Why was Leo XIII chosen for the papacy, and what made him choose his OTL papal name?
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUDarmada.htm
Looks like you've got 180 priests!
Presumably some of them will be there in order to step ashore and begin to set up the renewed Catholic clergy in England
AFAIK it is usual for all warships to have a member of the clergy aboard, normally.
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How about "commonwealth" for "republic"?
"Alliance" or "league" for "federation"?
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As far as English-speaking countries go, a distinct possibility. But I wanted something more international-sounding, with Greek or Latin or whatever roots.
I had "pact" and "pactal" ("federative") until now as a placeholder, but I feel that they just sound corny.
Latin--not sure of conjugation but "civitatus". perhaps?
Still think something along the lines of "league" from the Latin,"ligare" would serve.
i like ursula le guins "Ekumen" which sounds greek to me even if it is fiction..
What causes the people of a nation whose government undergoes a change in religion to convert, or not? As far as I can tell, there are three main possibilities when a government of a different faith is installed:
1. Nearly everyone is converted after a few generations. Examples: North Africa to Islam, Scandinavia to Lutheranism, Andalusia to Catholicism.
2. Most people adopt the state religion, but there are significant holdouts for centuries. Examples: the Levant and Mesopotamia to Islam, England to Anglicanism, Bohemia (back) to Catholicism, parts of northern India (say, East Bengal) to Islam.
3. The religion imposed by the government does not stick and very few people convert. Examples: Ireland regarding Protestantism, eastern Poland-Lithuania regarding Catholicism, most of southern India regarding Islam.
What factors lead to this variation in outcomes? What strategies by governments were most successful in imposing their faiths? What strategies by religious communities were most successful in resisting such imposition?
1. Nearly everyone is converted after a few generations. Examples: North Africa to Islam, Scandinavia to Lutheranism, Andalusia to Catholicism.
2. Most people adopt the state religion, but there are significant holdouts for centuries. Examples: the Levant and Mesopotamia to Islam, England to Anglicanism, Bohemia (back) to Catholicism, parts of northern India (say, East Bengal) to Islam.
3. The religion imposed by the government does not stick and very few people convert. Examples: Ireland regarding Protestantism, eastern Poland-Lithuania regarding Catholicism, most of southern India regarding Islam.
What factors lead to this variation in outcomes? What strategies by governments were most successful in imposing their faiths? What strategies by religious communities were most successful in resisting such imposition?
This might not be the right place, sorry. I remember seeing a proposed artificial lake in Tunisia, I tried searching here, wikipedia, and google, but couldn't find it. I was hoping someone remembers it and can show me. I remember there was a wikipedia page for it.
Krall
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Ah, I think that was part of the proposed Atlantropa project - the Mediterranean would be dammed, and water moved to the African interior, creating lots of lovely, arable land for Europeans to steal from the natives and colonise for their own ends.
Okay, so it's not quite in Tunisia, but water from it flows through Tunisia on its way to the Mediterranean. Is that what you were looking for?
As cool of an idea as that is, and I'm gonna read up on that, the one I'm thinking of is more of a 19th century idea. Someone even made a worlda patch for it.
That would be the Battle of Balaclava. Baclava (actually Baklava) is a heavenly dessert!
Ah, I think that was part of the proposed Atlantropa project - the Mediterranean would be dammed, and water moved to the African interior, creating lots of lovely, arable land for Europeans to steal from the natives and colonise for their own ends.
Okay, so it's not quite in Tunisia, but water from it flows through Tunisia on its way to the Mediterranean. Is that what you were looking for?
A total screw of the Congo Basin on so many levels. This would have been worse than the Belgians!
& that's not getting into all the other things wrong with this picture...If it's 1400s central Europe, maybe some variation on Rat-/Rada? By that point it's passed into the West Slavic languages, and is the name for most kinds of municipal council governments (at least the German ones; for the Slavs this would still be the age of powerful veches/wieces/etc.)
Something Latinate... "Syndic" is a common enough period term for a representative in a private organization; maybe Syndicium/syndicate/syndical, although that feels really Hanseatic. If you want something more classical, maybe a Synedrium (cf. Gk. synhedrion)? Goes all the way back to Alexander, and I've never seen it used before.
All of these refer more to the government than the state, but that may not matter.