MotF 158: Antiquated Union

[Zagan]

Hungary-Romania
(1919-1949)

România-Ungaria
Magyarország-Románia


Flag of Hungary-Romania:

Map of Hungary-Romania:

Capital: Cluj / Kolozsvár (46°46′N 23°35′E, also capital of Transylvania)
- Romania Proper: București
- Hungary Proper: Budapest
- Slovak Autonomy: Nitra

Official languages: Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak (in the Slovak Autonomy)

Ethnic groups: Romanians (51%), Hungarians (29%), Slovaks (8%), Ruthenians (4%), Germans (2%), Bulgarians, Russians, Turks, Tatars, Serbs, Croats, Armenians, Greeks, Albanians, Jews, Gypsies, etc.

Religion: Orthodox (54%), Catholic (35%), Protestant (8%), Jewish (1%), Muslim (1%), etc.

Demonym: Hungarian-Romanian

Government: Asymmetrical sui-generis federal kingdom
King: Carol II / I. Károly

Legislature: Parliament
- Upper house: Senate
- Lower house: Chamber of Deputies

Formation:
- Personal Union (under King Ferdinand I of Romania): 1919
- Real Union: 1922

Area:
- Total: 512,000 km² (198,000 sq mi)
- Water: 3%

Population:
- 1940 census: 33,387,590
- 1949 estimate: 35,100,000
- Density: 68.5/km² (177/sq mi)

Currency: Leu (100 Bani)


POD: 1917

History: I will answer any questions / provide a short TL if requested.

 

[theman7777]

The Angevin Union in 1800

A bit inspired by the Victoria 2 Divergences of Darkness, specifically the "Anglois" culture, which is a combination of English and French cultures, meant to promote cultural unity.

 

[Lost the game]

Greater Arab successes earlier-on in the Arab-Byzantine wars are ultimately not capitalized on, and in the vacuum left by fleeing Greeks and Armenians, an Iranic hill people move into the Anatolian plateau. These people eventually cover most of Anatolia, before the Byzantines return to the peninsula and reconquer most of it. Afterwards, the cities fill once again with Greeks, but the countryside if still dominated by the Cordu, who are relegated to the position of tenant farmers under Greek landlords. The Cordu rebel against the Empire in the 11th century. The result is as it often is with troublesome minorities in the Byzantine Empire: they are carted off and relocated to another part of the Empire, in this case Epirus.

A few centuries later, and the Bulgarian Empire conquered most of the Balkans, eventually taking Constantinople. Taking advantage of Byzantine weakness, the Normans in Sicily conquer the region occupied by the Cordu, now called Cordia. Roger IV, King of Sicily, took a Cordish wife in the name of the new union. Sicily-Cordia would be a polyglot center of tolerance and a melting pot of cultures for several centuries, and Palermo would become an entrepot for trade throughout the Mediterranean.

Edit: yep. Italian Kurds

 

[Guildencrantz]

This is an concept I've been toying with for my timeline, and I hope my write up won't be too spoilery.

The Democratic Federation of the Co-operative Republics of the Guianas (the Guianas for short) grew out of a massive labor dispute in Demerara City (Formerly Georgetown) that sparked an anti-colonialist revolution in both British and French Guiana. A revolution that joined together Afro-Guianese laborers, Asian-Guianese plantation workers, Natives, and French prisoners in a struggle against the colonizing powers. Allied to the North American powers, the Guianas have been slowly and carefully developing the extraction of the resource rich interior of the Federation and boosting the tourism industry on the coast. Tensions between the various ethnic and linguistic groups remain and the Federation still often struggles to maintain stability, due to a variety of structural issues (having three capitals where different languages are spoken in each city isn't a great idea, it turns out...). In spite of all its issues, the Guianas and the Guianese have a bright future to look forward to.

 

[fashbasher]

POD: No Iberian Union results in (Catholic) Portugal and (Protestant) Britain remaining close allies. After the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain helps Portugal greatly, and British-loyalty and navigation rights are secured over not just Gibraltar and Menorca but the rest of Andalusia, the Balears, and portions of Murcia and Valencia too. Eventually, the Muslims in the Maghreb decide they want some of that too and pledge to remain forever in alliance with Britain and Ireland as well as with Iberia. By 1775, the Atlantic Union is emerging as the dominant power in Europe and North Africa.