Interesting write-up. "People of color" is more respectful than the bolded term.
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Kappkreol
Population:
Ancestry: Khoisan, Danish, German, Norwegian, Bantu
Religion: Lutheran Christianity, Jurgenism, Khoisan/Bantu Paganism influenced Christianity
Language: Kappsk, historically known as "Kapp Dansk". Based on Danish, Kappsk contains a rich amount of words orginating from Khoisan and Bantu languages. The language is by far the member of the North Germanic language family with the most speakers. Dwarfing all other North Germanic languages combined!
History:
King Christian IV chartered the Danish East India Company in 1616. It's goal was to participate and profit from the burgeoning trade with India and the Far East. Ove Gjedde headed the first expedition. His goal was to establish a monopoly on trade with Ceylon. Unfortuantly for him, the Portuguese had established controll over the island before the Danish expedition even arrived. Despite this upset, Ove managed to negotiate for the Danish possesion of Tranquebar, a Tamil town. Now Denmark had established itself in the region. All was not well however, the expedition crew had suffered a heavy toll on the journey, with more than half perishing. Going foreward more crew members would die on the difficult journey from Europe to India.
One enterprising captain young Norwegian captain called Olav Sterk, convinced his superiors that establishing a supply station around the Cape of Good Hope would be economically profitable. Danish vessels were familiar with the area already, as they had traded for foodstuffs with the natives. The area had a mild climate and was strategically positioned. Building a supply station here would allow the Danish East India Company to supply it's ships more reliably. In the long run the investment would also recuperate the losses, as foreign ships could anchor there too.
Authorised in 1632 a expedition was sent to the area establishing a colony. Olav Sterk was privileged to lead the expedition, eager to succeed as his reputation was on the line. Founding Fort Olav (OTL Capetown) at a strategic relativly sheltered point close to a river.
Olav urged the king of Denmark to invest more in the South African settlement, inorder to strenghten the Danish position before anyone could challenge it. King Christian IV was urged to send soldiers and convicts to the colony. The deportation of convicts to South Africa would remain policy untill the South African declaration of independance. Later the Danish government would begin to send loose women to the colony.
Several settlements and forts was quickly established across the coast. Among which Fredriksborg (Walvis Bay), Kristiansborg (Vredensburg), Kristiansand (Port Elizabeth) and Køpstad (Durban).
The Danish goverment would also sponsor the settlement of families.
Around 1702, "Jurgen Profeten" claimed to recieve a vision from god. The prophet was the son of a prominent Danish landowner's mistress. His father had also seen to Jurgen being educated properly. Even prior to him rising to prophet-hood, Jurgen had been known as a eccentric. Jurgen claimed to a been given a mission by god. His mission was to guide humanity to create utopia on earth. South Africa was according to Jurgen and god the perfect place to establish a utopian society. Most of Jurgens followers originated from quickly growing community of creoles.
Jurgenism was characterised by acceptance of Polygamy, a strong focus on education, emphasis of frugality and communal loyality. It was expected of all Jurgenists to follow communal dictats over the secular government. These positions created animus between the Jurgenists and the central government, prompting a wave of repression against the followers. Reacting to increasing repression devout following their leadership trekked inland. Later the relationship between the Jurgenists and the governement of the South African colony would improve. The Jurgenist trek is also seen as opening up the inland Danish influence, and eventually controll.
The pagan religion of the natives, while marginalised has not evaporated completly. Many among the poorer sections of the Cape Creol community maintain Pagan practices beside their Christian religion. Historically this syncretism has been denounced by the upper class, but by 1960 it became more accepted and is often portrayed in popular culture.
South Africa declared independance in 1806. Denmark was at the time occupied, therefore being unable to send any forces to oppose the South African declaration of independance. This proved crucial as the it tipped the forces in favor of the Patriots, who were able to establish controll over the country. Forcing the loyalists to accept their loss. Instead of challenging the South Africans, Denmark chose to recognise the independant republic. South Africa's declaration of independance marked the beginning creol domination of South Africa's political life.
Presently South Africa is known for it's culture industry, prominent in the North Germanic countries. It also has many fans elsewhere.
Population:
- 1900: 6 Million
- 1960: 30 Million
- 2000: 90 Million
Ancestry: Khoisan, Danish, German, Norwegian, Bantu
Religion: Lutheran Christianity, Jurgenism, Khoisan/Bantu Paganism influenced Christianity
Language: Kappsk, historically known as "Kapp Dansk". Based on Danish, Kappsk contains a rich amount of words orginating from Khoisan and Bantu languages. The language is by far the member of the North Germanic language family with the most speakers. Dwarfing all other North Germanic languages combined!
History:
King Christian IV chartered the Danish East India Company in 1616. It's goal was to participate and profit from the burgeoning trade with India and the Far East. Ove Gjedde headed the first expedition. His goal was to establish a monopoly on trade with Ceylon. Unfortuantly for him, the Portuguese had established controll over the island before the Danish expedition even arrived. Despite this upset, Ove managed to negotiate for the Danish possesion of Tranquebar, a Tamil town. Now Denmark had established itself in the region. All was not well however, the expedition crew had suffered a heavy toll on the journey, with more than half perishing. Going foreward more crew members would die on the difficult journey from Europe to India.
One enterprising captain young Norwegian captain called Olav Sterk, convinced his superiors that establishing a supply station around the Cape of Good Hope would be economically profitable. Danish vessels were familiar with the area already, as they had traded for foodstuffs with the natives. The area had a mild climate and was strategically positioned. Building a supply station here would allow the Danish East India Company to supply it's ships more reliably. In the long run the investment would also recuperate the losses, as foreign ships could anchor there too.
Authorised in 1632 a expedition was sent to the area establishing a colony. Olav Sterk was privileged to lead the expedition, eager to succeed as his reputation was on the line. Founding Fort Olav (OTL Capetown) at a strategic relativly sheltered point close to a river.
Olav urged the king of Denmark to invest more in the South African settlement, inorder to strenghten the Danish position before anyone could challenge it. King Christian IV was urged to send soldiers and convicts to the colony. The deportation of convicts to South Africa would remain policy untill the South African declaration of independance. Later the Danish government would begin to send loose women to the colony.
Several settlements and forts was quickly established across the coast. Among which Fredriksborg (Walvis Bay), Kristiansborg (Vredensburg), Kristiansand (Port Elizabeth) and Køpstad (Durban).
The Danish goverment would also sponsor the settlement of families.
Around 1702, "Jurgen Profeten" claimed to recieve a vision from god. The prophet was the son of a prominent Danish landowner's mistress. His father had also seen to Jurgen being educated properly. Even prior to him rising to prophet-hood, Jurgen had been known as a eccentric. Jurgen claimed to a been given a mission by god. His mission was to guide humanity to create utopia on earth. South Africa was according to Jurgen and god the perfect place to establish a utopian society. Most of Jurgens followers originated from quickly growing community of creoles.
Jurgenism was characterised by acceptance of Polygamy, a strong focus on education, emphasis of frugality and communal loyality. It was expected of all Jurgenists to follow communal dictats over the secular government. These positions created animus between the Jurgenists and the central government, prompting a wave of repression against the followers. Reacting to increasing repression devout following their leadership trekked inland. Later the relationship between the Jurgenists and the governement of the South African colony would improve. The Jurgenist trek is also seen as opening up the inland Danish influence, and eventually controll.
The pagan religion of the natives, while marginalised has not evaporated completly. Many among the poorer sections of the Cape Creol community maintain Pagan practices beside their Christian religion. Historically this syncretism has been denounced by the upper class, but by 1960 it became more accepted and is often portrayed in popular culture.
South Africa declared independance in 1806. Denmark was at the time occupied, therefore being unable to send any forces to oppose the South African declaration of independance. This proved crucial as the it tipped the forces in favor of the Patriots, who were able to establish controll over the country. Forcing the loyalists to accept their loss. Instead of challenging the South Africans, Denmark chose to recognise the independant republic. South Africa's declaration of independance marked the beginning creol domination of South Africa's political life.
Presently South Africa is known for it's culture industry, prominent in the North Germanic countries. It also has many fans elsewhere.
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Okay this one deserve a timeline and not just because of the whole Jurgen Profeten.
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Anglo-Balts
Region: The Baltics and Northwest Russia.
Language: English.
Ancestry: Mostly from England, but all of the British Isles.
Religion: Protestantism.
Culture: Northwest Europe brought into Northeast Europe.
Related Ethnic Groups: Baltic Germans, maybe some French if they come.
Let's say for some scenario the New World was never settled and discovered (re-discovered to be exact), and many of the British decide to settle in the Baltic states and would co-exist with much of the Baltic German nobility, and they also spread into Northwest Russia as well to. Some French may come to the Baltic states but France never was really to interested in exporting much of their people to other lands like other nations such as Britain and Germany (German states, Germany didn't unify until 1871) did.
Region: The Baltics and Northwest Russia.
Language: English.
Ancestry: Mostly from England, but all of the British Isles.
Religion: Protestantism.
Culture: Northwest Europe brought into Northeast Europe.
Related Ethnic Groups: Baltic Germans, maybe some French if they come.
Let's say for some scenario the New World was never settled and discovered (re-discovered to be exact), and many of the British decide to settle in the Baltic states and would co-exist with much of the Baltic German nobility, and they also spread into Northwest Russia as well to. Some French may come to the Baltic states but France never was really to interested in exporting much of their people to other lands like other nations such as Britain and Germany (German states, Germany didn't unify until 1871) did.
Ugaunians
Region: Northern Baltic, Republic of Ugaunia, Russia, and Latvia (minority)
Language: Ugaunian
Ancestry: Finno-Ugric
Religion: Mostly Protestantism
Related Ethnic Groups: Estonians, Livonians
The Ugaunian people are a Finnic ethnic group native to the Republic of Ugaunia. They are related yet distinct to the Estonian people to their north.
