. Odichalykh (Wildlings) relict Denisovian populations in Sibiria and Northern China. First encountered by Jermak's Cossacks. Also known to the Yamuck peoples of Sibiria. Known to have dwelled in caves and hunting Caribu. Before modern DNA testing there was no way to identity them As an seperate species. Allegedly there had been hybrids between Odichalykh and humans. A 19th Century Photograph Shows the photo of a rumored half-Odichalykh officer serving in the Russian army.
AHC: Form alternate/new ethnic groups of the world
- Thread starter Caravels of Portugal
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Hungarian Persians
History: The POD is that instead of only partially taking over Hungary in 1541, the Ottomans took over the whole country. They settled many of their own people there, where they intermarried with the native Hungarians. The effort of the conquest ended up overextending the Ottomans, however, and less than 30 years later they suffered a crippling military defeat at the hands of the Persians. The Persians ended up taking many formerly Turkish territories, including Hungary. They were quick to settle their own people there. For many years, the Turkish and Persian populations were quite hostile to each other, but they when Hungary was retaken by Christians in the early 17th century, they banded together for protection. Over the years, their populations blended into one group. Efforts to convert them to Christianity or expel them from Hungary mostly failed.
Ancestry: Turkish, Iranian, Hungarian
Language: Historically Farsi speaking, but Hungarian is becoming more common in the modern day.
Religion: Equal numbers of Sunni and Shia Islam.
Appearance: Mostly look like modern day Iranians. Most have black hair and a light brown skin tone, although lighter colorings occasionally show up. Green eyes are very common, although this tends to be exaggerated in the media in a similar manner as Ireland and redheads.
Culture: Very proud and insular. Have only begun to assimilate into Hungarian culture in the last few years, and mostly live apart from the general population. They have a very strong herding tradition. Known for their cheeses.
History: The POD is that instead of only partially taking over Hungary in 1541, the Ottomans took over the whole country. They settled many of their own people there, where they intermarried with the native Hungarians. The effort of the conquest ended up overextending the Ottomans, however, and less than 30 years later they suffered a crippling military defeat at the hands of the Persians. The Persians ended up taking many formerly Turkish territories, including Hungary. They were quick to settle their own people there. For many years, the Turkish and Persian populations were quite hostile to each other, but they when Hungary was retaken by Christians in the early 17th century, they banded together for protection. Over the years, their populations blended into one group. Efforts to convert them to Christianity or expel them from Hungary mostly failed.
Ancestry: Turkish, Iranian, Hungarian
Language: Historically Farsi speaking, but Hungarian is becoming more common in the modern day.
Religion: Equal numbers of Sunni and Shia Islam.
Appearance: Mostly look like modern day Iranians. Most have black hair and a light brown skin tone, although lighter colorings occasionally show up. Green eyes are very common, although this tends to be exaggerated in the media in a similar manner as Ireland and redheads.
Culture: Very proud and insular. Have only begun to assimilate into Hungarian culture in the last few years, and mostly live apart from the general population. They have a very strong herding tradition. Known for their cheeses.
Here's one diaspora entry for my TL in the works
Japanese People in Portugal (Nipo-Portugueses, Nikkei Porutugaru-jin, 日系ポルトガル人)
Language: Mostly Japanese (Kyushu dialect) as first language, Portuguese as second language
Ancestry: 1st (pre-1954) wave - Japanese Catholics from Takasago [1], existing colonies, small trickle from OTL Nagasaki and Saga Prefectures, 2nd (post-Salazar) wave - migrants from all over Kyushu and Formosa, including Luso-Japanese migrants [2]
Appearance: Just like any ordinary Japanese, but Luso-Japanese migrants have a mix of Japonic and Iberian facial features
Religion: Predominantly Roman Catholic with Shinto influences
POD/History: The Aviz dynasty survives and the Kingdom of Portugal continues its ambitions with Japan as a result, leading to Kyushu partially exempt from Sakoku by the Tokugawa era under an alternate shogun. When the Portuguese first made contact with Japan in 1543, a large-scale slave trade developed in which Portugal purchased Japanese slaves and sold them to locations overseas, including Metropolitan Portugal. King Sebastian banned it in 1571, fearing that it might make a negative impact in spreading Catholicism in Japan. Due to Sebastian surviving in a Portuguese victory in Álcacer Quibir, the 1571 ban was strictly enforced, which improved relations between him and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. By the time the Tokugawa era kicked in, a treaty was signed in Edo in 1634 between the Portuguese and Japanese dignitaries that allowed missionaries to stay in Kyushu and the Portuguese gaining significant concessions, with Nagasaki, Hirado and the islands of Tsushima and Tanegashima being part of Portugal until the Meiji Restoration. Despite strict emigration quotas established by the bakufu as a result of the Edo Treaty, the Japanese Catholics from Kyushu have created a strong overseas community across Portugal's Asian colonies. The Portuguese even encouraged Kyushuan migration to its colony in Formosa (which will be in my next entry).
In the beginning of the 20th century, small communities of Japanese people have formed in Portugal, mostly from Formosa and its community of Kirishitan-jin (overseas Kyushuans) from its colonies, with some emigration coming from OTL Nagasaki and Saga prefectures due to the Portuguese influence in Hizen province in the past, especially with mixed Luso-Japanese migrants hailing from there. By the time Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar died from a stroke in 1954, there were 45,000 Japanese living in Metropolitan Portugal, and his successor Francisco Craveiro Lopes signed legislation that would encourage more Japanese, as well as Ryukyuan immigration to Metropolitan Portugal during the last years of the Estado Novo regime; however, huge scale immigration finally kicked in after Portugal's first free post-Salazar elections in 1958 which Humberto Delgado was elected as prime minister, the newer migrants coming directly from all over Kyushu, due to the island's religious and foreign ties with the Portuguese, as well from Formosa. As the number of migrants continued to grow, social institutions formed in order to serve the growing Japanese community with the help of the Catholic Church, but it varies between certain waves and origins of such migrants. Established migrants from the Estado Novo era were already familiar with the Portuguese language and culture and formed community associations and a Japanese newspaper to better assist newer immigrants in adjusting to a new life in Portugal. Informal social networks headed by earlier arrivals helped newer immigrants in employment needs, often under established Japanese migrant entrepreneurs
Space: 300,000, making it the third largest overseas Japanese population in the world after Brazil and the United States. Mostly around the Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan areas, the former concentrated mostly in Amadora (which has Lisbon's Japantown/Nihonmachi) and Odivelas, the latter scattered around Vila Nova de Gaia, Gondomar, Maia and Matosinhos, and in Aveiro (due to its developing role as Portugal's Silicon Valley) with smaller communities in Coimbra, Évora, Braga, Guimarães and Viseu.
