AHC: Form alternate/new ethnic groups of the world
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Muslims have figured out how to pray towards Mecca from Earth's orbit. i think they can figure out Ramadan in the Arctic Circle
One is simple because it's a rough direction, the other is literally limited by the times of night and day very clearly and there is little room for interpretation or working around that restriction without getting away from the core text, it's rules and meaning I believe.Muslims have figured out how to pray towards Mecca from Earth's orbit. i think they can figure out Ramadan in the Arctic Circle
Almarun
The descendants of African slaves in the British Carribean further spiritually influenced by a mass arrival of Muslim Indian workers to the Carribean colonies during the 19th Century. Also Islamic schools of thinking had been established with descendants of slaves being introduces aswell. More and more Islam gained ground among the so called Maroon population. A spiritual awakening campaign by Imans of an Indian Madrassa school with a missionary approach led the ground. Eventually the Indian workers and African decendant poulation began to intermarry. Even a small number of British Whites converted to Islam and joined the new community. Due to Imans a mix of Arabic language aswell as Punjabi, Hindi,Urdu and other North Indian had been spoken more and more of the children and grandchildren of these people. Jamaican British and the West African descendent creole language Patois of the slave´s descendents added to this mix. The new creole population of Jamaica eventually refered themselves to as Almarun in Arabic. Today about 85% of the Jamaican population refers themselves to as Almarun. The Almarun language is a very unique mix of completly different languages merged into a functioning new language written in Islamic script. The former Jamaican capital Kingston was renamed Almalakiabad after the independence war during the early 20th Century. Jamaica is now known as 'Ardsakhria.
Language: Almarun language
Ancestry: West African, North Indian ethnicities, British-Jamaicans, Arabs
Religion: Sunni Islam
Culture: Carribean Islamic Almarun Culture
I know that's what they do today, but how would it have worked hundreds of years ago when Mecca time wasn't readily available to check?
Ramadan when a challenge is never intended to be a torture, with erratic time zones is allowed to fast for a set time or just do charity (ie feed a poor and needed,) that is done by those can't physically fast Anymore (old age or sickness)
There once was this idea in a threat; it discussed a hypothetical situation where post-Operation Iraqi Freedom Washington encourages U.S. soldiers to mingle with local Iraqis and even put down roots/marry into Iraqi families (contrasting with OTL where interactions between local Iraqi civilians and U.S. forces were curtailed and limited). The goal would be to change the culture of the locals over time through intermingling. What would these American Iraqis have in tearms of history/language/ancestry/religion/overall culture/geographical distribution if they became a larger minortiy group in Iraq?
Assyria
The Assyrian population manages to resist Islamic encroachment more and more, and are much more numerous by WW1. The Assyrians with Russian and British support manage to stave off the attempts at genocide inflicted upon them and take control of much of Northern Mesopotamia. They are able to force their voices in the treaties regarding the middle east and ally with the Hashemites in forming a Greater Syria under joint "Franco-British Guidance". Greater Syria is formed with many autonomous regions such as Lebanon, Alawia and Assyria in Northern Mesopotamia. Many chaldeans, Assyrians, Nestorians and even some Armenians migrate to this autonomous state of Assyria, making it a firm Assyrian majority as muslims left for the growing industrial centers of Greater Syria. The Assyrians and their Lebanese Maronite allies would be major power brokers within the Syrian Sultanate and their main bridges into the west, as both groups greatly benefitted from their relations with the West. After WW2 the Federal Council of Syria would vote for Palestine to be opened to Jewish immigration in recognition of their heritage there. Today the Syrian Sultanate is a federal state that emcompasses Greater Syria and Northern Mesopotamia and parts of Cilicia in the North. The wars with Turkey and Iraq after the departure of the French and the British formed a stable greater nationality in the country, but Syria is still very diverse and very pro-federalism. Today the Autonomous Region of Assyria is by GDP the second richest area of the Syrian Sultanate and is the largest. In modern times many Assyrians have left Assyria proper both for the west and the urban cities of Syria proper and Palestine, but Assyria is by far one of the safest and calmest regions of the Middle East.
Language: Assyrian Aramaic, Syrian Arabic
Ancestry: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Armenians, Georgians, Arabs, Kurds and Turks
Religion: Syriac Christianity
Size: 7 million in Assyria proper, 12 million in Syria.
The Assyrian population manages to resist Islamic encroachment more and more, and are much more numerous by WW1. The Assyrians with Russian and British support manage to stave off the attempts at genocide inflicted upon them and take control of much of Northern Mesopotamia. They are able to force their voices in the treaties regarding the middle east and ally with the Hashemites in forming a Greater Syria under joint "Franco-British Guidance". Greater Syria is formed with many autonomous regions such as Lebanon, Alawia and Assyria in Northern Mesopotamia. Many chaldeans, Assyrians, Nestorians and even some Armenians migrate to this autonomous state of Assyria, making it a firm Assyrian majority as muslims left for the growing industrial centers of Greater Syria. The Assyrians and their Lebanese Maronite allies would be major power brokers within the Syrian Sultanate and their main bridges into the west, as both groups greatly benefitted from their relations with the West. After WW2 the Federal Council of Syria would vote for Palestine to be opened to Jewish immigration in recognition of their heritage there. Today the Syrian Sultanate is a federal state that emcompasses Greater Syria and Northern Mesopotamia and parts of Cilicia in the North. The wars with Turkey and Iraq after the departure of the French and the British formed a stable greater nationality in the country, but Syria is still very diverse and very pro-federalism. Today the Autonomous Region of Assyria is by GDP the second richest area of the Syrian Sultanate and is the largest. In modern times many Assyrians have left Assyria proper both for the west and the urban cities of Syria proper and Palestine, but Assyria is by far one of the safest and calmest regions of the Middle East.