The Ugaunians formed out of several distinct Estonian tribes including the eponymous Ugaunians of Ugaunia Proper, the Saccalans, and the Rotalians. Modern Ugaunian identity formed in the early modern period during the centralization of the Polish-Lithuanian state. They viewed themselves as a distinct people from the Estonians to their north who fell under Swedish and subsequently Russian rule. The speech of Ugaunia extended northwards and westwards in this period thanks to periodic conflict. During that time period modern Ugaunia was divided between the Voivodeships of Dorpat and Parnawa. In the 19th century, the Ugaunian national revival occurred which among the increase in literacy and national consciousness decisively cemented the name "Ugaunia" for these two voivodeships and adjacent lands inhabited by the Ugaunians in opposition to the Estonians who claimed Ugaunians as part of the Estonian nation. Ugaunian culture and literacy was supported to a degree by Poland-Lithuania to form a bulwark against potential Estonian claims on their land.
Following the collapse of Poland-Lithuania after the Great War, Ugaunia became an independent republic. The literary language of Dorpat (Tarto), the capital and largest city, was enforced on the nation, to some discontent from people in the west and north who spoke dialects more similar to the Estonians.
In modern times, Ugaunia is mostly rural and but like Estonia to the north is rapidly developing high-tech industries. They have good relations with both Estonia as well as Finland and also hold good relations with Latvia where relations have much improved despite past tensions over the local Ugaunian minority and the closely-related Livonian minority.
[Basically WI:The South Estonian dialects formed their own ethnicity and country based on the areas of Livonia outside of the historic Duchy of Estonia which to my knowledge never had a name and was never governed by one authority]
Region: Northern Baltic, Republic of Ugaunia, Russia, and Latvia (minority)
Language: Ugaunian
Ancestry: Finno-Ugric
Religion: Mostly Protestantism
Related Ethnic Groups: Estonians, Livonians
The Ugaunian people are a Finnic ethnic group native to the Republic of Ugaunia. They are related yet distinct to the Estonian people to their north.
The Ugaunians formed out of several distinct Estonian tribes including the eponymous Ugaunians of Ugaunia Proper, the Saccalans, and the Rotalians. Modern Ugaunian identity formed in the early modern period during the centralization of the Polish-Lithuanian state. They viewed themselves as a distinct people from the Estonians to their north who fell under Swedish and subsequently Russian rule. The speech of Ugaunia extended northwards and westwards in this period thanks to periodic conflict. During that time period modern Ugaunia was divided between the Voivodeships of Dorpat and Parnawa. In the 19th century, the Ugaunian national revival occurred which among the increase in literacy and national consciousness decisively cemented the name "Ugaunia" for these two voivodeships and adjacent lands inhabited by the Ugaunians in opposition to the Estonians who claimed Ugaunians as part of the Estonian nation. Ugaunian culture and literacy was supported to a degree by Poland-Lithuania to form a bulwark against potential Estonian claims on their land.
Following the collapse of Poland-Lithuania after the Great War, Ugaunia became an independent republic. The literary language of Dorpat (Tarto), the capital and largest city, was enforced on the nation, to some discontent from people in the west and north who spoke dialects more similar to the Estonians.
In modern times, Ugaunia is mostly rural and but like Estonia to the north is rapidly developing high-tech industries. They have good relations with both Estonia as well as Finland and also hold good relations with Latvia where relations have much improved despite past tensions over the local Ugaunian minority and the closely-related Livonian minority.
[Basically WI:The South Estonian dialects formed their own ethnicity and country based on the areas of Livonia outside of the historic Duchy of Estonia which to my knowledge never had a name and was never governed by one authority]
Ylocaine/French Filipinos
Region/Locations: Ylocaine (Northern Luzon), Cordillera, and Cagayan as well as Metro Manila (main), Southern Tagalog, and Central Luzon in the Philippines, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, United States, Australia, Spain, Algeria, and Canada (notably Quebec)
Language: Ylocaine creole, Ilocano, and French as well as Spanish (educational), Filipino, Chavacano, and English
Ancestry: 56% Indigène (Native Ilocanos), 20% Métis/Mixed, 19% European/White including those from France, 3% from other Asian countries especially Japan and China
Religion: Roman Catholicism
Population: Approximately 7,550,320 or 7.5 million people with (6% of its population)
Culture: Combined cultures of Spanish period with the Ilocano and other indigenous precolonial cultural traditions, norms, and values which is applied and subsumed with French cultural norms, values, and also etiquettes, the Ylocaine has the most prominent cultures in the Philippines alongside with the White/European Legazpinos and Mestizos in fields of economic, cultural, social, and political realms
Appearance: It appears that Ylocaines have similar facial display, similar to Mestizos or multiracial groups but with most of them are native or those mixed with Spaniards prior to arrival of French
Related Ethnic Groups:
Brief History: Following the Treaty of Rijswijk/Ryswick which the Spanish had deliberately omitted direct reference to the northern part of island from the treaty which ended the Nine Years' War on September of 1697 and due to French buccaneer intervention in rebellions on parts of northern Luzon that the Spaniards had been too busy or distractive in tasking to put down native rebellions, the French had fulfilling its ambition to establish a foothold on the Asia-Pacific region in hopes of propelling its rise into a dominant power in Europe.
First task or goal was to proselytize or convert the remaining natives or serve on the ranks of military especially with the task of quelling the rebellion on far flung areas of Nouvelle Auvergne (OTL Nueva Vizcaya) to enslave the tribal groups or even joined with the bands of French colonists as servitude workers or laborers or soldiers into settlements in North America or Haiti which led to greater contribution to the scattering of Ylocaine population, but for most, they preserved the ways that the Spaniards had influenced on them before the French would seize New Rouen (OTL Vigan) as well as prospering influence from East Asia due to in part of Chinese traders settling in within the cities as long as they are not interacted with the native population.
By the 1750s, with France deadlocked in a big war against Britain and its allies during the Seven Years' War, Jaume Silang (OTL Diego Silang) was the forefront to the instigating rebellion against French rule but unfortunately, the rebellion sometimes put down brutally by New Rouen garrison where Gabrielle Silang tried to continue her husband's footsteps in siege in the city of New Rouen (OTL Laoag) but with the help of Spanish reinforcements and pro-French Ilocanos/Ylocaine assisting the French colonial troops that led to rebellion put down, this was the second time native revolt against the French colonial overlords. In the aftermath, the colonial rule was tightened under the iron grip even as far as by 1789 to 1815 where the events coming from the motherland includes French Revolution has caused angry natives to instigate revolt but was put down not too long until in the 1800s.
With the events of French Revolution and the colonial rule was unaffected, the Ylocaines have launched Bassi Revolt over the issue of sale of alcohol and how the inhabitants of the colony are augmented into French Army during the Napeolonic campaigns' against other European powers, it was violent and futile as rebels sought to establish an independent country with replacing French officers with the native officers by 1808. But the most of population have been recruited under the ranks of the colonial army and loyal to the motherland had quelled the rebellion, except in the far flung mountains and valleys of Cordilleras where it would take decades to put down the rebellion but the truth is in the reality was the Great Pestilence of the late-1800s up to 1810s where series of continued crop failures caused by droughts and frequent but little records of natural disasters had damaged the food supply as well as triggering famine among the native population where estimated 2.3 million people died even those working as a servitude on tobacco plantations which the colony has been relied on with the economically profitable industry and the news of famine has went into deaf ears of Paris due to Napoleonic Wars.
By the mid-19th century where colony has undergone its growth as well as building the first railroad line from Saintonge (OTL Laoag) to New Tours (OTL San Fernando) while connecting with the Spanish colonial railroad line on the way to Manila has traced the beginning of inter-island relations between the French colony and the Spanish colony of both islands which they cling on. The French expansion into Indochina has led to Ylocaine reorganized and merged in the 1890s has led to formation of French East Indies or Indes Orientales Françaises with its capital in New Rouen up to 1910. The outbreak of Philippine Revolution, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War has inspired the intellectuals of Ylocaines to form the organized movement what is called Ylocan Determination Movement or Movement du Determination Ylocaine where the advocacy focuses on calls for the general improvement of impoverished colonial inhabitants.
The opening of Suez Canal and the construction of New Tours to Pineville (OTL Baguio) and the industrialization has led to immigration of 44,000 French immigrants as well as other immigrants from Europe has relatively shaped the ethnic makeup of the colony, followed by immigration of Indochinese such as the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao people into the colony throughout 1880s to 1910s and the emigration of Ylocaines into the interior of French East Indies has given a huge boost in Vietnam's catholic population that sometimes led to non-Christian resentment among the French overlord.
World War I has also led to recruitment of Ylocaine and other ethnic groups into the ranks of French Army from where they served into the battlefields and also the usage of bolo has sometimes led to mounting casualties among Central Powers troops despite heavy losses and frequent battles that turned deadly and by 1917 where the Americans had started to intervene has also sending contingent Filipino troops which includes the infamous general Tomas Claudio who met with the Ylocaine counterparts such as Emmanuel Agbuya and Jean-Pierre Croix as well as Betrand Agbayani.
In World War II, the growth of MDY movement has led to series of draft protests in the early 1940 and independence rally as the leaders of the movement Guillaume Pagadouane and Rupért Romain has been escaped from getting imprisoned at the hands of French colonial authorities and fled to Japan from where the Japanese had performed frequent bombings on ports, industrial, and city centers on April, right after the motherland was fallen during the successful Nazi invasion during the conclusion of the Battle of France and the Japanese Invasion of Ylocaine has not only led to occupation and formation of Republic of Samtoy but also provokes fears on Americans about the possible use of Japanese occupied Northern Luzon as land invasion and possible air raids into the Philippines and by 1942, the Japanese forces through the land had invaded Luzon during the Philippine Campaign.
At the climax by 1944 and 1945 where the American general Douglas McArthur had been accompanied by several American soldiers, Legazpino soldiers and generals, and in part, Filipino soldiers and other American generals in Leyte during the liberation campaign has signaled the opportunity for anti-Japanese guerillas to instigate the revolt where Japanese Rear Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi was called to deal with the Ylocaine revolts in New Tours, Saintonge, and Rouenburg by launching brutal campaign which led to three cities joining with both Warsaw and Berlin and the Ylocaine Revolt had ended with massive casualties of about 25,000 people and destroyed cultural foundations that predates back to colonial period as well as factories and bridges.
The aftermath of Second World War has led to implications on whether the French would able to return to the colony but the government under Charles de Gaulle has decided to abandon the colony altogether after centuries of colonialism, directly implementing dirigist economic policies before ceding it to the Commonwealth of the Philippines from where the postwar economic growth would tremendously began in the mid-1950s, accompanied by Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay and Beltran Iradier's economic reforms and the construction of high speed railway.
