Map Thread XXII
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Just thought he'd be involved, given a) Louisiana, b) his populist tendencies, c) his slogan 'Every Man A King', and d) him founding a political dynasty.
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Map of the Ethno-Linguistic Areas of Europe c. 2024
In which Austria-Hungary inexplicably survives post-WW1, WW2, and the Cold War into the modern era a little shorn, but mostly intact. In the modern day, they along with Italy, France, and Germany are the EU's biggest countries around which the other countries of the EU are perceived to revolve, for better or for worse. With the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Habsburg empire's long-standing neutrality may at long last come to a close.
1. What the heck,Nunavut? (or whatever it’s called ITTL)Found this worlda of the North American Union from the Two Georges novel while looking around for references for alternate midwest state/province borders I needed for something. It's from the talk page for the novel's wikipedia page unsourced so I was wondering if anyone would recognized where on this site it was posted for proper credit:
2. nice to see Maine is still A Thing
3. Big Alberta and Big Saskatchewan? Niiice
4. I see Big New Mexico reappears from TL 191
5. Who carved off half of NY and why?
6. Whoever surveyed the three-way border between !Utah,Oregon,and California must’ve been drunk
7. What’s going on in Mississippi?
8. Texhoma forever!
9. Louisiana = huueeghhhh
10. smiles in Maximilian of Austria
So the State of Ulster is an uber-loyalist state controlled by the Ulster Volunteer Force? Or is it a nationalist-republican state? The fact that it doesn’t seem to be part of the United Kingdom and its description as ultranationalist with the Army Comrades Association cross on the flag makes me think the latter. But the Red Hand of Ulster, the loyalist Star of David, and the official name of the state being an extension of Ulster makes me think the former.
Here's a labeled version in case anyone has trouble connecting the chart
WIP: cover of a map for one of the earliest notable AH projects online, David Johnson's Trolleyworld. I've used some ideas from Edelstein's Male Rising world for Very Federal India.
Looking forward to this! It's very rare to see California-centered alternate histories and ones with relatively unique technological paths with a late 18th Century POD
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“We’ve always been competing with Durmstrang. We’ve always been allied with Beauxbatons.”
Alaska(Аляска Alyaska), officially the Alaskan State(Аляскинский Государство Alyaskinskiy Gosudarstvo) is a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy located in northwestern North America. During the Pre-Columbian era, Alaska was inhabited by numerous indigenous peoples including the Inuit, Tlingit, Chinook, Haida, and others. Beginning in the Eighteenth Century, various Russian explorers began to “discover” more of Alaska and claim it for the Russian Empire. The earliest Russian settlers in Alaska were Promyshlenniki, or fur-traders under the employ of the Russian-America Company(which governed the colony from 1799 until Alaska’s formal integration into the Russian imperial system in 1885). The discovery of gold in the 1830s would prompt further waves of migration from the Russian mainland, who bolstered the colony’s population. Many of the initial settlers would later move south into the disputed Oregon territory. The United States under President Henry Clay was uninterested in expansion while Britain was distracted by matters in Europe(specifically the French Revolution of 1830), so the Oregon Country would be incorporated into Russian America.
With the colony firmly in Russian hands, various further waves of migration into Alaska from the mainland would occur. In particular, large amounts of Finns[1], Ukrainians, Old Believers, South Russians, and Siberian’s would settle in the colony. The Tsarist regime tacitly encouraged the settlement of Finns and Old Believers in Alaska(to keep them in what they saw as an icy wasteland on the periphery of the empire) as well as the settlement of those of Slavic ethnicity and Orthodox faith(so the dissidents wouldn’t take over the colony). Jews and Poles were restricted from settling in Alaska, although a few made it in anyway. Alaska played a peripheral role in the Russo-Japanese War and the Great War(reflecting its general position within the empire), but would become more important during the Russian Civil War. Alaska never saw any significant communist presence, and following the fall of Alexander Kolchak’s Omsk-based government to the Bolsheviks, local warlord Grigori Semyenov declared himself the new Surpreme Ruler of the Russian State(which by this point only controlled a peripheral corner of the former Russian Empire). Alaska would see an influx of White Russian exiles, including former commander of the South Russian Army Pyotr Wrangel.
Semyenov, who had military but not political experience, would run Alaska as a brutal thug, treating the country as his own personal fiefdom. Semyenov would develop close ties to the American mafia, who turned Alaska into a base of operations for bootlegging during the prohibition period and set up extensive gambling and prostitution industries which were viewed with disdain by the often devoutly Orthodox Alaskan people[2]. Semyenov’s ties to the mafia would result in greater tensions with his American allies and sponsors, who formally recognized the Bolshevik government in 1933[3], and Semyenov’s regime would begin to pursue closer relationships with Imperial Japan. The excesses of Semyenov’s rule are known in Alaska today as the White Terror. Semyenov’s reign of terror would finally come to an end with the onset of the Great Depression when, deeply unpopular and faced with a nonexistent economy which had made him even more unpopular, he resigned and let someone else deal with the mess he had created. That someone else was former White Army General Pyotr Wrangel, who had arrived in Alaska following his evacuation from Crimea[4].
