I wasn't following that person, but I know the feeling of losing all your precious work and I can only imagine what it would be like if other people were counting on you to show them.
Map Thread XXII
- Thread starter Balkanized U.S.A
- Start date
Is there a way to get the hard drive off the computer? The OS may be lost, but the files may be recoverable.
There is but you need to plug the drive in another computer and retrieve the information that way.
Oh fair, didn’t know abt that. Not an expert on the US by any means. And that OTL date was AFTER the invention of the cotton gin too damn! I mean, I can see changes in attitude but given that it was such a massive cornerstone of their economy at the time. IDK, a total lack of pushback still seems odd. I’d expect something, not necessarily OTLs civil war but something.
What if....a group of the Samoyedes (e.g. the Selkups) (together with some Tungusics) migrated - together with the Magyars - to Europe during the early middle ages?
The republic of Qumbia (qum: Qumbemöb) is a country located in the north of the Balkan peninsula in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungary to the north, Roumania to east, Bulgaria to southeast, Albania to the south, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and Croatia to the west.
After belonging to the Ottoman Empire for centuries, the country gained independence in 1851.
After World War I, during which Qumbia stayed neutral, Qumbian-speaking areas in eastern and southeastern Croatia were ceded to the country - including the littoral city Ráguza. Also (mostly) Qumbian-speaking areas north of the cities of Čöröbörd and Šéravár were ceded from Hungary to Qumbia via the treaty of Trianon and further agreements with Hungary.
During World War II, the country was part of the axis powers. After the second world war, Qumbia turned into a typical communistic dictatorship, the People's Republic of Qumbia. After the death of Jožif Cüreŋi in 1976, the country recieved reforms and got opened to the western market. Plus, the country distanced itself from the Soviet Union and started to build its own way to socialism. After massive protests in 1981 and 1982, further reforms were made and the state's leadership granted democratic elections. In autumn 1983, the first democratic elections since 47 years were held and the country turned into a democratic republic.
In 1998, Qumbia became part of the EU and in 2004, the country joined the NATO. In 2011, a plebiscite about if Qumbia should adopt the Euro were held. The Qumbian people denied relative clearly.
The Qumbian language is a Qumbo-Samoyedic language and belongs to the Uralic language family. Qumbian is relative distantly related to Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian.
The modern Qumbian language is the result of many different influences on the old Qumbian language from other languages. Most and strongest influences come from (medieval) Hungarian and other Ugric languages, as well as Turkic (Chuvash). Iranic (mostly Alanian) and Tungusic (Evenki) influences are also strong, but a bit less strong. Medium strength influences come from Slavic, Romance and some Fenno-Permic languages and lower influences come from Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Albanian (Gheg), Thraco-Dacian, ancient Mongolic, Armenian and recently from English. Even lower influences come from Russian, German, French and Arabic.
Although Qumbia belonged to the Ottoman Empire for centuries, the Qumbian people never got really islamized. Today, 36% of the population of Qumbia belongs to the Roman-Catholic church, 17% are Orthodox christians, 8% are members of Protestantic churches (mostly Calvinistic and Lutheran), 37% are atheists, agnostics or irreligious. In the Qumbian society, religion doesn't play a significant role (anymore). Most christians are rather "christians on paper" than really religious.
Most people of the (already) small minority of muslim Qumbians moved to the Ottoman Empire between the 1870s and 1910s. The last of them left the country during the early 1930s towards Turkey and Albania.
89% of the population of Qumbia are ethnic Qumbians. Minorities are (christian) Albanias in the south - in and around Škadára and Lomparad, Bulgarians in the southeast and east - east of (and excluding) Nüšas, as well as Hungarians in the north - right in close proximity to the Qumbian-Hungarian border. All these three minorities have semi-autonomous areas. Smaller minorities are Armenians, Croatians, Italians and Roumanians, as well as to a very low level Sinti and Roma.
Most ethnic Qumbians outside of Qumbia live in eastern Croatia and in southern Hungary, both close to the border to Qumbia.
Until the end of World War II, there was a relative large minority of Germans in the country, but after the war was over, the Soviets forced Qumbia to expell all Germans from the country.
