Altered maps IZ: gib clay!

[Kyriakos]

I don't think that Syria is part of the post-New. It has a lighter color. But Israel might be.

 

[Kyriakos]

Looks pretty revolting

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

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Looks pretty revolting

Is each division here supposed to be an independent state?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1745949345810186627

 

[r16]

franz von Papen , the German Chancelor who failed to convince Hindenburg that Adolf should fall on the stairs or something . Pretty sure he was jailed up for warcrimes . But then this is 1962 and some other guy most probably .

 

[Samson]

This is London Heathrow, showing the roads you can get google street view of. I think it is a very odd set of non-connected roads that do not seem to be related by and security concerns.

Spoiler And google earth has a different set :

 

[Kyriakos]

They say that AI is the future
It looks like Austria is back to its old tricks.

 

[AdrienIer]

Did Thrace just disappear entirely ?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Constantinopole will be Atlantis

 

[Kyriakos]

AI probably read it as a border mistake and removed it, allong with the Hellespont and the Golden Horn

 

[r16]

canal to seperate Istanbul . New city area to take ethnically Turkish lot from Anatolia so that it can be divided between Kurds and Arabs and there will be no more Turks left by 2071 . All promises made in actual world years ago . But yes , AI is an idiot . But like the general outline remains . Are we sure there is no manual photoshop thing ?

atlantis is Blacksea already .

edit: Arabs as the correct form of who share Anatolia with Kurds . Have great suspicions about auto correct as always .

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Things looking not so hot for Ukraine and Poland

 

[Broken_Erika]

Algeria and Tunisia seem to have a problem.....

 

[Arakhor]

@Kyriakos If I was going to write the year according to the Byzantine calendar, presumably I'd write etos Kosmou after the year, rather than before?

 

[Kyriakos]

Yes, "etos kosmou" is fine, but the more imposing title was "apo ktiseos kosmou" (which apparently dates the "world" back to the 6th millenium BC).
It's known as the "Constantinopolitan system", to juxtapose it to other ones like the Alexandrian.

 

[Arakhor]

James Ussher dated the Creation back to 4004 BC, whereas the Byzantines apparently used a date derived from the Septuagint, dating it very precisely to 1st Sept, 5509 BC.

 

[Kyriakos]

It'd had been different if they had asked Leo the mathematician, with his talking statues and elevating thrones ^^

 

[Arakhor]

Huh. His Wikipedia page says that later Byzantine scholars confused him with Leo VI, the Wise, which is what I initially did, even though the mathematician was a contemporary of the Amorian dynasty, rather than the succeeding Macedonian dynasty.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

"Most common immigrant in Europe"

Not sure what the source for this is

 

[Kyriakos]

Huh. His Wikipedia page says that later Byzantine scholars confused him with Leo VI, the Wise, which is what I initially did, even though the mathematician was a contemporary of the Amorian dynasty, rather than the succeeding Macedonian dynasty.

Yes, he was quite the figure and one of the most important citizens of this city (iirc he was even given the title of bishop) ^^ Although the most famous of those would likely be Cyril (of the eponymous alphabet).
In many ways, what the state did with him was mimicked by Venizelos with Constantin Caratheodory.
One of the best short stories by Borges indirectly refers to the dynasty from the city of Amorion, and the age when Leo also lived (The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim).