ATL City guessing game

Brunaburh

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Ding ding ding!
Yep. Vannes. Thought the St Vincent part might be too big a clue as it was obviously a Saxon Brittany but looks like I should have mentioned something else!

It wasn't too obvious, you put a place in I've actually been to with a Dark Ages POD, and I've had quite a bit of experience of what you post on these matters. It was still my third guess with clues!
 

Brunaburh

Gone Fishin'
BTW, this thread is still open for absolutely everybody, especially those who, like myself, would like to write a timeline but don't feel they can commit to anything but a small piece.
 
City: Lixobbo (pronounced as "lee-shoh-boh")
Country: United Kingdom of Ebira
Administrative division: Taix Province
Languages: West Ebiric
Population: 3.3 Million (Metro Area); 0.5 (City proper)

It was presumed that Lixobbo was first founded by phoenician traders at the mouth of the taix (pronunced as "tie-sh") river where its favourable location gave origin to its name which evolved over the years by the passing of empires and kingdoms

With no clear date of the settling of this city it remained in phoenician hands until the roman conquest during the punic wars with help of celtic mercenaries which would later settle said colony, lixobbo was exempt from taxes and its governance was rather relaxed attracting many settlers from nearby celtic tribes from the north and roman settlers from the east(still many records note that romans never made past the 15% of the city's population), during one of the tumultuos times lixobbo and its province broke free (along with many other provinces throughout rome) after this event Ebira remained pretty much a collection of city-states, kingdoms and small pockets of land under roman control near the coasts of the mediterranean. Lixobbo would be the capital of the Lesetannic kingdom which would conquer later pretty much west Ebira, thanks to three native dynasties (khleleaghe, ennethids and Lsitids) until the germanic migrations coming from the north which would install foreign dynasties that would eventually blend into the fabric of the lesetannic society (roughly the same scenario for most of Ebira), more conquest from other germanic led kingdoms in Ebira would occur until most of the Ebirian Peninsula unifies into one single state until the pagan Maur invasions (sources quote that was around 720-750 AD) as result of a tricky political maneuver, lixobbo would fall into pagan hands moving the capital of the lesetannic kingdom further north for roughly half a milennia, Paganism would expand into lands that where previously christian, but Maurian paganism itself would be the same cause of political instability that would help the reconquest of Ebira under an alliance of West and East Ebiric kingdoms (West and East ebiric languages are not related despite being named after the same region, it relates to their location) This reconquest would be done around 150 years later from the fragmentation of the Maurebirada into several petty kingdoms which would fight themselves over pantheistic patronage.

After the Reconquest it would come the Consolidation era (Knsoliada) which would be the consolidation of the remaining kingdoms into bigger entities and the final sign of the Union of the crowns of Ebira in the 18th Century.

Lixobbo served as one of the most important ports of Ebira (and western Europe) for trade into Vinland, Ameriga (including colonies and trade post) and India for spices, gold and slaves and, this city would suffer an important earthquake in 1845 which would make her lose importance over other ports on other countries of the union, but by the 1930's would regain relevancy for its role on shipping tungsten for industrial and military uses, the rise on importance over the XX century brough development into this city making it one of the biggest of the Ebiric peninsula and the third in importance inside the Ebiric Kingdom

This city is famous for its role in tourism, its booming industry (both heavy and tech) and its important role as one of the most important ports of the atlantic coast inside the European Community of Nations.

OOC: Come on this one is easy...
 
Not sure about the POD though, there is no Islam in this TL. The city has retained a Phoenician culture, and this has presumably spread to the rest of Western Iberia, the east is either Latin/Iberian speaking?
Actually is more of a romanized-phoenician influenced celtic-iberic settled lisbon after the roman conquest of phoenician cities in iberia, the romans payed celtic mercenaries from up north and after taking the city they remained there under a really soft roman government (low taxes and such) when some of those periods of roman unstability roman policies tightened and provoked a revolution, along many other provinces in the empire; also iberia became a melting pot of phoenician, roman, basque, iberian and celtic languages, but it united into one kingdom "a la UK" on early 18th century... I know it was almost impossible to happen but i think some unrecognizable place would be cool hehe
 
