AHC: Form alternate/new ethnic groups of the world
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Toumanitompans
- Ancestry - Tsakonian colonists who settled in the Lake Winnipeg/Red River region starting in the 1860's; to some extent they also have some native american ancestry from interbreeding
- Language - Potamic Tsakonian (currently estimated to have around 200 speakers)
- Religion - Greek Orthodox and Catholic
- Location - Red River and Assiniboine River basins up to the Interlake region
- Population - 2,600 (2019)
- Culture - While ostensibly a hellenic culture, toumanitompans have much altered their culture to suit the flood-prone boreal conditions of the area. Subsequently, they have adapted various ojibwe and dakota customs and cuisine.
The Militant Doberman
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You’re right, my mistake. I edited the post now.
BTW, here is another idea for an alternative ethnic group from a different thread:
What if the “Black Asians” hadn’t gone extinct? Basically, according to one theory, the first human inhabitants of Asia were people of Y-haplogroup D who travel eastward out of Africa along the coast some 50 to 60 thousand years ago. For reference, these people would have looked something like this:
Yet for reasons not yet understood, they have gone all but extinct and were replaced by “modern Asians”. One of the few pockets of these early Asians eventually became the Andamanese Islanders (pictured above) and, surprisingly, the Ainu people.
It’s interesting to think about what if a larger group of “Black Asians” had survived as a district ethnic group on the mainland and how they may have influenced (and be intern influenced by) surrounding cultures.
Tibetans (and related ethno-linguistic groups) had also a prominent, if not predominant, percentage of Y-haplogroup D; I also suspected on the Kusunda as well.
Sisilyan:
Ancestry: Norman, Moorish, South Italian, and Byzantine Greek
Language (in order of commonality): Sisilyani (a Semitic language similar to Maltese), Palermano (a Romance language with a heavily Greek- and Arabic-influenced vocabulary), Sicilian Arabic, Sicilian Greek
Region: the island of Sicily, with diasporic communities across the Mediterranean
Religion (in order of commonality): Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, Sicilian Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodoxy
The island of Sicily has always been a crossroads in the Mediterranean, and never moreso than after its conquest by the Normans. A strange blending of cultures took hold, which Sicily never really lost. Following the expulsion of the Moors from Spain in the 16th century, many fled to Sicily, reviving its Islamic heritage. Sicily remained a neutral party during the Ottoman-Habsburg conflict in the Mediterranean, playing both sides off each other to its own benefit.
Ancestry: Norman, Moorish, South Italian, and Byzantine Greek
Language (in order of commonality): Sisilyani (a Semitic language similar to Maltese), Palermano (a Romance language with a heavily Greek- and Arabic-influenced vocabulary), Sicilian Arabic, Sicilian Greek
Region: the island of Sicily, with diasporic communities across the Mediterranean
Religion (in order of commonality): Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, Sicilian Orthodoxy, Greek Orthodoxy
The island of Sicily has always been a crossroads in the Mediterranean, and never moreso than after its conquest by the Normans. A strange blending of cultures took hold, which Sicily never really lost. Following the expulsion of the Moors from Spain in the 16th century, many fled to Sicily, reviving its Islamic heritage. Sicily remained a neutral party during the Ottoman-Habsburg conflict in the Mediterranean, playing both sides off each other to its own benefit.
Massaliots:
- Ancestry: Phocaean Greek, Gaulish, and Occitan. Massaliots usually have a genetic composition of ~50% Anatolian, ~35% Gaulish, and ~15% Occitan.
- Language: Nowadays they speak Occitan and French, but at home they speak Massalian, a descendant of Ionian Greek influenced by Gaulish and Occitan. Older people prefer Massalian.
- Region: The city of Marseille and the surrounding areas.
- Religion: Roman Catholicism with slight influences from Ancient Greek religion (not enough to be considered heresy)
- Population: 100,000 (83,000 in Marseille and 17,000 in nearby cities)
- Culture: Due to influence from surrounding peoples for over 2000 years, their culture is extremely similar to Occitan culture, but still has certain Greek influences stemming from the original Phocaean colonists. One notable example is how Greek gods have been reinterpreted as saints, like how Saint Valentine has replaced Aphrodite as the one who controls love. It’s common for Massaliots who have found love to say that they’ve been “blessed by Saint Valentine.” Another example is how many Massaliots believe that God controls the weather. When it thunders, Massaliots will often say that it is "God punishing someone somewhere in the world."
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Seludongese Brazilians
Ancestry: Seludongese from Celudão (Portuguese Luzon) and Novo Alentejo (Portuguese Formosa south of the Tejinho River) who immigrated to Brazil since the 1890s to work in its coffee and sugar industry as part of the trend of bring Asian immigrants (mostly Japanese Catholics from Kyushu, Chugoku and Tohoku as well as in northern Portuguese Formosa and from Portugal's Asian possessions like Ryukyuans, Javanese and Moluccans) to Brazil.
