Map Thread XVIII

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Just finished the write-up, so allow me to give you: the world of my previous map (posted last Saturday), filled in with some actual people. The base-map for Eurasia is @hadaril's NextGen OTL Worlda map, version 3.0, for the year 814 AD.
Not to rain on the parade, but I did this basemap for Worlda in aRCS. Glad to see it was re-used, of course, but I'm unsure which borders are supposed to be innacurate (some definitely are, and at some point I should make a worlda out of this one)
 
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And a map of the predominant religions in the states of Africa..
 

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The French syndicalist movement

Karl Marx, in his important pamphlet The Civil War in France, considered the 1871 Paris Commune as the prototype for a future revolutionary insurrection, the form at last discovered for the emancipation of the proletariat. In fact, triggered by the Parisians' resentment against the defeatist French government and after months of siege by the Prussian Army, the Paris Commune was something more of a Utopian and enthusiastic socialist experiment, having short-lived and anecdotal followings in French provinces, and later smashed in a bloodbath by the Legalist French Army.

The repression that followed decapitated for years the nascent French socialism, while the SPD developed in Germany and the Trade Unions flourished in Britain. Those left in the wake of the debacle were torn apart, divided between the Marxist-inspired Parti Ouvrier Français of Jules Guesde and the French trade unions, encouraged by the successes of Fernand Peloutier's Fédération des Bourses du Travail. The French syndicalist movement was quickly overtaken by anarchist activists, after the repressive "lois scélérates" of 1894.

In 1895, the Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labour), vowing to be independant from all political formations, was founded at Limoges, an engagement that was renewed by the 1906 Charte d'Amiens, affirming the anarcho-syndicalist tendency within the CGT, embodied by its vice-secretary Emile Pouget.

Helped by the union of Guesde's revolutionary followers and Jean Jaurès' social-democrats into the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (French Section of the Workers' International), the French left was coming into prominence, helped by its role in the Dreyfus affair, when the Weltkrieg broke out.

First an outspoken pacifist, Jaurès was shot down by a nationalist activist four days before the French entry in the war. His successor, Léon Jouhaux, agreed to participate to the Union Sacrée government, followed by most of the SFIO leadership.

Fall of the Third Republic
The revolution was initially sparked by the CGT, who declared a General Strike in the spring of 1919, hot on the heels of a second outbreak of mutiny in the French Army. the mutineers were protesting the Conservative call for a last-ditch counter-offensive following a string of severe French defeats during the German offensives of 1918.

The CGT wanted to paralyse the nation, force the ruling Conservatives to step down and hand over power to the CGT's executive arm; the Comité de Salut Public, or CSP - led by the zealous anarchist Emile Pouget.

They were charged with the task of leading first the General Strike and then the establishment of a new government and constitution which would allow for a complete reconstruction of the French nation. They also had as their immediate aim to end "the abominable war" as soon as possible. In achieving these aims the strike was initially unsuccessful, and the CGT was unable to seize power before the fall of Paris to German general Oskar von Hutier.

The French Civil War
With the fall of Paris however, the General Strike turned violent, as frustrated Unionists became desperate to end the war before the Germans were in a position to occupy the whole country. Skirmishes with police turned into riots across much of the country, and the government was forced to resign, marking the beginning of a transitory period between the Third Republic to the Fourth.

This period was characterised by a dualistic power structure much like that of Russian between the revolutions of 1917 - on the one hand a Provisional Government of Liberals and Socialists, and on the other the CGT, claimed a "legitimate right to power" via their Trade Union structure and a new system of local councils. (However, unlike in Russia - where the Revolutionary Left's gains proved ephemeral - in France this provided the revolutionaries with the chance for permanently taking power.)

This uncertain situation continued through the summer of 1919 until things came to a head in the early autumn when the Provisional Government attempted to disarm and demobilise the French Army following the conclusion of a truce with the Germans. Fearing the Government was attempting to stifle the revolution (the Army was largely supportive of the Left) the Socialist Party began a boycott of the Parliament, and declared itself an ally of the CGT, followed thereafter by a number of the more radical Liberals.

