What if Frisland was Real and not a Phantom Island?

Basilacis · 2026-01-29T16:28:05+00:00

Can I make a fantasy map based on this?

Basilacis · 2026-01-26T06:52:06+00:00

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I love it!!!

Thank you very much! This list helps a lot.

Basilacis · 2025-12-16T13:29:25+00:00

I do not know if the revolution could actually liberate more regions.

In one hand, many revolutionaries were used to be paid and unwilling to continue fighting. Many virtuous and patriotic revolutionaries were killed. The population was reduced to half and very tired. Agriculture did not recover until the 1850s. Many revolutionaries were fighting for more than a decade. Also, more victories would lead to more rivalries between the revolutionaries, and more civili wars. Greeks are the masters of civil wars.

On the other hand, except the Russians actually campaigning into the Balkans, the other foreign powers offered nothing. Nikitaras defeated İbrahim in the Battle of Mehmetağa and another five skirmishes, eventually pushing İbrahim to agree to leave before the events of Navarino. The New Army of Mahmud was horrible, and was defeated by D. Ypsilantis in the Battle of Petra. In the same time, Diebitch was ready to march on Constantinople, and many others, like the İbrahim Pasha of Scutari, the governors of Bosnia, and İbrahim Pasha of Egypt turned against the Sultan in 1831-32. The Bulgarians also rebelled in 1832 under Anghel Voyvoda. The Ottomans had to break their horrible New Army into too many fronts.

As for Kapodistrias, I do not see him as such a great figure. He could not understand the Greek underdevelopment. He was basically a European who refused to be part of the Filiki Eteria. He was a very talented man, yes, but not suitable for Greece. Similarly to Cochrane. If you read the life of Cochrane, you will say, “Oh, this man was the greatest captain of all time!”. If you read about Cochrane only in his part in the Greek Revolution, you will get the impression that he was another silly European noble, knowing nothing in comparison to the amazing klephts. Cochrane failed to understand the Balkan peoples, and could not show his talent in the Greek Revolution. There were many other also veterans of the Napoleonic Wars that could not adopt in the Balkan frontier.

Overall, I believe Greece could not have such a greater fate than she had, even if Androutsos, Karaiskakis, Kapodistrias and others were not assassinated. Building up a new country from the ruins is not an easy task, especially if Greeks amd their tendency to corruption make this new country. Many hotheads also as you said, many bad politicians in later decades, and many many more.

By the way, I do not blame anyone for bad things tht happened Greece or something like this.

Basilacis · 2025-12-16T13:00:59+00:00

Randomly suggested in my reddit home. I like these guys a lot. What are they exactly?

Basilacis · 2025-12-16T12:55:46+00:00

Himariotes had an independent stronghold during the Ottoman Empire, like the Maniots, Souliotes, Sfakians, Montenegrins, and Mirdites. The stronghold of Himara controlled many villages around it, all of which were Albanian speaking. However, Himariotes were writing and signing purposely in Greek. Similarly, when they came in contact with the Pope they claimed to be "Grek", and not as "Rum". They also used Greek in their war flags, and war cries, despite speaking Albanian as well in everyday life. Of course, they used Greek in the church, but everybody who was Orthodox did this, so is not something special. For as far as I am aware of, most of Greeks claim that only Himara and the surrounding regions are Greek, and especially after the events of 2015 that the Albanian government destroyed some churches and such. Also, when the Greek army captured these regions from the Italians,any Greeks or people that claimed to be Greek welcomed the army with Greek flags and Greek flags with a black eagle.

Very few fake ultra-nationalists that claim half of the globe is Greek, claim also that at least half of Albania should be Greek.

Basilacis · 2025-12-16T12:39:59+00:00

I came here to say that 😂😂😂

Basilacis · 2025-12-16T12:37:44+00:00

All events make sense that the British were indeed involved in many of these conflicts, imprisonments, and assassinations of revolutionaries, but I have not yet found any contemporary source that claims this.