Language: Seludongese, Portuguese and other Seludongese dialects such as Samtoy and Macabebense
Region: Mostly in the provinces of São Paulo (including the namesake city and neighboring large cities) and Paraná (mostly in Curitiba).
Religion: Mostly Roman Catholic with a small but notable Hindu/Pagan minority
Population: 2 million (1,350,000 in São Paulo, 650,000 in Paraná)
Culture: Like OTL's Filipino-Americans, they are well-knit and maintained their cultural traditions, but they are for the most part fully integrated and respected in Brazilian society.
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Ancestry: Seludongese from Celudão (Portuguese Luzon) and Novo Alentejo (Portuguese Formosa south of the Tejinho River) who immigrated to Brazil since the 1890s to work in its coffee and sugar industry as part of the trend of bring Asian immigrants (mostly Japanese Catholics from Kyushu, Chugoku and Tohoku as well as in northern Portuguese Formosa and from Portugal's Asian possessions like Ryukyuans, Javanese and Moluccans) to Brazil.
Language: Seludongese, Portuguese and other Seludongese dialects such as Samtoy and Macabebense
Region: Mostly in the provinces of São Paulo (including the namesake city and neighboring large cities) and Paraná (mostly in Curitiba).
Religion: Mostly Roman Catholic with a small but notable Hindu/Pagan minority
Population: 2 million (1,350,000 in São Paulo, 650,000 in Paraná)
Culture: Like OTL's Filipino-Americans, they are well-knit and maintained their cultural traditions, but they are for the most part fully integrated and respected in Brazilian society.
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Carta. Ancestry: Carthrigian refugees from Roman sack of Carthrage set out from North African Atlantic coast,eventually ending up in present day Uruguay. Decades later fleets of Viking like boats go on Voyages of Acquisition on European coasts for women,slaves,loot. A rite of young warriors entering adulthood every twenty years or so,after a couple centuries a few disastrous encounters end the Voyages and the Carta concentrate on the inland. People are a blend of Celt,Norse,Germanic,Patagonian tribes,plus Pacific people's from Voyages to Easter Island,Hawaii..Language: Mix of European languages plus English,became an ally of English to blunt the Spanish and Portugese Empires.Region: Present day Uruguay,Argentina,Puerto Monte,Malvinas.Population:40-45 million.Culture: Proud of warrior culture,preservation of ancient libraries and museums from the founding,mania for physical fitness,work as worship.
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Wendyans
In an alternate timeline due to an external pressure Baltic Slavic tribes migrated to the North Sea shores in the age of migration and followed into the steps of North Sea Germanic peoples who already migrated to Britain. The Slavs raided the coastlines with their boats and set to set sail to England where Anglo-Saxon rulers fought for power. The Slavic invasion couldn't bring the Anglo-Saxons together, some rulers tried to apply with Slavic leaders. Eventually the Slavs conquered bits of Middle England plus coastline. The Slavic princes who lead the invasions could held the region successfully permanent and maintained their rule in their Voidvoships (provinces). Finally the Slavs elected a common king. Anglo-Saxons under Slavic rule had to remain silent or flee. Uprisings by Saxon subjects had been harshly put down. Eventually Slavs and Saxons in the area intermingled. After some decades the pagan Slavs, who had done raids into other territories became Christian Catholic somewhat later than their Saxon neighbors. The Slavs became a power factor on the British peninsula and even mainland Europe. They became known as Wendyans eventually. Even during the Viking and Norman invasions they kept fighting. The Slavic king and his elite guard of noble warriors had been known as fierce opponents. The Wends of Britain exported mercenaries who served in many conflicts in the British Isle, Ireland and Europe mainland. After the submission of remaining Slavs in Baltic area by Germans they became a sole Slavic kingdom in the West and the only North Sea Slavic entity.
Wendyans
In an alternate timeline due to an external pressure Baltic Slavic tribes migrated to the North Sea shores in the age of migration and followed into the steps of North Sea Germanic peoples who already migrated to Britain. The Slavs raided the coastlines with their boats and set to set sail to England where Anglo-Saxon rulers fought for power. The Slavic invasion couldn't bring the Anglo-Saxons together, some rulers tried to apply with Slavic leaders. Eventually the Slavs conquered bits of Middle England plus coastline. The Slavic princes who lead the invasions could held the region successfully permanent and maintained their rule in their Voidvoships (provinces). Finally the Slavs elected a common king. Anglo-Saxons under Slavic rule had to remain silent or flee. Uprisings by Saxon subjects had been harshly put down. Eventually Slavs and Saxons in the area intermingled. After some decades the pagan Slavs, who had done raids into other territories became Christian Catholic somewhat later than their Saxon neighbors. The Slavs became a power factor on the British peninsula and even mainland Europe. They became known as Wendyans eventually. Even during the Viking and Norman invasions they kept fighting. The Slavic king and his elite guard of noble warriors had been known as fierce opponents. The Wends of Britain exported mercenaries who served in many conflicts in the British Isle, Ireland and Europe mainland. After the submission of remaining Slavs in Baltic area by Germans they became a sole Slavic kingdom in the West and the only North Sea Slavic entity.