Culture: OTL Japanese culture with some Portuguese influences
[1] ATL Japanese name for Formosa
[2] See post #154
Japanese People in Portugal (Nipo-Portugueses, Nikkei Porutugaru-jin, 日系ポルトガル人)
Language: Mostly Japanese (Kyushu dialect) as first language, Portuguese as second language
Ancestry: 1st (pre-1954) wave - Japanese Catholics from Takasago [1], existing colonies, small trickle from OTL Nagasaki and Saga Prefectures, 2nd (post-Salazar) wave - migrants from all over Kyushu and Formosa, including Luso-Japanese migrants [2]
Appearance: Just like any ordinary Japanese, but Luso-Japanese migrants have a mix of Japonic and Iberian facial features
Religion: Predominantly Roman Catholic with Shinto influences
POD/History: The Aviz dynasty survives and the Kingdom of Portugal continues its ambitions with Japan as a result, leading to Kyushu partially exempt from Sakoku by the Tokugawa era under an alternate shogun. When the Portuguese first made contact with Japan in 1543, a large-scale slave trade developed in which Portugal purchased Japanese slaves and sold them to locations overseas, including Metropolitan Portugal. King Sebastian banned it in 1571, fearing that it might make a negative impact in spreading Catholicism in Japan. Due to Sebastian surviving in a Portuguese victory in Álcacer Quibir, the 1571 ban was strictly enforced, which improved relations between him and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. By the time the Tokugawa era kicked in, a treaty was signed in Edo in 1634 between the Portuguese and Japanese dignitaries that allowed missionaries to stay in Kyushu and the Portuguese gaining significant concessions, with Nagasaki, Hirado and the islands of Tsushima and Tanegashima being part of Portugal until the Meiji Restoration. Despite strict emigration quotas established by the bakufu as a result of the Edo Treaty, the Japanese Catholics from Kyushu have created a strong overseas community across Portugal's Asian colonies. The Portuguese even encouraged Kyushuan migration to its colony in Formosa (which will be in my next entry).
In the beginning of the 20th century, small communities of Japanese people have formed in Portugal, mostly from Formosa and its community of Kirishitan-jin (overseas Kyushuans) from its colonies, with some emigration coming from OTL Nagasaki and Saga prefectures due to the Portuguese influence in Hizen province in the past, especially with mixed Luso-Japanese migrants hailing from there. By the time Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar died from a stroke in 1954, there were 45,000 Japanese living in Metropolitan Portugal, and his successor Francisco Craveiro Lopes signed legislation that would encourage more Japanese, as well as Ryukyuan immigration to Metropolitan Portugal during the last years of the Estado Novo regime; however, huge scale immigration finally kicked in after Portugal's first free post-Salazar elections in 1958 which Humberto Delgado was elected as prime minister, the newer migrants coming directly from all over Kyushu, due to the island's religious and foreign ties with the Portuguese, as well from Formosa. As the number of migrants continued to grow, social institutions formed in order to serve the growing Japanese community with the help of the Catholic Church, but it varies between certain waves and origins of such migrants. Established migrants from the Estado Novo era were already familiar with the Portuguese language and culture and formed community associations and a Japanese newspaper to better assist newer immigrants in adjusting to a new life in Portugal. Informal social networks headed by earlier arrivals helped newer immigrants in employment needs, often under established Japanese migrant entrepreneurs
Space: 300,000, making it the third largest overseas Japanese population in the world after Brazil and the United States. Mostly around the Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan areas, the former concentrated mostly in Amadora (which has Lisbon's Japantown/Nihonmachi) and Odivelas, the latter scattered around Vila Nova de Gaia, Gondomar, Maia and Matosinhos, and in Aveiro (due to its developing role as Portugal's Silicon Valley) with smaller communities in Coimbra, Évora, Braga, Guimarães and Viseu.
Culture: OTL Japanese culture with some Portuguese influences
[1] ATL Japanese name for Formosa
[2] See post #154
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Adeni / العدني
Language: Adeni Arabic
Ancestry: Bedouin, Arabic, Egyptian, minor Persian/Iranian, Ottoman, Ethiopian, Indian, Berber, Chinese, Greek and Malay ancestry
Appearance: Bedouin/Arabic, sometimes with slight foreign influences
Religion: Sunni Islam (~80% of population and entire aristocracy), Shi'a Islam (~20% of population)
History: The identity of the Adeni people being separate from the rest of the population of the southern part of the Arabian peninsula stems from their unique government and economic system, which diverged from tribal and clannish divisions to a traders paradise of competing merchant tribes. By the 1200's, had fully developed a government more comparable to an Italian merchant republic than their liege-lords the Ayyubid Caliphate. Taking the title of Emir, the nominal leader of the 'Republic' (although it took a desire for US aid in 1963 for Adeni Yemen to call itself a Republic) was selected by a council of notoriously corrupt Imams until 1964. With trade posts established from India to Madagascar to Malaysia by the 1300s, the Maritime Emirate of Aden rapidly became the primary conduit of the maritime silk road, concentrating an immense quantity of wealth at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. Adeni ships even portaged or transshipped across the Suez, selling goods in the eastern Mediterranean. By the 1500's, Aden and it's dependancies had a population of nearly 1,000,000 people, ruled by six powerful merchant families, the struggles of which were immortalized in the late 1600s in Adeni theater, and were even referenced by Shakespeare. By 1300, Aden was again independent, but by the late 1800's had become a protectorate of the British Empire. Afforded much more independence than most outposts of the British Empire, the traditional Adeni merchant families worked within the framework of the British Empire to continue to enrich themselves. The Adeni merchant families managed to gain partial control of Yemen's oilfields under the British, and capitalized heavily on their profitability after independence. Immediately after independence, the families of Aden siezed total control of Yemen, establishing the US-backed Republic of Yemen with the capitol in Aden. In 1964, electoral reform took place which turned the office of Emir into an essentially presidential system with unlimited 5-year terms. However, Adeni Yemen's political scene continued to be dominated by the great merchant families. This reform allowed the positions of the Imams to become somewhat de-politicized and is associated with a revival of Yemeni Islamic thought. Following independence, a number of fundamentalist rebel groups have sprang up in Yemen seeing the merchant families as decadent and opposing their domination of the interior.
Space: Urban centres in Yemen, primarily Aden and San'a.
Language: Adeni Arabic
Ancestry: Bedouin, Arabic, Egyptian, minor Persian/Iranian, Ottoman, Ethiopian, Indian, Berber, Chinese, Greek and Malay ancestry
Appearance: Bedouin/Arabic, sometimes with slight foreign influences
Religion: Sunni Islam (~80% of population and entire aristocracy), Shi'a Islam (~20% of population)
History: The identity of the Adeni people being separate from the rest of the population of the southern part of the Arabian peninsula stems from their unique government and economic system, which diverged from tribal and clannish divisions to a traders paradise of competing merchant tribes. By the 1200's, had fully developed a government more comparable to an Italian merchant republic than their liege-lords the Ayyubid Caliphate. Taking the title of Emir, the nominal leader of the 'Republic' (although it took a desire for US aid in 1963 for Adeni Yemen to call itself a Republic) was selected by a council of notoriously corrupt Imams until 1964. With trade posts established from India to Madagascar to Malaysia by the 1300s, the Maritime Emirate of Aden rapidly became the primary conduit of the maritime silk road, concentrating an immense quantity of wealth at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. Adeni ships even portaged or transshipped across the Suez, selling goods in the eastern Mediterranean. By the 1500's, Aden and it's dependancies had a population of nearly 1,000,000 people, ruled by six powerful merchant families, the struggles of which were immortalized in the late 1600s in Adeni theater, and were even referenced by Shakespeare. By 1300, Aden was again independent, but by the late 1800's had become a protectorate of the British Empire. Afforded much more independence than most outposts of the British Empire, the traditional Adeni merchant families worked within the framework of the British Empire to continue to enrich themselves. The Adeni merchant families managed to gain partial control of Yemen's oilfields under the British, and capitalized heavily on their profitability after independence. Immediately after independence, the families of Aden siezed total control of Yemen, establishing the US-backed Republic of Yemen with the capitol in Aden. In 1964, electoral reform took place which turned the office of Emir into an essentially presidential system with unlimited 5-year terms. However, Adeni Yemen's political scene continued to be dominated by the great merchant families. This reform allowed the positions of the Imams to become somewhat de-politicized and is associated with a revival of Yemeni Islamic thought. Following independence, a number of fundamentalist rebel groups have sprang up in Yemen seeing the merchant families as decadent and opposing their domination of the interior.
Space: Urban centres in Yemen, primarily Aden and San'a.
Koprulu Mustafa Pasha
Gone Fishin'
Sürgünler (banished)
Language: Mongolian, Manchu and Turkic
Ancestry: Mongolians, Manchus and Naimans who were banished to the New World by the Ming Emperor after its discovery post-Zheng He
Religion: Tengriism and Shamanism majority (80%), Islam and Nestorianism minority (20%) (1500)
Islam, Christianity and Buddhism (95%), Irreligious (>4), Tengriism and Shamanism (<1%) (2000)
Region: (Today California and Oregon)
Population: 1,012,340 (With at least one parent being a Surgun)
Rebellious Mongolians South of the wall, Manchus in the Liaodong peninsula and Naimans in Western China who had risen up against Emperor in 1450 were deported in 40 years and 40,000 of them to Eastern Bohai (San Francisco Bay). Many were put in the penal colonies only to lose it to the deported Nomads in 1490. The Imperial Forces reconquered it but most Nomads retreated to the interior. By the 1500 there was peace and around 50,000 Surgunler (Turkic name, meaning banished). Trade with the Chinese continued while also reaching the Aztec realm opening new Opportunities. The Spanish were surprised to see Mongolians in the New World as they widely believed Columbus had not discovered the Indies. Menju Temur Khan was the first Khan of the Menju Khanate. The Khanate was in its biggest form between 1570 and 1710, spanning from the Californian interior to the Mississippi, until its destruction by the Chinese Forces of the Eastern Bohai and their Aztec allies. The Surgun population had mixed much with each other that they developed a new Nomad identity resembling the Mongolians, Turkic and Manchu Nomads.
Language: Mongolian, Manchu and Turkic
Ancestry: Mongolians, Manchus and Naimans who were banished to the New World by the Ming Emperor after its discovery post-Zheng He
Religion: Tengriism and Shamanism majority (80%), Islam and Nestorianism minority (20%) (1500)
Islam, Christianity and Buddhism (95%), Irreligious (>4), Tengriism and Shamanism (<1%) (2000)
Region: (Today California and Oregon)
Population: 1,012,340 (With at least one parent being a Surgun)
Rebellious Mongolians South of the wall, Manchus in the Liaodong peninsula and Naimans in Western China who had risen up against Emperor in 1450 were deported in 40 years and 40,000 of them to Eastern Bohai (San Francisco Bay). Many were put in the penal colonies only to lose it to the deported Nomads in 1490. The Imperial Forces reconquered it but most Nomads retreated to the interior. By the 1500 there was peace and around 50,000 Surgunler (Turkic name, meaning banished). Trade with the Chinese continued while also reaching the Aztec realm opening new Opportunities. The Spanish were surprised to see Mongolians in the New World as they widely believed Columbus had not discovered the Indies. Menju Temur Khan was the first Khan of the Menju Khanate. The Khanate was in its biggest form between 1570 and 1710, spanning from the Californian interior to the Mississippi, until its destruction by the Chinese Forces of the Eastern Bohai and their Aztec allies. The Surgun population had mixed much with each other that they developed a new Nomad identity resembling the Mongolians, Turkic and Manchu Nomads.
Mongol Nomads on the American plains... I have to say they'd love the terrain.
Kamchatkan Americans
Language: American English, Russian
Ancestry: Mix of American and Russian ancestry
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
Population: 2,850 (2018)
Overview: Kamchatkan Americans are descendants of American prospectors emigrating to the Kamchatka peninsula after gold was discovered in the early 19th century. American emigration to Kamchatka began in the 1870s, declined during the Russian Civil War and came to a complete halt after the creation of the USSR in 1922. The American settlers soon got married with local Russian women, converted to Orthodox Christianity and became heavily Russified. Many Kamchatkan Americans chose to side with the Whites in the Russian Civil War. Due to this, Kamchatkan Americans faced heavy repression during the existence of the Soviet Union, with many of them being executed, forcely disappeared and sent to gulag camps. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a large number of Kamchatkan Americans fled to the United States to escape the economic stagnation of post-communist Russia. Today, there are only nearly 3,000 Kamchatkan Americans left, as a consequence of repression and deportation in the USSR.
Language: American English, Russian
Ancestry: Mix of American and Russian ancestry
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
Population: 2,850 (2018)
Overview: Kamchatkan Americans are descendants of American prospectors emigrating to the Kamchatka peninsula after gold was discovered in the early 19th century. American emigration to Kamchatka began in the 1870s, declined during the Russian Civil War and came to a complete halt after the creation of the USSR in 1922. The American settlers soon got married with local Russian women, converted to Orthodox Christianity and became heavily Russified. Many Kamchatkan Americans chose to side with the Whites in the Russian Civil War. Due to this, Kamchatkan Americans faced heavy repression during the existence of the Soviet Union, with many of them being executed, forcely disappeared and sent to gulag camps. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a large number of Kamchatkan Americans fled to the United States to escape the economic stagnation of post-communist Russia. Today, there are only nearly 3,000 Kamchatkan Americans left, as a consequence of repression and deportation in the USSR.
