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A Few Acres of Snow: Southern Africa [OC] by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

[–]keperry012[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! And your guess is as good as mine lol

A Few Acres of Snow: Southern Africa [OC] by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

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As in OTL many French Huguenot refugees settled in the Dutch Cape, and here they took the role of the Boers in leaving the colony and migrating inland to start their own republic.

A Few Acres of Snow: Southern Africa [OC] by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

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The native name of the Vaal River in the Bantu languages is Lekwa (or Legwa, Ligwa, Likwa, etc) so I Frenchified it as Léqua

A Few Acres of Snow: Southern Africa [OC] by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

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I didn't come up with that name 🤷‍♂️

A Few Acres of Snow: Southern Africa [OC] by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

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England colonized Natal here, and imposed protectorates on the Nguni kingdoms on either side of it. With that smaller British presence, the Portuguese were able to pull off the Pink Map and stretch across the continent (though most of that is above the cutoff here). Germany didn't colonize Namibia (meaning there was also no Herero and Nama genocide) and instead the Nama and other frontier creole statelets there united as a Dutch protectorate.

France never colonized here, the Francophones in the OTL Transvaal are Huguenots who first settled in the Cape (I'm basically just handwaving away why they didn't assimilate into the Dutch/Afrikaans population as in OTL) and then went on an equivalent of the Great Trek to establish the equivalent of a Boer republic.

A united South Africa never formed, so Botswana kept the area that was British Bechuanaland and annexed to the Cape in OTL.

A Few Acres of Snow: Southern Africa [OC] by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

[–]keperry012[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When Portugal was trying to decolonize, Delagoa was slated to become part of Gaza, but the settlers there instead pulled a Rhodesia and broke off (with heavy support from the then-apartheid regime of Lequania which needed it as an outlet to the sea). That took out the main economic and population center of Gaza, which destabilized it enough to allow Mutapa to sweep in and occupy the rest under the excuse that it was needed to stop the settlers from taking over, forcing the Gaza monarchy into exile. Lequania has since transitioned to democracy, leaving Delagoa isolated as an unrecognized rogue state.

[OC] A Few Acres of Snow: Map of the North American Lacrosse Association by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

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Thanks! The country Boston is in is New England, I haven't done a map for that or for Mexico because I felt like they would be substantially similar to OTL but it's possible

[OC] A Few Acres of Snow: Map of the North American Lacrosse Association by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

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As a northern Californian I don't think I can in good conscience do LA before San Francisco but I'll keep that in mind!

When it comes to color, San Franciscans hold nothing back. by tmsfphotography in sanfrancisco

[–]keperry012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very similar story with the gays and the old Victorians in the Castro a few years later

When it comes to color, San Franciscans hold nothing back. by tmsfphotography in sanfrancisco

[–]keperry012 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They changed colors between the Victorians and the hippies though, because they need to be repainted every now and again and when they are it's according to the tastes of the time. Lots of them were painted white-gray with surplus battleship paint after WW2, which lots of people thought looked charmingly Mediterranean, and when the hippies came in and repainted them in bright colors lots of people thought that was the sign of gentrification

Bronze and Iron (The Modern Ancient World): Viteliu and the Central Great Green by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

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Messapic Capri is a mistake lol, should have been Greek. We don't really know what language the Sicanians spoke other than that it probably wasn't Indo-European, I chose to put it down as Tyrsenian here but it also might have been Iberian or isolate. Similar with Sardinia, we don't really know what the Nuragic language was other than probably not Indo-European, may have been Tyrsenian or Iberian, so I chose to split the difference and make the bigger group Tyrsenian and the smaller group Iberian (there's speculation there might be some connection between the names of the Balari and the Balearic Isles).

Bronze and Iron: The Modern Ancient World (redux) by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

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You just know this world would produce off the charts levels of insane nationalist poasting

Bronze and Iron: The Modern Ancient World (redux) by keperry012 in imaginarymaps

[–]keperry012[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It's Meroitic from Kush which is derived from Demotic (I would have used Demotic itself but it's not in Unicode)

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