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Bukovinians
Ancestry: The Bukovinians are mostly a mixture of Romanians and Ruthenians (Ukrainians) with some Jewish, Polish and German influx.
Language: The Bukovinians speak an Austrian-Bavarian influenced variant of standard German.
Religion: The Bukovinians are overwhelming Greek Catholics or areligious, historical a significant minority (30%) of Bukovinians was Jewish, Roman Catholic or Protestant, but by modern day, only 2% of the Bukovinian population are Jewish and only 6% are Catholic or Protestant. The majority of the Bukovinian diaspora are non-Greek Catholic.
Population: In Bukovina 83% (2,1 million) of the population identifies as Bukovinians, but 1,3 million people identifies as or partly as Bukovinians outside the country. Germany, USA, Russia, Israel and Kazakhstan are home to most of the diaspora. After Bukovina’s membership of EU the country have seen some return of the diaspora. Through they’re usual not identified as Bukovinians in official statistics of the country. It’s believed 10% of Bukovina’s population are returnees.
History: Original Bukovina was a Moldovian province populated by Romanians and Ruthenians, but under Austrian rule (1774- 1918) German ended up Lingua Franca and with the industrialization of the duchy and the build up of a major garrison. As such the local population shifted to speaking German, it’s believed the local Greek Catholic Church shift to German strengthen this process. A significant part of the population still spoke Romanian and Ruthenian in 1918, but as Bukovina succeed in gaining independence, it enforced German in the Interbellum. The Nazi regime didn’t recognize the Greek Catholic or Jewish Bukovinians as German, and in Molotow-Ribbentrop Pact, Bukovina was given to USSR. Bukovina was made into an SSR, but in 1941 Germany occupied Bukovina, the German occupation was brutal with most of the country’s Jewish population dying in the Holocaust. But the brutal occupation saved the Bukovinians from being expelled to Germany. But most of the Roman Catholic and Protestant part of the population fled or was deported to Siberia. Bukovina became an SSR again until the fall of USSR, where it became independent again. Large scale investment from Germany have resulted in the country being one of the more prosperous post-Communist states.
Ancestry: The Bukovinians are mostly a mixture of Romanians and Ruthenians (Ukrainians) with some Jewish, Polish and German influx.
Language: The Bukovinians speak an Austrian-Bavarian influenced variant of standard German.
Religion: The Bukovinians are overwhelming Greek Catholics or areligious, historical a significant minority (30%) of Bukovinians was Jewish, Roman Catholic or Protestant, but by modern day, only 2% of the Bukovinian population are Jewish and only 6% are Catholic or Protestant. The majority of the Bukovinian diaspora are non-Greek Catholic.
Population: In Bukovina 83% (2,1 million) of the population identifies as Bukovinians, but 1,3 million people identifies as or partly as Bukovinians outside the country. Germany, USA, Russia, Israel and Kazakhstan are home to most of the diaspora. After Bukovina’s membership of EU the country have seen some return of the diaspora. Through they’re usual not identified as Bukovinians in official statistics of the country. It’s believed 10% of Bukovina’s population are returnees.
History: Original Bukovina was a Moldovian province populated by Romanians and Ruthenians, but under Austrian rule (1774- 1918) German ended up Lingua Franca and with the industrialization of the duchy and the build up of a major garrison. As such the local population shifted to speaking German, it’s believed the local Greek Catholic Church shift to German strengthen this process. A significant part of the population still spoke Romanian and Ruthenian in 1918, but as Bukovina succeed in gaining independence, it enforced German in the Interbellum. The Nazi regime didn’t recognize the Greek Catholic or Jewish Bukovinians as German, and in Molotow-Ribbentrop Pact, Bukovina was given to USSR. Bukovina was made into an SSR, but in 1941 Germany occupied Bukovina, the German occupation was brutal with most of the country’s Jewish population dying in the Holocaust. But the brutal occupation saved the Bukovinians from being expelled to Germany. But most of the Roman Catholic and Protestant part of the population fled or was deported to Siberia. Bukovina became an SSR again until the fall of USSR, where it became independent again. Large scale investment from Germany have resulted in the country being one of the more prosperous post-Communist states.
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Massaliot Israelien
Ancestry: Mostly Phocaean Greek. While they do have some Jewish ancestry, most are descended from ethnic Greeks converted by Hellenized Jews after the destruction of the Second Temple. This is a somewhat sensitive topic, with most Massaliot Israeliens having memorized long Talmudic discourses on why they are "full Jews" if their ancestry is brought up.