Region/Locations: Ylocaine (Northern Luzon), Cordillera, and Cagayan as well as Metro Manila (main), Southern Tagalog, and Central Luzon in the Philippines, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, United States, Australia, Spain, Algeria, and Canada (notably Quebec)
Language: Ylocaine creole, Ilocano, and French as well as Spanish (educational), Filipino, Chavacano, and English
Ancestry: 56% Indigène (Native Ilocanos), 20% Métis/Mixed, 19% European/White including those from France, 3% from other Asian countries especially Japan and China
Religion: Roman Catholicism
Population: Approximately 7,550,320 or 7.5 million people with (6% of its population)
Culture: Combined cultures of Spanish period with the Ilocano and other indigenous precolonial cultural traditions, norms, and values which is applied and subsumed with French cultural norms, values, and also etiquettes, the Ylocaine has the most prominent cultures in the Philippines alongside with the White/European Legazpinos and Mestizos in fields of economic, cultural, social, and political realms
Appearance: It appears that Ylocaines have similar facial display, similar to Mestizos or multiracial groups but with most of them are native or those mixed with Spaniards prior to arrival of French
Related Ethnic Groups:
Brief History: Following the Treaty of Rijswijk/Ryswick which the Spanish had deliberately omitted direct reference to the northern part of island from the treaty which ended the Nine Years' War on September of 1697 and due to French buccaneer intervention in rebellions on parts of northern Luzon that the Spaniards had been too busy or distractive in tasking to put down native rebellions, the French had fulfilling its ambition to establish a foothold on the Asia-Pacific region in hopes of propelling its rise into a dominant power in Europe.
First task or goal was to proselytize or convert the remaining natives or serve on the ranks of military especially with the task of quelling the rebellion on far flung areas of Nouvelle Auvergne (OTL Nueva Vizcaya) to enslave the tribal groups or even joined with the bands of French colonists as servitude workers or laborers or soldiers into settlements in North America or Haiti which led to greater contribution to the scattering of Ylocaine population, but for most, they preserved the ways that the Spaniards had influenced on them before the French would seize New Rouen (OTL Vigan) as well as prospering influence from East Asia due to in part of Chinese traders settling in within the cities as long as they are not interacted with the native population.
By the 1750s, with France deadlocked in a big war against Britain and its allies during the Seven Years' War, Jaume Silang (OTL Diego Silang) was the forefront to the instigating rebellion against French rule but unfortunately, the rebellion sometimes put down brutally by New Rouen garrison where Gabrielle Silang tried to continue her husband's footsteps in siege in the city of New Rouen (OTL Laoag) but with the help of Spanish reinforcements and pro-French Ilocanos/Ylocaine assisting the French colonial troops that led to rebellion put down, this was the second time native revolt against the French colonial overlords. In the aftermath, the colonial rule was tightened under the iron grip even as far as by 1789 to 1815 where the events coming from the motherland includes French Revolution has caused angry natives to instigate revolt but was put down not too long until in the 1800s.
With the events of French Revolution and the colonial rule was unaffected, the Ylocaines have launched Bassi Revolt over the issue of sale of alcohol and how the inhabitants of the colony are augmented into French Army during the Napeolonic campaigns' against other European powers, it was violent and futile as rebels sought to establish an independent country with replacing French officers with the native officers by 1808. But the most of population have been recruited under the ranks of the colonial army and loyal to the motherland had quelled the rebellion, except in the far flung mountains and valleys of Cordilleras where it would take decades to put down the rebellion but the truth is in the reality was the Great Pestilence of the late-1800s up to 1810s where series of continued crop failures caused by droughts and frequent but little records of natural disasters had damaged the food supply as well as triggering famine among the native population where estimated 2.3 million people died even those working as a servitude on tobacco plantations which the colony has been relied on with the economically profitable industry and the news of famine has went into deaf ears of Paris due to Napoleonic Wars.
By the mid-19th century where colony has undergone its growth as well as building the first railroad line from Saintonge (OTL Laoag) to New Tours (OTL San Fernando) while connecting with the Spanish colonial railroad line on the way to Manila has traced the beginning of inter-island relations between the French colony and the Spanish colony of both islands which they cling on. The French expansion into Indochina has led to Ylocaine reorganized and merged in the 1890s has led to formation of French East Indies or Indes Orientales Françaises with its capital in New Rouen up to 1910. The outbreak of Philippine Revolution, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War has inspired the intellectuals of Ylocaines to form the organized movement what is called Ylocan Determination Movement or Movement du Determination Ylocaine where the advocacy focuses on calls for the general improvement of impoverished colonial inhabitants.
The opening of Suez Canal and the construction of New Tours to Pineville (OTL Baguio) and the industrialization has led to immigration of 44,000 French immigrants as well as other immigrants from Europe has relatively shaped the ethnic makeup of the colony, followed by immigration of Indochinese such as the Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao people into the colony throughout 1880s to 1910s and the emigration of Ylocaines into the interior of French East Indies has given a huge boost in Vietnam's catholic population that sometimes led to non-Christian resentment among the French overlord.
World War I has also led to recruitment of Ylocaine and other ethnic groups into the ranks of French Army from where they served into the battlefields and also the usage of bolo has sometimes led to mounting casualties among Central Powers troops despite heavy losses and frequent battles that turned deadly and by 1917 where the Americans had started to intervene has also sending contingent Filipino troops which includes the infamous general Tomas Claudio who met with the Ylocaine counterparts such as Emmanuel Agbuya and Jean-Pierre Croix as well as Betrand Agbayani.
In World War II, the growth of MDY movement has led to series of draft protests in the early 1940 and independence rally as the leaders of the movement Guillaume Pagadouane and Rupért Romain has been escaped from getting imprisoned at the hands of French colonial authorities and fled to Japan from where the Japanese had performed frequent bombings on ports, industrial, and city centers on April, right after the motherland was fallen during the successful Nazi invasion during the conclusion of the Battle of France and the Japanese Invasion of Ylocaine has not only led to occupation and formation of Republic of Samtoy but also provokes fears on Americans about the possible use of Japanese occupied Northern Luzon as land invasion and possible air raids into the Philippines and by 1942, the Japanese forces through the land had invaded Luzon during the Philippine Campaign.
At the climax by 1944 and 1945 where the American general Douglas McArthur had been accompanied by several American soldiers, Legazpino soldiers and generals, and in part, Filipino soldiers and other American generals in Leyte during the liberation campaign has signaled the opportunity for anti-Japanese guerillas to instigate the revolt where Japanese Rear Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi was called to deal with the Ylocaine revolts in New Tours, Saintonge, and Rouenburg by launching brutal campaign which led to three cities joining with both Warsaw and Berlin and the Ylocaine Revolt had ended with massive casualties of about 25,000 people and destroyed cultural foundations that predates back to colonial period as well as factories and bridges.
The aftermath of Second World War has led to implications on whether the French would able to return to the colony but the government under Charles de Gaulle has decided to abandon the colony altogether after centuries of colonialism, directly implementing dirigist economic policies before ceding it to the Commonwealth of the Philippines from where the postwar economic growth would tremendously began in the mid-1950s, accompanied by Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay and Beltran Iradier's economic reforms and the construction of high speed railway.
Tartessians-Punics and Tartessians-Romans.
Region / Locations: Southern Spain and Portugal, or Hispania and Lusitania for ancient times.
Language: Tartessian (mother tongue), Phoenician, Greek and Latin language according to historical periods and population segments.
Ancestry: Pre Indo-European (probably). Or proto-Indo-European very separate from others in the region.
Religion: Tartessian (???), Fenician religion, Greek-Roman Pantheon and Christianity.
Population: De facto, extinct.
Culture: A merchant culture that was strongly influenced by the Greeks and Phoenicians, Tartessos strongly adopted the religious practices of the latter.
Tartessos relied heavily on its mining activity for export throughout the Mediterranean, and even traded with peoples in the south of the British Isles and pre-Roman Gaul.
Throughout the time through foreign political and economic domination, the Punic Tartessians and Roman Tartessians would emerge, adopting mostly the Punic language (related to Phoenician) or Latin (Indo-European language).
The Tartessians-Romans would also adopt the Roman popular and religious customs, when the original pantheon of the Tartessians was already practically forgotten. Some would adopt Christianity before the ethnic-cultural group disappeared completely assimilated by the Roman populations.
Throughout its history the Tartessians and descendants would be merchants, mercenaries and soldiers, generally depending on the social status or the situation of the dominant power in Hispania-The Mediterranean.
Related Ethnic Groups: Unknown (roots, between the 12th and 5th centuries BC), Roman, Punic, and probably Greek (crossbreeding of the 5th and 3rd centuries BC onwards). Some theories indicate possible relationships with the Basques and / or Berbers.
Brief History: Tartessos was once a flourishing civilization in southern Hispania and Lusitania, little is known about their exact ancestors but they were known to the Mediterranean world as merchants and sailors who came into contact with Greeks and Phoenicians.
Eventually the descendants of the Phoenicians, the Punics of Carthage, would begin to be a powerful entity in the Western Mediterranean, the Punics began to conflict with the Tartessians. The Carthaginians and Greeks of Hispania allied and defeated Tartessos, subjecting Tartessos to the political and economic dominance of Carthage over this civilization.
Through this domain many of the wealth of Tartessos was decaying, in favor of Carthaginian merchants of course. Fortunately, the Punics and Tartessians had some things in common, mainly in religious aspects, leading to the emergence of the Tartessians-Punics or Tartessians-Carthaginians, mestizos of these two cultures.
Of course emerging from two commercial cultures, the Punic-Tartessians were not much different from their ancestors, although some worked as mercenaries throughout the Italian peninsula, Greece, and Illyria.
Soon Carthage was coming into conflict with the Roman Republic, which forced Tartessos to enter the same war. But Carthage was defeated, leading Rome to become the de facto new lords of the Tartessian civilization economically and politically.
In the centuries to come this would spread at the cultural level, Tartessian-Roman or Romanized Tartessian, adapted to Roman political-social life, in principle through marriages.
The Tartessians-Romans did not have their citizenship guaranteed, so they often served as Auxiliarii in regions far from Hispania for the Roman army. Participating in military activities much more frequently than their ancestors or cousins.
