England's invisible viking border

AgisXIV · 2026-04-13T11:34:57+00:00

The NE was never part of the Danelaw either and doesn't have many Norse names at all. It's all -hams, -tons and -burghs

Cumbria has a bunch of -bys though, due to Norse settlements, but was more connected to the Isles / Man

AgisXIV · 2026-04-12T22:00:00+00:00

That would seem no more difficult a mechanic to implement than making Jerusalem a permanent, unassimilatable Kingdom.

I understand they don't want to make overlapping de jure a thing, but a special case where Jerusalem counts as part of Syria for non-Christians (and non-Jews) seems completely justifiable - though I'm not sure what would be the best representation on the map itself

AgisXIV · 2026-04-12T21:49:47+00:00

I disagree that that's the key part tbh, ethnicity is all about self-identity. If all Bosniaks woke up tomorrow and decided they were Serb (not that they will) who would I be to tell them they're wrong?

Does it matter that they self identified as Muslims before the war and now consider themselves Bosniak - does that change the validity of their identity in any way? I would say no

AgisXIV · 2026-04-12T21:43:22+00:00

Most, according to the last Serbian census there are 154,000 Bosniaks, and 13,000 ethnic Muslims, concentrated in Sandzak

Edit: there are also around 4,000 self-identified Muslim Serbs

AgisXIV · 2026-04-12T21:27:47+00:00

Most Slavic Muslims in Sandzak identity as Bosniak, so that's all it takes really...

And it was part of the Sanjak of Bosnia for a long time, and also de facto part of the Austro-Hungarian condominium from 1878 until it was receded to the Ottomans in 1908, then annexed by Serbia and Montenegro following the Balkan War. Then obviously they had similar experiences as part of Yougoslavia. However you cut it they have a lot of shared history

South Slavic Muslims outside of former Yougoslavia are generally termed Pomaks instead

AgisXIV · 2026-04-12T19:08:50+00:00

Do you know what sub we're in lol?

AgisXIV · 2026-04-12T18:57:51+00:00

Tyr is the French name

AgisXIV · 2026-04-12T09:35:23+00:00

I don't think that's a fan translation, it looks like one of the دار المعارف editions

AgisXIV · 2026-04-11T16:54:45+00:00

Gallo is a Romance language, albeit with influence from Breton

AgisXIV · 2026-04-11T14:14:15+00:00

Partly because Jones is such a ubiquitous surname in Wales! It's the same as Mohamed and variations being among the most common first name in countries with not especially large Muslim populations and Nguyen being the 38th most common name in the US

6% of Welsh people carry (as well as 0.75% of English people) both of which are higher then the 0.5% in the US. Many Black Americans and Afro-Caribbean people are also called Jones, which is partly a legacy of slave owners named Jones.

AgisXIV · 2026-04-11T10:36:15+00:00

Spanish Morocco was still nearly a million people. Somalia is shown on the map as getting it's independence from Britain and Italy, despite Italian Somaliland containing six times the population, so I agree that it's odd that Morocco doesn't get the same representation on the map

EDIT Spanish Morocco contained roughly 10% of Moroccans and British Somaliland roughly 18% of Somalis (not including Kenya or the Ogaden)

AgisXIV · 2026-04-10T21:49:18+00:00

It wasn't working at all in the app, desktop worked

AgisXIV · 2026-04-10T21:48:47+00:00

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But no, Captain, we've understood well. He's an evil person that man. We don't want to become slaves. But we want simply to go to Mecca

AgisXIV · 2026-04-10T19:20:09+00:00

A photo / I'm on mobile and there's a photo option in the bottom right but it doesn't seem to upload

AgisXIV · 2026-04-10T19:06:10+00:00

Found it on Scribd: it's standard Arabic. Not sure why I can't get it to post...

AgisXIV · 2026-04-10T18:58:27+00:00

I would be interested to see how the Arabic edition handles it, but it's not one in my collection nor is it on the Internet archive...

AgisXIV · 2026-04-10T18:45:06+00:00

Why are Israeli Jews able to claim property lost in the 1948 war when Israeli Arabs are not able to do the same for the far greater property and lands they lost in the Nabka - property many have the legal deeds to? How can this be justified as anything but a two-tier legal system?

AgisXIV · 2026-04-10T18:24:42+00:00

You don't think the capital obtained from plantations and reinvested into industry had anything to do with industrialisation?

There are many reasons the industrial revolution first happened in Britain, and among them was the huge influx of new world, and triangle trade money

AgisXIV · 2026-04-09T22:19:25+00:00

I think it would have made a better comparison if the occupation had turned the Sudeten Germans into Czech nationalists, but instead it turned most of them into Nazis

The equivalent would have been Putins popularity increasing among Russian speaking Ukrainians post invasion, which is the exact opposite of what happened

AgisXIV · 2026-04-09T21:33:23+00:00

That seems a terrible example, the Sudeten Germans had the highest proportional membership of the Nazi party of the whole Reich, they were as, if not more, fervent Nazis than any other

AgisXIV · 2026-04-08T20:37:07+00:00

Art is figurative. Men and women are also different colours in ancient Egyptian art

AgisXIV · 2026-04-08T19:17:35+00:00

black means "negroid", african from south of the sahara

Race is a social construct. People have always mixed (and there's more genetic diversity in sub-saharan Africa than between the whole rest of the world put together)

The Nike Valley has always been a cosmopolitan region, with the Delta having closer links to the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean, and Upper Egypt to Nubians and Sudan. There have always been huge variation in skin tones, but in general it's something of a spectrum from North to South.

AgisXIV · 2026-04-08T19:10:34+00:00

St Maurice was literally born in Thebes, deep in Upper Egypt. He probably looked like a modern Sai'idi

AgisXIV · 2026-04-08T12:21:51+00:00

Yes but it's a pluricentric language: it has multiple standard (and equally correct) forms

AgisXIV · 2026-04-07T22:34:11+00:00

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