Language: Massalian, with Occitan or French used to interact with outsiders to the community. Hebrew is used as a liturgical language but not for everyday conversation.
Region: Originally Marseilles, but were driven away by race riots during the time of the Black Death. The community is currently centered in Avignon, where they were granted the protection of the Popes. The town of Aix en Provence has a significant schismatic community that practices a form of Karaite Judaism.
Religion: Jewish
Population: 10,000
Culture: Having become highly insular since the rise of Christianity, Massaliot Israeliens largely stuck to their own communities and avoided socializing with outsiders. Like many European Jews they were forbidden from owning land and took up alternative trades to farming, such as pottery and smithing. As weaving in Provence developed a reputation for being a trade learned mostly by heretics and therefore shunned by most Catholics, the Massaliot Israeliens largely took over the weaving business in Avignon when the Pope exiled all Christian weavers from the city on the suspicion of being Cathars. In more modern times the community is beginning to integrate more into Gentile society, with more households speaking Occitan or French at home and more members working outside the traditional trades. As a reaction against this integration, a strong Hasidic movement has grown within the traditionalists of the community who hope that ecstatic worship will do more to cement a Jewish identity than dry Rabbinic debate.
Luberonais
Ancestry: Occitan
Language: French and Occitan, with Occitan being the dominant language spoken at home.
Region: Rural towns around the Luberon, such as Oppede, Menerbes and Lacoste
Religion: Gnostic Christianity. The Perfected, people of either sex who have taken vows of vegetarianism and celibacy, serve as priests and lead worship ceremonies for the lay believers. Worship consists of reading and meditating on the the 4 orthodox canon Gospels, the works of St. Paul, and a Gnostic testament called the Secret Supper. There is no Eucharist ceremony, as the Cathars reject this sacrament and believe that the spiritual being called Jesus did not have a physical body with which to eat bread anyway. The Hebrew Bible is never read, as Cathars consider it the work of Satan-their hostility towards it actually contributed to the acceptance of Massaliot Israeliens by Provencal Catholics. Their only sacrament is the Consolatum, where people on their deathbed or becoming priests take strict vows to live angelic lives which will free them from the cycle of reincarnating in the evil material world which was created by Satan.
History: When Occitania became the property of the Kings of Aragon, they worked to suppress the Cathar movement but stopped short of a genocidal crusade as they did not want to alienate their new subjects and needed to guard military resources against their Muslim foes. They expelled Cathars from the towns of western Occitania, such as Carcassone, believing that scattering the community would prevent them from transferring the rite of Consalatum and their dualist beliefs across community lines. However, the Cathars would reconsolidate around the Luberon plateau, using the mountain as a place to escape persecution and working to convert religious malcontents in local communities. Their community was bolstered when Avignon temporarily became the seat of the papacy and the Popes banished their enemies from the city, creating waves of alienated drifters who were ripe for conversion. By the time Aragon (and therefore Occitania) was taken over by the French kings through marriage, the Cathars had become embedded in their region. They also had turned their focus more inward into their communities and away from converting outsiders, believing that God would send those worthy of salvation to them. This new practice separated the Luberonais from the wider Occitan community, creating a new ethnicity and also making them less of a threat to the dominant religious order. This meant that they were tolerated and so have survived to the modern era.
Jorvíkingr
Ancestry: The Jorvíkingr are a blend of Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and multiple waves of Scandinavian settlers who arrived throughout the centuries, including Harald Hardrada's conquest of England and reformation of the North Sea Empire.
Language: The Jorvíkingr speak a language similar to that of the Danes.
Religion: Historically the Jorvíkingr were staunch Catholics, rebelling against the Scottish-English Crown when it embraced Protestantism. In the contemporary era, while most Jorvíkingr identify as Catholic, less than 25 percent go to church every week.
Population: In Jorvík, 94% of the population (3.1 million) identify as Jorvíkingr . There is a small diaspora throughout the British Isles and Scandinavia.
History: The Kingdom of Jorvík originally dates to 654 but most Jorvíkingr identify Halfdan Ragnarsson as the nation's true founder. His successor Guthred would convert to the Christian religion of his Anglo-Saxon subjects and initiate the slow integrations of the locals to Jorvíkingr culture. It resisted expansionism on part of its rivals Wessex and East Anglia but it would be Harald Hardrada's invasion of the British isles that would momentarily bring Jorvíkingr and English under one roof. Harald's descendants would rule the British isles from Konungsgurtha (Kingsgurth) for several centuries until that dynasty's extinction in 1345 and replacement by the Canmores of neighboring Scotland who ironically enough became more English than Scottish; a shift exemplified in their decision to move the capital to London. The Canmores would subsequently convert to Protestantism which was a bridge too far for the staunchly Catholic Jorvíkingr who pleaded to the Pope and countless Catholic kings for foreign intervention.