Eventually the Tartessians would be completely assimilated by the Roman populations, of course there should still be certain descendants in the south of ancient Hispania and Lusitania.
Throughout the 18th and 19th century, various archaeologists, ethnologists and historians would theorize about the ancestors of the Tartessians-Punics / Romans, and the relationship of the Tartessians and descendants with other peoples of the Mediterranean region (North Africa and Europe) . Throughout the south of the regions inhabited by Tartessos you can still find various ruins, or even cities that survive to this day (mainly 7 large cities of present-day Spain), a material legacy of Tartessos and descendants.
Tartessian-Roman and Tartessian-Punic shields, writings and material objects have also been found throughout the Roman world.
In the 20th century, believers in Arianism and esotericism would argue that Tartessos was basically Atlantis, an Aryan civilization that fell out of favor due to its interbreeding with foreign populations. Of course that is only ideology and propaganda rather than true and scientific facts.
(OOC: Basically I just did a more long-lived Tartessos that still dies but for other reasons)
Region / Locations: Southern Spain and Portugal, or Hispania and Lusitania for ancient times.
Language: Tartessian (mother tongue), Phoenician, Greek and Latin language according to historical periods and population segments.
Ancestry: Pre Indo-European (probably). Or proto-Indo-European very separate from others in the region.
Religion: Tartessian (???), Fenician religion, Greek-Roman Pantheon and Christianity.
Population: De facto, extinct.
Culture: A merchant culture that was strongly influenced by the Greeks and Phoenicians, Tartessos strongly adopted the religious practices of the latter.
Tartessos relied heavily on its mining activity for export throughout the Mediterranean, and even traded with peoples in the south of the British Isles and pre-Roman Gaul.
Throughout the time through foreign political and economic domination, the Punic Tartessians and Roman Tartessians would emerge, adopting mostly the Punic language (related to Phoenician) or Latin (Indo-European language).
The Tartessians-Romans would also adopt the Roman popular and religious customs, when the original pantheon of the Tartessians was already practically forgotten. Some would adopt Christianity before the ethnic-cultural group disappeared completely assimilated by the Roman populations.
Throughout its history the Tartessians and descendants would be merchants, mercenaries and soldiers, generally depending on the social status or the situation of the dominant power in Hispania-The Mediterranean.
Related Ethnic Groups: Unknown (roots, between the 12th and 5th centuries BC), Roman, Punic, and probably Greek (crossbreeding of the 5th and 3rd centuries BC onwards). Some theories indicate possible relationships with the Basques and / or Berbers.
Brief History: Tartessos was once a flourishing civilization in southern Hispania and Lusitania, little is known about their exact ancestors but they were known to the Mediterranean world as merchants and sailors who came into contact with Greeks and Phoenicians.
Eventually the descendants of the Phoenicians, the Punics of Carthage, would begin to be a powerful entity in the Western Mediterranean, the Punics began to conflict with the Tartessians. The Carthaginians and Greeks of Hispania allied and defeated Tartessos, subjecting Tartessos to the political and economic dominance of Carthage over this civilization.
Through this domain many of the wealth of Tartessos was decaying, in favor of Carthaginian merchants of course. Fortunately, the Punics and Tartessians had some things in common, mainly in religious aspects, leading to the emergence of the Tartessians-Punics or Tartessians-Carthaginians, mestizos of these two cultures.
Of course emerging from two commercial cultures, the Punic-Tartessians were not much different from their ancestors, although some worked as mercenaries throughout the Italian peninsula, Greece, and Illyria.
Soon Carthage was coming into conflict with the Roman Republic, which forced Tartessos to enter the same war. But Carthage was defeated, leading Rome to become the de facto new lords of the Tartessian civilization economically and politically.
In the centuries to come this would spread at the cultural level, Tartessian-Roman or Romanized Tartessian, adapted to Roman political-social life, in principle through marriages.
The Tartessians-Romans did not have their citizenship guaranteed, so they often served as Auxiliarii in regions far from Hispania for the Roman army. Participating in military activities much more frequently than their ancestors or cousins.
Eventually the Tartessians would be completely assimilated by the Roman populations, of course there should still be certain descendants in the south of ancient Hispania and Lusitania.
Throughout the 18th and 19th century, various archaeologists, ethnologists and historians would theorize about the ancestors of the Tartessians-Punics / Romans, and the relationship of the Tartessians and descendants with other peoples of the Mediterranean region (North Africa and Europe) . Throughout the south of the regions inhabited by Tartessos you can still find various ruins, or even cities that survive to this day (mainly 7 large cities of present-day Spain), a material legacy of Tartessos and descendants.
Tartessian-Roman and Tartessian-Punic shields, writings and material objects have also been found throughout the Roman world.
In the 20th century, believers in Arianism and esotericism would argue that Tartessos was basically Atlantis, an Aryan civilization that fell out of favor due to its interbreeding with foreign populations. Of course that is only ideology and propaganda rather than true and scientific facts.
(OOC: Basically I just did a more long-lived Tartessos that still dies but for other reasons)
Malagasavoyards
Region: coastal Madagascar (mostly in the east of the island)
Language: Malagasavoyard creole (mostly based on Sardinian and Tsimihety)
Ancestry: Italian (mostly from Piedmont-Sardinia) and Malagasy (largely from the lowland peoples)
Religion: Folk Catholicism and Malagasy folk religion, with no clear divide between them
Culture: How do you say "YARR!" in Malagasy?
In the late 18th century, Charles Felix of Savoy accepts an OTL offer the pirates stationed in Madagascar at the time proposed him - that of crowning himself King of Madagascar, so that those pirates would be able to rank up from pirates to corsairs, therefore avoiding the noose if taken prisoner, in exchange for a cut of their rather ethically dubious profits.
Around the same time, Sardinia had been annexed to the possessions of the crown of Savoy; due to poverty and a wish to avoid Turin's rule, many Sardinians (as well as quite a few Nizzardi) sail to Madagascar, eventually coming across the independent-minded, even proto-anarchist Tsimihety. It's a match made in pirate heaven, with lowland Sardinians and lowland Malagasy intermarrying with reckless abandon and becoming the scourge of whoever comes across them.
Eventually, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to an end, they calm down, but keep playing a significant role in the politics of Madagascar and Sardinia-Piedmont alike, both for good (anarchism and socialism would be taken up quite eagerly by them) and ill (this doesn't stop them from aiding and abetting colonialist and imperialist schemes through their skill as sailors).
Today, they're a rather influential minority in the Indian Ocean countries, not unlike the Swahili peoples in the mainland, and in Sardinia, to such an extent that the Sardinian flag might as well feature four skulls and crossed bones rather than four Moors.
Region: coastal Madagascar (mostly in the east of the island)
Language: Malagasavoyard creole (mostly based on Sardinian and Tsimihety)
Ancestry: Italian (mostly from Piedmont-Sardinia) and Malagasy (largely from the lowland peoples)
Religion: Folk Catholicism and Malagasy folk religion, with no clear divide between them
Culture: How do you say "YARR!" in Malagasy?
In the late 18th century, Charles Felix of Savoy accepts an OTL offer the pirates stationed in Madagascar at the time proposed him - that of crowning himself King of Madagascar, so that those pirates would be able to rank up from pirates to corsairs, therefore avoiding the noose if taken prisoner, in exchange for a cut of their rather ethically dubious profits.
Around the same time, Sardinia had been annexed to the possessions of the crown of Savoy; due to poverty and a wish to avoid Turin's rule, many Sardinians (as well as quite a few Nizzardi) sail to Madagascar, eventually coming across the independent-minded, even proto-anarchist Tsimihety. It's a match made in pirate heaven, with lowland Sardinians and lowland Malagasy intermarrying with reckless abandon and becoming the scourge of whoever comes across them.
Eventually, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to an end, they calm down, but keep playing a significant role in the politics of Madagascar and Sardinia-Piedmont alike, both for good (anarchism and socialism would be taken up quite eagerly by them) and ill (this doesn't stop them from aiding and abetting colonialist and imperialist schemes through their skill as sailors).
Today, they're a rather influential minority in the Indian Ocean countries, not unlike the Swahili peoples in the mainland, and in Sardinia, to such an extent that the Sardinian flag might as well feature four skulls and crossed bones rather than four Moors.
Epirotes.
Region / Locations: Libia (Liwýi), Gallía (Galia / France), Erkoúlia (Hispania) and Italy. In addition to Epirus (Albania).
Language: Greek-Epirotic languages, a descendant of the native Greek dialect of Epirus, which takes influences from Italic and Celtic languages.
Later invaders would add some loans to regional variants, such as Germanic peoples.
Ancestry: Greek, Celtic, Germanic, and Afro-Asian (Phoenicians, Punics / Carthaginians, Berbers, etc).
Religion: Originally believers of the Hellenistic faith, but in the future they would adopt Christianity or Islam.
Population: About 1.114 million worldwide.
Culture: Difficult to say, the Epirotes are actually a linguistic rather than an ethno-cultural group, although they are undoubtedly related and possess similarities, temporal, geographical and other differences have widely separated them.
We have the Epirotes of Epirus (the Balkans), the African Epirotes (of Libya), the Hispanic Epirotes, the Gallic Epirotes and the Italian Epirotes.
The American and colonial Epirotes (descendants of the political-cultural dominance of the Epirotes of Western Europe over colonies in America and Africa).
And all these groups could be divided into more subgroups, with religious mixes and borrowed words over many centuries.
In general most are Christians or of a sect of Christianity, although there are also many Muslims in the African Epirotes and the Balkan Epirotes.
It is more difficult to speak of traditions or myths, there is a common root in the Empire of Epirus, but after this, all the groups go almost totally independently by their side.
Related Ethnic Groups: Greco-Macedonians (Balkans). Depending on the area there are other related groups (indigenous peoples).
Brief History: In the 3rd century BC, seeking to imitate Alexander the Great, King Pyrrhus of Epirus launched his campaign to conquer western territories. The first campaigns of King Pyrrhus led him to the conquest of the south-center of the Italian peninsula (conquering former Greek colonies, Italian and Latin peoples such as Rome).
In future campaigns Pyrrhus would conquer northern Italy, southern Gaul and parts of Hispania (Cataionnia / Catalonia). However, Pyrrhus' campaigns would put him in conflict with another Mediterranean power in the Western Mediterranean, Carthage.