Language: Assyrian Aramaic, Syrian Arabic
Ancestry: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Armenians, Georgians, Arabs, Kurds and Turks
Religion: Syriac Christianity
Size: 7 million in Assyria proper, 12 million in Syria.
Zentraleuropans/Neopolabians
Population: 30.000.000
Language: the majority of the population speak Neopolabian (Standardized Sorbian with major German, Russian and Polish influences). Eurasian, German, Polish and Yiddish are also spoken by the Zentraleuropans
Ancestry: mainly East Germans, Sorbs, Slavic settlers from Eurasia and some Poles.
Religion: Kosmotheismus(plurality), Eurasian Church, non-denominational Christian, Jewish, Lutheran and Orthodox Christian
Culture: A mixture of Sorbian, East German and Polish cultures, heavily influenced by Eurasian cultures.
Region: East Germany
27 years after its victories in the Great War, Germany, which is in a terrible crisis, falls into chaos that will cause a second great war after several failed coup attempts and radicals take over some cities in the country.
And after bloody conflicts, in 1944, the Directorate of Zentraleuropa is established as a Eurasian puppet. Although initially a state with equal representation of Germans, Poles, Sorbs and Ashkenazi Jews, over time "reinstatement" laws were enacted under the influence of the idea that East Germans were Germanized Sorbs who had lost their essence.
After 3 phases of 25 years each, the Zentraleuropa people were planned to be re-Slavicized and eventually integrated into Eurasia.
In the first stage, Neopolabian was accepted as the lingua franca of Zentraleuropa. Although the old languages were also officially recognized at the beginning, over time it became the only official language of the country. Later, old languages were banned in the public sphere, a strict assimilation began. In order to accelerate the process, tens of thousands of immigrants were imported from Eurasia, marriages with immigrants were encouraged, and the culture began to transform over time.
Finally, a new folk emerged, not the people Eurasia had imagined, but they were no longer the folk they once were. They were Zentraleuropans.
Population: 30.000.000
Language: the majority of the population speak Neopolabian (Standardized Sorbian with major German, Russian and Polish influences). Eurasian, German, Polish and Yiddish are also spoken by the Zentraleuropans
Ancestry: mainly East Germans, Sorbs, Slavic settlers from Eurasia and some Poles.
Religion: Kosmotheismus(plurality), Eurasian Church, non-denominational Christian, Jewish, Lutheran and Orthodox Christian
Culture: A mixture of Sorbian, East German and Polish cultures, heavily influenced by Eurasian cultures.
Region: East Germany
27 years after its victories in the Great War, Germany, which is in a terrible crisis, falls into chaos that will cause a second great war after several failed coup attempts and radicals take over some cities in the country.
And after bloody conflicts, in 1944, the Directorate of Zentraleuropa is established as a Eurasian puppet. Although initially a state with equal representation of Germans, Poles, Sorbs and Ashkenazi Jews, over time "reinstatement" laws were enacted under the influence of the idea that East Germans were Germanized Sorbs who had lost their essence.
After 3 phases of 25 years each, the Zentraleuropa people were planned to be re-Slavicized and eventually integrated into Eurasia.
In the first stage, Neopolabian was accepted as the lingua franca of Zentraleuropa. Although the old languages were also officially recognized at the beginning, over time it became the only official language of the country. Later, old languages were banned in the public sphere, a strict assimilation began. In order to accelerate the process, tens of thousands of immigrants were imported from Eurasia, marriages with immigrants were encouraged, and the culture began to transform over time.
Finally, a new folk emerged, not the people Eurasia had imagined, but they were no longer the folk they once were. They were Zentraleuropans.
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Black Romanians (Romani Negru)- also known as the Roman Ethiopians (Athiopes Romana). Ethno-racial community of the Romans. It arose as a result of the migration of the indigenous population of "Black Libya" to the Romanian Lands.
Language: Romanian (Lingua Romana) - the main modern language. For a long time, Creole dialects were used, but with the development of education and the greater integration of the black population, they disappeared. Ethiopians from migrant backgrounds use their mother tongues (mainly Nilotic and Western Congolese).
Ancestry: The bulk of Black Romanians are descendants of slaves. In the 18th century from the Founding of Rome, trade routes were established across the desert with the Empire of Ghana. As a result, a constant flow of slaves was established. Also among the Bereber tribes were black clans, sometimes sold to the Romans or sent there as prisoners of war. Centuries later, the transatlantic trade flourished, and with the development of navigation, the Romanians began to enslave the population of the more southern regions - although they mainly entered the New World, and only a few reached Rome. After the Revolution, Western Libya became the subject of the colonial interests of Rome, and the local tribes became Romanian subjects. They were used as cheap workers, and auxiliary military units were created on their basis. After decolonization, the part of the population of the liberated countries migrated to the North.
