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Arles controls Cuba and Hispaniola (known IOTL as Greater Antilla and Lesser Antilla)

Two things regarding the thread: The link for the Commonwealth of Ohio actually links to the Genesee County post. With the Caribbean, my assumption had always been that the region is divided into several city-states and smaller principalities, with a political order not unlike that of...

The Commonwealth of Georgia System of Government: Hereditary Feudal Monarchy Leader: Governor Elias II Spratt Selection of Leaders: Hereditary Primogeniture Population: 2,700,000 Totemic Symbol: Magnolia Flower Religion: American Non-Denominational Church Perhaps the preeminent power of the...

Habsburg Empire - Apotheosis Gabriel Wallach, aka Apotheosis, is a superhero created in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1920s. Originally created as a pseudo-Christian mythological extension of the Archangel Gabriel, Apotheosis has a long history of being coded as Jewish, up to the famed...

When Demetrios I Komnenos intervened in the Gunpowder Crusade, the request for that intervention was accompanied by an “official” apology for the fourth crusade from the Pope in Avignon. At least that’s what I’m assuming it refers to.

Ottoman Empire - The Steel Lion Sabah Selim, more commonly known as the Steel Lion, is a popular superhero originating from the Ottoman Empire and co-created by writers Yusuf Ocal and Ayla Ozmin in 1952, though much of the character’s present mythology draws heavily on the works of...

Thessaloniki as the capital of Greece in a world where the Kingdom of Greece decides not to try an pour money into reviving a village of 4,000 into a major national capital and instead settles in the largest city in the country. If the Greek population transfer with Turkey still occurs, then...

Somebody mentioned a while back that they could see the Rhomans developing an alt-"Stabbed-in-the-back" narrative regarding the relationship between the Imperial family, the army, and the press, after the end of the war, but I wonder if the Germans may come away with an alt-"Lost Cause"...

I'd argue it's pretty tough to ever characterize genocide as successful, both on humanitarian terms and on a purely economic level. If we're taking the current Egyptian population as comparable to the Egyptian population after the Black Death, that means that the region has lost out on 300 years...

As interesting as the continuing Latin War is, the notes on the Egyptian campaign really caught my attention. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Egypt should have gone through a complete demographic collapse at this point, right? From the Roman-Ethiopian campaigns of Andreas I's time, to the Great...

This would have a huge impact on St. Louis as a city. It's very possible that the 1893 city-county divorce would happen early with the cession of land to form a federal capital, but that also likely means that St. Louis itself gets a much more densely populated urban center due to a desire to be...

The Emperor in Khanstantinople

Do we know where the Abbasid Caliphs have relocated to ITTL? I imagine it’s probably Cairo like OTL but since TTL has both Rum and the Mamelukes decisively checking Mongol expansion...

While the competence of a ruler is important, it is not the end-all, be-all when it comes to the success or failure of a nation-state. Muhammad Ali was a visionary and a very capable administrator, but one of his strengths was adapting to a more modern (and more European, though only in the...

A point that I once heard, and largely agree with, is that Return of the Jedi is a very uneven movie - the rescue from Jabba's Palace and the Sarlacc Pit is thrilling, and the final confrontation is a great ending (particularly the Luke-Vader-Emperor scenes). It's the middle that loses a lot of...

FWIW I remember reading a source back in uni which asserted that the Rumelian Sultanate absorbed a large number of Persian refugees fleeing the expansion of the Mongols, and noted in particular the rich bureaucratic and administrative traditions in Persia meant many of these migrants ended up in...

@Flashman , on your most recent map, what is the nation between the Dinetah and Deseret?

The State of Missouri System of Government: Hereditary Feudal Monarchy Selection of Leaders: Primogeniture succession within the House of Schwartz Population: 1,036,250* Totemic Symbol: The Gateway Religion: American Non-Denominational Church Located on the edge of the American...

I’ve written up an entry on Missouri which assumes that Jefferson City is the seat of a District Supervisor. If that absolutely doesn’t work I can remove it, but I really think it makes more sense to assume that such a religious figure does exist.

Makes sense; either way, I don’t a population center not existing in that general area, given it’s stellar location for both trade and food production.