You also have Swiss German dropping the eszett since the 1930s, and the reform of Russian following the October Revolution.
Map Thread XII
- Thread starter Baconheimer
- Start date
- Status
You also have Swiss German dropping the eszett since the 1930s, and the reform of Russian following the October Revolution.
Consider also the elimination of the Long S or the reforms of Ataturk. These things are quite common, really.
Dorozhand
Banned
Uzun Hasan wins the Battle of Otlukbeli against the Ottomans, and manages to capture Ottoman territory in Anatolia. Peace is made with Ottomans afterwards. Another campaign in Georgia is successful and expands Aq Qoyunlu rule in the Caucasus. His son, Sultan Khalil, manages to defeat his brother, who rebelled against him, and solidify his rule over Iran. He then campaigns against Timurid states in the east, winning control over much of modern Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.
Sultan Mirza II adopted Sufi Islam as the state religion, which helped to spread that sect across Central Asia, and under his rule the empire encouraged the arts and architecture, most notably the Great Onyx Mosque, built in the capital city of Qom in 1567.
The Empire collapsed from internal rebellion and external invasion in 1604, but left behind a rich and unique legacy to Persian culture.
Sultan Mirza II adopted Sufi Islam as the state religion, which helped to spread that sect across Central Asia, and under his rule the empire encouraged the arts and architecture, most notably the Great Onyx Mosque, built in the capital city of Qom in 1567.
The Empire collapsed from internal rebellion and external invasion in 1604, but left behind a rich and unique legacy to Persian culture.
Sufism is'nt actually a separate school of Islam, it's a mystical tradition that's followed by Sunni, Shi'a and Ibadi; you could have a situation where some ruler solidifies a form of Sufism, but IMO that'd have to be in India or the East Indies as the Middle-East itself was set with the traditional identities of Sunni and Shi'a by that point, so they'd identify with those first, even if they are also Sufis.
Where does the Empire of Novaya Zemlya fit into this?
lol, I had to Google it to figure out what you were talking about.
The Novaya Zemlyaians are neutral..... For the moment.
That's not an empire. Maybe a slight wank, but no empire.
To answer the question, maybe.
The second most populous nation on earth and the risingest naval power in Asia versus a Britain that's still weighed down by African colonies and only has the dominions to aid them? You're absolutely right.
Crossposted from the OTL election maps thread.
Since Thande's been making his excellent series of English local election maps, I thought I'd do similar maps for Sweden - the local assemblies are all up for election this September along with Parliament and the twenty regional assemblies (all counties except Gotland, for reasons I'll get to when I inevitably cover that). Of course, the wards change between each election, so there isn't really much point in making these maps three and a half years into their respective terms, but still.
We'll start out with the city that, to most of its inhabitants as well as the media, may as well be the centre of the universe: Stockholm. The capital of Sweden, as well as its most populous municipality, is located on three separated bits of the mainland (Västerort, Söderort and Innerstaden, though the last term includes most of the islands as well) and the many islands in between them. The north and east (the bits facing the sea) tend to be richer and more conservative while the west and south (the landlocked bits and to some extent the ones facing Mälaren) are poorer and more leftist. There's also a clear divide in the suburbs between smaller, more densely populated wards, which tend to be poorer (particularly the council estates built during the "Million Programme" of 1965-75, which are rather shoddy these days and have become very poor and multicultural) and vote Social Democrat in overwhelming numbers, and the more sparsely populated rowhouse and villa suburbs which tend to be more affluent and vote for the right-wing parties in equally overwhelming numbers.
Party-wise, the last twenty years has seen completely different changes in Stockholm than much of the rest of the country. The city is one of the Green Party's biggest strongholds, to such an extent, in fact, that one might almost speak of a three-party system. Vote splitting between the Greens and Social Democrats across much of the city means that the Moderates win the vast majority of wards, though since this is an open-list proportional system this carries very little significance of itself.
Stockholm's administration is one of two municipalities in the country that don't follow the standard model for municipal governments set up in 1971 - this is because the city had already set up a hired civil service before the reform went into effect. Instead of the bewildering variety of councils and committees found in most local governments, there is a municipal commission (borgarrådsberedningen), consisting of eight commissioners (borgarråd) who are appointed by the controlling coalition in the municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) and placed in charge of an executive department (rotel) of the municipal civil service, as well as four commissioners without portfolio (borgarråd utan föredragningsskyldighet) who are appointed by the official opposition to represent their interests. The most important of these commissioners is the finance commissioner (finansborgarråd), who also chairs the municipal executive committee (kommunstyrelsen), and consequently serves as kind of an unofficial mayor of the city. And yes, this is actually less complex than the standard local government structure.
The map's mostly in both Swedish and English - it may be worth noting that valkrets loosely translated means "constituency", and they, not the wards, are the subdivisions actually used for electing assembly members. There are six constituencies and 509 wards, and a grand total of 101 members are elected to the assembly.
Dorozhand
Banned
For humans, yes, but the world is covered in a rich biosphere based on Fluorocarbons and using HF as a solvent. Plants photosynthesize by converting Hydrogen Fluoride and Carbon Dioxide into Formaldehyde, free fluorine and oxygen.
4 HF + 2 CO2 + energy → 2 CH2O + 2 F2 + O2
Alex Richards
Donor
Well that's certainly a feasible chemical process (and especially since an oxygen depleted atmosphere is going to play merry hell with the free energy calculations so the entropic balance will be different from earth).
Hmm. So assuming an atmosphere like ours but with oxygen replaced with Fluorine, we'd be looking at, predominately blue and purple plants I think?
- Status