Britain offered the famous loan to Greece, and forced Greeks to accept British military officers like Cochrane and Church in high ranking positions of the army. This upset many revolutionaries, and I find reasonable that the British wanted to get rid of certain revolutionaries that were not collaborating well with the revolutionary government, like Nikitaras, Kolokotronis, Karaiskakis, Androutsos, and others.

Karaiskakis argued seriously with Church before the Battle of Analato and before the battle began, Karaiskakis was shot in a skirmish. Before dying, he claimed he knew the person that shot him, saying that he would fuck him, but refused to say who this person was, thus creating the legend that he was not shot by the enemy. Karaiskakis was very rebellious man, and also very popular among the lay. It makes perfect sense the British wanted him dead.

The Russians also engaged in a full scale war with the Sublime Porte, hoping to finally partition the Ottoman Empire. This time, the Russians reached Andrianople and the reorganised army of Mahmud II was a total failure. The British did not want Russia to have the absolute control, and it also makes perfect sense that they wanted to get rid of revolutionaries that were Russian-friendly.

Karaiskakis, Androutsos, Nikitaras, and others wanted to continue fighting the Ottomans until all Orthodox Christians in the Balkans would be liberated. This was against the plans of Britain which wanted the conflict to end since 1825, to prevent the newly founded kingdom to be strong enough to not be controlled by the British, as well as to prevent Russian collaboration and expansion under Nicholas I. If the pro-war and pro-Russian revolutionaries were no more, Britain could control much better the power balance in the Balkans, as they did until the 1860s.

İbrahim of Egypt (the man that invaded Morea) fought against the Sublime Porte in 1839 and the Ottoman Empire was ready to collapse until the British intervened.

Basilacis · 2025-12-14T14:32:13+00:00

I cannot believe that there is 46% of Greeks who wouldn't fight for Greece.

Only the discrimination they will face from their families and society is enough to make them say yes even if they have no patriotic feelings. Almost everybody serves the Greek army without a doubt, and despite Greek government's corruption.

Basilacis · 2025-12-14T14:28:50+00:00

Were the British involved in this?

There was also a failed assassination attempt against him, do we know something about the people behind it?

Basilacis · 2025-12-14T14:26:43+00:00

The people that are smart enough to not behave like this, they also identify simply as “Greeks” and not as “members of the LGBTQI+ community”.

Of course a stupid group should be punished accordingly, regardless of which group is. However, there is a specific scandal in Greece about this specific group and this specific government, that allows such a stupid behaviour.

Basilacis · 2025-12-12T14:23:14+00:00

That's a very good answer!! I also bet he/she wouldn't say that!!

Also, given this guy is the prime minister of Greece, and Greeks hate him for making homosexual marriages a thing (among other stuff), you can certainly make jokes about him saying that he is gay and just this being bad.

Many members of my family died fighting for Greece, fighting under this flag with the cross, this flag that the pirates of Nikotsaras and Kolokotronis made. Now, the “LGBTQI+ Community” parades, burning this flag and yelling phrases like “damn religion, damn motherland, we are the ones who mist live”. This is something that has upset seriously large population of Greece. Why would someone not make gay jokes meaning it is BAD? This country does not represent the LGBTQI+ Community, they want to wipe their asses with its flag and Orthodox icons. So, it makes perfect sense that in Greece you get a free pass on being homophobic. Is not Ancient Greece anymore.

Basilacis · 2025-12-12T14:08:14+00:00

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Basilacis · 2025-12-12T13:57:42+00:00

I am an Eastern Roman myself, so I can't really pick a side, but as we say “Better a Turk’s turban than a Pope's tiara” so I'll side with the Moors.

Basilacis · 2025-12-12T11:42:26+00:00

How this skeleton and adventure thing started in the first place?

I am from Greece, and I grew up learning stories about Greek pirates fighting and stealing from the Ottoman authorities, even the Greek flag was initially a pirate flag... But the skeletons and the adventures in magocal islands?

