Yeah but no one calls it “American Columbia” like how people say “US Virgin Islands” and “British Virgin Islands”. I don’t think they even did back then
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The British back then refered to the South Part of the Oregon Country as American Columbia, since to them "Oregon" didn't exist, it had always been called Columbia by British settlers and administration. "Oregon Country", which the American settlers and administration used came from the French fur traders that sometimes crossed the Rockies, calling the place between basically the Klamath and the Queen Charlotte Islands "Pays de l'Ouragon", which itself came from the Spanish Orájon or Oréjon
I thought Oregon came from a native (Ojibwe?) word "Waurecan," which meant "Great River." It was originally tied to the Ohio, and then was tied by French trappers to the mythical "River of the West," a series of rivers lakes and portages that would lead from the Northwest Territories to the Pacific.
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Congratulations, they have made MN even bluer than before, making the remaining GOP supporters even less represented.
Tried to plug it into the "Redraw The States" map, including the Greater Idaho proposal from a few months back
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Greater South Dakota has been proposed
*Glass shattering noise*
Some proposed divisions for the Post-War World: we have FDR's plan to break Germany up, the Basque Plan to divide Iberia and a proposal to split Japan into American, Soviet, British and Chinese occupation zones.
I think you misunderstood my use of Northwest Territories. The name wasn't originally tied to the Pacific Northwest, it was tied to the Great Lakes. It's earliest appearance seems was referring to a river in the Northwest Territories, or the Old Northwest of course before it was called that), which trapper tales claimed lead all the way to the West Coast.
Nope, earliest appearance is the Spanish Oréjon, in 1598, in a book bout Spanish Californias and Spanish claims north of it. Oréjon comes from an unknown Native name for the Columbia river. Most theories on what that word was and in which language it existed are at best severely lacking any proof.
the japan map always made me wonder, was there ever a source given? ive always been interested in it yet i have a hard time finding anything concrete outside of maps saying it was a plan
It does my heart good to see him continuing his work. As a former native of a place with a Sea World, it also does my heart good seeing Shamu once again. Also fun that the Bonin Islands aren’t claimed by Japan. Makes sense as they never really claimed them until after the zopening of Japan andwhen they went to the American settlement there and said it was Japanese. Also seems Bonin comes from the word for uninhabited. Who knew? Makes more sense than it being a land of Lilliputian foliage, I suppose.
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The proposed Partition of Switzerland by Napoleonic France:
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