Almost immediately after his appointment as Supreme Ruler, Wrangel cracked down on the mafia, took steps to improve the economic situation, and restored good relations with the United States(much to the chagrin of Semyonov’s new Japanese allies). Following the outbreak of the Pacific War, Wrangel’s Alaska sided with the Americans and the Japanese would occupy parts of the Aleutian Islands. After the war, Wrangel would find himself more popular than ever before as the man who led Alaska(then still the Russian State) through both the Great Depression and the following war with Japan. This popularity was only increased when the discovery of oil led Alaska to heights of prosperity unseen in its history. Seeking to deter any potential Soviet invasion, Wrangel’s Alaska would become a founding member of NATO.
Despite Wrangel’s popularity and Alaska’s prosperity, cracks were beginning to show in the ruling military dictatorship; a new generation of Alaskans too young to remember how Wrangel had led the country through the Depression and war with Japan questioned the need for a strong-willed dictator, an older generation of Alaskans who remembered Semyenov’s tyranny and incompetence feared what might happen when Wrangel died and someone else took power, and the rest of the world no longer took seriously the Alaskans’ claim to be the legitimate government of Russia. In 1954, Wrangel would succumb to old age and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich(who up until that point had been based in France) was invited over to succeed him. While most international observers believed that the new Emperor would continue Wrangel’s military dictatorship, he would instead take Alaska in a far different direction than any weight have expected at the time. In the weeks leading up to his coronation, the then Grand Duke Vladimir held a referendum as to whether he should be crowned as Emperor Vladimir III of Russia or Vladimir I of Alaska. The latter won out, and the country was formally renamed from the Russian State to the Alaskan State. A year after Emperor Vladimir’s coronation, another referendum was held; should Alaska hold a constitutional convention that would end the current military dictatorship and establish a constitutional monarchy.
Like the last one, this referendum resulted in a resounding “yes” and on February Eighth, 1956, the Constitution of the Alaskan State was drafted. The new constitution created a new parliament, which was divided into a lower house, the Duma, and an upper house, the Senate. The 1956 elections would see Ivan Gnatyshin of the now defunct National Democratic Party elected as Alaska’s first Prime Minister. Although Alaska’s politics would initially be dominated by the National Democratic Party, going into the 1960s it would loose support to the Conservative Party and the Social Democratic Party, who continue to dominate the country’s politics. Other prominent parties include the socially and economically liberal Libertarian Party, the environmentalist and republican Green Party, the right-wing populist Freedom Party, and the Indigenous Union, which supports the interests of Native Alaskans. Other less-serious parties include the Sovereign People’s Party, who seek to return to a Wrangel-style military dictatorship and who only nostalgic boomers vote for, the Communist Party, who desire reunification with the Soviet Union and who only idealistic college students vote for, and the Official Vodka and Burgers Party, a satirical party opposing attempts to “ruin the lives of God-fearing, tax-paying citizens by forcing allegedly healthy but foul tasting food and drink upon them” and who unexpectedly won a seat in the Duma last election. The current Prime Minister is a certain Alexei Navalny, whose Conservative government forms a coalition with the Libertarians and the Freedom Party.
Emperor Vladimir I died in 1992, and would be succeeded by his daughter Maria as Empress. Maria would ultimately abdicate the throne in 2019, being succeeded by her son Vladimir II. The current emperor has proven himself rather popular. In 2004 he made headlines by marrying Lyudmila Nikolayevsky, a famous actress of Tlingit ancestry. The two have a daughter, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, and a son, Tsarevich Mikhail Vladimirovich. The monarchy remains rather popular with Alaskans, with the Emperor doing his best to avoid scandal. Politically, the country is a staunch ally of the United States and opponent of the Soviet Union. The official Soviet position is that the “tsarist entity” is illegitimate and that Alaska should reunify with the Soviet Union, a prospect that Alaskans overwhelmingly oppose. Despite occasional provocations, Alaska’s membership in NATO means that the Soviets won’t be trying to “reunify” anytime soon. Still, all Alaskans are required to serve in the military and the Bering Straight remains one of the most heavily militarized areas in the world. The capital of Alaska is in Novoarkhangelsk(OTL Sitka), while its economic capital is in Alexanderskoye(OTL Seattle).
[1]Apparently there was a decently-sized Finnish community in Alaska IOTL, which I figured would be even larger if Finland and Alaska were part of the same country
[2]Compare Batista’s Cuba IOTL
[3]This is the same as OTL
[4]He was also the most competent of the White generals. Which admittedly isn’t saying much, but still.
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Is it a federal state? Anything on its administrative or political structure? Are they using Russian or Alaskan symbols or a mixture of them? How come Moscow didn't attack Alaska during WWII? What do you think will happen in the near future, when the Northwest Passage becomes navigable and the Bering Strait will become a major shipping channel? What's Alaska's position or role in the Russian-Ukrainian War (if there's one in TTL as well), are Russian oligarchs trying to claim refugee status in Alaska?
Surprising that the country remained a vacuum and was let to develop mostly on its own. Its pre-1954 history sounds a bit like white anarchy? Would be happy to watch a timeline if you have more! Basically a less left leaning, Russian speaking Cascadia.
Yeah i have some ideas for it, maybe a few surviving native states
so today i saw a map in my dream, and i decided to make it a reality. there's no lore, like i said i saw this in a dream.
