which actually makes me wonder if anyone has ever made ATL maps in here showing the different names each country calls each other. Also a shame The Onion no longer has those old issues on their site, or I would link to the timeless “Clinton Deploys Vowels to Bosnia”.
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The Norman Kingdom Of Hrvatske
King Petar Krešimir IV of Croatia has been captured by the Normans, somewhere between Nin and Rab ( both besieged by the Normans).
The leader of this Norman expedition is count Amico, relative of Robert Guiscard and father of the Peter I count of Trani.
In return for his release the Croatian king gave the Normans the costal towns of Split, Trogir, Zadar, Biograd and Nin.
Amico would soon manage to defeat the Venetians regaining control over the coastal towns taken in the previous years and most Venetian territory on the eastern adriatic.
At the time there were several claimants to the throne: Dmitar Zvonimir, the named heir with support of Slavonia and Hungary; Stephen II, the nephew of Krešimir with support of Dalmatian cities (mostly held by the Normans) and Latin clergy, Prince Magnus of Denmark, one of the sons of Sweyn II of Denmark that pope Gregory VII wanted to make king of Croatia and a shadowy individual known as Slavac who was the leader of the Narentians who at the time part of the Kingdom of Croatia and it is said he had support from the Slavic clergy and the peasant.
Since there are already 4 claimants Amico makes his own with the support of Robert and other south Italian Normans.
He defeats Zvonimir who had the strongest hold on power and takes the crown and is crowned king of Croatia with the court in Biograd.
Magnus without any real support never arives to stake his claim, Stephens poor health betrays him and Slavac recreates an independent Narentian duchy that is absorbed by Norman Croatia.
Very cool, I love Balkan Norman kingdoms, but I have a linguistic nitpick.
So, I see you're using noun cases interestingly. So, indeed in English it is kingdom of Croatia and since it's "of" that puts it in the genitive case, but that's not how country names work in Croatian or any other dialects of Serbocroatian (except maybe Torlakian in Southern Serbia which I'm less familiar with but has different noun cases). It's not the Kingdom of Croatia but, to translate literally, Kingdom Croatia, Kraljevina Hrvatska, in the nominative case, much like how it's Republika Hrvatska not the direct translation from English, Republika Hrvatske.
Even if it was "Kingdom of Croatia" (Kraljevina Hrvatske), usually when taking foreign countries' endonyms, English keeps them in the nominative case, so it would still be the Kingdom of Hrvatska.
Great scenario and nice map though.
Cheers.
I really like your scenario.
What font did you use for the map legend?
Crazy said in the WMIT Discord that the POD was Justinian not reconquering Italy.
I guess there was no Islam/No Arabic Invasions/A very different t Islam.
I love to explore surviving Visigothic Spain (Would look like France with massive influence from Italy. No Portugal and Aragon at all given they was born from the Reconquista.)
Same for an surviving Lombard Italy. (No Papal States.)
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