Religion: Most of the older generations joined the Chaldean communities. Migrants often follow native and syncretic cults.
Culture: The descendants of slaves have much more in common with the "white" Romanians than with the Ethiopians. However, most of them belong to lower strata, which is why they have a developed subculture and jargon.
Region: Most of them live in the Mauritanian and African provinces, where they make up 10% of the population. A small number live in Europe.
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Veneds
Language: "Common Western Slavic" - basically mix of XIV-XVth century Polish, Czech, Slovakian and language of Pannonian Slavs developed to XXIth century language
Population - 100 milions of people declare Venedic nationality in Veneda itself, but there are some (10-20 milions) communities of Venedic speakers outside of Veneda
History - in 955, after battle of Lechfeld, Otto I of Germany managed to beat Hungarians even harder than IOTL, which led to gradual (Bulgaria-style) adoption of Slavic language (based on X-th century "Slovakian" and language of Pannonian Slavs). That proces was ultimately finished by the times of ITTL St.Stephen. Later, on Hungarian-Polish personal union lasted longer than IOTL, uniting also with Bohemia. Bohemia, Slavo-Hungary and Poland ITTL gave birth to new national identity - the religion would be common, the language also (IOTL XIV-XVth century Pole could speak to Bohemian without translator and the case would be also with most dialects of Slavo-Hungarian) and the monarch, so the communities of all of those countries started to share a common identity. The name of that identity is an exonym, though - the German named western Slavs "Wends" and in Venedic Wend is spelled more like "Wened", but that was the name already used to describe people from that three kingdoms, so in middle XVth century there arose an idea of - "triune Venedic nation" and it more or less exists until TTL's 2021, though there were a lot of perturbances inculding republican revolution which did away with monarchy and losing two Great Wars in the row.
Culture - mix of XIV-XVth century Bohemian, Polish and Hungarian cultures developed to XXIth century culture, but avoiding a few trends, which developed in OTL among these nations. While clothing would be ITTL XVIIth century fairly similar to OTL PLC or Hungary, there would be no "Sarmatism" expy - from 1569 (between 1419 - formation of "Wendish Union" and 1569 there was a period which TTL's historians calls a - "transitional period" between Medieval feudal monarchy and Early Modern absolute monarchy) to 1848 Veneda was an absolute monarchy. ITTL 2021 it kinda resembles more organized and militaristic mixture of OTL Poland, Hungary and Bohemia's culture.
Region - mainly central and eastern Europe
Religion - mostly Catholic (some Protestant), with many atheists, agnostics and straight-up esoterics or neo-Pagans among younger generation.
Language: "Common Western Slavic" - basically mix of XIV-XVth century Polish, Czech, Slovakian and language of Pannonian Slavs developed to XXIth century language
Population - 100 milions of people declare Venedic nationality in Veneda itself, but there are some (10-20 milions) communities of Venedic speakers outside of Veneda
History - in 955, after battle of Lechfeld, Otto I of Germany managed to beat Hungarians even harder than IOTL, which led to gradual (Bulgaria-style) adoption of Slavic language (based on X-th century "Slovakian" and language of Pannonian Slavs). That proces was ultimately finished by the times of ITTL St.Stephen. Later, on Hungarian-Polish personal union lasted longer than IOTL, uniting also with Bohemia. Bohemia, Slavo-Hungary and Poland ITTL gave birth to new national identity - the religion would be common, the language also (IOTL XIV-XVth century Pole could speak to Bohemian without translator and the case would be also with most dialects of Slavo-Hungarian) and the monarch, so the communities of all of those countries started to share a common identity. The name of that identity is an exonym, though - the German named western Slavs "Wends" and in Venedic Wend is spelled more like "Wened", but that was the name already used to describe people from that three kingdoms, so in middle XVth century there arose an idea of - "triune Venedic nation" and it more or less exists until TTL's 2021, though there were a lot of perturbances inculding republican revolution which did away with monarchy and losing two Great Wars in the row.
Culture - mix of XIV-XVth century Bohemian, Polish and Hungarian cultures developed to XXIth century culture, but avoiding a few trends, which developed in OTL among these nations. While clothing would be ITTL XVIIth century fairly similar to OTL PLC or Hungary, there would be no "Sarmatism" expy - from 1569 (between 1419 - formation of "Wendish Union" and 1569 there was a period which TTL's historians calls a - "transitional period" between Medieval feudal monarchy and Early Modern absolute monarchy) to 1848 Veneda was an absolute monarchy. ITTL 2021 it kinda resembles more organized and militaristic mixture of OTL Poland, Hungary and Bohemia's culture.
Region - mainly central and eastern Europe
Religion - mostly Catholic (some Protestant), with many atheists, agnostics and straight-up esoterics or neo-Pagans among younger generation.
