Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale

[Leoreth]

Why did they go there?

As far as I know, Transsylvania has been depopulated by the Mongol invasion during the Middle Ages and the Kingdom of Hungary (which controlled Transsylvania at the time) invited foreign colonists to repopulate the area. Don't know why it was Saxon settlers that came, so you might have to wait for an actual historian for an accurate answer.

The people who settled that area were a mix of many peoples (Ukrainians, Russians, Greeks etc), it's a little bit hard to define them as one ethnicity.

I guess the map shows the most numerous ethnicity, and that should be Ukrainians for most of Ukraine (insert longwinded discussion about how there's no difference between Ukrainians and Russians).

 

[warpus]

Saxons are cool. I lived in Niedersachsen (lower saxony) for about 3 years.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Why did they go there?

As far as I know, Transsylvania has been depopulated by the Mongol invasion during the Middle Ages and the Kingdom of Hungary (which controlled Transsylvania at the time) invited foreign colonists to repopulate the area. Don't know why it was Saxon settlers that came, so you might have to wait for an actual historian for an accurate answer.

They were sent there by king can't remember of Hungary to guard the mountain passes against the cumans. This happened before the mongol invasion. They were not the only ones invited to settle there. The Secui people came at the same time. The Teutonic order was also invited to make a powerbase there (in the early 13th century) but were later kicked out by the king of Hungary for being more awsome than he.

Today the remnants of the saxon settlers (Sași) are generally nice & friendly people. The hungarians should've brought more. (most of them are in southern Transylvania)
The remnants of the Secui people are highly troublesome, they don't want to learn our language and want to secede and form their own country inside of Romania. This would be even dumber than Catalonia seceding; it's just what Eastern Europe needs right now, even more impoverished nations to serve as client states of Russia.

 

[Civ'ed]

Don't mention Eastern Iberia!

 

[madviking]

I like how Ukraine in that map is uniformly Ukrainian when about 40% of the population natively speaks Russian, mostly in the South-East

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Russia

 

[LamaGT]

...And?

 

[Dachs]

They were sent there by king can't remember of Hungary to guard the mountain passes against the cumans.

András II. But yeah, that post was pretty much spot on.

 

[Leoreth]

Saxons are cool. I lived in Niedersachsen (lower saxony) for about 3 years.

Oh, where exactly?

Don't mention Eastern Iberia!

You mean Georgia?

 

[Squonk]

This is a map I've made a long, long time ago. It shows the stability of regimes in Europe. Black is unchanged possession of the land by a country from the start of XX century. Blue is the same, but with temporal occupation by a foreign country.
Greens if I remember are changes prior to ww1. Purple are reversed changes.
Bright yellow (Poland, Czech Republic) are areas that were in theory the same before ww1 and after it, but not in reality.
Yellow are ww1 changes.
Brownish (Belarus) are interwar changes.
Red are ww2 changes.
the Arab countries have their own scale, I don't remember why and what it was supposed to mean.

I think it shows nicely where to expect stability and instability.

 

[warpus]

Oh, where exactly?

Ostochtersum, Landkreis Wittmund, Ostfriesland, about 10km from the North Sea I think.

 

[Joecoolyo]

This is a map I've made a long, long time ago. It shows the stability of regimes in Europe. Black is unchanged possession of the land by a country from the start of XX century. Blue is the same, but with temporal occupation by a foreign country.
Greens if I remember are changes prior to ww1. Purple are reversed changes.
Bright yellow (Poland, Czech Republic) are areas that were in theory the same before ww1 and after it, but not in reality.
Yellow are ww1 changes.
Brownish (Belarus) are interwar changes.
Red are ww2 changes.
the Arab countries have their own scale, I don't remember why and what it was supposed to mean.

I think it shows nicely where to expect stability and instability.

Wait, is this map showing change in possession of land? Or change in regimes?

I don't think Spain had the same regime in charge for the entire 20th century. Or Russia for that matter.

 

[JohannaK]

Spain has had like... 5 regimes or so in the 20th Century. The false democracy of the early Century, Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, the Second Republic, Francoism and the current system.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Yeah... doesn't seem like a place of regime stability

 

[Arakhor]

Northern Ireland looks like it's gone on a radical weight-loss plan in that map.

 

[really]

Various animated maps
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

 

[Arakhor]

The March of Democracy video was really terrible.

 

[Borachio]

Yes. I was somewhat underwhelmed. Interesting concept, though.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Agreed. So much potential, but so poorly done!

 

[Leoreth]

Ostochtersum, Landkreis Wittmund, Ostfriesland, about 10km from the North Sea I think.

Oh, provincial backwater then? I grew up not that far away (Vechta, like 50km south of Oldenburg).

 

[warpus]

Oh, provincial backwater then? I grew up not that far away (Vechta, like 50km south of Oldenburg).

Yep, pretty much. There were cows everywhere and the closest city had a population of 6,000.

The biggest city we visited when I lived there was Wilhelmshaven... So we never really ventured south of there

It was a cool experience though, we lived close to the sea, it was calm and relaxing, we got Dutch TV, and everyone in Ostfriesland says "Moin" when they pass you