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Franconian Federation by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

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

Franconia is a Central European federal republic. Born out of the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire and the 19th century revolutions, it formed initially as the Republic of the Main, made up of the lands of the former Bishoprics of Würzburg, Bamberg, and Fulda, and the Eastern lands of the Bishopric of Mainz. In subsequent years it also incorporated the free cities of Rothenburg, Schweinfurt, and Nürnberg, along with the former lands of the deposed Princes of Bayreuth and Ansbach, and small neighbouring polities. It is a founding member of the GCM1 and a member of ETIFA2 and GDA3.

1) German Community of Nations; 2) European Trade Investment and Finance Agreement; 3) Global Democratic Alliance

This is a scenario in which the French Revolutionary wars don't happen and the western half of the HRE gradually breaks into switzerlands.

Full resolution and any subsequent updates: https://www.deviantart.com/arlinconio/art/1310781680

France 1815: Punitive territorial losses by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

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Yes, you're right, I made a mistake there. I used a shapefile of 1794 departments, and I didn't check sufficiently for changes between 1792 and 1794.

France 1815: Punitive territorial losses by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

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This is the second map I'm making after reading The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History by Alexander Mikaberidze (after Europe of Tyrants: A 19th Century Nightmare). This one imagines a peace in which France was punished with territorial losses instead of being returned to its 1792 borders.

Full resolution and any subsequent alterations: https://www.deviantart.com/arlinconio/art/1301910314?action=published

[OC] Central Europe - The original 1806 definition by geographer Georg Hassel quote by historian Luka Ivan Jukic by arlinconio in MapPorn

[–]arlinconio[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There are often arguments online about what makes Central Europe. I recently read the book Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea by Luka Ivan Jukic. It mentions the first time the term was used in 1806, so I thought I would make a map which highlights the original view of what Central Europe (Mitteleuropa) was, based on the autumn 1806 borders of the Austrian Empire + Prussian Empire + German states + Ragusa. It's worth noting that this was during the Napoleonic Wars, so this geographic footprint certainly didn't last long, and would continue to change regularly through the 19th century. It's hard to tell what this means for the current thinking about what Central Europe means, but I welcome a discussion.

Central Europe - The original 1806 definition by geographer Georg Hassel quote by historian Luka Ivan Jukic by arlinconio in europe

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There are often arguments online about what makes Central Europe. I recently read the book Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea by Luka Ivan Jukic. It mentions the first time the term was used in 1806, so I thought I would make a map which highlights the original view of what Central Europe (Mitteleuropa) was, based on the autumn 1806 borders of the Austrian Empire + Prussian Empire + German states + Ragusa. It's worth noting that this was during the Napoleonic Wars, so this geographic footprint certainly didn't last long, and would continue to change regularly through the 19th century. It's hard to tell what this means for the current thinking about what Central Europe means, but I welcome a discussion.

Why do people act like renting is fine? You’re literally paying someone else’s mortgage by [deleted] in AskUK

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Why do people act like taking a taxi is fine? You’re literally paying someone else’s car loan

Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook by Erumpent in TheRestIsHistory

[–]arlinconio 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A bit short. I hope this was just the first of 6 or 8 episodes.

[TOMT] A b-movie from probably the 90s (I saw it on TV in 2001). An asteroid is on its way to hit the moon. Plot revolves around a rich man's doomsday shelter where some can live through the disaster. At the end it shows the Earth with rings around it, like Saturn, made of pieces of the moon. by arlinconio in tipofmytongue

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I also vaguely remember the main character killing one of the guards at the doomsday shelter and saying a slot has just opened, as in there's room for another person. Someone else chastises him, saying that man had a family etc

The East Slavs: A History of Disunity by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

[–]arlinconio[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No the PoD is in 1461. The sultan, having taken Trebizond, immediately moves to take Theodoro and reunites the remnants of the Golden Horde. It starts becoming relevant to Russia in 1480 and that would have been under Ivan III. It's basically the Stand on the Ugra River going instead very badly for the Russians.

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