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Silva Hominum is a Latin term for ,forrest people'. In Ancient times and during the Middle Ages in mountainous regions of Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Middle East, tribes of wild people in animal skins had been discovered. They used to hide in caves sometimes migrating into the forests. Clergymen described them as , lost sheeps'. They hunted deer and boar with stone tools. No one new, that they had been relict tiny populations of Neanderthal- Hybrids. Sometimes they emerged from the forests to scavenge sheep and cattle. They had been known for their stocky built. One Frankish Monk Had been martyred while trying to convert this people to Christianity.
Acadian French/Quebecois French Vikings
Language : French and Norse Languages.
Ancestry : French Acadian and Nordic.
Region : Maine, Quebec, Newfoundland, and the Canadian Maritimes.
Religion : Catholicism.
Culture : Acadian French, Quebecois French, and Norse.
Description : Vikings stay in America and Vinland survives and is a sucessful settlement and arond about 1534 when the French started to explore the St. Lawrence gulf they landed in Western Newfoundland and they landed on a Viking settlement and some how they develop trade relations with each other and become allies.
Language : French and Norse Languages.
Ancestry : French Acadian and Nordic.
Region : Maine, Quebec, Newfoundland, and the Canadian Maritimes.
Religion : Catholicism.
Culture : Acadian French, Quebecois French, and Norse.
Description : Vikings stay in America and Vinland survives and is a sucessful settlement and arond about 1534 when the French started to explore the St. Lawrence gulf they landed in Western Newfoundland and they landed on a Viking settlement and some how they develop trade relations with each other and become allies.
Khar-Mongol
Language: Mongolian, Mandarin
Ancestry: Mongolians, Northern Chinese, Hui, Turkic (predominately Uyghur and Kazakh), Persian, Arab
Religion: Predominantly Islam (mostly Sunni) and shamanist backgrounds
Region: China (Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, North China Plain and the Central Plains), Mongolia
Population: 80-160 million (2015)
Description: Khar-Mongol (English: Black Mongols), also known as Zhongyuan Mongols, are an ethnic Mongol group living in China. They’re descendants of Mongolian Muslim converts, Middle-Eastern migrants and Central Asian tribes who settled in the region since the time of the Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan, mixing with the peoples of Western, Northern and Central regions of China. They’re known for their proud martial traditions and at the same time as intellectual people with strong appreciation for spirituality of their shamanist ancestors despite their Muslim faith. The Khar-Mongols were often employed as elite troops for Ming and Qing Dynasties and considered to be reliable by the Imperial Courts. In return for their services and loyalty, the Ming and Qing Courts granted fiefs and autonomy to Khar-Mongol clans. By the time of Five Kingdoms Period following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty into a civil war, the Khar-Mongols and their Chinese allies have established Xing Dynasty in 1736 under the dynamic warlord Uman Khan of the Temutay clan. Thereafter, the Xing Dynasty came to rule of China as the emperors of the Middle Kingdom.
What had set them apart from other Mongols and Han Chinese is their adherence to Sunni Muslim faith and syncretic Mongolian-Chinese culture. The Khar-Mongols are mostly concentrated in Xinjiang, the Mongolian regions, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, North China Plain and the Central Plains. Population is estimated to be over 80-160 million, making Khar-Mongols as the biggest ethnic minority in China and largest subgroup of Mongolians.
Language: Mongolian, Mandarin
Ancestry: Mongolians, Northern Chinese, Hui, Turkic (predominately Uyghur and Kazakh), Persian, Arab
Religion: Predominantly Islam (mostly Sunni) and shamanist backgrounds
Region: China (Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, North China Plain and the Central Plains), Mongolia
Population: 80-160 million (2015)
Description: Khar-Mongol (English: Black Mongols), also known as Zhongyuan Mongols, are an ethnic Mongol group living in China. They’re descendants of Mongolian Muslim converts, Middle-Eastern migrants and Central Asian tribes who settled in the region since the time of the Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan, mixing with the peoples of Western, Northern and Central regions of China. They’re known for their proud martial traditions and at the same time as intellectual people with strong appreciation for spirituality of their shamanist ancestors despite their Muslim faith. The Khar-Mongols were often employed as elite troops for Ming and Qing Dynasties and considered to be reliable by the Imperial Courts. In return for their services and loyalty, the Ming and Qing Courts granted fiefs and autonomy to Khar-Mongol clans. By the time of Five Kingdoms Period following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty into a civil war, the Khar-Mongols and their Chinese allies have established Xing Dynasty in 1736 under the dynamic warlord Uman Khan of the Temutay clan. Thereafter, the Xing Dynasty came to rule of China as the emperors of the Middle Kingdom.
What had set them apart from other Mongols and Han Chinese is their adherence to Sunni Muslim faith and syncretic Mongolian-Chinese culture. The Khar-Mongols are mostly concentrated in Xinjiang, the Mongolian regions, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, North China Plain and the Central Plains. Population is estimated to be over 80-160 million, making Khar-Mongols as the biggest ethnic minority in China and largest subgroup of Mongolians.
Mauro-Mesoamericans
Language/s: Mesoamerican languages (Mayan, Mixe-Zoque, Otomanguean, Chibchan, Lenca) written in Tifinagh script
Ancestry: Descendants of generations of intermarriages between native Mesoamericans and Berbers (then known as Mauri)
Region: Atlantic coast of Mesoamerica
Religion: Roman Catholicism, Mauro-Mesoamerican religion (historic, religious and cultural substratum in present-day population
Culture: An interesting mix of indigenous Mesoamerican and Berber/Mauri culture, added by colonial-era European influences
Description:
The ethnogenesis of the Mauro-Mesoamericans started by a series of shipwrecks that happened on Atlantic coasts of Zoque (OTL eastern Veracruz and Tabasco) and northern Mayan realm (OTL northern Yucatán peninsula). The mostly male crew of the shipwrecks were brought back to life by the local inhabitants of the two mentioned regions. Despite the inital mishaps in relation to such contact, notably the spread of Old World diseases, most of the these men ended up being intermarried to the local population, mostly to the daughters of the rulers of the city-states. Eventually, as these crew eventually came from Zenaga, a semi-Carthaginian/Phoenician-influenced Berber kingdom (OTL Mauritania, Western Sahara and Canaries), contacts between the two regions became more permanent as some of them returned home and told their relatives (and eventually, their rulers) about their westward journey. As generations had passed, waves of Zenaga migrants have arrived throughout the Atlantic coast of Mesoamerica; while most of them were male (traders, debt prisoners, minor sons of rulers, etc.), a significant percentage of these migrants were women, mostly courtesans and less significant members of the Zenaga royal harem; all of them had ended up intermarried to the local population, in all classes. The generations of intermarriages between the two populations were evident through genetics: Depending on the population subgroup, 35% to 50% of the present-day Mesoamericans have Berber/North African Y-haplogroups (E-M215), while the 40-55% have native American haplogroup Q-M242; on the other hand, Y-haplogroup R1b (Western European) were present in 10% of the general Mesoamerican population. Meanwhile, the distribution of mtDNA in the same present-day population is the same percentage (58% Native American, 42% North African) in all groups.
