MotF 119: Blink and You'll Miss It 2

Driven by horror and chaos the Pannion Domin has carved a terrifying abomination of an empire out of the Free Cities of Genabackis. When negotiations failed between Dujek Onearm and Caladan Brood to present a broad united coalition against the Domin the Pannion Seer was only able to further expand. Capustan fell in 1160, Saltoan fell in 1164 and only as the Pannion armies marched towards Darujistan was the Domin finally confronted. Lady Envy, the First Sword of the Tlan Imass, the Beast God and three Segeluh attacked Coral in conjunction with Anomander Rake and Moon's Spawn from the air. The Pannion Seer was killed and with his death the Empire collapsed.



My first attempt at MOTF and an attempt at Inkscape mapping after some time.

The American Civil War at the height of the Unaligned Compact Movement and the Black Belt Rebellions.

The inset on a German map of Africa in 1900, depicting the Cape states - in this case, the Dutch Cape Colony, the German colonies, the Portuguese, the British, and, of course, The Federal Huguenot Republic. This combination of three Huguenot Republics, Orange, Griqualand, and The Huguenot Republic. While the names are certainly bland, this shortlived federation of the Huguenot states was capable of defeating the Dutch for 10 years. However, the promise of gold in the Huguenot Republic was too great, and by 1910, the last Republics capitulated. In 1915, the Dutch would allow the Republiek Zuid-Afrika to become a member of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Commonwealth equivalent in this TL.

( I hope an animated map is okay )

The 2nd American Civil war began after the American Socialist Unity Party lost the 1932 presidential elections in a corrupt bargain. Despite winning a majority of the popular votes it failed to gain a majority in the Electoral College. Nevertheless it still had a plurality of votes and it would be reasonable to expect them involved in government.

That turned out not to be the case.

A series of backroom deals resulted in a unified "American Patriotic Union" forming out of every single other opposition party, and (still with a minority of the popular votes) gaining the majority in the electoral college and winning the presidency.

The use of administrative powers and the bypassing (the majority Socialist) congress resulted in the ASUP calling for a revolution (and many answering the call) On February 17th 1937.

The ASUP would radicalize throughout the war and would purge itself of every non-orthodox Syndicalist from its ranks. As it became more and more extreme it lost more and more support, but the various fractures within the "White" movement including the Pacifican States of America, the American Commonwealth, the Holy Convocation of Deseret, New England, and the Republic of Texas with several coups added for good measure would ensure that, by the time the White movement reunited after the disastrous battles of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, the Reds would win the American Civil War.

This map is a map of a French Texas. The Republic of Saint Louis was a trilingual state. It was in the region between the recently acquired Louisiana Purchase and Mexico. After the first French settlers arrived in the late-1500's, Fort Saint Louis grew into a major colony. The French kings knew the Spanish wanted to expand into the region. This caused them to focus their settlers there. It received a charter to become a separate colony soon afterwards. This caused some stark differences with Louisiana to occur. When the US purchased Louisiana from France in 1803, they didn't offer to buy Saint Louis. Instead, they set it up as a buffer state between them and what would become Mexico. It lasted with success, until the Mexicans attempted to invade it 1828. This caused Saint Louis to join with the US, and began its journey into full statehood.

My first MotF submission in years. It's kinda... minimalist.

The fire that destroyed Chur in 1465 does not happen, the city isn't rebuilt and resettled by German-speaking artisans, and Romansh remains the most widely spoken language in the Diocese of Chur. The printing press is introduced in the capital of the Three Leagues, the first works of literature in Romansh are written and enjoy wide circulation; the dialect of Chur becomes the basis for a standardized Romansh language. The advance of German is halted, and Romansh even gains ground in the south of the Three Leagues, owing to the similarity to Romansh of the local dialects of the Lombard language.

The Three Leagues do not become as closely tied to Switzerland as in OTL, but the butterflies generated by the above-mentioned POD, born in such a tiny corner of the Alps, are otherwise minimal. A few centuries later, Napoleon Bonaparte decides to create a Rhaetic Republic from the ashes of the Three Leagues, annexing to it some territories it had lost in the meantime, and the Lombard-speaking territories that, in our timeline, would eventually form the Canton Ticino.

