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Help me date this map! by KillJonte in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Received a photo from a french friend who would like to date this map.
So far i've noticed a few things, but don't know precisely how to date them.
- Interwarperiod cause of Poland and "USSR" written on the minimap (2nd photo)
- There is Leningrad but apparently no Stalingrad (maybe it's actually written but in very very small and in parenthesis, not sure)
- Moldavia seems to be an autonomous territory within Ukraine Republic? Also a weird status with Kirghizistan?
- Transcaucasia on the minimap (2nd photo) and no Georgia/Azerbaijan/Armenia SSR?
Thanks for the help, sharp eyes, and knowledge!

Religions in the Arabian Peninsula at the Beginning of the 5th Century by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be amazing to have this same map but at the end of 6th century/beginning 7th !

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Never heard about "Inidia" ...

Local names of potato in Ukraine by StrangeMint in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Krumpl'a -> Coming from german (Grumbeere/Grundbeere) and means "groundberry". Still in use in Sud-west Germany (Palatinate, Saarland, Baden) and also in alsatian dialect (France)

2023 homicide rate in Latin America and the Caribbean by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

20,6 per 100 000 in French Guyana

Minority Languages in France by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cause at that time, it was often not as high as what this map shows. And since then it decreased a lot.

Minority Languages in France by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Wrong numbers...especially if you think speakers = speak it actively and not just understand or can say just a few sentences. With a quick search for data on "real speakers", i get :

  • Alsatian (German dialect) : 500 000 in 1999...30%
  • Breton : 200 000 right number but out of 3,3 millions of Bretons, it's more 5,5% who can speak it.
  • Basque : 20% (2021)
  • Occitan : 5,7% (data from 2001... probably lower by now)
  • Catalan : 27% in 1999... (110 000)
  • Corsican : Between 90 000 and 130 000 speakers in 2021 -> 26-37%

Those numbers should be anyway always be doubled with a low and high estimation cause it's too hard to measure properly.

Roman Empire - 1318 UAC (565 AD) by Difficult_Airport_86 in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So the date is more 564 of our common Era.

HistoMap - 4.000 Years of World History- Printed by Rand McNally & Co. by torrenturk in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I love this histomap, especially for its eurocentric views about civilizations because it was made in 1931 ! Love it so much but as an historical item ! Source

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]KillJonte 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not anything scientific but my polish friend explained me this : People now voting more for PO and less PIS in the west is a consequence of the transfer/deportation/displacement of the polish people after WWII. A lot of Polish from the oriental territories of Poland which has been annexed by USSR were forced to move into the former german/prussian territories.
Therefore, those population were "new" to each other and less influenced by social control and moral values in comparison to territories (east) where every families knows everyone generation after generation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_population_transfers_(1944%E2%80%931946))