Mirrikhi
Ancestry: Arabic
Language: Arabic (Mirrikhi variety)
Religion: Islam
In the end, the Saudi regime fell because of the fiercest enemy of all, nature itself: when Mecca was turned into a furnace not suitable for human life due to the consequences of climate change, it didn't take long for the local populace to drag the princes out of their palaces and into the desert, to slowly die under the sun of the province their ancestors came from. The new Islamic Republic of Arabia tried to overcompensate by turning to Qur'an-flavoured eco-fascism but, by then, it was too late - the successor state to the Saudi regime barely lasted a few years before succumbing to anarchy.
Many of the peninsula's inhabitants, not wanting to go back to the nomadic lifestyle of their forefathers or to eke out a living in air conditioned enclaves and/or underground districts, opted to take advantage of the recent moves towards the colonization of Mars, with peninsular Arabs eventually becoming overrepresented among the number of Martian colonists - not as much as the climate refugees from the islands of Oceania however, for which colonizing the Solar System was not just a way to survive, but also a way to retain the claim of being the best sailors ever to sail.
Ancestry: Arabic
Language: Arabic (Mirrikhi variety)
Religion: Islam
In the end, the Saudi regime fell because of the fiercest enemy of all, nature itself: when Mecca was turned into a furnace not suitable for human life due to the consequences of climate change, it didn't take long for the local populace to drag the princes out of their palaces and into the desert, to slowly die under the sun of the province their ancestors came from. The new Islamic Republic of Arabia tried to overcompensate by turning to Qur'an-flavoured eco-fascism but, by then, it was too late - the successor state to the Saudi regime barely lasted a few years before succumbing to anarchy.
Many of the peninsula's inhabitants, not wanting to go back to the nomadic lifestyle of their forefathers or to eke out a living in air conditioned enclaves and/or underground districts, opted to take advantage of the recent moves towards the colonization of Mars, with peninsular Arabs eventually becoming overrepresented among the number of Martian colonists - not as much as the climate refugees from the islands of Oceania however, for which colonizing the Solar System was not just a way to survive, but also a way to retain the claim of being the best sailors ever to sail.
Sorry if this is more of a history of an ATL Eastern Europe than an ethnic group, I got carried away. They're obviously based on the self-identified Yugoslavs although not just an Eastern European parallel.
Vostokoslavs
Ancestry: Eastern Slavs
Language: East Slavic languages, Neo-East Slavic [1]
Population: 1,000,000
Culture: Eastern European
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism, minority irreligion and rodnovery
Region: Eastern Europe, United States, Canada, Australia
The Vostokoslavs are those Eastern Slavs who hold onto a united Eastern Slavic identity based on the supranational Federal Republic of Vostokoslavia instead of any individual Eastern Slavic identity. Its roots lay in 19th century Vostokoslavic pan-nationalism that saw the Russians, Novgorodians, Ukrainians, Galicians, and others as a component of a united Eastern Slavic nation, Vostokoslavia. The Vostokoslav identity remained a minority during the heyday of the Federal Republic of Vostokoslavia in the 20th century, representing the most diehard believers in the Vostokoslav ideal as well as those of mixed descent from various ethnic groups. The Vostokoslav identity was also prominent in nations abroad thanks to immigrants who identified with the nation their ancestors came from.
The origins of the Vostokoslavs lay in Kievan Rus, the medieval state of the East Slavs with its many principalities. The conquest of Kievan Rus by the Mongol Empire in the 13th century brought about what Vostokoslavs decry as the dark ages of East Slavic civilisation. From that point forth, the Eastern Slavic states became divided into numerous principalities subject to either the Mongols or by the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Countless peasants were abducted by Mongol raiders and sold into slavery during these centuries while princes squabbled with each other over their right to receive recognition from the Mongol khan ruling the Ulus of Jochi (the last surviving portion of the Mongol Empire).
By the 17th century, new powers emerged to contest the domination of the Russian states. In the north, the Swedes, now firmly united behind their Danish monarch in the United Kingdoms of Scandinavia, returned to Eastern Slavic lands to contest their domination--by the late 17th century they fully subdued Novgorod, Pskov, and other northern principalities. In the middle, Lithuania, united with Poland in the increasingly centralised Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, continued their expansion into former Kievan Rus and upon defeating the Jochids set themselves up as rulers of all Russia. In the south, the Ottomans conquered Crimea from the declining Jochids and increased their slave raids and tribute demands. Despite many rebellions and attempts at holding off outsiders, by 1700, not a single East Slavic state maintained anything but local autonomy thanks to centuries of Jochid, Scandinavian, and Polish domination.
During the 19th century, the modern ethnicities in the region--Belorussians, Ruthenians [2], Russians, Ukrainians, and Novgorodians--crystallised, yet a sense of "Vostokoslavism" driven by romanticism of Kievan Rus' emerged with it. Intellectuals and agitators from these five ethnic groups demanded their own nation states in this time and as turmoil struck Scandinavia and Poland-Lithuania, began to receive them with the independence of Novgorod in 1815 and the Cossack State in 1878. These new states were hotbeds of militancy as they sought union with their ethnic kin and hosted independence activists from elsewhere in the region. It was in this setting that Vostokoslavism gained popularity, despite criticisms from a socialist, nationalist, or religious standpoint.
