Here is the Iberia update
Countries of Iberia:
Kingdom of Andalusia and Granada (including Ceuta and Melilla)
Kingdom of Portugal
- Grand Duchy of the Algarve (nominal Vassal of Portugal but very independent)
- Grand Duchy of Porto (nominal Vassal of Portugal but very independent)
Kingdom of Galicia
United Kingdom of Castille: consisting of the 5 Kingdoms of Asturia, Leon, Old-Castille, New-Castille and Murcia; the City of Madrid, the Duchy of Cantabria and Extremadura (territory under the administration of the Orders of Calavatra and Santiago)
Kingdom of Navarra: the Basque Provinces and La Rioja as Vassals and Bayonne as a Free City; in Personal Union with the Principality of Bearn
Kingdom of Aragorn: Valle de Aran, Andorra, the Baleares and Katalonia are Vassals. Catalonia has several smaller counties as autonomous Vassals including the County of Urgell
Free Port of Gibraltar (maybe I add either England or Venice or Genoa as their protector? later)
Couto Misto (microstate between North-Portugal and Galicia)
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The Rif Repulic
The International City of Tanger
Also I spent some time mapping the official state religions and religious majorities in Germany and neighboring countries. (outlines in a different color show the religion of the monarch while another religion is the accepted state religion.
Unusual notheworthy details to overlook: I added some Anabaptists to Münster and some followers of Antroprosophy to Dornach in Switzerland
Thank you for all your responses and suggestions! Feel free to comment!
Why not restore the County of Urgell?
see the Iberia Update
I see that you have Lorraine, but not the tiny enclave bishoprics.
I haven't spent much time on Lorraine. Here is one of my source maps for the area. Which bishoprics do you suggest I should add?
I should rework the region later.
Nice! However I won't balkanize Iberia and Scandinavia to the same degree as you did. Also I should create a similar small color scheme to create a map showing the different systems of government and titles of nobility.
GOOD GOD.
Herzegovina is gonna be a mess assuming its anything like modern OTL.
West Herzegovina is is home to the most extreme Croatian right wingers on earth. Like you will not find in Croatia a Croat nationalist as extreme as a Hercegovac and that’s a fact. East Herzegovina is all Serbs, and east bank Mostar, Jablanica, what we can call “central Herzegovina” is majority Bosniak and will want to rejoin Bosnia (the 44% of west Stolac’s population that are Bosniaks might be similarly inclined). While Herzegovina isn’t as much of a breeding ground for Serb and Bosniak nationalism, it’s hardly as if they’re friendly with the other groups. I don’t want to get into specific events and experiences from my own family which comes from the area where the 3 ethnic regions in Herzegovina meet because I don’t wanna go to chat but if there was still a WWII and especially if there was something like the Yugoslav wars, this Herzegovina can survive but only with strong foreign backing.
ALSO, I will note that an economic region of Herzegovina was planned to include the southern, Croat-majority half of Canton 10/Herceg-Bosna Canton (but bot the sparsely populated Serb majority northern half).
I would say that if you want maximum balkanization, an ethnic partition of Bosnia makes far more sense than a Bosnia-Hercegovina split (although this is far more aesthetically pleasing on a map). You get easy Republika Srpska, Bosnia, and the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna, plus the Bosniak Bihać Pocket/Unsko-Sanski Canton would be a Bosniak exclave that may need some degree of self governance & if you wanna make it REALLY messy you can do something with the Brčko district.
Sad to hear, that your family had bad experiences with ethnic violence ...
I'm very unsure about finding the perfect aesthetic balkanization of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
I prefer to use pre-world-wars demographics. So while this map has no clear date or timeline, I prefer to use demographics from around 1900 or 1910.
In this balkanization-universe nationalism and national identities are in many areas and regions replaced by strong local patriotism and regional identities and traditional and anachronistic forms of government.
Maybe I should create several variants for Bosnia-Herzegovina and see which looks the most aesthetic while still remaining semi-plausible.
County Armagh, a triumvirate ruled by an executive council composed of:
A) the (Anglican) Bishop of Armagh, who answers to the King of England in his role as head of the Anglican Church;
B) the (Catholic) Bishop of Ard Mhacha;
C) the local secular lord, the Earl of Armagh (?? King of Airgíalla/Northern Uí Néill?)
The presidency of the council rotates amongst its members; thus, County Armagh is often considered a vassal of England when the Bishop of Armagh presides.
Duchy of York (Yorkshire)
* Federal entity consisting of three Ridings (East, West, North; co-equal with counties) and the Episcopal City of York.
Free Cities:
City of London
Canterbury
Oxford
Cambridge
Good Ideas. I guess the City of Westminister should be independent from London. oxford and Cambridge could become university ruled cities.
Certainly both Canterbury and York need some form of theocracy.
I guess I want several strong duchies with varying degrees of autonomy in combination with various independent towns and smaller entities.