Language/s: Mesoamerican languages (Mayan, Mixe-Zoque, Otomanguean, Chibchan, Lenca) written in Tifinagh script
Ancestry: Descendants of generations of intermarriages between native Mesoamericans and Berbers (then known as Mauri)
Region: Atlantic coast of Mesoamerica
Religion: Roman Catholicism, Mauro-Mesoamerican religion (historic, religious and cultural substratum in present-day population
Culture: An interesting mix of indigenous Mesoamerican and Berber/Mauri culture, added by colonial-era European influences
Description:
The ethnogenesis of the Mauro-Mesoamericans started by a series of shipwrecks that happened on Atlantic coasts of Zoque (OTL eastern Veracruz and Tabasco) and northern Mayan realm (OTL northern Yucatán peninsula). The mostly male crew of the shipwrecks were brought back to life by the local inhabitants of the two mentioned regions. Despite the inital mishaps in relation to such contact, notably the spread of Old World diseases, most of the these men ended up being intermarried to the local population, mostly to the daughters of the rulers of the city-states. Eventually, as these crew eventually came from Zenaga, a semi-Carthaginian/Phoenician-influenced Berber kingdom (OTL Mauritania, Western Sahara and Canaries), contacts between the two regions became more permanent as some of them returned home and told their relatives (and eventually, their rulers) about their westward journey. As generations had passed, waves of Zenaga migrants have arrived throughout the Atlantic coast of Mesoamerica; while most of them were male (traders, debt prisoners, minor sons of rulers, etc.), a significant percentage of these migrants were women, mostly courtesans and less significant members of the Zenaga royal harem; all of them had ended up intermarried to the local population, in all classes. The generations of intermarriages between the two populations were evident through genetics: Depending on the population subgroup, 35% to 50% of the present-day Mesoamericans have Berber/North African Y-haplogroups (E-M215), while the 40-55% have native American haplogroup Q-M242; on the other hand, Y-haplogroup R1b (Western European) were present in 10% of the general Mesoamerican population. Meanwhile, the distribution of mtDNA in the same present-day population is the same percentage (58% Native American, 42% North African) in all groups.
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Gian
Banned
(From the same world as this)
Adelians (adéliens)
Language: Adelian French, a dialect of French with significant (Northern) Russian influence due to some five decades of Tsarist rule from the Crimean War to the War of Independence. It is typically divided into four basic regional sub-dialects:
Religion: Predominantly Roman Catholic among ethnic Adelians (Adelia is a secular state), with a few converts to the Eastern Orthodoxy.
Culture: As a whole, Adelians have largely maintained much of the cultural traditions that they've retained from North America (due in no small part to their desire to preserve whatever bits of their identity they still had after their expulsion by the British and subjugation in Antarctica by the Russians). Nevertheless, they've absorbed many facets of Russian culture througout the 19th and early 20th centuries (most notably the usage of the Russo-Adelian units of measurement* and the weeklong Christmas celebration into New Year's Day and the Epiphany, among others). They are frequently painted by some as fiercely independent, and overtly nationalistic.
Region: Adelia (a independent nation in northeastern Antarctica), notable populations also exist in France, Bellinsgauzenia, and New Swabia)
(description to come)
*Basically, they slapped the old French names (arpents, toises, lieues, etc.) into the Russian units they also shared with Bellinsgauzenia.
Adelians (adéliens)
Language: Adelian French, a dialect of French with significant (Northern) Russian influence due to some five decades of Tsarist rule from the Crimean War to the War of Independence. It is typically divided into four basic regional sub-dialects:
- Durvillian
- Neo-Acadian, the basis for the standard dialect
- Vestfolder, significantly influenced by Russian (and to a lesser extent, Maori) than the others
- Kerguelian - known for having less Russian influence (because of its status as the last French holdout until joining Adelia in 1962)
Religion: Predominantly Roman Catholic among ethnic Adelians (Adelia is a secular state), with a few converts to the Eastern Orthodoxy.
Culture: As a whole, Adelians have largely maintained much of the cultural traditions that they've retained from North America (due in no small part to their desire to preserve whatever bits of their identity they still had after their expulsion by the British and subjugation in Antarctica by the Russians). Nevertheless, they've absorbed many facets of Russian culture througout the 19th and early 20th centuries (most notably the usage of the Russo-Adelian units of measurement* and the weeklong Christmas celebration into New Year's Day and the Epiphany, among others). They are frequently painted by some as fiercely independent, and overtly nationalistic.
Region: Adelia (a independent nation in northeastern Antarctica), notable populations also exist in France, Bellinsgauzenia, and New Swabia)
(description to come)
*Basically, they slapped the old French names (arpents, toises, lieues, etc.) into the Russian units they also shared with Bellinsgauzenia.
Sodorners
Language: main language: Sodorn, descended from Old Norse, closely related to Norn spoken in Hjaltland[1] & Orkney and Mannsk in Mann & the Rhinns, with two dialects: South Hebridean (spoken on Mull, Islay, Jura, Kintyre, Arran, and Bute), and North Hebridean (Skye and the Outer Hebrides); minority languages: Scots Gaelic, an official language spoken by 23% as a first or secondary language.
