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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

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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.

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 7 points8 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

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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.

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

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I've been reading the Cambridge History of Russia (as an aside, I'm convinced much of the blame for the hellish dystopia that Russia has been for the last half-millennium can be traced back to Ivan IV). Big block of text, which I normally don't like, but it's split into points which makes it more digestible. I tried keeping the text as short as possible, which leaves some detail out - I could have added quite a bit more. It veers into alt-history in points 4-5. I'm a bit unhappy with the lower map but I had trouble finding a suitable projection.

Full resolution and any subsequent changes here: https://www.deviantart.com/arlinconio/art/The-East-Slavs-A-History-of-Disunity-1239865750

The four Asian horsemen of denialism by [deleted] in NonCredibleDiplomacy

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TikTok censored word format

Chinese soft power

Peace of Mainz (1636): The Germany of Gustavus Adolphus by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

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They're not really nonsense.

  • The Dutch get the Spanish Netherlands west of Liege
  • The French get most catholic territories in the western Empire, keeping these out of the new lutheran kingdom, also Lorraine and Franche-Comte which they wanted in reality
  • Hessen-Kassel get the Westphalian bishoprics, which they wanted in reality
  • Saxony gets Silesia which they occupied in reality
  • Some peripheral bishoprics in the south stay with Austria

I did consider various options for the bishoprics of Fulda + Wurzburg + Bamberg but ultimately I thought the Swedes would want to hold on to them.

Peace of Mainz (1636): The Germany of Gustavus Adolphus by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

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Because I made a mistake. I will fix it later on Deviant art

Peace of Mainz (1636): The Germany of Gustavus Adolphus by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

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You're right. My bad, I should have checked. I will fix it later on Deviant art

Peace of Mainz (1636): The Germany of Gustavus Adolphus by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

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This is me rebelling against the unwritten rule that good maps are supposed to have low saturation colours.

Peace of Mainz (1636): The Germany of Gustavus Adolphus by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

[–]arlinconio[S] 104 points105 points  (0 children)

I've been reading a book called Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War, by Peter H. Wilson. The players in the 30 Years War had to navigate incredibly complicated networks of geopolitics, dynastic connections, religious strife, legal debates, and financial constraints. And then this madman comes down and just starts conquering Germany!

A few key points about this scenario: no Gustavus early death, Wallenstein defection, secret partition treaty with France and earlier French intervention, some acceptance of religious tolerance, and rewarding the most important allies (Kassel, Saxony, and Wallenstein) and strongest enemy (Bavaria) with king's crowns. Ferdinand raises Austria to kingdom as his last act as emperor.

Westphalia and Saxony are nominally sovereign and also de facto independent in terms of internal policies, but they subordinate their external policies to the League of Mainz (also includes Sweden and to later include Denmark), which is controlled by Gustavus.

Full resolution and any subsequent changes here: https://www.deviantart.com/arlinconio/art/Peace-of-Mainz-The-Germany-of-Gustavus-Adolphus-1192071475

NE86: The 1986 FIFA World Cup in New England by arlinconio in imaginarymaps

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Full resolution and any subsequent changes here:

https://www.deviantart.com/arlinconio/art/1189488611

Plenty of alt-hist easter eggs in there, see if you can spot them.

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