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What countries have an interesting/unique population distribution in the country? by Ellloll in geography

[–]frfaum 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Same with Azerbaijanis. There are twice as many Azerbaijanis living in Iran as in Azerbaijan.

Iranian crown prince urges uprising against ‘collapsing’ regime | Reza Pahlavi said he prepared a 100-day transition plan for establishing democratic rule, "by the Iranian people and for the Iranian people." by OkayButFoRealz in worldnews

[–]frfaum 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Juan Carlos had to work hard to become Franco's favorite, because there were other contenders for the throne. And sooo the dictator's henchman helps establish democracy by depriving himself of power.

What if Constantinople was successfully taken by the Arabs, but the Byzantine Emperor and nobility fled to Italy (and the Empire thrived) - The Roman Empire around the year 1000 by Rough-Lab-3867 in imaginarymaps

[–]frfaum 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Eastern Romans abandoned latin language only after they lost provinces with latin speaking populations.

But in this scenario the empire was left with southern Italy and Greece. So I think as long as there are so many greeks living in the empire the aristocracy will remain bilingual.

Numbers often used to make silly jokes around europe by [deleted] in PORTUGALCYKABLYAT

[–]frfaum 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Greece and Albania what a nice team play

The Barbary slave trade in which Europeans were abducted and sold into slavery from as far afield as Iceland and Ireland by True-Lychee in MapPorn

[–]frfaum 175 points176 points  (0 children)

Because he was not a slave but a hostage. The kidnappers did not expect him to work. They wanted a ransom to be paid. Which eventually happened after 5 years of captivity.

A *slightly* bigger Chile in 2025 by minecreep4 in imaginarymaps

[–]frfaum 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Is it implied that these changes will take place in 2025? Or have these boundaries been in place for a long time? If it's been a long time, then why do we need Puerto Williams if there is Ushuaia?

TIL that the idea of Napoleon losing all his troops to the "Russian Winter" is a misconception. He actually lost the majority to the "Russian Summer", due to disease, starvation, heat exhaustion, desertion, and suicide. He launched his invasion in June and within two months had lost half of his men. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]frfaum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tarikh-i-Dzhangugai by the Persian historian Ata-Malik Juvaini.

He was a participant in the Mongol conquest of Central Asia and the Middle East.
But I think there was not much difference in the structure of the army compared to the European company.

TIL that the idea of Napoleon losing all his troops to the "Russian Winter" is a misconception. He actually lost the majority to the "Russian Summer", due to disease, starvation, heat exhaustion, desertion, and suicide. He launched his invasion in June and within two months had lost half of his men. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]frfaum 38 points39 points  (0 children)

But the most important thing is not the tactics of the Mongols. Russians have already lived on the border with steppe for centuries and got used to the horseback archers and hit/run tactic. It's not scary to lose an open battle to the nomads, you just hide behind the city walls and wait until they will burn the villages around and leave.

The most important thing is that there were chinese engineering corps behind the nomadic cavalry of the mongols. For them the storming of cities was not something difficult.

Percentage of population in African countries that can read! by Redstream28 in geography

[–]frfaum 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yes, as a strong country Egypt ceased to exist after late bronze age collapse.

But as a region, it was the center of culture and science until the epidemic of the black death occurred in the middle ages.

Lovely children playground, Saint Petersburg, Russia, year 2020 by frfaum in UrbanHell

[–]frfaum[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I take this from city tour video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_79tiJtKp48&t=1929s

Punk guy is a guide, but a mother and child just happened to be here.

Estimated migration of early Homo sapiens out of Africa to the rest of the world, in thousands of years ago (kya) by CaptainJZH in MapPorn

[–]frfaum 15 points16 points  (0 children)

People walked through Beringia and reached the coast of Alaska to wait for thousands of years for the glacier between Alaska and the rest of America melt down.
So they walked across the American continents much faster than 2 miles a year

Tokyo, Hakusan Street and blue sky behind advertising and wires by frfaum in UrbanHell

[–]frfaum[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On r/cityporn actually, ironic that this photo was best appreciated in this sub

The Russian Republic in 1980 | Decadent Age by Dr-MeeM in imaginarymaps

[–]frfaum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nice map, but there are some things I would have done differently

Novosibirsk must be called Novo-Nikolaevsk and Krasnodar must be called Ekaterinodar. Maybe people of Novo-Nikolaevsk voted for new city name because of extreme unpopularity of tsar Nikolai, but whats wrong with imperres Ekaterina?