Ancestry: primarily Vikings with admixture from the local Gaels, some Briton descent
Region: The Sudreys[2], Arran, Bute, mainland enclave on Kintyre
Religion: Lutheranism (Church of the Isles)
Culture: Very similar to the cultures of the Northern Isles and the Faroes, heavily focused on the sea, fishing, and seafaring; the selkie is a very popular mythological symbol and is often used as a mascot; some Scottish influence in the way of music, food, clothing, as well as loanwords
Population: 96,000
Description: Around the 12th century, the Kingdom of the Isles simmered under Godred Olafsson's rule, leading to a plot against him led by Somerled, Lord of Argyll. This however would be quashed, and Godred with a heavy hand defeated other rivals to the throne. [3] Though the Scots played a part in Sodorn politics, the Isles would remain a province under Norwegian, and later Danish, control, with Scottish aims of taking it thwarted largely by the Norse-Scottish alliance against the English. The Isles would become a naval power, its sailors often hired as a counter to the English by Scots and local Irish kings, and later by Hanseatic merchants against the growing control of the Dutch. The Isles would eventually be granted the Nordreys[4], Iceland, and Greenland when Norway was united with Denmark. During the 1800s, nationalism began to grow in the Islanders; continental wars would lead to the union being divided, creating separate kingdoms of Norway, Denmark, and the Isles with the capital in Kirkvoe, Orkney[5]. The northernmost and southernmost islands chafed, leading to independence movements in which Iceland and Greenland became their own state, and the southern isles gained status as a separate country within the Federation of the Isles, now composed of the Kingdom of Mann(capital: Tynvollr[6]) and the Kingdom of Norn (capital: Kirkvoe), and the Kingdom of Sodorn with the local and union capital at Stjornovagr[7].
Footnotes:
[1] Shetland
[2] The Hebrides
[3] The PoD; OTL Godred was overthrown by Somerled, and afterward the Kingdom was plagued with wars of succession; this was intended to preserve the unity of the kingdom
[4] The Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland
[5] OTL Kirkwall, Orkney
[6] OTL Castletown, Mann; derived from Tynwald
[7] OTL Stornoway, Lewis and Harris
Language: main language: Sodorn, descended from Old Norse, closely related to Norn spoken in Hjaltland[1] & Orkney and Mannsk in Mann & the Rhinns, with two dialects: South Hebridean (spoken on Mull, Islay, Jura, Kintyre, Arran, and Bute), and North Hebridean (Skye and the Outer Hebrides); minority languages: Scots Gaelic, an official language spoken by 23% as a first or secondary language.
Ancestry: primarily Vikings with admixture from the local Gaels, some Briton descent
Region: The Sudreys[2], Arran, Bute, mainland enclave on Kintyre
Religion: Lutheranism (Church of the Isles)
Culture: Very similar to the cultures of the Northern Isles and the Faroes, heavily focused on the sea, fishing, and seafaring; the selkie is a very popular mythological symbol and is often used as a mascot; some Scottish influence in the way of music, food, clothing, as well as loanwords
Population: 96,000
Description: Around the 12th century, the Kingdom of the Isles simmered under Godred Olafsson's rule, leading to a plot against him led by Somerled, Lord of Argyll. This however would be quashed, and Godred with a heavy hand defeated other rivals to the throne. [3] Though the Scots played a part in Sodorn politics, the Isles would remain a province under Norwegian, and later Danish, control, with Scottish aims of taking it thwarted largely by the Norse-Scottish alliance against the English. The Isles would become a naval power, its sailors often hired as a counter to the English by Scots and local Irish kings, and later by Hanseatic merchants against the growing control of the Dutch. The Isles would eventually be granted the Nordreys[4], Iceland, and Greenland when Norway was united with Denmark. During the 1800s, nationalism began to grow in the Islanders; continental wars would lead to the union being divided, creating separate kingdoms of Norway, Denmark, and the Isles with the capital in Kirkvoe, Orkney[5]. The northernmost and southernmost islands chafed, leading to independence movements in which Iceland and Greenland became their own state, and the southern isles gained status as a separate country within the Federation of the Isles, now composed of the Kingdom of Mann(capital: Tynvollr[6]) and the Kingdom of Norn (capital: Kirkvoe), and the Kingdom of Sodorn with the local and union capital at Stjornovagr[7].
Footnotes:
[1] Shetland
[2] The Hebrides
[3] The PoD; OTL Godred was overthrown by Somerled, and afterward the Kingdom was plagued with wars of succession; this was intended to preserve the unity of the kingdom
[4] The Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland
[5] OTL Kirkwall, Orkney
[6] OTL Castletown, Mann; derived from Tynwald
[7] OTL Stornoway, Lewis and Harris
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Cedidkullari (new servants)
Language: Persianized Oghuz-Turkish (Western Oghuz)
Religion: Sunni Islam (99%), Others (1%)
Ancestry: Mixture of Turkish, Imazigh, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Albanian and Slavic adventurers with local Native American, African and Frankish (Spanish, Portuguese, French...) women and in lesser degree, Frankish converts with Islamic women
Population: 34,5-49,5 million (2019)
Region: Caribbean Islands, Mexico, South East, East Coast
History: As the name tells, the cedidkullari are new servants. Servants that were descendant from Adventurers from North Africa who used Galleons to sail to the New World and get a taste of Spanish Wealth. As loyalists of the Sultan, keeping the title until the death of the Last Dynastical Ottoman Sultan in 1703 for a Giray Sultan.
In the period of 1565-1815, a period of 250 years, the new servants were active in Piracy against Spain, Portugal and later towards British, Dutch or French, whenever any of the latter three used them towards the other. The Servants came as adventurers to the Caribbean and decided to build fortresses there to operate closer rather than being dependent on the North African Governors. Within three decades after the fall of Malta (1565), the Pirates grew and became a sincere issue to the Spanish. It became so big that Northern European Adventurers joined them to get a taste of Spanish Wealth. By 1620, most Leeward and Windward Islands were taken and used as bases. With the arrival of other European States, these hired the Servants as privateers against the Spanish Main. With the battle of Tortuga (1631), a Spanish Treasure flotilla was captured, taken to Havana and burnt infront of the Governor, marking it the biggest victory of the Pirates under the eunuch Ali Reis. The largest victory was the sack of Recife in 1694 and Veracruz in 1698 where freed African Slaves joined them. By the 1720s, Piracy of the Servants declined heavily after the Ottoman dynastic extinction and turning to farming and other service issues or military of the local powers, leaving a smaller but aggressive Pirate force. In 1815, a coalition fleet destroyed the last of the Servant fleet ending their era as pirates in the Western Caribbean near the Cayman Islands. Haci Ibrahim Reis the elder (92 years) died in the battle as the last captain of captains.
Language: Persianized Oghuz-Turkish (Western Oghuz)
Religion: Sunni Islam (99%), Others (1%)
Ancestry: Mixture of Turkish, Imazigh, Arabic, Persian, Greek, Albanian and Slavic adventurers with local Native American, African and Frankish (Spanish, Portuguese, French...) women and in lesser degree, Frankish converts with Islamic women
Population: 34,5-49,5 million (2019)
Region: Caribbean Islands, Mexico, South East, East Coast
History: As the name tells, the cedidkullari are new servants. Servants that were descendant from Adventurers from North Africa who used Galleons to sail to the New World and get a taste of Spanish Wealth. As loyalists of the Sultan, keeping the title until the death of the Last Dynastical Ottoman Sultan in 1703 for a Giray Sultan.