After the collapse of Poland-Lithuania in the Great War in 1919, the East Slavic portion of the Commonwealth decreed the formation of Vostokoslavia with its capital in Kiev as a means of putting down the regional communist uprising, quickly being joined by Novgorod and the Cossack State upon giving appropriate concessions to them. The ruling Prince of Novgorod was elected Tsar of this new state. Yet despite initial enthusiasm, a great deal of internal tension and external agitation caused instability in the state. Assassinations of monarchs and prime ministers, religious tension between Eastern Catholics and Orthodox Christians, socialist militancy, and above all ethnic tension exacerbated by regional underdevelopment and perceived neglect resulted in the evolution of Vostokoslavia into a loose confederation by the 1950s. Vostokoslavia fell apart in the 1980s after a series of mostly peaceful (besides the Polissian War between the new states of Ukraine and Belarus) secessions caused by decades of this tension as well as economic recession and the major nuclear accident outside of Kiev.
As a result, the Vostokoslav identity never truly developed among the masses--Vostokoslavs primarily identified by regional ethnic groups like "Russian" or "Ukrainian". However, distinct Vostokoslav culture existed from decades of being ruled from Kiev and a segment of intellectuals and nationalists kept the Vostokoslav dream alive into the 21st century through measures like promotion of the "Vostokoslav" language (a unified East Slavic language based on Old East Slavic) and promoting cooperation between the five nations that emerged from Vostokoslavia.
[1] - A conlang based on Old East Slavic, the language of Kievan Rus.
[2] - Separate identity from the Ukrainians TTL as they are more Polonised and their language is based on the Galician dialect
Vostokoslavs
Ancestry: Eastern Slavs
Language: East Slavic languages, Neo-East Slavic [1]
Population: 1,000,000
Culture: Eastern European
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism, minority irreligion and rodnovery
Region: Eastern Europe, United States, Canada, Australia
The Vostokoslavs are those Eastern Slavs who hold onto a united Eastern Slavic identity based on the supranational Federal Republic of Vostokoslavia instead of any individual Eastern Slavic identity. Its roots lay in 19th century Vostokoslavic pan-nationalism that saw the Russians, Novgorodians, Ukrainians, Galicians, and others as a component of a united Eastern Slavic nation, Vostokoslavia. The Vostokoslav identity remained a minority during the heyday of the Federal Republic of Vostokoslavia in the 20th century, representing the most diehard believers in the Vostokoslav ideal as well as those of mixed descent from various ethnic groups. The Vostokoslav identity was also prominent in nations abroad thanks to immigrants who identified with the nation their ancestors came from.
The origins of the Vostokoslavs lay in Kievan Rus, the medieval state of the East Slavs with its many principalities. The conquest of Kievan Rus by the Mongol Empire in the 13th century brought about what Vostokoslavs decry as the dark ages of East Slavic civilisation. From that point forth, the Eastern Slavic states became divided into numerous principalities subject to either the Mongols or by the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Countless peasants were abducted by Mongol raiders and sold into slavery during these centuries while princes squabbled with each other over their right to receive recognition from the Mongol khan ruling the Ulus of Jochi (the last surviving portion of the Mongol Empire).
By the 17th century, new powers emerged to contest the domination of the Russian states. In the north, the Swedes, now firmly united behind their Danish monarch in the United Kingdoms of Scandinavia, returned to Eastern Slavic lands to contest their domination--by the late 17th century they fully subdued Novgorod, Pskov, and other northern principalities. In the middle, Lithuania, united with Poland in the increasingly centralised Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, continued their expansion into former Kievan Rus and upon defeating the Jochids set themselves up as rulers of all Russia. In the south, the Ottomans conquered Crimea from the declining Jochids and increased their slave raids and tribute demands. Despite many rebellions and attempts at holding off outsiders, by 1700, not a single East Slavic state maintained anything but local autonomy thanks to centuries of Jochid, Scandinavian, and Polish domination.
During the 19th century, the modern ethnicities in the region--Belorussians, Ruthenians [2], Russians, Ukrainians, and Novgorodians--crystallised, yet a sense of "Vostokoslavism" driven by romanticism of Kievan Rus' emerged with it. Intellectuals and agitators from these five ethnic groups demanded their own nation states in this time and as turmoil struck Scandinavia and Poland-Lithuania, began to receive them with the independence of Novgorod in 1815 and the Cossack State in 1878. These new states were hotbeds of militancy as they sought union with their ethnic kin and hosted independence activists from elsewhere in the region. It was in this setting that Vostokoslavism gained popularity, despite criticisms from a socialist, nationalist, or religious standpoint.
After the collapse of Poland-Lithuania in the Great War in 1919, the East Slavic portion of the Commonwealth decreed the formation of Vostokoslavia with its capital in Kiev as a means of putting down the regional communist uprising, quickly being joined by Novgorod and the Cossack State upon giving appropriate concessions to them. The ruling Prince of Novgorod was elected Tsar of this new state. Yet despite initial enthusiasm, a great deal of internal tension and external agitation caused instability in the state. Assassinations of monarchs and prime ministers, religious tension between Eastern Catholics and Orthodox Christians, socialist militancy, and above all ethnic tension exacerbated by regional underdevelopment and perceived neglect resulted in the evolution of Vostokoslavia into a loose confederation by the 1950s. Vostokoslavia fell apart in the 1980s after a series of mostly peaceful (besides the Polissian War between the new states of Ukraine and Belarus) secessions caused by decades of this tension as well as economic recession and the major nuclear accident outside of Kiev.