The Swiss Confederation is reestablished in 1803 as in OTL, following an alternate Act of Mediation according to which the Rhaetic Republic is partitioned between the Swiss Confederation itself and the Italian Republic; a revolt in the Vinschgau leads to the creation of a microstate halfway between a Christian theocracy and a proto-Socialist regime that would remain de facto independent from Switzerland until 1814.

The Romansh half of the former Rhaetic Republic would become a sovereign state once again in 1848, following a civil war reminiscent of OTL's Sonderbund War, as the Rhaetic Confederation. The southern half of the former state belongs to the Italian region of Lombardy but, given the recent electoral successes of the Southern Rhaetia Front, many think it could rejoin the alpine state in just a few years...

United Forever in Friendship and Labour

In August 1990, the Soviet Union collapsed into civil war after a semi-successful coup d'etat against General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev succeeded. Gorbachev managed to flee from Crimea and take up arms in Stavropol with his supporters, while the Red Army and KGB managed, some how, to take command of the central state. In the intervening two years, the United States and the West have bankrolled Gorbachev's regime in the Russian Civil War -- but even then, the Ukrainian SSR was experiencing it's own civil war. Pro-Gorbachevist liberals seized most of Southern Ukraine as an independent Russian state, and are waging a war to the death with a group of Neo-Nazis who rule Western Ukraine with an iron fist of hatred and racism.

By October 1992, the Red Army/KGB Soviet Union has occupied only a few areas in the former Soviet Union, while the rest of the country has either fallen to native revolts, the State Union, or whatever powers that be. Kyiv is under constant artillery fire by the Greater Free Territory, which aims to retake Kyiv, and reconquer Ukraine for their faction. In 1993, they would declare the People's Republic of Malorossiya, bringing to an end the rule of ethnic Ukrainians, and the rise of an independent, Russian-lead state.

As a side note, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia put aside their differences and created a new Balkan Federation while the Soviet Union burned...

The Northern Crusades crumble



Treaty of Trianon ended the question about After War Hungary and German states that declared independence after First World War.

1. Part of Germany ceded to Luxembourg
-Ceded after Versailles in 1919.

2. Part of Germany ceded to Belgium
-Ceded after Versailles in 1919.

3. Part of Germany ceded to Netherlands
-Ceded after Versailles in 1919.

4. Part of Germany ceded to France
-Ceded after Versailles in 1919.

5. Part of Germany ceded to Denmark
-Ceded after Versailles in 1919.

6. Republic of Holstein (1918-1933)
-Capital is Hamburg.
-Declared independence after capitulation of Germany.
-After votings in 1933, when Hitler became the leader of Germany, Holstein decided to join Nazi Germany.

7. Republic of Western Pomerania (1919-1920)
-Capital is Stettin.
-Declared independence from Eastern Pomerania.
-After 4 months annexed by Eastern Pomerania.

8. Duchy of Lusatia (1920-1938)
-Capital is Chotěbuz.
-Became independent after treaty of Trianon.
-Big influence of Czechoslovakia
-After Munich Agreement Duchy of Lusatia is annexed by Nazi Germany with Sudetenland.

9. Free city of Poznań (1919-1919)
-Capital is Poznań.
-Declared independence from Eastern Pomerania.
-After 3 weeks annexed by Eastern Pomerania.

10. Republic of Silesia (1920-1939)
-Capital is Katowice.
-Became independent after treaty of Trianon.
-Good relations with Poland
-After German invasion of Poland Silesia decided to help Poland but was occupied in a few days.

11. Eastern Pomerania (1918-1945)
-Capital is Keszalin. After annexation of Western Pomerania Stettin.
-Declared independence after capitulation of Germany.
-In 1919 and 1920 lost many land to Western Pomerania and Poznań but after 4 months of war they conquered them back.
-During the WW2 they've joined Axis and conquered Prussia in 1939.
-In 1945 Soviet Union took Prussia, Germany Western Pomerania and Poland Eastern Pomerania.

12. Free city of Gdańsk (1918-1920)
-Capital is Gdańsk.
-Declared independence after capitulation of Germany.
-After treaty of Trianon ceded to Eastern Pomerania.

13. Republic of Prussia (1920-1939)
-Capital is Königsberg.
-Became independent after treaty of Trianon.
-After German invasion of Poland Prussia decided to help Poland but was occupied by Pomerania.

This will be my first map entered into a map contest, let's see how it goes...

The High Kingdom of Belakreg

Unlike OTL, Britain wasn't invaded by Angles and Saxons or any other Germanic groups, but due to a very, very different migration period along with some drastically different developments during the final decades of the Western Roman Empire, a number of Slavic tribes came to populate the British Isles, and much like the Anglo-Saxons of OTL, their language and culture came to dominate the land. Their language is close to, but distinct from, what we now know as the Western Slavic languages. They came to the known as the Belakreg, after their own name for the island of Britain.

The Belakreg were always divided amongst themselves into generally four different kingdoms, and were constantly in conflict with the Welsh and Cornish to their west, and the Picts to their north. Such conflict was amplified due to the religious differences, the Belakreg being mostly Arian Christian, compared to the Catholic Celts. The Belakreg were never united until the period which historians generally called the Plaverodite Hegemony.

The period of the Plaverodite Hegemony came under the reign of Ogniyen the Old, who succeeded in uniting all four kingdoms after a tumultuous period of civil war and internecine conflict within the other three kingdoms. In that period, the Welsh March (Nemetski Krai) and the Pictish March (Piktski Krai) were exceedingly violent and prone to raids.

Ogniyen's campaign to conquer and unite all the four kingdoms took most of his life, but the effects of that were felt long after him. The marches were pacified and inter-religious conflict was also quelled. In his last decade of rule, Ogniyen declared that all the kingdoms be united under the new title of High Kingdom of Belakreg, and declared himself High King.

This new political arrangement lasted for little over a decade, for after Ogniyen's death, his successors scrambled over control of the four kingdoms, and the High Kingdom broke apart, but Ogniyen's legacy persisted, as his successors devoted their reigns to recreating the High Kingdom, and uniting all the Belakreg yet again under one banner.

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PLATONIC SOUTHERN REPUBLIC

So my very first MOTF entry!


(the same text as in the map)


By the end of the XVIIth century, the ideals of the Platonic Revival were not yet widespread to all the common citizens of Europe and the Brazilian Colonies although they were already dominating some intellectual circles. Preaching common property, pacifist lifestyle and proto-ecologism, Neo-Platonism was seen as a stark contrast to the rising, capitalistic Commercial Companies (principally the Spanish "Oriental Asian Corporation" and the "United Provinces Company"). In 1701, Juan de Cadiz (1664-1711), a prominent Spanish neo-Platonist was granted a concession on the southwestern part of the poorly explored island of Greater Java by the King of Spain, Federico III, where he intended to develop a "true republic", according to Neo-Platonism. After arriving in their so-called "promised land", Juan de Cádiz and his accompanies founded the towns of Nuova Egina and Nuovo Atenas, the later being the capital of the newly created state of the PLATONIC SOUTHERN REPUBLIC (theoretically under Spanish suzerainty). The promise of liberty and pacifist lifestyle attracted many immigrants over the following five years. However, as time passed, Juan de Cádiz, who had self-appointed himself "First Philosopher", developed maniatic tendencies, which modern psyquiatrists identify as "megalomania", as well as interest in the Bible, which he said that had the words of the "Supreme Goodness", which he identified with God. The 21th of September of 1709, he revealed himself as the reincarnation of both Plato and Christ, proclaiming the beginning of the "End of Times" (something strange giving that Neo-Platonism did not have interest in eschatology). Although some of his followers abandoned him, most of them agreed in accompanying the "messiah" in search of the place where the Rapture would take place. The so called "North Spring Expedition" (1709) travelled far inland until the 6th of January, when the "Divine Rapture" was to happen. After seeing that nothing occurred, many Juan de Cádiz's followers mutinied, demanding the return to Nouvo Atenas. However, he ordered the execution of the dissidents, blaming them. With a much reduced host, he then returned to the Republic's capital, from where he started a reign of horror, persecuting and executing any dissidents. However, some of them managed to escape, telling of the events to OAC and Spanish officers. The short-lived PLATONIC SOUTHERN REPUBLIC would find its end with the Spanish Royal Expedition of 1711 and the subsequent Juan de Cádiz suicide. After that, the lands were incorporated as a common colony by the Kingdom of the Spains. However, this wouldn't be the last conflict the Spain Government would have to deal with in those lands.