The Danish king Guthrum II would send an army that would liberate Jorvík from the Canmores in 1462 but unlike Harald Hardrada centuries ago, he would not rule himself. With the approval of the folksmote, Guthrum II would relinquish the newly established Jorvíkingr monarchy to his youngest son Christian. It would be Jorvík that would lead in the industrialization of Europe but otherwise avoid most foreign conflicts, with the exception of the World Wars in the nineteenth century.
Ancestry: The Jorvíkingr are a blend of Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and multiple waves of Scandinavian settlers who arrived throughout the centuries, including Harald Hardrada's conquest of England and reformation of the North Sea Empire.
Language: The Jorvíkingr speak a language similar to that of the Danes.
Religion: Historically the Jorvíkingr were staunch Catholics, rebelling against the Scottish-English Crown when it embraced Protestantism. In the contemporary era, while most Jorvíkingr identify as Catholic, less than 25 percent go to church every week.
Population: In Jorvík, 94% of the population (3.1 million) identify as Jorvíkingr . There is a small diaspora throughout the British Isles and Scandinavia.
History: The Kingdom of Jorvík originally dates to 654 but most Jorvíkingr identify Halfdan Ragnarsson as the nation's true founder. His successor Guthred would convert to the Christian religion of his Anglo-Saxon subjects and initiate the slow integrations of the locals to Jorvíkingr culture. It resisted expansionism on part of its rivals Wessex and East Anglia but it would be Harald Hardrada's invasion of the British isles that would momentarily bring Jorvíkingr and English under one roof. Harald's descendants would rule the British isles from Konungsgurtha (Kingsgurth) for several centuries until that dynasty's extinction in 1345 and replacement by the Canmores of neighboring Scotland who ironically enough became more English than Scottish; a shift exemplified in their decision to move the capital to London. The Canmores would subsequently convert to Protestantism which was a bridge too far for the staunchly Catholic Jorvíkingr who pleaded to the Pope and countless Catholic kings for foreign intervention.
The Danish king Guthrum II would send an army that would liberate Jorvík from the Canmores in 1462 but unlike Harald Hardrada centuries ago, he would not rule himself. With the approval of the folksmote, Guthrum II would relinquish the newly established Jorvíkingr monarchy to his youngest son Christian. It would be Jorvík that would lead in the industrialization of Europe but otherwise avoid most foreign conflicts, with the exception of the World Wars in the nineteenth century.
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‘ibi
Language: Giz
The ‘ibi (Hebrews), refers to the Judaistic people of the Republic of Ethiopia, who in historic times have had carved out their own kingdom. Ras Solomon Dawid, the legendary ruler, is considered as a national Saint. The country's flag depicts a Tora and two swords. As a rival to Christianity and later Islam a Rabbinic Judaism could gain control among a segment of Amharic people and regional rulers. A specific region remained under control of the Judaistic believers. Their capital was heavely fortified and consisted of a massive Synagoge. Ethiopian Jews sought refuge even in the kingdom of. The
‘ibi became a own ethnic identity due to development of culture and language. The Amharic language began to adapt Hebrew loan words. In the Medival period European and Serphadic Jews even arrived in the kingdom of to escape purge. In the 19th Century Jews from the Ottoman, the Habsburg and the Russian Empire emigrated to and intermixed with the local population . After the monarchy ended in 1970 became a Republic. Today this country is estimated to have around 3 Million people.
Language: Giz
The ‘ibi (Hebrews), refers to the Judaistic people of the Republic of Ethiopia, who in historic times have had carved out their own kingdom. Ras Solomon Dawid, the legendary ruler, is considered as a national Saint. The country's flag depicts a Tora and two swords. As a rival to Christianity and later Islam a Rabbinic Judaism could gain control among a segment of Amharic people and regional rulers. A specific region remained under control of the Judaistic believers. Their capital was heavely fortified and consisted of a massive Synagoge. Ethiopian Jews sought refuge even in the kingdom of. The
‘ibi became a own ethnic identity due to development of culture and language. The Amharic language began to adapt Hebrew loan words. In the Medival period European and Serphadic Jews even arrived in the kingdom of to escape purge. In the 19th Century Jews from the Ottoman, the Habsburg and the Russian Empire emigrated to and intermixed with the local population . After the monarchy ended in 1970 became a Republic. Today this country is estimated to have around 3 Million people.
Isaura
Ancestry: The Isaura, sometimes referred to as Isaurians or Isauriotes or Sur, are an ethnic group dominant in Surestān. It is believed that the Isaura are a surviving subgroup of the Luwians, an ancient Anatolian people that were once common throughout Surestān prior to colonization and assimilated by the Greek cities and empires of classical antiquity, a process accelerated by the Grecophile Romans until the Persian shah Khosrow II destroyed the empire and diminished Hellenism east of the Aegean Sea. The remaining Greeks in the cities and countless other people including the Phrygians, Galatians and Armenians in addition to Slavic and even Turkish immigrants continued to be assimilated by the Isaura.
