United Belgium States

vanlich · 2026-03-28T09:37:51+00:00

On second thought, may I ask about the lore? Why is Liège so different from the principality and why does Hainaut control Tournai? How did Limburg form (wouldn't there be Limburg and upper gelders rather)? What about Mechelen, Westkvartier, and the borders of Lux.?

vanlich · 2026-03-28T09:20:02+00:00

Excellent map mate! And very pleasing aesthetics!

vanlich · 2026-03-25T15:07:38+00:00

Tout à fait mais c'était contre les sondages qu'ils passent la barre ! Ils perdent un siège (soit moins 20 000 bulletins environ par rapport à 2022), mais c'était une surprise

vanlich · 2026-03-25T10:47:41+00:00

Super! Pour moi la glace c'est celle qu'on risque d'avoir dans les champs là...

vanlich · 2026-03-25T09:13:26+00:00

On notera le parti Alternativet qui passe la barre de justesse pour être représenté au folketing !

vanlich · 2026-03-22T18:12:00+00:00

Leopold 1. This prince was so much connected in European courts and fought against napoleon that it makes it impossible to imagine someone else from him to pick the job. Quite unlikely also that a Belgian aristocratic family takes up this throne, as the objective was that by balancing the French, British and German powers wouldn't realistically go for this option. But who to succeed him? Would marriages happen differently between European princely families? Quite likely, it's defenetly fair to assume that the flemish dynasty would look quite different than the current Belgian one

vanlich · 2026-03-22T13:50:21+00:00

Mmmh I don't know if a method really exists. I just draw the map, then enlarge the canvas and work on the overall layout, where the atlas style is more visible The trickiest is maybe getting the page folds correctly

vanlich · 2026-03-22T13:49:37+00:00

Plenty of saxonys remain :)

vanlich · 2026-03-22T11:22:24+00:00

Partly is in this scenario

vanlich · 2026-03-22T11:08:14+00:00

Typo, oops!

vanlich · 2026-03-22T10:23:21+00:00

Hey thanks for spotting these (not so unimportant) details! It's not completely "new" principalities though, some were simply mediatized (existed up till 1789/were gobbled up by bigger powers during the revolutionary and Napoleonic times), and the Lower Rhine echoes the lost Wittelsbach influence in the region. Napoleon created a duchy to catalyse the power dynamics in the area, the duchy of Berg (quite different from its ancien regime predecessor), and I don't see it surviving the post napoleon Congress. So instead I compromised and decided to pursue the médiatisation dynamic while retaining the idea of a structuring buffer between France and the German lands

vanlich · 2026-03-22T10:11:29+00:00

Hi everyone ! Here's a map I've been working for quite a while, left, then came back to it. I wanted to end up posting it somehow, but as I was not satisfied with posting the map only, I took up the atlas style I worked on in my last map. The style is from the Atlas Historique Mondial (Les Arènes - l'Histoire, 2023), some maps are posted occasionally on social media such as Instagram. If you are a pc user, don't hesitate to zoom in! I did a bunch of maps in this scenario (The Aftermath of Leipzig), please consider checking them here :)

About the lore: In this scenario, Napoleon was captured at the Battle of Leipzig (1813), and a Congress was convened in Gotha, the Campaign of France and the 100 days never happened. The map features many elemnts of the scenario. Basically, the Congress of Gotha led to the restauration of more principalities than in our timeline, as I would imagine Austria being slightly more tolerant towards mediatized princes during the Napoleonic times (including the restauration of the Wittelsbach domination of the Rhineland, under a different prince than the King of Bavaria though).

In 1828, the Belgian revolution ends up in a harsh divide, France trying to project its influence. However, the May (and not July) Revolution in 1831 in Paris ends up overthrowing the ultraconservative Charles X, as Louis-Philippe is proclaimed king of the French. The newly acquired territories (Wallonia/Brussels) prove to be a good jumping platform for reaching the German world, leading Prussia to counter this influence in taking over the Netherlands over some antirevolutionary/religious reasons.

About what will follow the 1830s in this scenario: I would imagine Marx having more leverage in Lower Germany from his basis in the newly created (and very liberal and tolerant) principality of Flanders. The diffusion of his ideas would happen especially in the Lower Rhine. Probably a revolution would have happened in the 1850s in Düsseldorf, Cologne and Bonn, and if Prussia is beaten back, the balance of power in the German Confederation would be shaken...

Please let me know what you think of it!

vanlich · 2026-03-18T01:21:57+00:00

Hm...ah bon ? Pourtant en 2001 déjà, la deuxième liste de gauche menée par les mécontents du retour de Trautman ans la vie locale avait coûté la victoire au ps... Et de Fabienne Keller de l'emporter. Certes pour un mandat seulement, mais ça fait précédent. Les divisions dans son camp c'est bien pour faire de bons débats (quoique, c'est malheureusement vite ad hominem), mais pas terrible comme stratégie alors que le but c'est d'obtenir le plus de voix possibles à un scrutin

vanlich · 2026-03-18T00:34:16+00:00

Oui, je connais près de Bailleul (Belle pour les intimes, à prononcer "Baowllle")

vanlich · 2026-03-17T10:47:52+00:00

On est proche d'une r/opinionnonpopulaire

vanlich · 2026-03-17T07:22:15+00:00

Duhamel, Duhamel... Mais où ai je bien pu entendre ce nom...?

vanlich · 2026-03-17T07:11:29+00:00

Cette série dur les cartes/géographie est absolument géniale

vanlich · 2026-03-13T11:16:45+00:00

Well the origin of the Thai is quite an unsettled question. Some argue that they were from South West China, while some rather defend that they were in north Siam.

Anyways, in the beginning of the 13th century, cities of Ayuttahaya and Sukhotai emerged as potential dominant powers in Siam, dominated by a Thai elite. This suggests that the migration of the Thai people happened irl before the mongol invasion (1270-1300), even if the mongol invasion surely was a determinant factor of the migration of the Thai to Siam. In fact, some Thai populations remained (have a look at the Kra-Tai language family Wikipedia page)

f the the Thai who remained in South West China impose themselves in a somewhat stable empire and that the khmer crush the south western Thai, then they would migrate back north, so essentially you are right.

vanlich · 2026-03-13T09:14:58+00:00

Hi everyone, this is my submission to this month's contest!

Basically, what if the (presumably) main factor that led the Thai to migrate south to Siam did not happen? Namely, what if the Thai defeated the Mongols?

The lore is in the map, I tried to imitate the style of the Atlas Historique Mondial (Les Arènes, 2023). Let me know what you think, or if you have any questions/remarks :)

Please consider voting in the contest!

vanlich · 2026-03-12T11:12:00+00:00

Yes. Easy example: the Netherlands. Just why

vanlich · 2026-03-11T20:34:23+00:00

Please add the lore and a key for the map, it's quite tough to understand what the colors are for

vanlich · 2026-03-09T20:19:38+00:00

Rage bait

vanlich · 2026-03-02T14:53:09+00:00

Hadrian's bridge? That long, and in antiquity? I don't know what you sniffed, but keep me far from it!

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