As a result, the Vostokoslav identity never truly developed among the masses--Vostokoslavs primarily identified by regional ethnic groups like "Russian" or "Ukrainian". However, distinct Vostokoslav culture existed from decades of being ruled from Kiev and a segment of intellectuals and nationalists kept the Vostokoslav dream alive into the 21st century through measures like promotion of the "Vostokoslav" language (a unified East Slavic language based on Old East Slavic) and promoting cooperation between the five nations that emerged from Vostokoslavia.
[1] - A conlang based on Old East Slavic, the language of Kievan Rus.
[2] - Separate identity from the Ukrainians TTL as they are more Polonised and their language is based on the Galician dialect
A minor divergence from OTL here:
Polesian Independence Movement
Ancestry: Poleshuk, Belarusian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian
Language: Polesian dialect, Belarusian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian
Religion: Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Slavic Native Faith
The worst case scenario for Chernobyl actually happens, pushing forward the fall of the USSR by a few years; and given the ATL post-Soviet Belarus' complete inability to deal with the aftermath, Nikolai Shelyagovich's OTL efforts to advocate for Polesian autonomy and standardize the Polesian dialect are far more successful ITTL. The areas of the Polesian Lowlands outside Belarus eventually get in on the fun as well, with the local independence advocates taking note from the bio-regionalist and eco-nationalist Cascadian independence movement, and dabbling in polytheistic reconstructionism.
Will this vodka-flavoured Ecotopia ever become independent? Not even Perun might know.
Polesian Independence Movement
Ancestry: Poleshuk, Belarusian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian
Language: Polesian dialect, Belarusian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian
Religion: Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Slavic Native Faith
The worst case scenario for Chernobyl actually happens, pushing forward the fall of the USSR by a few years; and given the ATL post-Soviet Belarus' complete inability to deal with the aftermath, Nikolai Shelyagovich's OTL efforts to advocate for Polesian autonomy and standardize the Polesian dialect are far more successful ITTL. The areas of the Polesian Lowlands outside Belarus eventually get in on the fun as well, with the local independence advocates taking note from the bio-regionalist and eco-nationalist Cascadian independence movement, and dabbling in polytheistic reconstructionism.
Will this vodka-flavoured Ecotopia ever become independent? Not even Perun might know.
Dog-Riders
Ancestry: American (Caucasian, Native, African, etc.)
Language: Various American English-descended Languages, Various English-based Creole-descended Languages
Religion: Folk Religions, Animism, Christianity
Region: Great Plains of North America
History:
Following the Destruction of the Ancients and the Century of Flame, the continent of North America was healing from nuclear war. Into this world, the descendants of Americans would crawl forth from underground chambers. The world they entered was not entirely unoccupied, and these American would compete with their neighbors to get a foothold. One particularly successful group of survivors would be the Dog-Riders. Utilizing their supremely strong, fast, and loyal canine companions, the Dog-Riders would spread throughout the continent. They were mostly nomadic, but they established some important settlements and often traded with their neighbors. They often warred amongst their own clans and tribes, but in some cases would be united, and when the Dog-Riders were united, very little could be done to stop their spread.
Ancestry: American (Caucasian, Native, African, etc.)
Language: Various American English-descended Languages, Various English-based Creole-descended Languages
Religion: Folk Religions, Animism, Christianity
Region: Great Plains of North America
History:
Following the Destruction of the Ancients and the Century of Flame, the continent of North America was healing from nuclear war. Into this world, the descendants of Americans would crawl forth from underground chambers. The world they entered was not entirely unoccupied, and these American would compete with their neighbors to get a foothold. One particularly successful group of survivors would be the Dog-Riders. Utilizing their supremely strong, fast, and loyal canine companions, the Dog-Riders would spread throughout the continent. They were mostly nomadic, but they established some important settlements and often traded with their neighbors. They often warred amongst their own clans and tribes, but in some cases would be united, and when the Dog-Riders were united, very little could be done to stop their spread.
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Mukhalateen
Al-Mukhalateen/Muwulladeen Al-Gharb Al-Aqsa
(The Mixed Ones of the Furthest West)
Al-Gharb Al-Aqsa: The America's
Algarve: Romanization of Al-Gharb
Juzur Firdous: Caribbean Islands
Al-Mukhalateen/Muwulladeen Al-Gharb Al-Aqsa
(The Mixed Ones of the Furthest West)
- Etymology
- Mukhalateen derives from the Arabic word "Mukhtalit (مختلط),'' meaning mixed, in reference to their multi-racial origins and ancestry.
- Initially used in a pejorative manner, the term replaced the defunct Muladi/Muwalladeen (deriving from the Arabic world ''Walad (ولد)'', which in itself is defined as a person of mixed ancestry, especially a descendant of one Arab and one non-Arab parent. However, in Al-Andalus was used to refer to the descendants of the native Iberian population that had converted to Islam.
- Mukhalateen derives from the Arabic word "Mukhtalit (مختلط),'' meaning mixed, in reference to their multi-racial origins and ancestry.
