Names for more French Revolutionary-inspired Republics?

Let's say - probably bordering on ASB, perhaps not, I don't know the period well enough - that the French Revolution invades and inspires more countries than it did IOTL. OTL has lovely creatures such as the Helvetic Republic, the Cisrhenian Republic, Cisalpine, Ligurian, Parthenopean, etc etc.

But what would you call, say, Revolutionary England? Prussia? Spain? Denmark? and so on. Would any or all of them be partitioned by their native radicals?
 
Let's say - probably bordering on ASB, perhaps not, I don't know the period well enough - that the French Revolution invades and inspires more countries than it did IOTL. OTL has lovely creatures such as the Helvetic Republic, the Cisrhenian Republic, Cisalpine, Ligurian, Parthenopean, etc etc.

But what would you call, say, Revolutionary England? Prussia? Spain? Denmark? and so on. Would any or all of them be partitioned by their native radicals?

Sarmatian Republic for a new Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth.

Pannonian Republic for a Hungarian Republic.

A Transylvanian Republic for Transylvania.
 
Caledonian Republic for Scotland

Not sure if the Irish would go for it, but Hibernian Republic for Ireland

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Generally, go for Antiquity sounding names. French Revolution particularly used Greek and Roman republican (or percieved as such) entities, and used it pretty much particularly in the 1792-1799 period.
Non-political names could be used as well.

It's also possible that the OTL name would be kept.

Assuming the places you named aren't divided.

Revolutionary England?
République Brittanique, République Albine

République Baltique, République Vindilique or Vandale (From Vandali that settled the region according Tacitus)

République Espagnole, République Hispanique, République Ibérique

République Cimbre or Cimbrique, République du Chersonèse

Not sure if the Irish would go for it, but Hibernian Republic for Ireland
If OTL is a good measure, Irish Republic is a natural choice.
 
Republic of the Nile?

Republic of Bharat? (I always fantasized about the idea that India could avoid British Raj with French help.
 
For Prussia, you can always go with Borussia.

I'm not sure it would be in the contemporary tastes : Borussia is a medieval latin name, and nowhere prestigious enough compared to Tacitus or Greco-Roman names to be considered, critically with "Prussia" being considered as the incarnation of royal authoritarianism.
 
Let's say - probably bordering on ASB, perhaps not, I don't know the period well enough - that the French Revolution invades and inspires more countries than it did IOTL. OTL has lovely creatures such as the Helvetic Republic, the Cisrhenian Republic, Cisalpine, Ligurian, Parthenopean, etc etc.

But what would you call, say, Revolutionary England? Prussia? Spain? Denmark? and so on. Would any or all of them be partitioned by their native radicals?

the Muscovite Republic, ( remnant of european Russia), the Iberian Republic (Spain) , the Hellenic Republic (Greece) , The Noricum Republic (Austria), the Lusitanian Republic(Portugal), Republic Raetia Secunda (Bavaria), the Suecian Republic (Sweden)
 
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Alternatively naming the republic after a dominant geographic feature, like mountain ranges or rivers, works really well. Examples include the Cisalpine Republic & Subalpine Republic (named after the Alps), the Cispadane Republic & Transpadane (named after the river Po), the Tiberina Republic (named after the river Tiber) and the Cisrhenian Republic (named after the Rhine). So a Sister Republic in Transylvania could be called the Ciscarpathian Republic.

But yeah, Latin and Greek names are good place to start.
 
I had a couple geographical names in mind.

Germany beyond the Rhine (say out to the Elbe or the Prussian border or whatever) could be the Transrhenian Republic.

If, for whatever unlikely reason, England gets split, maybe Tamesisian and Transumbrian (for Thames and Humber) as South and North?

Slightly farther afield, Roman provincial names for North African countries seems reasonable. I'm sure the local Arabs and Berbers will be thrilled at the whole thing!
 
Germany beyond the Rhine (say out to the Elbe or the Prussian border or whatever) could be the Transrhenian Republic.
Probably, as OTL, Rheinish Republic.

If, for whatever unlikely reason, England gets split, maybe Tamesisian and Transumbrian (for Thames and Humber) as South and North?
If a geographic name is really necessary, I would rather see a West/East divide rather than North/South (Thames making a bad natural border).
Probably the East/South would keep something as Albion or Aline Republic, while the North/West part would be called Cambria or Cambric.

Slightly farther afield, Roman provincial names for North African countries seems reasonable. I'm sure the local Arabs and Berbers will be thrilled at the whole thing!
It would be really, really weird. There wasn't a true revolutionnary vision for Africa before the XIXth century.
It was considered out of scope, if you prefer.
 
If a geographic name is really necessary, I would rather see a West/East divide rather than North/South (Thames making a bad natural border).
Probably the East/South would keep something as Albion or Aline Republic, while the North/West part would be called Cambria or Cambric.

I wasn't thinking of the Thames as a border, but as the center of the country, that's why it's just Tamesisian, not Cistamesian.

(I don't know how viable, let alone wanted, an independent Northumbria would be at that point, though. Probably ASB.)
 
For Wales a Transevernine Republic could work after the Severn.

And if Germany is divided more maybe Ciselbine and Transelbine Republics?
 
For Wales a Transevernine Republic could work after the Severn.
I don't think so : Po was a clear natural border, when Severn is too much secondary regarding its geographical importance. Maybe for a departement (Severn, Superior Severn, Inferior Severn?).

And if Germany is divided more maybe Ciselbine and Transelbine Republics?
Possible, but if they want to prevent eventual unification, they would probably avoid up to common name. One Rheinish republic, and one Elbine republic.
 
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