Interesting. Also, I like the level of detail you've put, well, everywhere.
Thank you very much!
Afghanistan got smashed and divided between its neighbours, (Central-)Poland has a new overlord and the birth of a French colonial empire in East Asia.
What is the name of the Slavic state in the Balkans?
Persia was the real winner there, not so much a division as it is an occupation.
"Vell, the Germans have at least given us some liberties already. And they've promised not to try and make us into
Wenden."
Its rather amazing what occupying Korea does for one's outlook on life.
Beautiful, wolf_brother.
Glad to see the American colonial empire coming into fruition. Looking forward to updates on the *Canada area, China, and particularly Latin America and Africa.
May I also note to the thread at large that New Mexico could have been a state right away, but there's this thing called racism sooooo...
And a thank you to you as well!
Honestly I think what people
aren't commenting on is just as interesting as what they are looking at
Ye gods.. I have an advocate!
Wouldn't the Slovenes oppose such naming?
Compare to OTL's Austria-Hungary, and specifically how the Czechs were in many ways considered rural or degenerate Germans.
I just saw that San Marino still exists indepedently from Italy, how's that possible.
Might be that they have already been independent for 1,500 and some years at the date of this map? Oldest still-surviving nation, IIRC.
As Lascupa0788 states San Marino, like IOTL, is never drawn into the Italian unification program. They had their opportunity in 1848, but the revolution never spread into the city-state beyond a few minor protest demonstrations, and the city council specifically asks the Italian government not to join the Confederacy.
That being said though unlike IOTL the Sammarinese have never offered refuge to the likes of Garibaldi, simply because Italian unification is so much more successful ITTL, so there's no honor-bound agreement between San Marino and Rome, and the Italians are certainly going to be pushing for annexation
at some point, which the Sammarinese are unlikely going to be able to resist due to simple economic and demographic pressures without a great power patron.
Also I see that Russian's protection of fellow Orthodox nations happens in Greece, although I suppose that the Greeks will have very tense relations with both Bulgarians and Turks over Crete, Cyprus and Thessaloniki and other Greek-speaking areas and might cause further Russo-Ottoman Wars.
The Balkans still seem a mess, Hungary has lost lots of land to the Romanians and Russians (or quite a few) while the Serbo-Croatian entity has grown into encompassing Serbia and not just Serbian areas of the Quadruple Monarchy, which seems to have vanished.
I wonder what's going on in Canada and Australia, looks liek the British aren't capable of properly controlling their OTL white dominions while Indian seems to been suffering a sepoy-like revolt. Bad times for British, but thanks to O'Donnell and the Carlist kings, really good in colonization terms for Spain, perhaps would they try an occupation of Morocco?
The Second Republican period is certainly going to be the height of Greek irredentist nationalism.
The Balkans aren't really a mess; now the the Dinarides though, that's a different matter altogether. Hungary specifically is going through a lot of internal pressures at the moment, most of it stemming from its territorial losses and national disgrace, which has resulted in demands for
bosszú. As for Serbocroatia see my above reply to Grand Prince Paul II. on the topic.
I'm not sure why Britain's (lack of) control over her white dominions is so surprising; Australia was a penal colony until quite late in her history, and British North America west of the Great Lakes was all-but ignored by London. Hell the Brits were more than willing to toss the whole of Canada under the bus even as late as the 1930s IOTL in case of a War Plan Red-esque scenario. The most important thing to note here, at least IMHO (and I could be wrong; I'm always open to outside commentary), is that the North American territories have received responsible government (e.g. local rule) earlier, and thus the reason for the West-East split, where as Australia hasn't been graced with such a policy at all.
India is undergoing what will later be called the Second War of Indian Independence, but for right now the London newspapers are decrying the 'Great Revolt.'
Spain is doing about as well as she possibly can be at the moment, and then some (see: South America), however her colonial aspirations will have to be put on hold soon by the outbreak of another round of in-fighting.
This was well done, but some of the U.S. state borders need to be redrawn,
badly. I suggest starting with TTL's Minnesota, Kansas, and whatever OTL's Arizona ended up being named. (East and West Texas look okay, though.)
Also, what's with the blue outline in Western Canada?
I'm not exactly sure what your criticism regarding the US state borders are. Could you explain a bit further? Keep in mind that ITTL's
New Mexico,
Kansas, and Minnesota aren't the same as OTL's states.
The blue outline is the RCS New Zealand color, which I've applied to Western Canada to show the differences between the Kingdom of Canada and the Confederation of Colombia.
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I spoke about this idea a while back and it's finally finished, to a degree anyway.
Go on, take a wild guess
Was the choice of bottle-green for Russia a conscious one; e.g. is this a republican Russia?
Reposting because Minecraft clearly distracted you from my map.
Interesting. What's the state of affairs in the rest of North America? More specifically, what's stopping British *America from expanding across the whole of the continent?
My MOTF entry for this week:
Mannerheim's version of Suursuomi (Greater Finland) during the Continuation War. The text reads "Fight for victory! Let Greater Finland become a reality!". Large letters is Finnish, small letters is Swedish due to the bilingual situation in Finland.
I was in sort of a rush so I might have mistyped something, but generally I'm quite happy with how it turned out.
I can't speak to the content, as its outside of my area of knowledge, but the presentation is amazing. What techniques/effects did you use to get that particular poster look?
A while ago I did a map of a world where the Persians conquer Greece, but are taken down some time later by an alliance between an Indian prince and some rebellious satraps. However, the emperor retreated to Sardis and worked out a deal with the westernmost satraps, and the empire (officially the Persian Empire, but usually called as the Sardic Empire because it was more Greek than Persian culturally and was ruled by Greeks after the first two emperors and because a new Persian Empire was built in the actual Persia after a very brief period of Indian rule and a much longer period of civil war) survived in Greece, the southern Balkans, and Asia Minor. It prospered and expanded, mostly into Europe (the first Greek emperor was obsessed with conquering Europe, and passed on the dream to his descendants, leading to a confrontational relationship with Carthage which varied between aggressive influence-building and long bloody wars), but also in Asia Minor, where they became bitter enemies of the expansionist Kingdom of Iberia (the Caucasus' Iberia, not the Iberian Peninsula). Most of the time, the gains in Europe were small, but eventually a young emperor launched a major campaign north (previously, the Sardic Empire ruled just about all of the Balkans, but no farther). It was quite successful, and included the conquest of the entire Oder river, all the way up to the Baltic. However, these territories were weakly held and served to anger the Germanic tribes. They were united under the banner of the charismatic Irmin, later nicknamed "the Hammer," who gave himself the fictitious title of "High Satrap of Europe" and marched south, which is where the story on the map begins. The map is set in 177 BC, after the ensuing wars have ended. Carthage and Syria go on to dominate the Mediterranean between them, as well as expanding along the Atlantic coast (for Carthage) and into other parts of the Near East (for Syria).
A *Greco-Persian empire spanning from Asia Minor to the Balkans seems a bit much. The Carpathians are no laughing matter, especially in the Slovakian highlands.
EDIT: Baltic, not Balkans.