- Ancestry
- Andalusian
- The gradual Islamization and Arabization of the native Iberian population, coupled with their intermarriage with Berber and Arab settlers and the decline of the "pure" Arab elite, resulted in a dramatic shift in the ethnic dynamics of Al-Andalus. While previous societal divisions had created an ethnic hierarchy, by the 14th Century a distinct Andalusian Arabic identity had developed amongst a majority of the population with the various ethno-racial groups having gradually become indistinguishable (although divisions could yet be observed within elements of the population). The origins of the Andalusi conquerors and settlers of Al-Gharb Al-Aqsa, comprise of:
- Muwalladeen/Muladi, descendants of native Iberian converts to Islam who formed a majority of the population
- Arabs, initially the ruling element of Al-Andalus. A distinction can be made between the Baladiyyūn (who entered Iberia in 712), the Syrians (who arrived in 740), and later waves of Arab immigration
- Berbers
- The gradual Islamization and Arabization of the native Iberian population, coupled with their intermarriage with Berber and Arab settlers and the decline of the "pure" Arab elite, resulted in a dramatic shift in the ethnic dynamics of Al-Andalus. While previous societal divisions had created an ethnic hierarchy, by the 14th Century a distinct Andalusian Arabic identity had developed amongst a majority of the population with the various ethno-racial groups having gradually become indistinguishable (although divisions could yet be observed within elements of the population). The origins of the Andalusi conquerors and settlers of Al-Gharb Al-Aqsa, comprise of:
- Indigenous Algarvean populations
- Arab (Non-Andalusian)
- Berber (Non-Andalusian)
- West African
- The Atlantic slave trade saw the import of massive numbers of various West African populations into Andalusi settlements and plantations across Algarvean settlements
- Slavic
- The Saqaliba served in a variety of positions throughout Andalusian society, becoming a racial caste of influential slaves. They were later imported to Andalusi settlements throughout the Algarves, primarily serving as concubines, lower-level administrators, commanders and guardsmen. The ethnic origins of the Saqaliba comprise of:
- West Slavs
- East Slavs
- South Slavs
- Slaves of other European ancestry
- The Saqaliba served in a variety of positions throughout Andalusian society, becoming a racial caste of influential slaves. They were later imported to Andalusi settlements throughout the Algarves, primarily serving as concubines, lower-level administrators, commanders and guardsmen. The ethnic origins of the Saqaliba comprise of:
- Various European Ethnicities
- Beyond the Saqaliba, various other European settled/where settled in the Andalusi Algarves. Often captured as prisoners of war or captives of corsairs, these (primarily) Christian populations where frequently enslaved. However, a significant degree of European immigration towards Andalusi settlements tended to be religious minorities , motivated as a result of persecution within colonies or home nations.
- Various other Ethnicities
- Andalusian
- Language
- Arabic
- Standard Arabic
- Andalusian Arabic (Dialect)
- Maghrebi Arabic (Dialect)
- Algarvean Arabic Dialects
- For example: Firdousi Arabic (Dialect)
- Mozarabic
- A continuum of Romance dialects spoken in Al-Andalus
- Algarvia/Al-Sha'by
- Deriving from the term Lughat Gharbiya (لغة غربية), Algarvia is a creole (A stable language that develops from the simplifying and mixing of different languages into a new one) language spoken throughout Muslim regions of the continent. Various distinct dialects exist in different areas, to the extent that speakers of some dialects would be virtually unintelligible when communicating with one another.
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam (Majority)
- Sunni Islam
- Ibadi Islam
- Christianity (Minority)
- Irreligion (Minority)
- Islam (Majority)
- Culture
- Fusion of Arab, Berber, Indigenous and multiple other cultures
- Region
- History
- The discovery of the Algarves paved the way for an economic boom within Al-Andalus. Within the burgeoning Andalusi settlements and colonies, slave plantations became a pinnacle of the economy. Thousands of slaves, from various ethnic backgrounds, would be imported into these plantations (primarily in the Juzur Al-Firdous, which later grew to sustain entire villages. The multi-racial communes that would develop initially comprised of entirely men, yet would gradually become thriving multi-racial hubs, in which interracial sexual unions became extremely common. Over the centuries, a distinct culture would develop amongst this emerging multi-racial ethnic group, dubbed the Mukhalateen.
- Despite the fact the Mukhalateen formed a plurality of the population in many regions, they faced social ostracization and discrimination from the Andalusian ruling elite, akin to that against the Muwalladeen in the early years of Al-Andalus.
- The Algarvean Fitna of the 1132 AH would mark a focal point in the history of the Mukhalateen. The semi-autonomous colonies and vassal states of Al-Andalus refused to acknowledge the Shura Council's election of Gharsiya ibn Hisham to the position of Caliph, instead recognizing the Algarvean-born Abdoraouf ibn Zayd. The new Zayid Caliphate served merely as a loose confederation of the Islamic states of the Algarves who payed tribute to the Caliph and dispatched soldiers to his "Army," an over glorified Praetorian Guard. Independence from Isbili saw a radical transformation in the status of the Mukhalateen, many of whom became prominent figures, along with experiencing a boost in demographics with an influx of immigration from across the world,
- Appearance:
Al-Gharb Al-Aqsa: The America's
Algarve: Romanization of Al-Gharb
Juzur Firdous: Caribbean Islands
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Sacquenois
Ethymology: From Ile-de-Sacqualine.