Following this decision the Bolshevik Jacobins declared the Provisional Government an enemy of the Proletariat, encouraging Party members to begin a policy of agitation in favour of a "great purge of France, to forever destroy her class enemies". Inspired by Lenin and his revolutionaries and the outbreak of the Russian Civil War between the Reds and the Whites, gangs of working men and army units sympathetic to the Jacobin cause began to attack and loot the property of the aristocracy and upper middle classes - seizing land by force and holding the Establishment to account in revolutionary "courts".

Although they wanted to put a stop to this policy (they had hoped to negotiate with the Provisional Government), the CGT was unable to prevent the Jacobins from carrying out their attacks, or prevent an escalation of the crisis, as the Provisional Government gathered together the "forces of reaction" to respond with force and attempt a counter-revolution.

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Plagiarism is unacceptable here. This includes taking work from other sites and presenting it here as your own.

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And this is my last map for some time: Language groups of Africa. All colours refer to predominant language group or family, apart from Orange= Afrikaans, pink=English,blue=French and green= Arabic
 

Skallagrim

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This is awesome. You should give it a thread.

Seconded. I'm fascinated by this world. It needs its own thread.

I third this idea.

I'm very glad to hear it's so well-received. Thank you very much. I'm still building this out, and at present I'm not sure there's really enough material for a thread. I'm writing up some background on the various cultures, and working on a map showing us 1500 AD, just after "first contact", but before any big changes set in.

Once I get that done, storing it all in one place might be worthwhile.


Not to rain on the parade, but I did this basemap for Worlda in aRCS. Glad to see it was re-used, of course, but I'm unsure which borders are supposed to be innacurate (some definitely are, and at some point I should make a worlda out of this one)

I'll preface this with the caveat that historical maps vary wildly, especially where it concerns regions with borders that changed bit by bit over time. So I can't verify what's most accurate. Things I noticed, when comparing the existing NextGen Worlda map for 814 AD to various map of that same year (lots exist because "Europe at the death of Charlemagne" gets mapped a lot), were mainly these points:

-- The Duchy of Vasconia was strangely not shown as distinct, even though it was still a distinct entity within the empire.

-- Borders in Iberia are kind of weird? It seems Asturias was bigger than shown at the time, and the border zone between the Carolingians and Cordoba was a bit further north than shown.

-- Serbia is a bit bigger on most maps, and I showed that. Same for the Byzantines on the Western Balkans. They both seem to have at least claimed everything West of the Bulgars. I doubt that their control was effective there, but that doesn't generally stop us fom showing it in the claiming country's colour. (After all, we know how often control is mostly theoretical.)

-- The Khazars are shown as having a considerably greater sphere of influence on most maps, so I edited to accomodate that.

-- The Mordvins, Volga Bulgars and Bashkirs are, inexplicably, shown as one group (or only one is shown). I show them distinctly.

-- The Turkic tribes are typically shown with their extent a bit different, so I altered that a bit.

-- As far as I'm aware, Balhae was still undivided at the time, so I removed the division there.

-- The Yamato had moved further north at this point, so I changed that a bit, too.

As an aside, some maps still show the Avars, although I left that to be. I'm not sure if they'd been overrun at that point, or were about to be. The specifics of their collapse are unclear to me. There might still have been a remnant, squeezed between the Carolingians' Eastern fringe and the Bulgars' Westernmost reaches.

I'm not saying my changes are objectively improvements, by the way. It's just what seemed best to me.
 
-- The Duchy of Vasconia was strangely not shown as distinct, even though it was still a distinct entity within the empire.
it was a mistake that was later corrected :for some reason, the later basemap wasn't used.
There it is.
Note that I was using an experimental way to depict city-states/petty-states, and that most of Asia is wrong.

That said, how I depicted Wasconia is wrong on several levels as well : it should include Bordeaux (not as part of the duchy itself but included) and the Transpyrenean revolt.

-- Borders in Iberia are kind of weird? It seems Asturias was bigger than shown at the time, and the border zone between the Carolingians and Cordoba was a bit further north than shown.
It's hard to really adress the borders of Iberia, but at this scale it was hard to represent the relative blurry region between Christian and Islamic dominance (rather than control). I then took an average border to roughly delimit it.
As for Carolingian border, it's definitely where it should be : the maps that claim a Carolingian extension up to Ebre are fantastically wrong. I based myself on Sénac's maps, and in the later basemap, merged the various labelled march (Toulouse/Gothia/Spain) as one as it should be.

