Exclusive Colonial Rights for the Great Powers Set Aside at the 1626-1627 Great Powers Conference
A. Scandinavian Arctic
Notes:
1. The Yellow Parallel is
60N.
2. The Yellow Dot is the North Pole.
3. The
Scandinavian Arctic is defined as all Lands and Seas North of 60N with the exception of European Lands (Northern European Russia and British Shetland Islands)
4. It contains (OTL): Greenland, Canadian Northern Archipelago, Northernmost part of Labrador Peninsula (Quebec), Nunavut, North-Western Territories, Most of Alaska (except the Alaskan Penhandle, Southernmost Alaska and the Aleutin Islands), Diomede Islands, The Behring Strait, Northern Siberia (without Kamtchatka Peninsula, without the Baikal Lake, etc), all Russian Arctic Islands, Svalbard, Jan Mayen.
Most of it is Arctic Tundra.
B. Iberian North-West Africa
Notes:
1. The Yellow Parallel is
16N.
2. The Yellow Meridian is the Meridian of the border between Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (~
19E).
3. The
Iberian North-West Africa is defined as all African Lands North of 16N and the Senegal River and West of the above Meridian (~19E).
4. It contains (OTL): Ceuta, Melilla, Morroco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, almost all Mauretania (except its Southernmost part), Northern Mali (Azawad, with Timbuktu), Northern Niger, Western Libya (Tripolitania and Fezzan), North-Western Chad.
Over 90% of it is part of Sahara.
C. Scandinavian, French, British and Iberian North America
Notes:
1. The Southern Black Parallel is
32*30N.
2. The Northern Black Parallel is
60N.
3. The
Iberian America is defined as all American Lands and Seas South of 32*30N.
4. The
Scandinavian North America is defined as all American Lands and Seas of the Scandiavian Arctic.
5. The
French North America (
New France) is defined as the Saint Lawrence River Basin plus the Labrador Sea Basin (South of Parallel 60N).
6. The
British North America is defined as all North American Lands bordered by: Iberian America, the Appalachian Mountains Divide, French North America, the Atlantic Ocean.
7. The
French North America contains (OTL): Saint Pierre and Miquelin, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Northern New Brunswick, small parts of Nova Scotia, Southern Quebec, Southern Ontario, a small part of Minessota, Eastern Wisconsin, Michigan, a small part of Illinois (with Chicago), a small part of Indiana, Northern Ohio, a small part of Pennsylvania, North-Western New York, Western Vermont, very small parts of New Hampshire, very small parts of Maine.
8. The
British North America contains (OTL): most of Nova Scotia, Southern New Brunswick, most of Maine, most of New Hampshire, Eastern Vermont, Massachussets, Connecticut, Rhode Island, South-Eastern New York, New Jersey, Delaware, most of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, most of Virginia, a small part of West Virginia, most of North Carolina, most of South Carolina, North-Eastern Georgia, Bermuda.
9. The
Iberian America contains (OTL): all of South America (including islands), all of Central America (including islands), all Mexico, Southern California, Southern Arizona, most of New Mexico, Southernmost Colorado, most of Texas, (maybe very small parts of Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma), most of Louisiana, Southern Mississippi, Southern Alabama, Southern Georgia, a very small part of South Carolina, all Florida.
D. Other Claims (outside Europe)
(no map necessary)
Notes:
1. The
German Terra Australis Incognita contains (OTL): all Australia (including islands), all New Zealand (including islands), all Antarctica (including islands), maybe other islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean, Southern Indian Ocean and Southern Atlantic Ocean.
2. The
Sarmatian Colonies (poorly defined) may contain (OTL): Easternmost Turkey, most of Azerbaidjan proper, most of Iran, most of Iraq, Easternmost Syria, Easternmost Jordan, Eastern Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, most of Oman, Easternmost Yemen, part of Turkmenistan, part of Afghanistan, Westernmost Pakistan.
I mean really lots of
oil!
3. The
Romanian Colonies (poorly defined) may contain (OTL): Central Turkey, most of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, West Bank, most of Jordan, Westernmost Iraq, Western Saudi Arabia, most of Yemen, Westernmost Oman, (maybe parts or all of: Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, etc).
4. Greece (not defined) may contain (OTL): Cyprus, Aegean Islands, South-Western Anatolia.
5. Armenia (not defined) may contain (OTL): Armenia, Karabakh, Nakhchivan, parts of Azerbaidjan proper, parts of Turkey.
6. Georgia (not defined) may contain (OTL): small parts of Azerbaidjan proper, small parts of Turkey.
7. The
Italian Colonies (not defined) may contain (OTL): Eastern Libya, most of Egypt, maybe other parts of Africa.