Ancestry: French, Russian, Japanese, Ainu, Manchu and Korean.
Language: French - Sacquenois variety.
Religion: Catholic and Orthodox Church, Buddism and Nivhk Folk religion.
Culture: The sacquenois embraced mostly french culture, even after the incorporation into the Russian Empire. Ainu amd Nivkh surnames were unusually allocated in french language.
Region: Ile-de-Sacqualine and Cuorelles (Island of Sakhalin, Kuril Islands).
History: The La Perouse expedition in 1787 gained a lot of attention in France. Lots of adventurers, businessmen and traders were on their way to Sacqualine, aiming to restart the fur trade with various degrees of success. Since russians were busy with Central Asia, sacqualines found a way to prosper, dealing mainly with China, Japan, Korea, even crossing the Pacific Ocean and trading with many american countries. Fish trade allowed them to expand to the Courelles and secure some of the richest and dangerous fish banks in the world. The coal and oil findings helped tremendously in their industry. The japanese wars left an influx of japanese and korean in Sacqualine, adding to the by now, rooted and secured Sacqualine culture.
Ethymology: From Ile-de-Sacqualine.
Ancestry: French, Russian, Japanese, Ainu, Manchu and Korean.
Language: French - Sacquenois variety.
Religion: Catholic and Orthodox Church, Buddism and Nivhk Folk religion.
Culture: The sacquenois embraced mostly french culture, even after the incorporation into the Russian Empire. Ainu amd Nivkh surnames were unusually allocated in french language.
Region: Ile-de-Sacqualine and Cuorelles (Island of Sakhalin, Kuril Islands).
History: The La Perouse expedition in 1787 gained a lot of attention in France. Lots of adventurers, businessmen and traders were on their way to Sacqualine, aiming to restart the fur trade with various degrees of success. Since russians were busy with Central Asia, sacqualines found a way to prosper, dealing mainly with China, Japan, Korea, even crossing the Pacific Ocean and trading with many american countries. Fish trade allowed them to expand to the Courelles and secure some of the richest and dangerous fish banks in the world. The coal and oil findings helped tremendously in their industry. The japanese wars left an influx of japanese and korean in Sacqualine, adding to the by now, rooted and secured Sacqualine culture.
Since I'm going to a Sabaton concert in March where Lordi and The Hu will appear as well...
Årludskyd
Ancestry: Finnic, Mongolic, North Germanic.
Language: Modern Norse and Aarlud/Årludskil (Mongolic language with a heavy Finnic and North Germanic superstrate).
Religion: Protestant Christianity, except there's echoes of Tengri and Genghis Khan in God and Jesus - yes, really.
The Mongols are able to reach Scandinavia and, after the death of Genghis Khan, an Aarlud Khanate (name shamelessly stolen from CK3) is created, encompassing the whole of Fennoscandia. Since the region isn't exactly ideal for a people such as the Mongols, the descendants of the Great Khan's soldiers assimilate into the local society rather quickly while doing much less of their customary burning and pillaging than usual - the fact that Fennoscandia is seen as a bit of a backwater by the invaders turns out to be a blessing in disguise for the locals.
A separate Årludskyd ethnicity hangs on in a few pockets in Finland and northern Scandinavia, more or less near the more rural Finns and the Saami, fulfilling a Cossack-like role in the successor state of the Aarlud Khanate, a Kalmar Union reborn headed by a dynasty claiming descent from both Harald Fairhair and Genghis Khan - despite being devoutly Catholic first, and Protestant later. Ironically, today's Årludskyd tend to support autonomist or even independentist causes in Finland, an independent Finland that would also include the historical Saami lands.
Årludskyd
Ancestry: Finnic, Mongolic, North Germanic.
Language: Modern Norse and Aarlud/Årludskil (Mongolic language with a heavy Finnic and North Germanic superstrate).
Religion: Protestant Christianity, except there's echoes of Tengri and Genghis Khan in God and Jesus - yes, really.
The Mongols are able to reach Scandinavia and, after the death of Genghis Khan, an Aarlud Khanate (name shamelessly stolen from CK3) is created, encompassing the whole of Fennoscandia. Since the region isn't exactly ideal for a people such as the Mongols, the descendants of the Great Khan's soldiers assimilate into the local society rather quickly while doing much less of their customary burning and pillaging than usual - the fact that Fennoscandia is seen as a bit of a backwater by the invaders turns out to be a blessing in disguise for the locals.
A separate Årludskyd ethnicity hangs on in a few pockets in Finland and northern Scandinavia, more or less near the more rural Finns and the Saami, fulfilling a Cossack-like role in the successor state of the Aarlud Khanate, a Kalmar Union reborn headed by a dynasty claiming descent from both Harald Fairhair and Genghis Khan - despite being devoutly Catholic first, and Protestant later. Ironically, today's Årludskyd tend to support autonomist or even independentist causes in Finland, an independent Finland that would also include the historical Saami lands.