Generic map challenge

The year is 2010. How did this happen?

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My guess is Byzantium's seat of power shifts to Rome and the East falls to the Ottomans? Only way I can think of Italy having Catalonia. Or is it Catalonia having Italy? :confused:
 
The stripes in the Baltic/Northern Russia region is the most confusing element for me ...

These latitude-parallel borders look a bit like those Nazi victory plannings ... though not the way you colored their interior. :D
 
Is that Indian Australia I see? I can't really think of a POD that doesn't produce a TL that's even recognizable to us
 
My guess is Byzantium's seat of power shifts to Rome and the East falls to the Ottomans? Only way I can think of Italy having Catalonia. Or is it Catalonia having Italy? :confused:

There are plenty of ways to achieve that; the most likely - which I would bet the map creator had in mind - is a certain kind of Napoleonic tracks ...
 
Moreover, Portugal seemed quite successful in acquiring colonies. Are they able to administer that Empire with the same population basis as IOTL?

Spain lost Catalonia, but won Louisiana (Lusiana) and kept new Spain.

However, California is independent ...)
 
And ... is that BRITISH NETHERLANDS??

That really looks like a Nappy-centric TL. Also with respect to Lousiana.

Or is this map just a great clich'e reservoir (featuring also Greater Russian Alaska, Afrikaaner Colonial Superpower and the Unbelievable Even More Disunited Germany)?
 
A question to the UCS experts: Does the Saudi-or-other Arabic pink have any specific meaning?

As in "Bahaullah theocratic regime"?

A theocratic regime that is next to but does not contain Mecca?

I'm more interested in if the USA is our USA. By the way, is Catalonia/Italy/Maghreb the right color to be Venice?
 
Is that white area in Russia, next to the Chinese area, independent, or is it a colony of some other white country (maybe Korea or one of the North American ones?)?
 
Is that Indian Australia I see? I can't really think of a POD that doesn't produce a TL that's even recognizable to us

This post makes no sense.
Also, the Netherlands is its own color, not British.

Also:
Light blue=Venice
Pink=Oman
 
This post makes no sense.
Also, the Netherlands is its own color, not British.

Also:
Light blue=Venice
Pink=Oman
It means the only plausible POD for this map is so far back that butterflies would make the history of the TL completely unrecognizable to us. Basically, there's no way that this is going to happen
 
This map does seem to include a new entry in the "alternative shapes of Poland" database, despite any misgivings.
 
The problem with this map is: Much of it can - without much trouble - be explained by different events around 1800-1810, and relatively wild development afterwards.

However, Mega-Venice doesn't really seem to fit ...

Indian Australia? Such things might happen after decolonialization, but this is still a bit of a stretch ...

And let's turn to Central Europe:
- Flanders and Rhineland go to France,
- independent Netherlands,
- there is a state of Hannover-Westphalia-Mecklenburg which - depite Germany's dismemberment - has managed to hold the current German-Danish border,
- Brandenburg owns Pomerania-Greater Poland - Prussia - Lithuania,
- Poland consists of Galicia- Lesser Poland - Belarus - Latvia - Estonia,
- a very funny idea: Saxony-Bohemia-Silesia-Lower Austria-Upper Palatinate,
- "Lesser Austria-Hungary" encompasses Tyrol, Slovenia, Croatia, and the Banat
- Venice gets a large share of Switzerland,
- and most suspiciously there is a (slighly gnawed off) Southern Germany with a certain share of Switzerland.

It is mostly this dismemeberment of Switzerland which needs a really good justification ...
 
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