-- Serbia is a bit bigger on most maps, and I showed that. Same for the Byzantines on the Western Balkans. They both seem to have at least claimed everything West of the Bulgars. I doubt that their control was effective there, but that doesn't generally stop us fom showing it in the claiming country's colour. (After all, we know how often control is mostly theoretical.)
True, altough not to be exagerated, and IIRC it was partly corrected on the latest basemap, which is reflected on the Q-BAM map I linked.
As for Byzantines, if anything, their balkanic territory should be even more reduced than I made on this map : they were holding on Thrace in 814 face to Bulgars, but that's it : note that Bulgar expension was far from theoritical, giving that it was settled trough treaty.

-- The Khazars are shown as having a considerably greater sphere of influence on most maps, so I edited to accomodate that.
Agreed, would it be only because the first basemap I did was particularily wrong on this regard : I rather prefer how I put it in the second basemap or Q-BAM

-- The Mordvins, Volga Bulgars and Bashkirs are, inexplicably, shown as one group (or only one is shown). I show them distinctly.
It's essentially because of the scale, and I shown these at this point from outdated maps (I took several months to consider how to put them on the Q-BAM, something that @Alex Richards probably remembers from the mountain of PM he recieved). Note that they're still shown as one entity because they're nothing we can really say about how they were actually differenciated.

-- The Turkic tribes are typically shown with their extent a bit different, so I altered that a bit.
Fair enough, I did a far better job with the Atlas of Central Asia eventually, and I relied on more poor sources back then.

-- As far as I'm aware, Balhae was still undivided at the time, so I removed the division there.
-- The Yamato had moved further north at this point, so I changed that a bit, too.[/QUOTE]
Both were corrected in the updated basemap, made in 2014. I'm not sure why the older one was used.

As an aside, some maps still show the Avars, although I left that to be. I'm not sure if they'd been overrun at that point, or were about to be.
There might still have been a remnant, squeezed between the Carolingians' Eastern fringe and the Bulgars' Westernmost reaches.
Essentially overrun. AFAIK You still had Avars in the region for a while, but not really organized as a distinct polity we can spot (altough there were Avars still organised enough to be subjected to Franks, and to attack them in the mid IXth), and essentially remembered trough the "Avar solitude" in Pannonian plain for the IXth century, which was settled by distinct Slavic people as well as Avars.(see Q-BAM)

t's just what seemed best to me.
It wasn't at all what I intended , don't worry: just that I took months to do some maps (and more than a year for the Q-BAM) and while I saw them diversely re-used inside and outside AH.com community without much acknowledgement including to correct some mistakes (while, weirdly enough, older ones are more used than recent ones).
Note that I don't consider the last worlda update particularily good : I should attempt a worlda adaptation of the Q-BAM on this regard (and even there, modifying some coastlines and Aquitaine wouldn't be unnecessary)
 
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Argentinian Confederation (1831-1875): After the Signing of the Federal Pact, the Argentinian Provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires and Corrientes formed the Confederation, excluding the rest. It would last until the death of the Governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas, after which it dissolved and every province became independent.

United Provinces of the River Plate (1816-Present): Argentina didn’t manage to hold the Spanish Invasions in Salta and retreated to Cordoba, losing the whole Northern Province. It also lost the Misiones Territory and the Oriental March.

Argentinian Unitary State (1850-Present): Argentina unified under a Unitarian Government, excluding the Federal Republic of Entre Ríos.

Río da Prata (1812-1889): The Autonomous Government during the Revolution accepted the proposal of giving the Throne of the Viceroyalty to Carlota Joaquina of Spain, sister of Ferdinand VII, and wife of John VI of Portugal. Eventually the Crown passed down to her Son, Emperor Pedro I of Brazil, now also King of Río da Prata. With the dissolution of the Empire, the Kingdom would gain independence.

Argentine Republic (1816-Present): Argentina if the country didn’t expand the Borders as they did in OTL.

Kingdom of La Plata (1808-1815): The Spanish Monarchy during the Napoleonic Wars exiles to the Viceroyalty of the River Plate, founding the Kingdom. With the defeat of Napoleon, the King went back to Spain, ending the Kingdom and returning to the Viceroyalty.