They would start the Pyrrhic wars (although Pyrrhus of Epirus himself only participated in the first pyrrhic war), between Epirus and Carthage. These wars would rage in the late 3rd century BC and the middle of the 2nd century BC.
Epirus would emerge victorious, initiating the Empire of Epirus, which would rule the central and western Mediterranean for at least 4 centuries onwards.
The Empire of Epirus would expand into what we identify as Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, also conquering the entirety of Hispania, Gaul and Illyria. For a short time they would dominate Egypt and the Levant but it would not lead to anything too important.
With the conquests, the local populations suffered a process of Hellenization that would give rise to the Epirotes.
The Epirotes adopted Greek in a vulgar or popular variant, which would eventually give rise to the various dialects and languages around the Mediterranean world.
In the 1st century AD in the Empire of Epirus Christianity would be on the rise.
In the 2nd century AD the Empire of Epirus entered into crisis due to economic and foreign pressures, which would lead to the partition of the Empire of Epirus and its fall as hegemon in the Mediterranean world, launching the Great Greek Dark Ages.
Epirotes languages:
* African Epirotes languages: The conquered African peoples, of varied origins (Berber, Punic, etc.) mostly abandoned the Epirote languages, which went into decline for the following centuries until the Muslim conquest, which definitely put an end to most of these languages.
** Liwýi or Liwýies: The Liwýi is the language of the Liwýies, a mestizo-creole group of present-day Libya, they are a group mainly of Christians close to the Egyptian Coptic Church, but who inhabit the western territories of Egypt. In their genetic-cultural heritage they have been adding part of the invaders Arabs, Egyptians, Greeks and other natives of North Africa.
** Pýonnes: Extinct. The Pýonnes were the Epirotes who inhabited the areas of present-day Morocco, Western Sahara and parts of Tunisia before the Arab conquest.
** Poosfairo or Poosfarianos: Extinct. The Poosfairo and Poosfarian languages were the Epirotes of present-day Algeria.
* Gallic Epirote Languages: Greek-Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul, or Gallía in the Epirote languages. With a Celtic and partly Germanic-Nordic mixture in the northern regions especially.
They are considered as the second Epirote language most separated from the rest (after the Liwýi).
** Naui Languages: The Epirotic languages of northern Gaul are actually several but they are compressed into a single group. They have separated from the rest regarding their way of saying "No" (Nauí).
Historically they have exercised dominance over the southern languages, which in contrast have always rebelled, finding more similarities with their comrades from Erkoúlia (Hispania) and Italy.
** Oxhi Languages: Oxhi is the way to say no in the Epirote language group of southern Gaul, in areas that external geographers identify as Greater Occitania and southern Burgundy. They maintain a more Celtic inspiration, without as many Germanicisms as the Nauí languages.
* Epirotes Languages of Erkoúlia / Hispanic Epirotes Languages Epirotes: The languages spoken in the Hispanic territory of the old Empire of Epirus, the region was inhabited by many peoples and was invaded by many others. However, the Epirote languages outlived their Illyrian and African companions.
They led the expeditions of the Age of Discovery and American and African colonialism, which led to the expansion of the Epirote languages worldwide (later other European powers such as Gallía, also Epirote, would join).
** Fositano / Fositanios: Fositan is the language of the Fositanios, inhabitants of the west of the Hispanic peninsula from north to south (the old Lusitania and Galicia). It is divided into two regional dialects, the purest Fositano from the south and the Fositano from the north (which has some Germanic influence but not too much).
** Cataionn / Cataionnia: Languages and inhabitants of the west of the Hispanic peninsula, have been connected with the Oxhi languages of the north and Italic of the east, but they have always been dominated by neighbors from the Hispanic peninsula.
** Vitetiano: The Vitetianos are inhabitants of the center and north of the Hispanic peninsula, they are actually a group of diverse dialects that are divided throughout the Hispanic geography. For example, those from the northern mountains speak different dialects from those of the central plateau.
They are generally united by themes of religion but they are not exactly the same culture, they are different lands historically directed by the same leaders or heads of state.
** Al-Erkoúlia: The Creole of the Muslim invaders and the Epirotes, with the Muslim invasions, in reality most of the ethnic-cultural composition remained the same, but the influx of merchants and elites had an influence on the language and architecture of the region.
The Al-Erkoúlia of Hispania are the only Hispanic-Epirote language that has considerable Arabic influence, an influence that is less in the other languages of the region. Every word that begins with "Al" comes from Arabic in this language, according to recent studies.
* Italic Epirote Languages: Languages of the Italic peninsula, they are divided like the languages of Gaul, into groups of north and south. Also known as the Little Greeks and the Great Greeks.
** Little Epirotes or Little Greeks: Northern speakers.
They have received much more Germanic, Celtic and native influence than those of the south. But the north has always received better economic treatment and has tried to dominate the south numerous times.
** Great Greeks or Big/Great Epirotes: Southern speakers. They have received less foreign influence, and therefore have always been more "pure" compared to their northern brethren.
They have received more oriental influence, always looking towards the homeland of Epirus, Greece and Illyria.
However, their poverty and strategic positions have always made them the target of major Mediterranean powers, their own brothers, invaders of all kinds, etc.
* Epirote languages of Illyria: Extinct. The migrations of Greeks from Epirus gave rise to Greek-Illyrian Epirotes in the north, in the western Balkans, but these would be assimilated or destroyed with the passage of various invasions from the east or north over the centuries.
* Greek of Epirus: In modern Epirus Greek is still spoken, but it is a Greek markedly different from the rest of the Greek world in the Balkans.
It has taken over time influences from the dominant powers of the eastern Mediterranean (other Greeks, Muslims, Bulgarians, etc). In addition to Geto-Dacians and Illyrians who invaded after the fall of the Empire of Epirus.
(OOC: Replacing Romances and Romans by Greeks from Epirus).
Region / Locations: Libia (Liwýi), Gallía (Galia / France), Erkoúlia (Hispania) and Italy. In addition to Epirus (Albania).
Language: Greek-Epirotic languages, a descendant of the native Greek dialect of Epirus, which takes influences from Italic and Celtic languages.
Later invaders would add some loans to regional variants, such as Germanic peoples.
Ancestry: Greek, Celtic, Germanic, and Afro-Asian (Phoenicians, Punics / Carthaginians, Berbers, etc).
Religion: Originally believers of the Hellenistic faith, but in the future they would adopt Christianity or Islam.
Population: About 1.114 million worldwide.
Culture: Difficult to say, the Epirotes are actually a linguistic rather than an ethno-cultural group, although they are undoubtedly related and possess similarities, temporal, geographical and other differences have widely separated them.
We have the Epirotes of Epirus (the Balkans), the African Epirotes (of Libya), the Hispanic Epirotes, the Gallic Epirotes and the Italian Epirotes.
The American and colonial Epirotes (descendants of the political-cultural dominance of the Epirotes of Western Europe over colonies in America and Africa).
And all these groups could be divided into more subgroups, with religious mixes and borrowed words over many centuries.
In general most are Christians or of a sect of Christianity, although there are also many Muslims in the African Epirotes and the Balkan Epirotes.
It is more difficult to speak of traditions or myths, there is a common root in the Empire of Epirus, but after this, all the groups go almost totally independently by their side.
Related Ethnic Groups: Greco-Macedonians (Balkans). Depending on the area there are other related groups (indigenous peoples).
Brief History: In the 3rd century BC, seeking to imitate Alexander the Great, King Pyrrhus of Epirus launched his campaign to conquer western territories. The first campaigns of King Pyrrhus led him to the conquest of the south-center of the Italian peninsula (conquering former Greek colonies, Italian and Latin peoples such as Rome).
In future campaigns Pyrrhus would conquer northern Italy, southern Gaul and parts of Hispania (Cataionnia / Catalonia). However, Pyrrhus' campaigns would put him in conflict with another Mediterranean power in the Western Mediterranean, Carthage.
They would start the Pyrrhic wars (although Pyrrhus of Epirus himself only participated in the first pyrrhic war), between Epirus and Carthage. These wars would rage in the late 3rd century BC and the middle of the 2nd century BC.
Epirus would emerge victorious, initiating the Empire of Epirus, which would rule the central and western Mediterranean for at least 4 centuries onwards.
The Empire of Epirus would expand into what we identify as Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, also conquering the entirety of Hispania, Gaul and Illyria. For a short time they would dominate Egypt and the Levant but it would not lead to anything too important.
With the conquests, the local populations suffered a process of Hellenization that would give rise to the Epirotes.
The Epirotes adopted Greek in a vulgar or popular variant, which would eventually give rise to the various dialects and languages around the Mediterranean world.
In the 1st century AD in the Empire of Epirus Christianity would be on the rise.
In the 2nd century AD the Empire of Epirus entered into crisis due to economic and foreign pressures, which would lead to the partition of the Empire of Epirus and its fall as hegemon in the Mediterranean world, launching the Great Greek Dark Ages.
Epirotes languages:
* African Epirotes languages: The conquered African peoples, of varied origins (Berber, Punic, etc.) mostly abandoned the Epirote languages, which went into decline for the following centuries until the Muslim conquest, which definitely put an end to most of these languages.
** Liwýi or Liwýies: The Liwýi is the language of the Liwýies, a mestizo-creole group of present-day Libya, they are a group mainly of Christians close to the Egyptian Coptic Church, but who inhabit the western territories of Egypt. In their genetic-cultural heritage they have been adding part of the invaders Arabs, Egyptians, Greeks and other natives of North Africa.
** Pýonnes: Extinct. The Pýonnes were the Epirotes who inhabited the areas of present-day Morocco, Western Sahara and parts of Tunisia before the Arab conquest.
** Poosfairo or Poosfarianos: Extinct. The Poosfairo and Poosfarian languages were the Epirotes of present-day Algeria.
* Gallic Epirote Languages: Greek-Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul, or Gallía in the Epirote languages. With a Celtic and partly Germanic-Nordic mixture in the northern regions especially.
They are considered as the second Epirote language most separated from the rest (after the Liwýi).
** Naui Languages: The Epirotic languages of northern Gaul are actually several but they are compressed into a single group. They have separated from the rest regarding their way of saying "No" (Nauí).
Historically they have exercised dominance over the southern languages, which in contrast have always rebelled, finding more similarities with their comrades from Erkoúlia (Hispania) and Italy.