Language: Isaurian is the identifying language of the Isaura, spoken by an overwhelming majority of Surestān. It is a language isolate, a descendant of the Luwian language, itself belonging to the once-diverse Anatolian language family. Isaurian is stereotyped by its speakers and outsiders as "the oldest language in Asia Minor."
Like its ancestor, it seems to have been originally written in a cuneiform adopted from Mesopotamia though that would switch over to a modified adaptation of Greek script, ironic given the history between the Isaura and Greeks.
Region: The nucleus of Surestān is located north of the Taurus mountain range. The foothills of southern Asia Minor were labeled under Surestān. The destruction of countless Greco-Roman cities throughout Asia Minor granted the Isaura the opportunity to expand into lands once considered off-limits to them and assimilate remnants of the Roman population that wasn't killed, deported or made slaves by the Persian and Avars.
Religion: Little is known of Isaura mythology prior to their Christianization, compared to other cultures. It is presumed that they worshipped an Indo-European religion that would increasingly adopt Hellenic elements until St. Paul introduced Christianity during his travels. This was a multi-generational process that would be complete during the 3rd century AD by St. Konon the Gardener, patron saint of Surestān. The Isaura are noted to be a devout, traditional and church-going people. The Isaura have produced countless Christian figures such as Lallis Palaea, Tuvarsa Runtiya and Michael Kodissa, founder of the military order, The Knights of St. Konon of Bethany.
The capital Ourba was once home to a centuries-old Jewish community composed of Greek-speaking Roman Jews escaping from fierce persecutions initiated by the Avar khagans during the Dark Ages prior to their voluntary emigration to the Kingdom of Israel in the seventeenth century.
Population: 72,000,000
Culture: Isaura are stereotyped as an insular, violent mountain people by their neighbors, a tradition that dates back to the Emperor Zeno who was mis-characterized by the bigoted Roman aristocracy as a brutish barbarian, akin to the Goths that once dwelled in the Danube. If anything, they are friendly and cosmopolitan. The culture of the Isaura dates back several millenium, with its beginning with the Luwians, continuing throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods and became completely transformed by the Christian religion and its proximity to Constantinople, now Konstangrad. It would be under the Euphemian Renaissance that (then) contemporary, medieval and ancient elements would be combined to form modern day Isaurian culture.
History: The first known mention of a distinct Isaurian people was during the Siege of Isaura by the Macedonian general and regent Perdiccas. The ancient Isaura refused to hand their capital to the Greeks and burnt it to the ground rather than submitting to the Macedonian war machine. The Romans would have similar difficulty, partially conquering them during the submission of the Cilician pirates plaguing Mediterranean trade. They would continue to be a menace throughout the centuries, raiding defenseless towns and villages until a Roman force would arrive and force them into submission before withdrawing and returning to their old habits. They even sheltered a Roman usurper during the Crisis of the Third Century.
Even when one of their own, Zeno, ascended to the purple, their predatory habits continued. It was only during Justinian's reign that they have become subdued. Had it not been for Khosrow II's invasion and conquest of the Roman Empire's eastern provinces, the Isaura would've disappeared as a distinct people like their linguistic cousins and their neighbors and became indistinguishable from Greek or Roman. The truth is that despite their Christianization, Hellenizing/Romanizing in every aspect but language and contributing several emperors and part of the famed Excubitores, the Isaura were treated no better than the barbarians who lived outside the Empire. Roman religious propaganda labelled the Isaura, proud orthodox Christians, as pseudo-schismatic due to their allegiance to the Patriarch of Antioch instead of the one in Constantinople.
An otherwise benign anti-tax revolt led by the peasant farmer Flavius Arrma in 595 and its subsequent, violent crushing under the emperor Maurice would lead to his successor Phocas having to deal with Isauria rebelling and encouraging the Persian shah Khosrow II to send reinforcements. Flavius Arma's younger brother, Flavius Trokombigremis was appointed as satrap of Surestān which initially composed of Old Isauria and southwestern Anatolia. Persian rule of Surestān would be short-lived, lasting only a century. The Gokturks would raze Ctesiphon to the ground and replace the Sassanids. Their rule never reached west of the Euphrates. Surestān/Isauria would proclaim independence, expanding their territory eastward in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Ancestry: The Isaura, sometimes referred to as Isaurians or Isauriotes or Sur, are an ethnic group dominant in Surestān. It is believed that the Isaura are a surviving subgroup of the Luwians, an ancient Anatolian people that were once common throughout Surestān prior to colonization and assimilated by the Greek cities and empires of classical antiquity, a process accelerated by the Grecophile Romans until the Persian shah Khosrow II destroyed the empire and diminished Hellenism east of the Aegean Sea. The remaining Greeks in the cities and countless other people including the Phrygians, Galatians and Armenians in addition to Slavic and even Turkish immigrants continued to be assimilated by the Isaura.