WHOLE IMAGE: http://orig04.deviantart.net/c6dd/f/2015/179/8/6/motf_119_by_ndeignacio-d8z2giz.png

Feedback wellcomed!

EDITED: Changed Juan de Cádiz's death date

This map shows the aftermath of the Gulf War from this previous MoTF submission. (https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=9860446&postcount=14)

Basically, after the Gulf War, with World Concordiat Troops withdraw, and leave Sebastian Hughes in charge of Mississippi. The blacks and Appalachians finally see their chance to leave Mississippi, so they rise up in early April 1991. Both rebel groups are doing very well, and appear to be winning as the summer starts. Mississippian offensives manage to push them back, and both groups are destroyed by the end of the year. Though their nations are gone, their causes are not.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=9860446&postcount=14


EDIT: The Flag of the Appalachian Separatists was created by Iserlohn.

This is my first MoTF entry.


Since the UK in this timeline has more troops, resources, etc. than the OTL United Kingdom, they were able to hold onto Iceland until the end of the war. On 9 April 1940, Denmark was invaded by Nazi Germany. The Faroe Islands were occupied by the UK on 12 April 1940, while Iceland was invaded 28 days later. Greenland, however, remained neutral and was defended by American forces for the rest of the war. While the British defended it for most of the war, American troops were deployed to Iceland & the Faroe Islands in small numbers following the transfer of some of the territory's defence to the US on 7 June 1941. Three years later, the British territory of Iceland & the Faroes held an independence referendum to decide whether the union with Denmark should be abolished or should continue, and independence was declared on 26 June. British troops remained in the islands for a couple of years to support the growing Icelandic Coast Guard.
The republic is still heavily influenced by the war years & British occupation, & many reminders still remain.

This map from a 1956 English-language history textbook published in the islands simultaneously depicts the land held by the British region as well as the modern-day republic.



By the way, are we allowed to submit more than one entry?

Union of Lithuania and Belarus

The long and bitter battle raging along the eastern front is taking longer than expected and as the tide finally turns in the Soviet favour, the Allies have already captured Prague and Vienna, Berlin is under siege from all sides with the noose drawing tighter, and they are marching on Warsaw! A herculean effort is made on the Soviet side and the troops rush forward to meet the Allies. Though heavy resistance is met in the Baltic thanks to the fierce patriotic local SS units, they have more success in the south. Both sides finally meet roughly along the old Soviet border. The Allies made good progress through Poland and up into the Baltics. Here they met advancing lines of the Soviet forces and crushed the final battalions of the Latvian SS units in Courland. The Soviets on the other hand reach the Carpathians a little while before the Allies manage to march across the Panonian basin and all of Ukraine and Bessarabia are secured. And the Czechoslovaks? They can forget about Ruthenia!

The Lithuanian monarchy is soon re-established. Unfortunately the king Mindaugas III (born as Wilhelm and son of Wilhelm [Mindaugas II.] who aquired the Lithuanian throne after the Great War) suffered a stroke while in exile in London and with no male heirs, his first-born daughter is crowned Queen Karolina I. Urach-Württemberg. Tough peace debates ensue and another conflict begins to brew. The Polish government automatically assumes that their former lands in the east will be returned to them. However the aforementioned former lands are not so keen to do so. After experiencing a kind of freedom at the German hands, they feel they are now between a rock an a hard place, aka Poland and the USSR. A middle solution is soon found. Lithuania, much to the Poles incredible fury, humbly steps forward and is willing to take in the Belarussian rump-state. Soon all is arranged and Belarus is united with Lithuania, with the Poles spitting bloody murder across the border.

But all is not well in paradise. Soon pan-Belarussian resistance movements and politicians begin springing up, calling for a union with their brethren in the USSR. The pressure mounts at an exponential speed. Almost as if there was someone behind it. The Allies are forced to step in and a plebiscite is held. After a VERY close result, it is decided to secede the territory to the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. After just eight years, the Union is dissolved. A mass exodus of Belorussians follows to Poland and, now separate, Lithuania. As a new homeland for this great Belarussian diaspora is being searched for, many free-thinkers look towards East Prussia as an alternative homeland for these expats.

LARGE VERSION: http://pre03.deviantart.net/0209/th/pre/i/2015/179/7/2/belarus_by_soaringaven-d8z59ok.png