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Europe, Anglo-Iberia
This is the modern day map of Europe of my Anglo-Iberian timeline, after what is expected to be the final break up of the Austrian Federal Empire three years ago. Please ignore the previous 1909 map, it's no longer canon for the timeline
Questions and comments always welcome, either about the style or the actual map/timeline contents
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Republic of Tyrol!
Seriously, I'd rather live in this world.
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I love how you did the map with the outlines and everythink but "Bulgaristan"? please...
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Thanks for the beginning compliment, at least
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Supongo que la fundación de este mapa viene del hecho que, en esta historia, Rey Felipe II de España mantuvo su casancia a Reina María I de Inglaterra, cual provendió que (a) Inglaterra se quedó un reino católico, (b) las coronas de Londres y Madrid (cual ya se ha unido con la de Lisboa por una otra casancia de Rey Felipe II a la hija del rey portugués), y (c) nunca habría preciso que Rey Felipe II le mande la armada a Inglaterra.
El final punto significaría que las marinas de los dos países nunca se habrían peleado; ¡me interesaría lo ha acontecido en el nuevo mundo!
Por lo general, es un mapa que me ha de piense (aunque siempre estoy pensando). Buen hecho.
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Lo siento, no hablo español 
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Much clearer, and very nice.
At least the parts of Poland my family is from are part of the Polish state in this timeline
And Turkey has lost Europe. No Turkey in the EU this time.
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Nope, but it IS still an Ottomanian Kingdom
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On the downside, Lithuania contains very little of ethnic Lithuania
On the upside, I tend to enjoy strong Denmarks and larger Hungaries.
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It doesn't contain a bulk of OUR Lithuania, no, but the old 18th centuary Lithuania (which this one is a descendant of) was quite a monster: [link]
Hungary would've been bigger too, if it'd had its way over Transylvania
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I know that, don't worry 
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Soz, it wasn't till after I'd replied that I looked at your gallery and realised you probably knew at least a lil bit about the history of the place 
While Lithuania has never been part of the Russian Empire, it HAS been closely associated with Russia since the collapse of the union with Poland.
Nice idea, I'll do some more looking into the actual foundation of Lithuania and come up with a decent history for it...
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It's fine, don't worry
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Hmm, interesting... I'll try and have a look for myself, see if I can't scratch up something in English...
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Republic of Tyrol? Wet dream of some Tyroleans comes true!
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Lol yup
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On the down side Sweden has gone all weird.
On the Upside, we have all of Ireland, the good parts of Benelux and a nice chunk of Italy.
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"all weird"? Eloquent as always
I wouldn't so much say "we" have places, either - while the Imperial Parliament is centred in London, each region has it's own devolved regional parliament, and the current monarch calls Valencia home for most of the year, a legacy from his Great-Great-Grandfather who commisioned the construction of the great palace there...
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Well I did not want to be impolite. I mean some republics are stable with decent human rights.
I know but it is easier to say "we have" than that.
Also is Anglo-Iberia a Federation or is it the kind of not quite unitary not quite federation situation that we have in the UK.
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It's similar to us, although a little more federal leaning... each region (Kingdom, Principality, Duchy, or Dominion) has some degree of local devolved autonomy, but there is also a unity Imperial Parliament based in London, consisting of the Imperial House (headed in principle by the monarch, but usually administrated by his Lord Minister) that is elected from all across the Empire) and the Assembled House, consisting of representatives chosen from each regional government.
This governmental structure is relatively modern (developed and finalised over the last fifty years), and represents a move towards greater centralisation, via the advent of the infocon, this timeline's analogue of the internet, and the greater world-shrinking connectivity it allowed. Previously, each continental group had it's own smaller version of the Imperial House, which recieved it's mandate directly from the monarch and his/her advisor council.
Sorry it took a while to reply, had to organise it enough to make sense (hopefuly)
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It's ok and I can see what you mean.
Sounds very interesting.
I was also wondering what the main languages in Anglo-Iberia are?
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A unified langauge was developed in the very late 1800's by scholars, but it never took off... generally forms of English and Spanish (mainly Castillian and Catalan, although sub-dialects exist in the American and African dominions) are used everywhere within the Empire, but Portugeuse and Dutch are also commonly found, as well as Italian dialects (although this last is mainly restricted to Naples/Sicily and parts of Anglo-Iberian Africa which had a high influx of Italian migrants).
The Empire has a langauge insistute, similar to the Institut Français of our own timeline, but it's more responsible for charting the changes and fluxes of the various Imperial langauges rather than setting standards for an "ideal" langauge...
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Creating a new language is always going to be difficult, even without the opposition Esperanto had from Fascists and Communists.
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The inventor being Jewish didn't help his aspirations in those dark days
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I heard when China rebelled against the Qing they were going to make Esperanto the official Language, but logistics meant it failed.
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Because of the millions of illiterate people who spoke a different language.
If you mean motivation, probably because they were full of revolutionary idealism.
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