** Oxhi Languages: Oxhi is the way to say no in the Epirote language group of southern Gaul, in areas that external geographers identify as Greater Occitania and southern Burgundy. They maintain a more Celtic inspiration, without as many Germanicisms as the Nauí languages.
* Epirotes Languages of Erkoúlia / Hispanic Epirotes Languages Epirotes: The languages spoken in the Hispanic territory of the old Empire of Epirus, the region was inhabited by many peoples and was invaded by many others. However, the Epirote languages outlived their Illyrian and African companions.
They led the expeditions of the Age of Discovery and American and African colonialism, which led to the expansion of the Epirote languages worldwide (later other European powers such as Gallía, also Epirote, would join).
** Fositano / Fositanios: Fositan is the language of the Fositanios, inhabitants of the west of the Hispanic peninsula from north to south (the old Lusitania and Galicia). It is divided into two regional dialects, the purest Fositano from the south and the Fositano from the north (which has some Germanic influence but not too much).
** Cataionn / Cataionnia: Languages and inhabitants of the west of the Hispanic peninsula, have been connected with the Oxhi languages of the north and Italic of the east, but they have always been dominated by neighbors from the Hispanic peninsula.
** Vitetiano: The Vitetianos are inhabitants of the center and north of the Hispanic peninsula, they are actually a group of diverse dialects that are divided throughout the Hispanic geography. For example, those from the northern mountains speak different dialects from those of the central plateau.
They are generally united by themes of religion but they are not exactly the same culture, they are different lands historically directed by the same leaders or heads of state.
** Al-Erkoúlia: The Creole of the Muslim invaders and the Epirotes, with the Muslim invasions, in reality most of the ethnic-cultural composition remained the same, but the influx of merchants and elites had an influence on the language and architecture of the region.
The Al-Erkoúlia of Hispania are the only Hispanic-Epirote language that has considerable Arabic influence, an influence that is less in the other languages of the region. Every word that begins with "Al" comes from Arabic in this language, according to recent studies.
* Italic Epirote Languages: Languages of the Italic peninsula, they are divided like the languages of Gaul, into groups of north and south. Also known as the Little Greeks and the Great Greeks.
** Little Epirotes or Little Greeks: Northern speakers.
They have received much more Germanic, Celtic and native influence than those of the south. But the north has always received better economic treatment and has tried to dominate the south numerous times.
** Great Greeks or Big/Great Epirotes: Southern speakers. They have received less foreign influence, and therefore have always been more "pure" compared to their northern brethren.
They have received more oriental influence, always looking towards the homeland of Epirus, Greece and Illyria.
However, their poverty and strategic positions have always made them the target of major Mediterranean powers, their own brothers, invaders of all kinds, etc.
* Epirote languages of Illyria: Extinct. The migrations of Greeks from Epirus gave rise to Greek-Illyrian Epirotes in the north, in the western Balkans, but these would be assimilated or destroyed with the passage of various invasions from the east or north over the centuries.
* Greek of Epirus: In modern Epirus Greek is still spoken, but it is a Greek markedly different from the rest of the Greek world in the Balkans.
It has taken over time influences from the dominant powers of the eastern Mediterranean (other Greeks, Muslims, Bulgarians, etc). In addition to Geto-Dacians and Illyrians who invaded after the fall of the Empire of Epirus.
(OOC: Replacing Romances and Romans by Greeks from Epirus).
The Jutes. Anglo-Jutes or Jutish people.
Region/Locations: The U.S.A. (37%), U.K. (23%), Australia (19%), Canada (10%), New Zealand (5%). South Africa (2%), Argentina (1%), Chile (1%), R.O.W. (2%)
Language: English and Hebrew.
Ancestry:
(as attested by objective genealogical records and genetic testing): Mostly English with some Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Huguenot.
(claimed): Ancient Israelite (matrilineal) and Anglo-Saxon (patrilineal)
Religion: Messianic Judaism.
Population: Approximately 4,500,000
Culture:
Appearance: North-West European. Significant inbreeding has caused some distinctive features like cleft-palates and adjoined earlobes becoming very common.
Related Ethnic Groups: English, British, North-Western European. (Claimed) Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.
Brief History:
John Frobisher began preaching in London in the 1780's his message was, at least at first, simple; the English are the lost tribe of Israel. This was originally from an 'academic' standpoint. However, in 1789 Frobisher claimed to have been visited by a choir of Angels who ordained him as a prophet, destined to allow the English to 're-discover' their lost Israelite origins and bring them back under the fold of the Noahide laws. The following day Frobisher announced that his real name was Ya'qov Ben Avraham. Ya'qov spent the next eleven years travelling England and preaching to any who'd listen.
The frequent noisy chanting and holier-than-thou arrogance didn't endear them to their neighbors at their original base in Spitalfields and after several brutal confrontations with neighbors, some 5,000 of his followers left London for the estate of Percy Houghton. Houghton was a Yeoman farmer with 300 acres he'd inherited and Ya'qov and Houghton planned to build the New Jerusalem on the North Essex estate.
They drew there some 16,000 followers who lived in awful, squalid conditions to be close to 'the prophet and patriarch of the Jutes'. However in 1808 Ya'qov and Houghton got into a dispute. According to Houghton, Ya'qov had claimed that god demanded Houghton's six year old daughter become his third wife. Ya'qov denied this and instead claimed that Houghton was a secret devil worshipper attempting to get in the way of his mission. Some 14,000 remained devoutly loyal to Ya'qov.
Bereft of their 'New Jerusalem' Ya'qov ordered his followers to disperse, build communities and prosletyse among the English nation.
In 1810 they built their first 'Synagogue' in Leeds. By 1820 they'd built a further eight across the country and Ya'qov ordered 500 to settle the U.S. and prosletyse among the English descended Americans.
In 1823 an increasingly frail 78 year old Ya'qov had a new 'revelation' that the New Jerusalem was actually supposed to be located near Winchester, Dorset. His followers got together and bought a 500 acre farm, erecting a palace, Temple and small village to serve them.
Ya'qov died in 1826, succeeded by 14 sons and 19 daughters by his five wives. In addition he'd already had 78 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren by the time of his death. Some quarter of his surviving descendants had left the Jutish Congregation at this point, however those who remained were an effective aristocracy within the community. His second oldest son Levi Ben Ya'qov succeeded his father as the Patriarch, although died just three years later and was succeeded by his oldest son, Ya'qov Ben Levi.
Ya'qov Ben Levi would serve as Patriarch for fifty-four years until 1883. Ya'qov II pronounced in 1854 that actually not all English people are matrilineal descendants of the Israelites. The choir of Angles allegedly visited him and told him that in that year, what would have been his grandfather's hundredth birthday, all of the 'Jutes' had been found and come to their congregation.
Ya'qov the II has also attempted to seek formal recognition from mainstream Judaism, when they refused to acknowledge the 'Anglim' Ya'qov II pronounced the Ashkenazim the synagogue of Satan.
In the 1860's Ya'qov dispersed his twelve younger sons across the world to wherever their community had members where they'd become the sub-patriarchs of the Jutish nation.
When the Jutish closed ranks in the 1860's they had just 240,000 members worldwide, however their hyper-natalist tendencies have propelled their population growth well into the 21st century.
Region/Locations: The U.S.A. (37%), U.K. (23%), Australia (19%), Canada (10%), New Zealand (5%). South Africa (2%), Argentina (1%), Chile (1%), R.O.W. (2%)
Language: English and Hebrew.
Ancestry:
(as attested by objective genealogical records and genetic testing): Mostly English with some Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Huguenot.
(claimed): Ancient Israelite (matrilineal) and Anglo-Saxon (patrilineal)
Religion: Messianic Judaism.
Population: Approximately 4,500,000
Culture:
Appearance: North-West European. Significant inbreeding has caused some distinctive features like cleft-palates and adjoined earlobes becoming very common.
Related Ethnic Groups: English, British, North-Western European. (Claimed) Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews.
Brief History:
John Frobisher began preaching in London in the 1780's his message was, at least at first, simple; the English are the lost tribe of Israel. This was originally from an 'academic' standpoint. However, in 1789 Frobisher claimed to have been visited by a choir of Angels who ordained him as a prophet, destined to allow the English to 're-discover' their lost Israelite origins and bring them back under the fold of the Noahide laws. The following day Frobisher announced that his real name was Ya'qov Ben Avraham. Ya'qov spent the next eleven years travelling England and preaching to any who'd listen.
The frequent noisy chanting and holier-than-thou arrogance didn't endear them to their neighbors at their original base in Spitalfields and after several brutal confrontations with neighbors, some 5,000 of his followers left London for the estate of Percy Houghton. Houghton was a Yeoman farmer with 300 acres he'd inherited and Ya'qov and Houghton planned to build the New Jerusalem on the North Essex estate.
They drew there some 16,000 followers who lived in awful, squalid conditions to be close to 'the prophet and patriarch of the Jutes'. However in 1808 Ya'qov and Houghton got into a dispute. According to Houghton, Ya'qov had claimed that god demanded Houghton's six year old daughter become his third wife. Ya'qov denied this and instead claimed that Houghton was a secret devil worshipper attempting to get in the way of his mission. Some 14,000 remained devoutly loyal to Ya'qov.
Bereft of their 'New Jerusalem' Ya'qov ordered his followers to disperse, build communities and prosletyse among the English nation.
In 1810 they built their first 'Synagogue' in Leeds. By 1820 they'd built a further eight across the country and Ya'qov ordered 500 to settle the U.S. and prosletyse among the English descended Americans.
In 1823 an increasingly frail 78 year old Ya'qov had a new 'revelation' that the New Jerusalem was actually supposed to be located near Winchester, Dorset. His followers got together and bought a 500 acre farm, erecting a palace, Temple and small village to serve them.
Ya'qov died in 1826, succeeded by 14 sons and 19 daughters by his five wives. In addition he'd already had 78 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren by the time of his death. Some quarter of his surviving descendants had left the Jutish Congregation at this point, however those who remained were an effective aristocracy within the community. His second oldest son Levi Ben Ya'qov succeeded his father as the Patriarch, although died just three years later and was succeeded by his oldest son, Ya'qov Ben Levi.