Full name of the country: Republic of Qumbia (qum: Repuvliké Qumbemöbjöö)
Capital and largest city: Teremkesh (qum: Törömkešej) (population: 1.645.753)
Official languages: Qumbian, in some regions on second level Albanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian
Government: Unitary parlimentary republic
President: Adereš Líder
Prime minister: Héča Madar
President of National Assembly: Viktor Vestfál
Population: 8.405.061 (as of March 1st, 2021)
National holiday: September 1st, December 13th
Currency: Qumbian Mözen (QM)
Time zone: UTC+1 (CET), UTC+2 (CEST)
Date format: dd. mmm. yyyy
Driving side: right
Calling code: +38
IVR code: Q
ISO 3166 code: QU
Internet TLD: .qu, .eu
Qumbia's largest cities and their OTL-equivalents:
Bozoŋvár = Sarajevo
Čöröbörd = Šabac
Letberáŋ = Zenica
Lomparad = Prizren
Nüšas = Niš
Ráguza = Dubrovnik
Šéravár = Belgrad
Škadára = Shkodër
Törömkešej* = Kragujevac
Trügülatva = Novy Pazar
*= international: Teremkesh (en), Törömkesely (hu), Türmkesch (de), Teremcescio (it), Törmkeşe (tr), Teremkešo (hr), Teremkeș (ro), Teremkesz (pl)
(And yes, World War I will be caused completely different in this TL, but approx. same time (also in 1914) with more or less same alliances)
Samoyeds with borders roughly kind of sort of similar to early medieval Serbia fused with Moravian Serbia? When people confuse Serbia and Siberia from now on this is what I will picture.
Warning
Sahel War, 2024
After the July 2023 Nigerien coup, the ECOWAS began a process of division, between those supportive of the new Regime and those who supported the ousted president Mohamed Bazoum. The military juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, threw its support to the Tchiane Junta, and, after the ECOWAS threatened an invasion of Niger, the governments of Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone rejected the proposal, stating that they would support the transition of power in Niger without any militayr action.
However, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, vocally supported an invasion.
After failed negotiations, presidential travels, and threats, the 1st of September 2023, war was declared, and Nigerian troops crossed the border into Niger. One by one, the states of the ECOWAS joined in, in either side. After 4 chaotic months, the situation in Western Africa is a mess of conflict, insurgency and terrorism.
Looks like someone left HOI4 running for too long....
Sahel War, 2024
After the July 2023 Nigerien coup, the ECOWAS began a process of division, between those supportive of the new Regime and those who supported the ousted president Mohamed Bazoum. The military juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, threw its support to the Tchiane Junta, and, after the ECOWAS threatened an invasion of Niger, the governments of Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone rejected the proposal, stating that they would support the transition of power in Niger without any militayr action.
However, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, vocally supported an invasion.
After failed negotiations, presidential travels, and threats, the 1st of September 2023, war was declared, and Nigerian troops crossed the border into Niger. One by one, the states of the ECOWAS joined in, in either side. After 4 chaotic months, the situation in Western Africa is a mess of conflict, insurgency and terrorism.
Not dissimilar from how many regions in Africa de facto look. A few of these countries already have active insurgencies as is IIRC, or have had them very recently.
I know. It's quite upsetting to see the amount of chaos and the maelstrom of the Sahel region today (Without getting into current politics).
Yeah. Unfortunately, something like this map will most likely happen in the near future.
Please confine ALL current political content to Chat.
Sahel War, 2024
After the July 2023 Nigerien coup, the ECOWAS began a process of division, between those supportive of the new Regime and those who supported the ousted president Mohamed Bazoum. The military juntas in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, threw its support to the Tchiane Junta, and, after the ECOWAS threatened an invasion of Niger, the governments of Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone rejected the proposal, stating that they would support the transition of power in Niger without any militayr action.
However, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, vocally supported an invasion.
After failed negotiations, presidential travels, and threats, the 1st of September 2023, war was declared, and Nigerian troops crossed the border into Niger. One by one, the states of the ECOWAS joined in, in either side. After 4 chaotic months, the situation in Western Africa is a mess of conflict, insurgency and terrorism.
“Current politics” here is considered to be “anything set closer than 10 years from now.”
As someone who has eagerly followed your work for nigh on twenty years, it is for sure a tragedy. Keep on keeping on Bruce!
Oh. I had a feeling there would be a rule like that. Stupid me.
Crossposting from the MotF thread:
The Planet of the First Makers: What if the Great Dying was caused by intelligent Therapsids?
In 1964, paleontologists and geologists working in South Africa’s Karoo Basin made an earth shattering discovery- unmistakable artificial plastic objects within unaltered Permian strata. When announced to the world some two years later, the debate on the veracity and implications raged for more than a decade. But soon, a tsunami of evidence confirmed the shocking truth: Humanity came second. Archaeomunitor Sapiens (trans. “Wise First Maker”) were the first sapients to walk Planet Earth.
Emerging at the very end of the Permian, the Gorgonopsid A. Sapiens- or the First Makers- somehow surged past their proto-mammalian cousins in their brain size and neural density. They found a young Earth- and over the course of tens of thousands of years built a mighty technological civilization upon its bounty. Nevertheless, their ruthless material exploitation of both the biomass around them and their planet’s resources strained the already unstable, hot and volcanic Permian Earth, and they contributed to the greatest mass extinction the planet has ever seen- the Great Dying, which wiped their world and themselves out.
Humanity still does not know what the First Makers called themselves- science has not uncovered convincing remains of their written language- nor do we know anything definitive about their culture. Nevertheless, although separated by 251 million years- we can find a kinship in our planet’s first thinkers. They gained mastery over their planet, despoiling the Earth to build wondrous cities of steel and concrete. They lived billions of lives, working, building, fighting, inventing, and one must imagine- loving their fellows and beholding the beauty of their planet and the universe. Only time will tell if we too will share the fate of Earth’s first thinking children.
