Sorry about that. Thanks for pointing it out though. I’ll post the corrected translations after I fix it.
ITTL, Sorbia is not actually Sorbian as you pointed it. The land is instead filled with Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, Russians and assimilated Germans. All of the Russians and Ukrainians just labeled themselves as "Sorbs" while the actually ethnic group did expand some but is still mostly a minority.
A great job ! Bravo @Basileus_Komnenos !The Greater Bourbon Empire c.1780This is basically a map based on the premise that France manages to win the War of Spanish Succession after decisively crushing the Austrians a Blenheim. Following the Collapse of the Austrian control of the HRE, a power vacuum develops in its former domain with France now formally annexing Savoy and occupying Milan which it now has claims to from its Spanish Habsburg inheritance. The Hungarians who had been agitating for greater autonomy now with French support, breaks free from Habsburg rule. Following a series of tragedies befalling the House of Bourbon, the seniour line dies out after Louis XV dies prematurely. This prompts the new energetic Spanish King Felipe V to stake his claim to the throne of France with the Sun King's support before his own passing. Thus the Spanish Crowns of Castile, Navarre, Aragon, and the Kingdom of France are all united under one ruler in a Personal Union set to utterly dominate the European landscape. With Europe now under the total hegemony of the Bourbons in a scale not scene since Charles V, a new set of coalitions and alliances form against France completely ruining the Balance of Power. In Italy, the Pope and the Venetians joined common cause to try and expel the French, But with both the Spanish and French united, Italy became one of the many regions in France's orbit. The Kingdom of England which had overthrown their rightful Stuart King James II had now after facing severe economic hardships from the losses of the war, had been undergoing a Civil War between the Jacobites and the Parliamentarians supporting the Hanoverian claims to the throne. Though with French support, the Jacobites were able to reclaim their rightful thrones. Eventually over the years of continuous rule in a Personal union, the crowns of France and Spain consolidated into a single state which became known as the Bourbon Empire which was officially proclaimed after King Louis XVI/I's march on Rome where he forced the Pope to acknowledge his new Imperial title using the precedent set by the old Kings of Castile who took the title of Imperator Totius HIspaniae (Emperor of all Spain) in the middle Ages. Though while the Empire may look like a unitary state to outside peoples, its internal politics show a different story. The Empire functions more as a Federal Empire split into various Kingdoms all united under one Imperial Court at Versailles. Though each Kingdom has its own internal capitals such as Barcelona, Madrid, Naples, Palermo, etc.
I dedicate this map to @Comte de Dordogne's awesome French timeline The Sun of Rocroi, and recommend checking it out!
Nice map! "Intriguing, but highly disturbing.", though.
Well, I do have a little roughdraft of the future of this world. Soviet socialism still collapses but it takes place in the late 1990s and moderate socialists take over the Soviet Union but it never dissolves. Zapodslavia is peacefully dissolved and a new Visegrad Group is made to unite the West Slavs. The reaction of the German Genocide by the 21st Century would be the most noticeable in the United States, where a German nationalist rebirth took place during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, demanding to bring the perpetrators of the German Genocide to justice. The UK would also later condemn the German Genocide in order to make better relations with the US due to economic woes. The French, Poles, Czechs, and Russians reactions would be like OTL Turkey reaction to the Armenian Genocide. They would either justify it or deny the genocide as a whole. As a result, the relations between France and Russia between the United States and Britain are much more worse ITTL.
Nice map! I especially like the simple style, but I like the dark red and green fill of the countries also.
Thank you for the comment.
It looks really, really good in my opinion! Albeit, I am a sucker for oceanic outlines, so who knows.
Was the second Mexican empire the one that was meant to be a client state to France under nappy III?
Huh, I never really thought Napoleon would have put too much thought into hit, seeing as it was a pretty blatantly suicidal move.