Language: Isaurian is the identifying language of the Isaura, spoken by an overwhelming majority of Surestān. It is a language isolate, a descendant of the Luwian language, itself belonging to the once-diverse Anatolian language family. Isaurian is stereotyped by its speakers and outsiders as "the oldest language in Asia Minor."
Like its ancestor, it seems to have been originally written in a cuneiform adopted from Mesopotamia though that would switch over to a modified adaptation of Greek script, ironic given the history between the Isaura and Greeks.
Region: The nucleus of Surestān is located north of the Taurus mountain range. The foothills of southern Asia Minor were labeled under Surestān. The destruction of countless Greco-Roman cities throughout Asia Minor granted the Isaura the opportunity to expand into lands once considered off-limits to them and assimilate remnants of the Roman population that wasn't killed, deported or made slaves by the Persian and Avars.
Religion: Little is known of Isaura mythology prior to their Christianization, compared to other cultures. It is presumed that they worshipped an Indo-European religion that would increasingly adopt Hellenic elements until St. Paul introduced Christianity during his travels. This was a multi-generational process that would be complete during the 3rd century AD by St. Konon the Gardener, patron saint of Surestān. The Isaura are noted to be a devout, traditional and church-going people. The Isaura have produced countless Christian figures such as Lallis Palaea, Tuvarsa Runtiya and Michael Kodissa, founder of the military order, The Knights of St. Konon of Bethany.
The capital Ourba was once home to a centuries-old Jewish community composed of Greek-speaking Roman Jews escaping from fierce persecutions initiated by the Avar khagans during the Dark Ages prior to their voluntary emigration to the Kingdom of Israel in the seventeenth century.
Population: 72,000,000
Culture: Isaura are stereotyped as an insular, violent mountain people by their neighbors, a tradition that dates back to the Emperor Zeno who was mis-characterized by the bigoted Roman aristocracy as a brutish barbarian, akin to the Goths that once dwelled in the Danube. If anything, they are friendly and cosmopolitan. The culture of the Isaura dates back several millenium, with its beginning with the Luwians, continuing throughout the Hellenistic and Roman periods and became completely transformed by the Christian religion and its proximity to Constantinople, now Konstangrad. It would be under the Euphemian Renaissance that (then) contemporary, medieval and ancient elements would be combined to form modern day Isaurian culture.
History: The first known mention of a distinct Isaurian people was during the Siege of Isaura by the Macedonian general and regent Perdiccas. The ancient Isaura refused to hand their capital to the Greeks and burnt it to the ground rather than submitting to the Macedonian war machine. The Romans would have similar difficulty, partially conquering them during the submission of the Cilician pirates plaguing Mediterranean trade. They would continue to be a menace throughout the centuries, raiding defenseless towns and villages until a Roman force would arrive and force them into submission before withdrawing and returning to their old habits. They even sheltered a Roman usurper during the Crisis of the Third Century.
Even when one of their own, Zeno, ascended to the purple, their predatory habits continued. It was only during Justinian's reign that they have become subdued. Had it not been for Khosrow II's invasion and conquest of the Roman Empire's eastern provinces, the Isaura would've disappeared as a distinct people like their linguistic cousins and their neighbors and became indistinguishable from Greek or Roman. The truth is that despite their Christianization, Hellenizing/Romanizing in every aspect but language and contributing several emperors and part of the famed Excubitores, the Isaura were treated no better than the barbarians who lived outside the Empire. Roman religious propaganda labelled the Isaura, proud orthodox Christians, as pseudo-schismatic due to their allegiance to the Patriarch of Antioch instead of the one in Constantinople.
An otherwise benign anti-tax revolt led by the peasant farmer Flavius Arrma in 595 and its subsequent, violent crushing under the emperor Maurice would lead to his successor Phocas having to deal with Isauria rebelling and encouraging the Persian shah Khosrow II to send reinforcements. Flavius Arma's younger brother, Flavius Trokombigremis was appointed as satrap of Surestān which initially composed of Old Isauria and southwestern Anatolia. Persian rule of Surestān would be short-lived, lasting only a century. The Gokturks would raze Ctesiphon to the ground and replace the Sassanids. Their rule never reached west of the Euphrates. Surestān/Isauria would proclaim independence, expanding their territory eastward in the eighth and ninth centuries.
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Osmanli Guaranisi, also known as Turk-Guarani, Turco-Guaraníes or Tukiavañeé
Language: Guaranisi - Ottoman Turkish with many guaraní loans and in a lower extent, spanish, greek and albanian words. Official language of Paraguay.