Ya'qov Ben Levi would serve as Patriarch for fifty-four years until 1883. Ya'qov II pronounced in 1854 that actually not all English people are matrilineal descendants of the Israelites. The choir of Angles allegedly visited him and told him that in that year, what would have been his grandfather's hundredth birthday, all of the 'Jutes' had been found and come to their congregation.
Ya'qov the II has also attempted to seek formal recognition from mainstream Judaism, when they refused to acknowledge the 'Anglim' Ya'qov II pronounced the Ashkenazim the synagogue of Satan.
In the 1860's Ya'qov dispersed his twelve younger sons across the world to wherever their community had members where they'd become the sub-patriarchs of the Jutish nation.
When the Jutish closed ranks in the 1860's they had just 240,000 members worldwide, however their hyper-natalist tendencies have propelled their population growth well into the 21st century.
Eponoi
In an altered timeline a few hundred years BC a big number of Celts immigrated far of into the Eastern European stepps and founded the kingdom of Eponea. These Celts had been influenced by ,Scythian' Sarmatian peoples and adapted a flourishing horse culture. Celtic horse archery, chivalry and Kurgan like tombs became widely known. The Celtic Horse Lords extended their influence from the river Volga to the Black Sea were they traded with Greek merchants.
The Greeks named these Celtic Horse Lords ,Eponoi', for they held the Godess of horses ,Epona, in highest honor.
During Greek and Roman times these Eponoi were known for their wild chivalry. Their highest knights wore Sarmatian styled armour and helmets while sporting a wild look. The Eponoi horse archers had been known for their Parthian accuracy.
The Eponoi assimilated their ,Scythian' allies. Some Eponoi cultivated a Nomadic lifestyle as herders. On the other hand there had been walled settlements with wooden Palaces. The Eponoihad been influenced by Eastern religions but kept the Celtic Druid system. The Druids as Priest caste performed sacrifices before important decisions.
Through trade the Greek language eventually became the language of the Eponoi kings and eventually was written dow. Through and administrated network of courier riders messages could be delivered within days.
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Depends on the country. This is an international board so we shouldn't have to force the rest of the world to follow US linguistic norms.
Portuguese/Spanish Nueva Ecijans
Language: Irraya/Selurongese and Spanish/Portuguese
Location: OTL Regions 1-3 of the Philippines now the country of Selurong(Nueva Ecija)
Population: 10,000
History
After the cession of Northern Luzon in the mid 17th century due to concessions with Portugal under Spain which ceded the Northern Luzon provinces to PORTUGAL which will cause some Portuguese and Spanish to settle to the Colony of Nueva Ecija due to the Tabacco Monopoly, they would be a tiny minority compared to the Spanish in Felipinas.
Language: Irraya/Selurongese and Spanish/Portuguese
Location: OTL Regions 1-3 of the Philippines now the country of Selurong(Nueva Ecija)
Population: 10,000
History
After the cession of Northern Luzon in the mid 17th century due to concessions with Portugal under Spain which ceded the Northern Luzon provinces to PORTUGAL which will cause some Portuguese and Spanish to settle to the Colony of Nueva Ecija due to the Tabacco Monopoly, they would be a tiny minority compared to the Spanish in Felipinas.
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Otto Kretschmer
Banned
Slafiyyani, سلفيآني
Language: Slafiyanski
Population: around 5,000 now
Descendants of Slavic-speaking settlers who settled in Syria around 750-800 AD. They inhabitate several towns around the Euphrates and profess Sunni Islam. Their language is descended from Common Slavic with heavy Arabic and to a lesser degree, Turkish influence on phonology, vocabulary and grammar. It forms a separate branch within the Slavic family, separate from both West, East and South Slavic. One contribution of the Slaffiyani to the wider Arab Muslim society is the tradition of painted eggs on Ramadan which evolved out of Pagan custom.
Language: Slafiyanski
Population: around 5,000 now
Descendants of Slavic-speaking settlers who settled in Syria around 750-800 AD. They inhabitate several towns around the Euphrates and profess Sunni Islam. Their language is descended from Common Slavic with heavy Arabic and to a lesser degree, Turkish influence on phonology, vocabulary and grammar. It forms a separate branch within the Slavic family, separate from both West, East and South Slavic. One contribution of the Slaffiyani to the wider Arab Muslim society is the tradition of painted eggs on Ramadan which evolved out of Pagan custom.
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Auvergnats/Auernois
Language: The Auernois speak Auvergnat, the last surviving member of the Continental Celtic language family. Due to the Auernois living under Roman, Frankish and later French rule, the language has evolved to the point that it's almost unrecognizable from Breton, Cornish, Gaelic and Irish due to its heavy Latinate influence. Historically, it has been maligned as a primitive, mountain dialect in French popular culture.
Location: The Auernois live in the region of Auerne, known in French as Auvergne. Auvergnat was once spoken by the vast majority of the region but centuries of discrimination, urbanization and industrialization had led to the language being spoken by only a fifth of the population, concentrated in the most isolated towns and villages in the mountains. Auernois regionalism remains strong.
Religion: The Auernois pride themselves as being traditionalists to a fault, for better or for worse. As the remainder of Gaul was experiencing Christianization between the third and sixth centuries, Auerne continued practicing Gallo-Roman paganism for several more centuries. It was only during the Auvergnat Crusade in the ninth century that the region officially became Roman Catholic in adherence. Throughout the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century, the Auernois remained devout and chuch-going, contributing many prominent Church figures.
The Auernois are devout compared to their French counterparts but only a third of them regularly attend church and a quarter of them profess a lack of belief in a higher power. Religious skepticism is high amongst the younger generations who are beginning to flirt with neo-paganism and atheism.
Culture: The Auernois are a tribal people at heart, deferring to their clan leaders to guide them in times of crisis. Auvergne has historically been seen by Frenchmen as a lawless, barbarian land; the clan structure was seen as a challenge to the authority of the Merovingian, Carolingian and Capetian monarchs. The disdain that the more urbanized French felt for the Auernois was reciprocated by them who viewed (or continue to view) the French as power-hungry lowlanders attempting to change their lifestyle. The Auernois viewed Auvergne as a holy land granted to them by St. Carata of Nemossos.
It was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the French monarchy began integrating the clan leaders; so much so that the clan leaders saw themselves less as the guardians and protectors of the Auernois and more as agents of France.
History: The Auernois had lived in the territory that encompassed Auvergne since ancient times. Prior to Roman rule, the pre-classical Auernois had the most powerful tribe confederation amongst the Gauls. Their advantage over their neighbors lied in the superiority of their agriculture, catering, mining and weapons crafting. Roman rule following Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul led to the adoption of Roman ways, particularly in government. Epasnactos formed the predecessor of what would transform into the Assembly, legislative body that governs Auvergne. In other avenues, Roman immigrants to Auvergne assimilated to the local culture whose ways were not too dissimilar from the Greco-Roman civilization prominent throughout the Mediterranean. Latin quickly gained prestige but it was their form of Gaulish that remained the most spoken language until the twentieth century.
The decline of the Roman Empire led to the de-Romanization of the area. Cities declined due to attacks by Germanic invaders and its inhabitants would seek sanctuary from the increasingly autonomous clan leaders who took it upon themselves to act as "stewards of imperial authority." One prominent Auerrnois, Flavius Eparchus Avitus, prefect of Gaul, was proclaimed emperor in the west by his troops. On paper, Auvergne remained loyal to the Empire until 475 when Julius Nepos, emperor in the west, promised to cede Auvergne to the Visigothic King Euric in exchange for an alliance. Auvergne declared its independence under Sidoine Apollinaire, son-in-law of Emperor Avitus and the first Rix of Auvergne. The House of Apollinaire would govern Auvergne independently until it was subjugated to Capetian rule during the Auvergnat Crusade.
Language: The Auernois speak Auvergnat, the last surviving member of the Continental Celtic language family. Due to the Auernois living under Roman, Frankish and later French rule, the language has evolved to the point that it's almost unrecognizable from Breton, Cornish, Gaelic and Irish due to its heavy Latinate influence. Historically, it has been maligned as a primitive, mountain dialect in French popular culture.
Location: The Auernois live in the region of Auerne, known in French as Auvergne. Auvergnat was once spoken by the vast majority of the region but centuries of discrimination, urbanization and industrialization had led to the language being spoken by only a fifth of the population, concentrated in the most isolated towns and villages in the mountains. Auernois regionalism remains strong.
Religion: The Auernois pride themselves as being traditionalists to a fault, for better or for worse. As the remainder of Gaul was experiencing Christianization between the third and sixth centuries, Auerne continued practicing Gallo-Roman paganism for several more centuries. It was only during the Auvergnat Crusade in the ninth century that the region officially became Roman Catholic in adherence. Throughout the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century, the Auernois remained devout and chuch-going, contributing many prominent Church figures.
The Auernois are devout compared to their French counterparts but only a third of them regularly attend church and a quarter of them profess a lack of belief in a higher power. Religious skepticism is high amongst the younger generations who are beginning to flirt with neo-paganism and atheism.
Culture: The Auernois are a tribal people at heart, deferring to their clan leaders to guide them in times of crisis. Auvergne has historically been seen by Frenchmen as a lawless, barbarian land; the clan structure was seen as a challenge to the authority of the Merovingian, Carolingian and Capetian monarchs. The disdain that the more urbanized French felt for the Auernois was reciprocated by them who viewed (or continue to view) the French as power-hungry lowlanders attempting to change their lifestyle. The Auernois viewed Auvergne as a holy land granted to them by St. Carata of Nemossos.
It was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when the French monarchy began integrating the clan leaders; so much so that the clan leaders saw themselves less as the guardians and protectors of the Auernois and more as agents of France.
History: The Auernois had lived in the territory that encompassed Auvergne since ancient times. Prior to Roman rule, the pre-classical Auernois had the most powerful tribe confederation amongst the Gauls. Their advantage over their neighbors lied in the superiority of their agriculture, catering, mining and weapons crafting. Roman rule following Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul led to the adoption of Roman ways, particularly in government. Epasnactos formed the predecessor of what would transform into the Assembly, legislative body that governs Auvergne. In other avenues, Roman immigrants to Auvergne assimilated to the local culture whose ways were not too dissimilar from the Greco-Roman civilization prominent throughout the Mediterranean. Latin quickly gained prestige but it was their form of Gaulish that remained the most spoken language until the twentieth century.