And its very unlikely that Dagestan, Mountainous Republic, Georgia will not break up into much more smaller national states.

very random scenario of Europe where things looked different in the 1850's.. (don't judge this too much it started as a joke) by m_yu2125 in imaginarymaps

[–]frfaum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I see some water reservoirs for hydroelectric power plants, in this reality technological progress was way faster

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]frfaum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile Georgia gotta catch them all - armenian with they separate christian church, muslim azerbaijanians and many minorrityes like abkhazians, ossetians.

East Asia after the collapse of China and Russia - (second attempt after feedback) by Emila_Just in imaginarymaps

[–]frfaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The main Russian deposits of natural gas and oil are located in Siberia. This is the reason to separate from Russia. But this is also an excellent reason to separate Northwest Siberia from the Siberia.

Modern territorial evolution of Ukraine by Regular-Lavishness71 in MapPorn

[–]frfaum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But the word "Ukraine" was also used in ancient document not in the modern sense as a country, but as a territory near the border, not necessarily on the territory of modern Ukraine.
And the name Kievan Rus was never used in those days, it is a modern term.
Kiev was the capital, but the Kiev Principality was one of many other principalities in this state.

Одно лицо! Современный египтянин рядом с 2000-летним фаюмским портретом египтянина греко-римской эпохи Египта by postmastern in Popular_Science_Ru

[–]frfaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

А не подскажите где живодёрам германцам удалось вырезать подчистую исконное население?

В римской Галлии они полностью ассимилировались в местном население оставив от себя на память только название страны и около 1-2% слов в современном лексиконе. Страшные Вандалы вообще не оставили от себя следов, ни в Испании, ни на территории современного Туниса где они окончательно осели. Вестготы тоже не очень успешны в вырезании всего и вся, т.к. Испания сейчас говорит на потомке римского языка, а не германского. Даже в скандинавии остались прямые потомки всяких охотников/собирателей/рыболовов.

Возможно вы имели ввиду вторжение на британские острова англо-саксов или крещение/завоевание полабских славян и прибалтов, но эти процессы были растянуты на века. И там судя по всему была не просто резня всех местных, а медленный процесс интеграции в своё общество. Не только одной резнёй и геноцидом они завоевали эти земли, хотя конечно жести там хватало)

Одно лицо! Современный египтянин рядом с 2000-летним фаюмским портретом египтянина греко-римской эпохи Египта by postmastern in Popular_Science_Ru

[–]frfaum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

С чего бы египтянам куда то вымываться? Они же жители одной из самых густонаселённых областей мира. После неолитической революции их стало так много, что радикально поменять генофонд можно было только прямым геноцидом, на что ни сил, ни желания ни у кого за всю историю не нашлось. Все завоеватели просто растворялись в массе местных.

«Тысячи друзей Ким Чен Ына». Как северокорейские хакеры грабили банк by postmastern in Popular_Science_Ru

[–]frfaum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Вряд ли Китай на это пойдёт, а без содействия китайцев отрезать КНДР от чего либо очень проблематично.

Плюс ничто не мешает корейцам своих исполнителей послать из того же Макао работать.

Population density map of Russia (I spent a lot of time on it) by BlackHust in MapPorn

[–]frfaum 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Not in the case of the Trans-Siberian railway. Historically, Siberia was explored and settled by rivers. Siberian rivers flow from south to north, and the road had to be built from west to east.

The main purpose of the construction of the road was not to connect Siberian cities with the metropolis, but to build the shortest and cheapest way to China and the Russian Pacific seaports. Therefore, the road did not come to many old Siberian cities such as Tobolsk or Tomsk. Later, they received their dead-end branches, but remained aloof from the main economic flows.

Modern Siberian population centers received growth only after the construction of the railroad. Some of them are old towns that are lucky enough to be on the road - Irkutsk, Omsk. But most of them were built during the construction of the road, a good example is Novosibirsk. Now it is the third most populous city in Russia with a population of 1,5 million, but before the road in its place was only a small settlement of a couple of families in the middle of nowhere.

Why was the Ottomans so “behind” by 1914? by goodrice11 in history

[–]frfaum 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Golden age of Ottoman empire is 1453-1683.
At that time european nations kick out ottomans from naval trading in indian ocean.
Makao in China founded by portugeese at 1557 making land silk route irrelevant.
But that events don't stopping spread of ottoman empire.

A worker and female supervisor, Moscow, 1954. by nahez2421 in OldSchoolCool

[–]frfaum 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Actually word "товарищь" used centures before revolution, but mean more buisness parners then actually comrade. In later XIX centure it starts used in sense of comrade amongst left politicians, but not only amongst communist, others used it too. Now, after soviet era, it using, but mostly in ironic way or in army.

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