Ancestry: In this ATL, Francisco Solano López (later known as Suylan Kurtöglu Pasha) had tighter diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire. When the Triple Alliance war began, Sultan Abdülaziz responded attacking the Brazilian coast, invading Uruguay and Argentina, destroying the Triple Alliance army. Many turks stayed in Paraguay after the Monaco Treaty in February 1867, and many more arrived to further populate it. Some greeks and albanians in the Ottoman Army also settled, bringing families and relatives.
Religion: Sunni Islam. Also, there are many Catholics and animist rites.
Culture: Same as the Ottoman with exceptions, mostly gastronomic. Govt encouraged this kind of cultural shift for political reasons.
Space: Paraguay, Northern argentine provinces, Uruguay and South brazilian states.
Language: Guaranisi - Ottoman Turkish with many guaraní loans and in a lower extent, spanish, greek and albanian words. Official language of Paraguay.
Ancestry: In this ATL, Francisco Solano López (later known as Suylan Kurtöglu Pasha) had tighter diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire. When the Triple Alliance war began, Sultan Abdülaziz responded attacking the Brazilian coast, invading Uruguay and Argentina, destroying the Triple Alliance army. Many turks stayed in Paraguay after the Monaco Treaty in February 1867, and many more arrived to further populate it. Some greeks and albanians in the Ottoman Army also settled, bringing families and relatives.
Religion: Sunni Islam. Also, there are many Catholics and animist rites.
Culture: Same as the Ottoman with exceptions, mostly gastronomic. Govt encouraged this kind of cultural shift for political reasons.
Space: Paraguay, Northern argentine provinces, Uruguay and South brazilian states.
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Andean Tibetans
Language: Core Tibetan with strong Quecha influence and loans from other south american languages, known as Lasa Simi (Quechua), Cuséké (Tibetan) or Andean Tibetan.
History: In the 1850's, many tibetans joined the chinese for a new life in America. Peru gladly received them, hoping to invigorate the Andean mining industry with these people used to live thousand of meters among the sea level. Now there are more than 3.600.000 in Peru and 1.000.000 in Bolivia.
Religion: Buddhist but its more usual now to include animism. Yak dairy products started to being regular offers to Pachamama (Mother Earth), even for no andean tibetans.
Culture: Andean tibetans embraced many aspects of quechua culture, like religion and terrace agriculture. Yak introduction was a win-win for both sides. There are no traces of tibetan traditional clothing but one can see influences in most of their quechua themed clothing. Tibetan architecture can be seen in many cities, one of their examples in the Monument of Friendship in El Callao, Lima.
Space: Actually the biggest andean tibetan populations are between Peru and Bolivia. Chile has also a presence only in the far north.
Andean Tibetans
Language: Core Tibetan with strong Quecha influence and loans from other south american languages, known as Lasa Simi (Quechua), Cuséké (Tibetan) or Andean Tibetan.
History: In the 1850's, many tibetans joined the chinese for a new life in America. Peru gladly received them, hoping to invigorate the Andean mining industry with these people used to live thousand of meters among the sea level. Now there are more than 3.600.000 in Peru and 1.000.000 in Bolivia.
Religion: Buddhist but its more usual now to include animism. Yak dairy products started to being regular offers to Pachamama (Mother Earth), even for no andean tibetans.
Culture: Andean tibetans embraced many aspects of quechua culture, like religion and terrace agriculture. Yak introduction was a win-win for both sides. There are no traces of tibetan traditional clothing but one can see influences in most of their quechua themed clothing. Tibetan architecture can be seen in many cities, one of their examples in the Monument of Friendship in El Callao, Lima.
Space: Actually the biggest andean tibetan populations are between Peru and Bolivia. Chile has also a presence only in the far north.
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Swaho Malays
Language: Malay with a strong kiswahili superstrate. Known as Swaho-Malay.
Ancestry: Malay, Swahili.
Religion: Animist with Sunni-like schools.
Culture: Swahili with many malay contributions -architecture, education, cuisine. The main focus is the commerce, due to the nature of Zanzibar founders and the later swaho malays.
Region: Tanzania, Kenia, Mozambique.
Brief History: Malays took advantage of arab sea trades and started to reach Zanzibar in big numbers. By the time of Dutch companies arrivals, there was a very fluid community with a Sultanate engaging in extensive trade routes.
Swaho Malays
Language: Malay with a strong kiswahili superstrate. Known as Swaho-Malay.
Ancestry: Malay, Swahili.
Religion: Animist with Sunni-like schools.
Culture: Swahili with many malay contributions -architecture, education, cuisine. The main focus is the commerce, due to the nature of Zanzibar founders and the later swaho malays.
Region: Tanzania, Kenia, Mozambique.
Brief History: Malays took advantage of arab sea trades and started to reach Zanzibar in big numbers. By the time of Dutch companies arrivals, there was a very fluid community with a Sultanate engaging in extensive trade routes.