Thank you. I appreciate it.
Why Thank you. Goliath Maps Deviantart was how I was first exposed to Alternate History Genre So I like that my style resembles his.
Marvelous map, though I think Danzig would be larger, so that it includes the mouth of the Vistula. Then again, I suppose the HRE may have vetoed that, and told the Saxe-Poles to just sail a couple extra miles to their land. The flag and name of the Pyrenean Republic seems like... trying to remember the name of the timelines. Anyways, seems a bit communistic, though I am surprised it didn’t simply name itself Navarre or after the Basque. Though given the Royal and ethnic implications, I suppose they are instead naming it this, and will then just teach everyone there Basque, to better separate them permanently from the Spanish and French. Nice to see different sizes and ratios for some of these flags, as well as those flags with multiple flags in them. Strange the Roman Republic got to keep Avignon but not areas closer to home. Also nice those two Roman enclaves in Naples are indep- Ahhhh, I was a bit disappointed seeing one of them (Pontecorvo) a republic rather than being Swedish or an independent principality, but that was soon reversed seeing that Benevento is apparently the rump of the Papal States.
Map and Flags of the Continent of Europe and its Environs in N.S. 2020, 265 years after Corsican Independence
After nearly two centuries of war, the Continent of Europe has been at peace for the longest continuous period since the Bastille Saint-Antoine fell to the mobs of Paris and the world was forever changed. Greater degrees of economic interconnection flourish, even between the bitter rival hegemons of France and Britain. While the region is not uniformly peaceful, Europe is finally able to take a tentative step forward after centuries of bloodshed. Even the ideological barriers between the Traditionalist and Jacobin blocs have become hazier and hazier - peace and economic growth have bloomed into a virtuous cycle of political liberalization and the expansion of prosperity, albeit unequally.
Not all is perfect, mind you. Peasant revolts flare up periodically in Lithuania and Magyarstan, as they always seem to, and plenty of revanchist claims are officially professed in a number of capitals, threatening the shaky detente. Political rights remain limited in both Paris and London, albeit in different ways. Russia has clearly cast a hungry eye at a number of states which have gained independence in past conflicts. The memories of the Second Hundred Year's War nor the Great War have not yet wholly faded.
But, for perhaps the first time since that fateful July day, peace and hope may stand a chance to be victorious over violence and division. Only time will tell.
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This is the first of a series of maps from my current yet-to-be-named timeline, finally published after something like a year of brainstorming, maps half-finished before being thrown out, and rewrites. I've decided to go about this continent by continent, with occasional diversions for separate regions, individual countries and particular historical events. At some point, if I continue long enough, I'll put it all in a thread for future development, but I don't want to put the carriage in front of the horse like I, and others, have in the past.
As this is still technically in the development stages, I welcome any and all questions and critiques y'all may have. I can only do so much on my own - asking questions and criticizing inaccurate or unreasonable ideas is the best way for me to work out the remaining kinks of the setting. Thanks!
I’m planning on converting the other directional manifesting maps to QBAM at some point…
A Europe with five different active calendars. Must be an absolute nightmare.
And I mean, this isn’t a 1:1 copy. The Reddit user made New Brunswick part of Maine - I kept it separate.
It is! Calendar difficulties are a key part of why inter-bloc trade generally hasn't gone so well. Many French satellites utilize the Revolutionary Calendar, while the Gregorian calendar is used by most of Tory Europe. Russia is the main exception, still officially utilizing the Julian Calendar, though the Revolutionary Calendar retains officially recognized status. The calendar debate is a microcosm of Russia's awkward place partially within the French bloc. The days of Decembrist emulation of the Jacobins are long last, and Moscow continually wishes to flex it's muscles as a great power with fully independent foreign policy.
Have the East Romans resorted to tax farming in North Africa like the Ottomans did?
So Russia occupies the place in France's bloc here that China exercised in the Communist Bloc OTL?
Essentially, yes. France was key to backing separatist movements prior to Russia's revolutions and served as a guarantee power for successors such as Circassia and Ukraine.
Definitely a really unique take on a CP victory in WWI, although I'm really curious about what's going on in Russia. Is that German-occupied sliver in the west supposed to be a rump Russian Republic or something?
Please use the "insert image with link" on the forum editor and use the Imgur "direct link" URL. The way you posted it, the images are kind of small and redirect to Imgur instead of enlarging when clicked.
Afraid not many of the Total war warriors in WW1 were just a brutal and hard hearted as their counterparts a generation later. That territory has been directly annexed by Germany. In this scenario, after Germany beats France and Italy in 1918-19, Britain and the US don't just make peace but stay at war, and remain committed to defeating Germany. That puts the Germany's strategic situation basically in IRL's 1940, and so some of the same logic applies. Specifically, Ludendorff invades Russia w/ the goal of bringing the UK and the US to the peace table by, he thinks, defeating the last power that could potentially contest Germany or host Anglo-American military power. Further Ludendorff was always worried about the reopening of the eastern front and sees no harm in putting an end to that danger preemptively. Red Russia just cannot stand up to the Germany army in 1919-20 and and gets pushed back as far as Germany is willing to push them. This effort however does not bring the UK or the US to the table and so Germany again seeks peace w/ Russia on harsh terms. Ludendorff, being a hardcore militarist and basically proto-Nazi is pretty likely to see the Brest-Litovsk treaty negotiations as a humiliation inflicted on Germany by Trotsky, Lenin and Wilson where negotiators tried to make agreements and appeal to things like self-determination to no end. Therefore I think he is likely just to annex the territory of Russia necessary to permanently cripple it as a great power i.e. the A-A line.
Well that’s one sexy map