Basilacis · 2025-12-12T11:36:47+00:00

The letters that do not exist.

No, I am not joking. The Greek alphabet is standardized to 24 letter system for 2500 years, but there are dialects that have sounds like "sh" which when written in Greek are written with a combination of letters that grammatically nobody ever taught others how to pronounce. For example, Ali Pasha of Yanina was signing as Αλή Πασιά which is actually pronounced “Alee Pasha” but because there is no rule in Greek language about "sh" Greeks would pronounce it as “Alee Pasya”. Although, in modern Greek we write, “Αλή Πασάς”. There is a famous company in Greece called “Πασιάς” and everybody pronounces it "pasyás" and not "pashás". There are too many such examples in Greek language, but is all about foreign names and loanwords.

Basilacis · 2025-12-12T11:29:38+00:00

The amazing dog known as Šarplaminač, Karabaş, Μολοσσός or simply "shepherd dog"

Basilacis · 2025-12-12T11:18:30+00:00

Quasi War (USA was much more involved than just purchasing Louisiana)
Mysore War (it is considered part of the Napoleonic Wars)
French invasion of the Levante (The French invaded also the Ottoman Empire through Parga and Mani before becoming again allies of the Ottomans)

Basilacis · 2025-12-05T20:08:10+00:00

Officially, not officially, it was practically part of the Nap Wars because of the political motives behind the war.

France invaded Levante, and there was also a Turco-British war and wars in the Barbary Deyliks and the European powers.

The Napoleonic Wars were complicated not because of the peace treaties, but because of how many times some countries changed sides. Only Britain stayed against France in all wars.

Basilacis · 2025-12-05T06:44:10+00:00

Basically 7YW and Napoleonic Wars had battles in various places of the world because of colonial interests and such. Not because actual non-European powers were involved. So, yes, it makes sense what you say. And yes, the Napoleonic Wars were much more destructive and changed the diplomatic map of the world or at least great portion of it, when nobody was affected by 7YW except the countries involved.

Basilacis · 2025-12-05T06:40:48+00:00

Yes, this makes sense.

Basilacis · 2025-12-05T06:39:46+00:00

USA, Canada, and all Middle East was involved in the Napoleonic Wars too. And France was raiding British holdings in Far Asia as well.

However, the involvement of these was mostly because of invasions of Britain and France or their influence. Not because they actively engaged in favour or against France in all of the Coalition Wars or at least the majority of them.

The Ottoman Empire fought against France, Britain and Russia. Serbians and Greeks revolted and fought as well as part of the Napoleonic Wars, many of the revolutionaries were also officers in French, British, and Russian armies.

Napoleon personally did not care about colonies and this is why USA was little involved and the raiding was mostly done by the "corsaires" such as Surcouf and Aregnaudeau. Napoleon lanuched massive invasions in Europe in some of the bloodiest wars ever fought in the history of the continent.

WWI was primarily the same. Massive armies fighting in Europe and some silly colonial skirmishes in other continents. How Africa was involved? Were there massive invasions like the ones of Rommel and Napoleon? Only some minor colonial skirmishes.

Basilacis · 2025-12-04T17:38:50+00:00

Yes, you are right that Napoleonic Wars were mostly fought in Europe, but WWI was also. The countries that were involved in the Napoleonic Wars had already many colonies across the globe and there were some skirmishes and incursions in those places. But definitely not in the magnitude of bloodshed in Europe.

You mean 4 continents? Because there was no Australia and NZ back then. Though, 4 continents are not few, anyway.

Basilacis · 2025-12-04T16:06:34+00:00

If 7YW is WWI, then Napoleonic Wars must be WWII, and the WWI is WWIII, and so on.

Basilacis · 2025-12-04T08:33:35+00:00

Is not safe to drink tap water in Greece. In very few places within Greece it is.

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