City: Neo Venezia
Country: United States of America
Administrative division: State of New Friuli
Languages: Italian, strong Spanish minority, English is most people's second language
Population: 50 000 inhabitants

The city of New Venezia was founded in 1521, when the most Serene Republic, to avoid some more conflicts with different Great Powers in Europe, goes back to full trade and no expansion. They receive the authorizations from the King of Spain to create small cities in the Spanish half of the world according to the Tordesillas treaty. One of the many small Venezian establishments would be Neo Venezia, a small city in humid climate, that would make it's expansion harder, due to smaller immigration and disease. The city was still prosperous due to the trade with both Spaniards and the Natives. It remained under autonomy, while being both tax free and not very important in the Venitian affairs until the Congress of Vienna.

During the Congress of Vienna, Venitia was eaten by Austria, but the city of Neo Venezia was not mentioned. A pact of non agression was signed by the Mayor with Spain, and the localisation of the city turned it into a center of trade (legal or not) between the colonists and the US. After the annexion of the Spanish territories by the United States during the first half of the XIXth century, the city started it's period of decline, and becomes an infamous city, center of illegal operations and corruption. The result of this period of decline is that even the United States didn't want of it, even for security reasons, and many people even emigrate out of the city, that decreases from 45 000 inhabitants to 12 000 in a half century. Those 33 000 people will have many descendants and the State will be named New Friuli.

This situation improves gradually until the interwar period, because of American investments (the GDP, starting at a very low level, grows faster) and the wave of emigration to avoid the rising fascism in Italy gives the city a new start : it becames the second LGBT center of the world after Berlin, and the place to be for rebellious rich heirs. The first hotels are founded, and the city gets some seaside resorts, using the poorly defined borders with US concerning the surrounding islands to annex lands for free, and start expanding over the sea, with some Polynesian looking constructions over water.

After WW2, the fear to have a left leaning city next to it's borders will encourage the US to try some kind of annexion, and an agreement will finally be found between the City and the Union, including the city and it's neighborhoods as an autonomous county, with special status. The city definitely became a center of entertainment with the creation of cinema studios and a game developpment company : Doge Games Srl.
 
City: Neo Venezia
Country: United States of America
Administrative division: State of New Friuli
Languages: Italian, strong Spanish minority, English is most people's second language
Population: 50 000 inhabitants

The city of New Venezia was founded in 1521, when the most Serene Republic, to avoid some more conflicts with different Great Powers in Europe, goes back to full trade and no expansion. They receive the authorizations from the King of Spain to create small cities in the Spanish half of the world according to the Tordesillas treaty. One of the many small Venezian establishments would be Neo Venezia, a small city in humid climate, that would make it's expansion harder, due to smaller immigration and disease. The city was still prosperous due to the trade with both Spaniards and the Natives. It remained under autonomy, while being both tax free and not very important in the Venitian affairs until the Congress of Vienna.

During the Congress of Vienna, Venitia was eaten by Austria, but the city of Neo Venezia was not mentioned. A pact of non agression was signed by the Mayor with Spain, and the localisation of the city turned it into a center of trade (legal or not) between the colonists and the US. After the annexion of the Spanish territories by the United States during the first half of the XIXth century, the city started it's period of decline, and becomes an infamous city, center of illegal operations and corruption. The result of this period of decline is that even the United States didn't want of it, even for security reasons, and many people even emigrate out of the city, that decreases from 45 000 inhabitants to 12 000 in a half century. Those 33 000 people will have many descendants and the State will be named New Friuli.

This situation improves gradually until the interwar period, because of American investments (the GDP, starting at a very low level, grows faster) and the wave of emigration to avoid the rising fascism in Italy gives the city a new start : it becames the second LGBT center of the world after Berlin, and the place to be for rebellious rich heirs. The first hotels are founded, and the city gets some seaside resorts, using the poorly defined borders with US concerning the surrounding islands to annex lands for free, and start expanding over the sea, with some Polynesian looking constructions over water.

After WW2, the fear to have a left leaning city next to it's borders will encourage the US to try some kind of annexion, and an agreement will finally be found between the City and the Union, including the city and it's neighborhoods as an autonomous county, with special status. The city definitely became a center of entertainment with the creation of cinema studios and a game developpment company : Doge Games Srl.
Miami? Or Orlando?
 
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