The decline of the Roman Empire led to the de-Romanization of the area. Cities declined due to attacks by Germanic invaders and its inhabitants would seek sanctuary from the increasingly autonomous clan leaders who took it upon themselves to act as "stewards of imperial authority." One prominent Auerrnois, Flavius Eparchus Avitus, prefect of Gaul, was proclaimed emperor in the west by his troops. On paper, Auvergne remained loyal to the Empire until 475 when Julius Nepos, emperor in the west, promised to cede Auvergne to the Visigothic King Euric in exchange for an alliance. Auvergne declared its independence under Sidoine Apollinaire, son-in-law of Emperor Avitus and the first Rix of Auvergne. The House of Apollinaire would govern Auvergne independently until it was subjugated to Capetian rule during the Auvergnat Crusade.
Here is a challenge for anyone willing to take it -- imagine the Zheltuga Republic surviving to modern day and it's inhabitants forming/self-identifying as a "new ethnic group". What might it look like?
And here is another odd historical polity from the Far East:
First Russian People's Republic "Zheltuga"
(Heads-deputies of the "Russian California") The Zheltugin republic in the Amur region existed for only three years - from 1883 to 1886. But this is the only experiment in the last two hundred years (before that - the Cossack republics in the Don and Kuban), when the Russians managed to create -...en.topwar.ru
How Russians secretly set up their own 'California' in China
An entire year went by before the Chinese authorities realized that Russian gold miners had founded their own independent "republic" on...www.rbth.com
Zheltuga Republic (1883-1886)
(Pictured: deputies of the Zheltuga Republic)
The state's laws were based on the Old Testament and the US Constitution (and, interestingly enough, outlined separation of church and state). About 2/3 of the population were Russian and 1/3 were Chinese (though the Gold Rush did draw people from all over - the Republic's first president for example was an Austro-Hungarian) and so Russian and the Kyakhtian language both served as the lingua franca of the region. Black-and-Gold coloured flag served as the country's symbol. Two orchestras, a theater, photo-lab, a menagerie, and a circus were set up in the boomtown republic during its heyday. Eventually though the Qing were able to take control of the area and subdue the short-lived nation.
- In the late 19th century gold was discovered in the sparsely-populated border regions of Chinese Manchuria around Zheltuga river.
- Although gold mining was made illegal in the region by the Chinese government the Qing couldn't actually enforce their rule there.
- As a result fortune seekers, adventurers, shady & desperate characters flocked to the region in hopes of striking it rich in the Gold Rush. Nicknames like "California on the Amur" became associated with the region.
- The area became a lawless "Wild West" where mine workers were prayed on by criminal gangs on a regular bases.
- In an effort to bring order and stability, the new settlers organized themselves to form the Zheltuga Republic with its own laws, tax system, constitution, parliament, elections, etc.
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Yi people (Middle Chinese: ʔjit )
Population: Over 5 mln
Languges: Chinese , Hebrew as liturgical language
Descendants of Jews who originally arrived in China at the time of the early Tang dynasty . Although their population initially numbered just a few 1000 individuals, through high birth rate and some additional migration and conversion they have grown to a sizeable number within several generations. The initial migrants brought only the Torah with themselves and the entire community developed an unique body of commentary on the Torah, influenced by Chinese philosophy, which rivals the Talmud in complexity. The Yi people form the 4th major branch of world's Jewry, along Rabbinic Jews, Karaites and Beta Israel.
The culture of the Yi people is Jewish albeit with very heavy Chinese influence, forming an interesting mix of cultures. Among many other things, Chinese contribution to Yi culture include: an unique style of Hebrew calligraphy, a tradition of painting scenes from the Land of Israel in the style of Chinese painting, a style of Torah recitation accompanied by guqin and fireworks on many religious festivals.
Population: Over 5 mln
Languges: Chinese , Hebrew as liturgical language
Descendants of Jews who originally arrived in China at the time of the early Tang dynasty . Although their population initially numbered just a few 1000 individuals, through high birth rate and some additional migration and conversion they have grown to a sizeable number within several generations. The initial migrants brought only the Torah with themselves and the entire community developed an unique body of commentary on the Torah, influenced by Chinese philosophy, which rivals the Talmud in complexity. The Yi people form the 4th major branch of world's Jewry, along Rabbinic Jews, Karaites and Beta Israel.
The culture of the Yi people is Jewish albeit with very heavy Chinese influence, forming an interesting mix of cultures. Among many other things, Chinese contribution to Yi culture include: an unique style of Hebrew calligraphy, a tradition of painting scenes from the Land of Israel in the style of Chinese painting, a style of Torah recitation accompanied by guqin and fireworks on many religious festivals.
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Even though the POD would likely be too late, it would be interesting for the ATL Yi people to be influenced by surrounding cultures in terms of cuisine / etc to the effect of retaining a tradition of eating fish and meat/poultry (e.g. via fish sauces, etc) together* as well as poultry and dairy together (e.g. Jose the Galilean), yet possibly prohibiting something like alliums (e.g. such as Onion, Garlic, Leek, Chives and Shallots, etc) akin to Chinese Buddhist cuisine.
Not to mention how a Kosher version of Hot Pot would work with the Yi people, depending on whether they still separate fish and meat/poultry or not ITTL.
Perhaps Jewish Chinese / East Asian martial arts (akin to the Hui martial arts, modern Silat, etc) as well as a Jewish adaptation of Journey to the West (akin to Barlaam and Josaphat - essentially a later Christianized version of the story of Siddhartha Gautama), where the Sun Wukong the Monkey King is basically the East Asian Jewish equivalent of the Golem (that is possibly adopted by a segment of Mizrahi Jewry).
*- With the possible exception of a small segment of Sephardic Jews who still apparently retain a tradition of eating fish and meat/poultry together.
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Africanu
Location: Sultanate of Afriqya (Tunisia, Eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania), minorities in Sicily, Southern Italy, and Andalusia
Languages: Africanu (Romance with large Arabic influence), Arabic
Religions: Majority Muslim, but large Christian and Athiest minorities
Population: 33.64 million
Culture: Priding itself off of the Islamic and Western civilizations, the Africanu is a unique mix of the two. The culture is an outlier of the Middle East, as it prides itself off of its secularism, which has come about thanks to large religious minorities throughout the Sultanate. The culture could be called a rich mix of Spanish, Italian, and Arabic cultures. One of the most famous parts of the culture is its folk dance and music, which became popular thanks to Africanu immigrants in the US. Africanu cuisine is a mix of grains from its rich farmlands, fish off the coast, and spices and oils.
History: After the Roman conquest of Carthage, Roman colonists headed to one of the richest regions in the empire. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the culture split off from its Latin roots. However, the conquest of North Africa by the Umayyad Caliphate changed African culture. While Islam would not become a majority religion in Afriqya until 1000 CE, Arabic began influencing the language. After the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate, the Sultanate of Afriqya was formed, preserving the Africanu culture. The nation's geographic position pushed the Africanu to the water, conquering Sicily, Southern Italy, and even briefly Andalusia and Morea. Holding the rich trade routes, Afriqya became rich off the valuable Mediterranean trade. This would inevitably put the nation in conflict against the other Mediterranean states, such as Genoa.
Remaining unbothered by the Mongol brutality that occurred to the rest of the Islamic World, Afriqya and its sister Morocco enjoyed the "North African Renaissance." The period would see many famous paintings, mosques, sculptures, and maps created. However, to the east, a new threat emerged. The Ottoman Empire, after the conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate, threatened the borders of the Sultanate. In an attempt to keep the Ottomans at bay, Afriqya allied with Spain and Venice to form a coalition against the Turks. This would result in a Westernization of the culture. The riches of the nation would result in many works of art constructed during the Africanu Baroque, Enlightenment, Neo-Classical and Modern eras. The Africanu today pride themselves off of the beautiful Africanu art. Even today, Afriqya is very artistic. The nation also enjoys one of the highest qualities of life in the Islamic World.
Appearance: Most commonly North African/Mediterranean, however many are pale, as well as dark-skinned.
Location: Sultanate of Afriqya (Tunisia, Eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania), minorities in Sicily, Southern Italy, and Andalusia
Languages: Africanu (Romance with large Arabic influence), Arabic
Religions: Majority Muslim, but large Christian and Athiest minorities
Population: 33.64 million
Culture: Priding itself off of the Islamic and Western civilizations, the Africanu is a unique mix of the two. The culture is an outlier of the Middle East, as it prides itself off of its secularism, which has come about thanks to large religious minorities throughout the Sultanate. The culture could be called a rich mix of Spanish, Italian, and Arabic cultures. One of the most famous parts of the culture is its folk dance and music, which became popular thanks to Africanu immigrants in the US. Africanu cuisine is a mix of grains from its rich farmlands, fish off the coast, and spices and oils.
History: After the Roman conquest of Carthage, Roman colonists headed to one of the richest regions in the empire. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the culture split off from its Latin roots. However, the conquest of North Africa by the Umayyad Caliphate changed African culture. While Islam would not become a majority religion in Afriqya until 1000 CE, Arabic began influencing the language. After the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate, the Sultanate of Afriqya was formed, preserving the Africanu culture. The nation's geographic position pushed the Africanu to the water, conquering Sicily, Southern Italy, and even briefly Andalusia and Morea. Holding the rich trade routes, Afriqya became rich off the valuable Mediterranean trade. This would inevitably put the nation in conflict against the other Mediterranean states, such as Genoa.
Remaining unbothered by the Mongol brutality that occurred to the rest of the Islamic World, Afriqya and its sister Morocco enjoyed the "North African Renaissance." The period would see many famous paintings, mosques, sculptures, and maps created. However, to the east, a new threat emerged. The Ottoman Empire, after the conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate, threatened the borders of the Sultanate. In an attempt to keep the Ottomans at bay, Afriqya allied with Spain and Venice to form a coalition against the Turks. This would result in a Westernization of the culture. The riches of the nation would result in many works of art constructed during the Africanu Baroque, Enlightenment, Neo-Classical and Modern eras. The Africanu today pride themselves off of the beautiful Africanu art. Even today, Afriqya is very artistic. The nation also enjoys one of the highest qualities of life in the Islamic World.
Appearance: Most commonly North African/Mediterranean, however many are pale, as well as dark-skinned.
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