The Planet of the First Makers: What if the Great Dying was caused by intelligent Therapsids?
In 1964, paleontologists and geologists working in South Africa’s Karoo Basin made an earth shattering discovery- unmistakable artificial plastic objects within unaltered Permian strata. When announced to the world some two years later, the debate on the veracity and implications raged for more than a decade. But soon, a tsunami of evidence confirmed the shocking truth: Humanity came second. Archaeomunitor Sapiens (trans. “Wise First Maker”) were the first sapients to walk Planet Earth.
Emerging at the very end of the Permian, the Gorgonopsid A. Sapiens- or the First Makers- somehow surged past their proto-mammalian cousins in their brain size and neural density. They found a young Earth- and over the course of tens of thousands of years built a mighty technological civilization upon its bounty. Nevertheless, their ruthless material exploitation of both the biomass around them and their planet’s resources strained the already unstable, hot and volcanic Permian Earth, and they contributed to the greatest mass extinction the planet has ever seen- the Great Dying, which wiped their world and themselves out.
Humanity still does not know what the First Makers called themselves- science has not uncovered convincing remains of their written language- nor do we know anything definitive about their culture. Nevertheless, although separated by 251 million years- we can find a kinship in our planet’s first thinkers. They gained mastery over their planet, despoiling the Earth to build wondrous cities of steel and concrete. They lived billions of lives, working, building, fighting, inventing, and one must imagine- loving their fellows and beholding the beauty of their planet and the universe. Only time will tell if we too will share the fate of Earth’s first thinking children.
This is such a cool idea, it'll be hard for anyone to beat this.Crossposting from the MotF thread:
The Planet of the First Makers: What if the Great Dying was caused by intelligent Therapsids?
In 1964, paleontologists and geologists working in South Africa’s Karoo Basin made an earth shattering discovery- unmistakable artificial plastic objects within unaltered Permian strata. When announced to the world some two years later, the debate on the veracity and implications raged for more than a decade. But soon, a tsunami of evidence confirmed the shocking truth: Humanity came second. Archaeomunitor Sapiens (trans. “Wise First Maker”) were the first sapients to walk Planet Earth.
Emerging at the very end of the Permian, the Gorgonopsid A. Sapiens- or the First Makers- somehow surged past their proto-mammalian cousins in their brain size and neural density. They found a young Earth- and over the course of tens of thousands of years built a mighty technological civilization upon its bounty. Nevertheless, their ruthless material exploitation of both the biomass around them and their planet’s resources strained the already unstable, hot and volcanic Permian Earth, and they contributed to the greatest mass extinction the planet has ever seen- the Great Dying, which wiped their world and themselves out.
Humanity still does not know what the First Makers called themselves- science has not uncovered convincing remains of their written language- nor do we know anything definitive about their culture. Nevertheless, although separated by 251 million years- we can find a kinship in our planet’s first thinkers. They gained mastery over their planet, despoiling the Earth to build wondrous cities of steel and concrete. They lived billions of lives, working, building, fighting, inventing, and one must imagine- loving their fellows and beholding the beauty of their planet and the universe. Only time will tell if we too will share the fate of Earth’s first thinking children.
Crossposting from the MotF thread:
The Planet of the First Makers: What if the Great Dying was caused by intelligent Therapsids?
In 1964, paleontologists and geologists working in South Africa’s Karoo Basin made an earth shattering discovery- unmistakable artificial plastic objects within unaltered Permian strata. When announced to the world some two years later, the debate on the veracity and implications raged for more than a decade. But soon, a tsunami of evidence confirmed the shocking truth: Humanity came second. Archaeomunitor Sapiens (trans. “Wise First Maker”) were the first sapients to walk Planet Earth.
Emerging at the very end of the Permian, the Gorgonopsid A. Sapiens- or the First Makers- somehow surged past their proto-mammalian cousins in their brain size and neural density. They found a young Earth- and over the course of tens of thousands of years built a mighty technological civilization upon its bounty. Nevertheless, their ruthless material exploitation of both the biomass around them and their planet’s resources strained the already unstable, hot and volcanic Permian Earth, and they contributed to the greatest mass extinction the planet has ever seen- the Great Dying, which wiped their world and themselves out.
Humanity still does not know what the First Makers called themselves- science has not uncovered convincing remains of their written language- nor do we know anything definitive about their culture. Nevertheless, although separated by 251 million years- we can find a kinship in our planet’s first thinkers. They gained mastery over their planet, despoiling the Earth to build wondrous cities of steel and concrete. They lived billions of lives, working, building, fighting, inventing, and one must imagine- loving their fellows and beholding the beauty of their planet and the universe. Only time will tell if we too will share the fate of Earth’s first thinking children.
Love it