Argentinian Empire (1933-1945): Nationalists take control of the country and participate in the Axis side of WW2, seizing historically claimed lands. It was defeated in 1945.

State of Buenos Aires (1852-1950): Buenos Aires stays separated while the Confederation fails. It conquers the Patagonia before eventually unifying with Córdoba, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Mendoza.

Dominion of La Plata (1807-1950): The British successfully conquer Argentina during the English Invasions. The Colony is conquered and it gains Dominion Status in 1910, gaining Independence after 1950. I made another map about this one: fav.me/dbxs3md
 
Civil War in Post-Russian Antarctica (1923)
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The base map was created by @Gian, and used with their permission.
The timeline this map is based in is Devon Moore's The Great White South, and can be found here at Alternative History Wikia.
None of the writing and graphics I post in relation to the Great White South are canonical, but do have his approval to be posted.
Dissatisfaction with the Provisional Governorates' inaction allowed the common folk of the East to see the Front for National Salvation as the true soldiers of Russian Antarctic independence, major cities Boersdrop and Mirny welcoming FNS troops without resistance. With the Allied forces relegated to the slim Ross coast and Krannkush, and Provisional Governorates' unable to put up a defense in the face of mass-desertions and outright defection to FNS units, the end of the civil war in the east is nearing. This is true in Western Antarctica as well, but the circumstances are different. The People's Republic has negotiated a ceasefire with both the KLA and the British, who have also agreed to assist the remaining government of Krannkush Governorate to give the (Ognian) Nationalists in the east much less breathing room.

Notes:
1) Now that they've consolidated control and agreed to a ceasefire with the British in the north and the KLA in the south, those at the top are free to engage in power struggles. (The Pro-annexation to the USSR clique is about to fabricate charges against the Syndicalists)
2) Having cut off the Provisional Governorates' route to the west, it's just a matter of mopping up the remaining PG loyalists (particularly the deported Maori on the continent) before a final push on their island home
3) What remains of the pre-war government of the Governorate of Krannkush has pulled it's representatives from Novopetrograd and signed a compact with the Allies to attempt to hold off the KLA's push
4) With Allied forces pushed to the thin strip of land between the Ross Gulf and the glaciers and the Provisional Governorates' completely unable to halt the FNS forces, things look grim in Eastern Antarctica
5) Realizing their victory is just a matter of time, Gavrilov is hammering out deals with the Governors and fellow Generals about what Russian Antarctica will look like after the war

Below 60 Degrees South...
Russian Civil War in Antarctica (1918)
Russian Civil War in Antarctica (1919)
Civil War in Post-Russian Antarctica (1920)
Civil War in Post-Russian Antarctica (1921)
Civil War in Post-Russian Antarctica (1923) (you are here)
 
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Plagiarism is unacceptable here. This includes taking work from other sites and presenting it here as your own.

Cease and desist.

I think a worse issue is that he has a really poor command of English, so unless we can explain to him in Azeri, he's just going to keep posting text copied off other sources.

Of course, this being an English-language forum, you really need to know the language.
 
I think a worse issue is that he has a really poor command of English, so unless we can explain to him in Azeri, he's just going to keep posting text copied off other sources.

Of course, this being an English-language forum, you really need to know the language.
I have a Turkish friend, so like, maybe they could translate something? I'm sure they'd have a better idea of what we're saying if it were in Turkish, not English
 
Brazil snippage

I utterly love these, especially the top row, alternate colonizers versions. However, I double adore Avalon as a sorta Canada expy; the idea of a mixed-race dominion in general has to do with it (even with high European immigration like OTL I don't see that "whitening" any Brazil too much).

Question though, why is the capital so far north vice the more temperature coast or south?
 
Isl
What religions do the colors correspond to? I curious as to what faith Togo, Ethiopia, and Eritrea share.
Islam:green
Anglican (used also for the American Protestant denominations) Liberia and most of former British colonies
Calvinist : Boer republics andvsone French colonies
Lutheran: Tanganyka
Zaire:United and Uniting
Yellow is Catholic
Ethiopia and Eritrea are truly Coptic,
Togo is the sole Animist country. I did use the "Dahoney religion" from my TURCS palette for it.
 
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