Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

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Welcome, welcome all to the 14th Altered Maps thread! One day we'll have more than raves and rants, but for now:
Links to past threads:

Altered Maps (the original!)
Altered Maps 2: Uber-Yugoslavia FTW
Altered Maps 3: The rise of the Basque Empire!
Altered Maps 4: Partitioning Eastern Europe Like In The Good Old Days
Altered Maps V: The Molotov-Threadentropp Pact
Altered Maps VI: Xorda Gene Bombs.. going from Earth to Mobius
Altered Maps VII: Making the World a Better Place
Altered Maps VIII: World borders just got garbage-dayed
Altered Maps IX:: Playing Musical Chairs with the Landmasses
Altered Maps X:Ten Time's a Altered Map
Altered maps XI: Towards a New Decade!
Altered Maps XII: Not to Scale
Altered Maps ΙΓ': To make a map larger than what it maps
And to continue with "bad maps of America",
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That's certainly a bad map, if only because it's so small.
 
Maybe it's because I'm British, but I find cultural maps of "Greater X" to be terribly boring. After all, we already did "Greater Britain" in real life.
 
A map of "historical ethnic"/ Greater Albania:

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Historical? Historically Albanians were just a rather small mountainous tribe of highlanders, as I have read. They vastly expanded their territory and vastly increased their numbers relatively recently (during the last several centuries), thanks to being the "favourite peoples" of the Ottoman Empire:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Macedonia

(...) The Albanians, called by the Turks and Slavs Arnauts, by the Greeks Αρβαυἷται, and by themselves Shkyipetar, have always been the scourge of western Macedonia. After the first Turkish invasion of Albania many of the chiefs or beys adopted Mahommedanism, but the conversion of the great bulk of the people took place in the 16th and 17th centuries. Professing the creed of the dominant power and entitled to bear arms, the Albanians were, enabled to push forward their limits at the expense of the defenceless population around them, and their encroachments have continued to the present day. They have not only advanced themselves, but have driven to the eastward numbers of their Christian compatriots and a great portion of the once prosperous Vlach population of Albania. Albanian revolts and disturbances have been frequent along the western confines of Macedonia, especially in the neighbourhood of Dibra: the Slavonic peasants have been the principal sufferers from these troubles, while the Porte, in pursuance of the “Islamic policy” adopted by the sultan Abdul Hamid II., dealt tenderly with the recalcitrant believers. (...)

Ethnic minorities in Albania:

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Usefull to note that the Greek minority zone in Albania is recognised by international treaties (eg Versailles and Lausanne).

The area briefly was an autonomous republic ('Northern Epirus') and before that had been controlled by the Greek army in the first Balkan war, but the 'great powers' gave the ultimatum that if the area was not ceded to the newly created 'Albania' the west aegean islands would likely not be recognised as part of Greece following the war.

The autonomous republic ended with 1922 (treaty of Lausanne), as did the Pontic republic, and the treaty of Sevres.
 
Macedonian Slavs near Salonica in 1915 (map from book: "The new world problems in political geography" by Isaiah Bowman, New York 1921):

The book is available online (links below) - there are 215 maps in this book (very interesting):

https://archive.org/details/newworldproblems00bowmuoft

https://archive.org/details/newworldproblem01bowmgoog

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Fourth Edition from 1928 had even more maps - 257:

http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/en...e-new-world-problems-in-political-geography/1

Edit:

Contents of the 1921 Edition of Bowman's book (the map of the region of Salonika I posted above is on page 317):

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And here Atlas of Mexico:

https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_mexico/
 
^Good that there is 1,5 lines about an 'atlas of mexico' or else one might have thought you were not posting 'altered maps' but something tied to a theme :p
 
So much nationalism.
 
Map of countries where people have died so far this year. Red means 0, blue means less than 0 and white means any number over 0

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