In the period of 1565-1815, a period of 250 years, the new servants were active in Piracy against Spain, Portugal and later towards British, Dutch or French, whenever any of the latter three used them towards the other. The Servants came as adventurers to the Caribbean and decided to build fortresses there to operate closer rather than being dependent on the North African Governors. Within three decades after the fall of Malta (1565), the Pirates grew and became a sincere issue to the Spanish. It became so big that Northern European Adventurers joined them to get a taste of Spanish Wealth. By 1620, most Leeward and Windward Islands were taken and used as bases. With the arrival of other European States, these hired the Servants as privateers against the Spanish Main. With the battle of Tortuga (1631), a Spanish Treasure flotilla was captured, taken to Havana and burnt infront of the Governor, marking it the biggest victory of the Pirates under the eunuch Ali Reis. The largest victory was the sack of Recife in 1694 and Veracruz in 1698 where freed African Slaves joined them. By the 1720s, Piracy of the Servants declined heavily after the Ottoman dynastic extinction and turning to farming and other service issues or military of the local powers, leaving a smaller but aggressive Pirate force. In 1815, a coalition fleet destroyed the last of the Servant fleet ending their era as pirates in the Western Caribbean near the Cayman Islands. Haci Ibrahim Reis the elder (92 years) died in the battle as the last captain of captains.
Old Californians
Language: Primarily a Spanish based language (influence from Mexico and Spanish Los Angeles areas) with a significant number of Russian loan words. Old Californian is written in the Latin script.
Ancestry: A creole culture of Spanish, Native American and Russian influences in California resulting from a stronger Russian presence in California.
Religion: "The Old Church". As the frontier was not a place for lengthy 'chicken or the egg' / filoque yes or no type discussions between Catholics and Orthodox, a hybrid liturgical based form of Christianity was developed blending Catholic and Orthodox culture, art forms and liturgical practices. The church is presented as being the only authentic expression of Christianity that existed "before the rise of the papacy and before the separation of the of eastern Orthodox".
Culture: As Catholicism, Orthodoxy and indigenous tribal structures favor a group approach, Old Californians place a huge emphasis on community. Each community is centered on a church parish that shares the name of the associated town. Old Californians who convert to Protestantism complain of being shunned by family and friends. Old Californian food is largely native and Russian based as purely Spanish cuisine never gained momentum.
Each town with an Old Californian population hosts Saints celebrations that can feature western saints with eastern depictions, or eastern saints depicted western style. Other towns have more internally consistent saintly depictions. In either case, festivals are a lot of fun- and bring in a lot of tourism cash. Patron Saints celebrations, however, have a public side open to tourists and private liturgies / masses not open to the public. Folklorists suspect the separation is due to the community orientation of the group.
Region: San Francisco (overwhelmed by Anglo settlement). Still exists in rural coastal areas north and south of San Francisco as an identifiable culture. Language was suppressed by both the Anglo domination and rejection by speakers in search of social mobility. Similar to Cajun French, the language is being revitalized and is now a source of ethnic pride.
Population: 140,000 or so primary members. An equal number of partial adherents or Anglos who became affiliated with the group.
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Brilliant! But I'm glad there are still some Gaelic speakers around.
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Granadines (Granadini)
Language: Historically the Granadines spoke a mixture of different languages ranging from Berber to Andalusian Arabic. Several centuries of living alongside the indigenous Italian population has led to the development of the Lingua Granadini, a Romance language derived from Neapolitan and several southern Italian dialects with a noted influence from Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. It is written in a modified form of the Arabic alphabet.
Ancestry: The Granadines are a mixture of Iberian, North African and Arab descent though there is a growing degree of Italian admixture among others.
Religion: Sunni Islam.
Culture: The Granadini are a people who tend to isolate themselves, preferring to group in small to medium sized communities apart from the remainder of Italian community. This is a result of the Guerra culturale, a government policy enforced by the Pavia-based Italian government to homogenize the country and rid of alleged Turkish influences left over from Ottoman rule in the south. There is a sharp politician division amongst the Granadini communities whether to see themselves as Muslim Italians or as an uniquely distinct ethnic group deserving their own homeland. It is not helped that the predominately Roman Catholic majority in Italy has historically viewed the Granadini with intense suspicion and sometimes open hatred, seeing them as the agents of Ottoman Turk rule.
Region: Molise with smaller presence throughout southern Italy and Sicily. They avoid the major cities like a plague for the most part, choosing isolation over opportunity and advancement.
Population: 920,000.
Language: Historically the Granadines spoke a mixture of different languages ranging from Berber to Andalusian Arabic. Several centuries of living alongside the indigenous Italian population has led to the development of the Lingua Granadini, a Romance language derived from Neapolitan and several southern Italian dialects with a noted influence from Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. It is written in a modified form of the Arabic alphabet.
Ancestry: The Granadines are a mixture of Iberian, North African and Arab descent though there is a growing degree of Italian admixture among others.
Religion: Sunni Islam.
Culture: The Granadini are a people who tend to isolate themselves, preferring to group in small to medium sized communities apart from the remainder of Italian community. This is a result of the Guerra culturale, a government policy enforced by the Pavia-based Italian government to homogenize the country and rid of alleged Turkish influences left over from Ottoman rule in the south. There is a sharp politician division amongst the Granadini communities whether to see themselves as Muslim Italians or as an uniquely distinct ethnic group deserving their own homeland. It is not helped that the predominately Roman Catholic majority in Italy has historically viewed the Granadini with intense suspicion and sometimes open hatred, seeing them as the agents of Ottoman Turk rule.
Region: Molise with smaller presence throughout southern Italy and Sicily. They avoid the major cities like a plague for the most part, choosing isolation over opportunity and advancement.
Population: 920,000.
Avalonians
Language: Early Modern English with Welsh, Irish, and Beothuk loan words
Ancestry: English, Welsh, and Irish; substantial Beothuk admixture
Religion: Largely Catholic
Culture: The Avalonians are predominantly recusants, refugees from the Puritan Revolution in Maryland, and Jacobites, who fled to the lands captured in the naval campaigns of Prince Rupert of the Rhine. On Newfoundland the anglo-celtic settlers pushed aggressively into the interior, initiating a rather violent cultural exchange with the Beothuk who were eventually assimilated. Elements of Beothuk culture endure in the population, such as the adoption of red ochre as their patriotic colour, and their emphasis on maintaining oral histories in place of written familial records (including some fantastical ones which trace family roots all the way back to the Battle of Camlann). Their enduring Jacobitism and history as a former French protectorate (1649-1801) has left them quite distant from the rest of the english-speaking world. For the longest time they were seen as a backwards people whose only industries were fishing, sealing, and whaling. Yet the discovery of their massive oil reserves has quickly transformed them into the "western gulf-monarchy".*
*Their continued annual harp seal hunts and exploitation of the Camelot Oil Field make them reviled in environmentalist circles.
Space: Newfoundland and Bermuda.
Language: Early Modern English with Welsh, Irish, and Beothuk loan words
Ancestry: English, Welsh, and Irish; substantial Beothuk admixture
Religion: Largely Catholic
Culture: The Avalonians are predominantly recusants, refugees from the Puritan Revolution in Maryland, and Jacobites, who fled to the lands captured in the naval campaigns of Prince Rupert of the Rhine. On Newfoundland the anglo-celtic settlers pushed aggressively into the interior, initiating a rather violent cultural exchange with the Beothuk who were eventually assimilated. Elements of Beothuk culture endure in the population, such as the adoption of red ochre as their patriotic colour, and their emphasis on maintaining oral histories in place of written familial records (including some fantastical ones which trace family roots all the way back to the Battle of Camlann). Their enduring Jacobitism and history as a former French protectorate (1649-1801) has left them quite distant from the rest of the english-speaking world. For the longest time they were seen as a backwards people whose only industries were fishing, sealing, and whaling. Yet the discovery of their massive oil reserves has quickly transformed them into the "western gulf-monarchy".*
*Their continued annual harp seal hunts and exploitation of the Camelot Oil Field make them reviled in environmentalist circles.
Space: Newfoundland and Bermuda.
And now some from my TL!
Eastern Italians
Language: see Balkan Dialects, see Julian Linguistic Debate
Ancestry: Latin; substantial Slavic admixture
Religion: Catholic [Latin Rite]
Culture: Italia Orientis is a cultural belt extending from northern Italy, through the Ljubljana Gap, along numerous medieval trade routes through Pannonia where it breaks down to a doted line of towns and "Merchant Quarters", all the way to the Julian March. Culture within is highly varied, ranging from North Italian Colonies, to islands of surviving Empire-era Latin, to slavs who happen to speak Italian, to the Julians who many would classify as their own ethno-linguistic group. Common uniting threads are attendance to Latin-Rite Mass, Italian architecture, and a strong wine-culture.
Space: Ljubljana, Pannonia, Julian March [Transylvania]; see Italia Orientis
Carantanians
Language: Western Carinthian Dialects (primarily Carniolan and Royal Carantanian)
Ancestry: alpine-slavic, some Pannonian Slavic as well as Italian, Croatian, and German admixture.
Religion: Catholic [Uniate]
Culture: As descendants of a hill tribe which later descended from the alps to dominate the plains of the Padan and Pannonia, Carantania is a land of striking contrasts. Beyond apartment blocks abruptly giving way to farmland, it is also a land where surveys routinely show that 70% of the population attend church at least once a week, and a similar percentage visit red-light districts on a similar basis. As a demographic they have one of the highest standards of living for residents of a country with no direct access to the Atlantic, yet popular opinion remains convinced that they are dramatically behind their European peers. As a legacy of their Mediterranean empire the populace has acquired a sweet tooth with the Kingdom's confectionaries containing far higher quantities of sugar than most counterparts on the the continent. Houses with overhangs and verandas have been in vogue since the mid 700s, with no stop in sight.
Space: East to west, Istria to Lake Balaton. North to south, Štajerska to the Dinaric Alps.
Avars
Language: Eastern Carinthian Dialects
Ancestry: Pannonian-slavic, substantial Carantanian, old Avar, Italian (including Julian), and German admixture.
Religion: Catholic [Uniate]
Culture: In contrast to their co-nationals to the west, "Avars" as they have come to be known are often seen as the country-bumpkin of the family. Farmers and ranchers living the settler's dream on the original frontier. This stereotype is not without its basis in reality, the eastern parts of the kingdom are still largely (56% of the population) rural, and popular cultural activities include competition horse archery. However, this alone undersells a fairly cultured and innovative population, which due to its high birth rate and sparsity of local opportunities is increasingly making waves in the Carantanian portion of the kingdom.
Space: Pannonia east and south of Lake Balaton, some pockets in the Julian March.
Eastern Italians
Language: see Balkan Dialects, see Julian Linguistic Debate
Ancestry: Latin; substantial Slavic admixture
Religion: Catholic [Latin Rite]
Culture: Italia Orientis is a cultural belt extending from northern Italy, through the Ljubljana Gap, along numerous medieval trade routes through Pannonia where it breaks down to a doted line of towns and "Merchant Quarters", all the way to the Julian March. Culture within is highly varied, ranging from North Italian Colonies, to islands of surviving Empire-era Latin, to slavs who happen to speak Italian, to the Julians who many would classify as their own ethno-linguistic group. Common uniting threads are attendance to Latin-Rite Mass, Italian architecture, and a strong wine-culture.
Space: Ljubljana, Pannonia, Julian March [Transylvania]; see Italia Orientis
Carantanians
Language: Western Carinthian Dialects (primarily Carniolan and Royal Carantanian)
Ancestry: alpine-slavic, some Pannonian Slavic as well as Italian, Croatian, and German admixture.
Religion: Catholic [Uniate]
Culture: As descendants of a hill tribe which later descended from the alps to dominate the plains of the Padan and Pannonia, Carantania is a land of striking contrasts. Beyond apartment blocks abruptly giving way to farmland, it is also a land where surveys routinely show that 70% of the population attend church at least once a week, and a similar percentage visit red-light districts on a similar basis. As a demographic they have one of the highest standards of living for residents of a country with no direct access to the Atlantic, yet popular opinion remains convinced that they are dramatically behind their European peers. As a legacy of their Mediterranean empire the populace has acquired a sweet tooth with the Kingdom's confectionaries containing far higher quantities of sugar than most counterparts on the the continent. Houses with overhangs and verandas have been in vogue since the mid 700s, with no stop in sight.
Space: East to west, Istria to Lake Balaton. North to south, Štajerska to the Dinaric Alps.
Avars
Language: Eastern Carinthian Dialects
Ancestry: Pannonian-slavic, substantial Carantanian, old Avar, Italian (including Julian), and German admixture.
Religion: Catholic [Uniate]
Culture: In contrast to their co-nationals to the west, "Avars" as they have come to be known are often seen as the country-bumpkin of the family. Farmers and ranchers living the settler's dream on the original frontier. This stereotype is not without its basis in reality, the eastern parts of the kingdom are still largely (56% of the population) rural, and popular cultural activities include competition horse archery. However, this alone undersells a fairly cultured and innovative population, which due to its high birth rate and sparsity of local opportunities is increasingly making waves in the Carantanian portion of the kingdom.
Space: Pannonia east and south of Lake Balaton, some pockets in the Julian March.