Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[gay_Aleks]

Curiously enough, in the hinterlands near our borders, coincidentally where illegal Syrian immigrants cross the borders, there's a mountain called Sacar.

 

[Kyriakos]

^No relation to the term soccer, though.

Soccer was invented in the area around the Sakhar river, which is why it got this name.

He was a former soccer-player so he would know. As were David Icke and Vinnie Jones.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Goddamnit, Kyriakos. For a man so erudite, you never learnt Soccer was invented in Sahara, and not in Sakhar. Shame on you, shame!

 

[Kyriakos]

^Colonists from Sakhar reached that desert and named it Sahara in memory of their phrygian land of ancient turkish people

(btw: those colonists were saddened by moving so far away, so in the future phrygian got the connotation of damned. 'Frigging' is an english corruption of that, originally meant turkish dismay at building colonies in Africa).

 

[Domen]

Railways in 1914 in territory which later became independent Poland (Russian-Austrian-Prussian borderlands were almost railway-free):

 

[Domen]

Map of Roman Britain in 410 AD:

Spoiler :

Roman Britain about the year 410 CE, showing the Brythonic tribes in red.

Ancalites (Hampshire and Wiltshire, England)
Attacotti (Scotland or Ireland)
Atrebates (an important tribe of Southern England)
Belgae (Wiltshire and Hampshire) - according to some, they may have been Germanic[1]
Bibroci (Berkshire, England)
Brigantes (an important tribe in most of Northern England) and in the south-east corner of Ireland)
Caereni (far western Highlands)
Caledones (along the Great Glen)
Cantiaci (present-day Kent which preserves the ancient tribal name)
Carnonacae (western Highlands)
Carvetii (Cumberland)
Cassi (England)
Cateni (north and west of Sutherland) - they gace the county its Gaelic name Cataibh
Catuvellauni (Hertfordshire) - neighbours of the Iceni, they joined in their rebellion
Corieltauvi (Leicestershire)
Corionototae (Northumberland)
Corieltauvi (East Midlands including Leicester)
Cornovii (Cornish)
Cornovii (Midlands)
Cornovii (Caithness)
Creones (Argyll)
Deceangli (Flintshire)
Decantae or Ducantae (eastern Ross and Black Isle)
Demetae (Dyfed)
Dobunni (Cotswolds and Severn valley)
Dumnonii or Damnonii, Domnainn) (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Strathclyde, and Connacht)[2][3][4][5]
Durotriges (Dorset, south Somerset, south Wiltshire)
Epidii (Kintyre and neighboring islands)
Gangani (Ll?n Peninsula)
Horestiani (Fife, Scotland)
Iceni (East Anglia) - under Boudica, they rebelled against Roman rule
Lugi (southern Sutherland)
Scotti (western portion of Scotland)
Segontiaci (England)
Selgovae (north of Dumfries and Galloway)
Ordovices (Gwynedd) - they waged guerrilla warfare from the north Wales hills
Parisii (East Riding of Yorkshire and Humberside)
Regnenses (Hampshire)
Setantii (Lancashire)
Silures (Gwent) - also resisted the Romans in present-day south Wales
Smertae (central Sutherland)
Taexali (Grampian)
Trinovantes (Essex) - neighbours of the Iceni, they joined in their rebellion
Uluti or Volunti (north-east of Ireland and Lancashire - they gave their name to Ulster
Vacomagi (in and around the Cairngorms)
Venicones (Fife and south-east Tayside in Scotland
Votadini (north-east England and south-east Scotland - they later formed Gododdin

 

[Domen]

http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1525/15257558/2692674-3097324670-20140.png

Spoiler :

 

[Arakhor]

For people who may not have realised this, the Ordovices and Silures tribes are the origins of the Ordovician and Silurian geological eras.

The "Wall of Antonine" is either the Antonine Wall (commissioned by Antoninus Pius) or the Severan Wall (refortified by Severus Septimus), so I don't know why it's called that on the map.

 

[Tee Kay]

It's Strayadie (English: Australia Day)

So here are some interactive maps of Australia

This shows Australia's immigrant population, and the most common country of origin for each suburb in the country.

Eg. this is Melbourne:

And this is Sydney:

And this shows Australia's indigenous population; specifically, the number of people identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and as a percentage of the total population in each LGA.

And finally for the hardcore map connoisseur, check out the interactive Census 2011 map. You can configure the map about ten thousand different ways to show different statistics from the census. Guess what these show:

 

[Domen]

Thanks Taillesskangaru, very interesting stuff!

Next one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Ukrainians_in_Russian_regions_1926.jpg

Spoiler :

 

[cybrxkhan]

Look at all the Vietnamians!

I'm also a bit surprised there's quite some large Italian neighborhoods.

 

[warpus]

This might have been posted before, but I'm not really sure.. Where NHL players hail from:

My hometown clocks in at a healthy 10 players

 

[Takhisis]

You're from London?

 

[Kyriakos]

Didn't know that Hockey is so popular in Switzerland.

 

[warpus]

You're from London?

Yep, that is where I reside.

No unnannounced visitors please.

 

[Takhisis]

Anyplace in the world called after the capital of the Sassanaich must be plundered, its beer drunk, its inhabitants scattered to the four winds and its cattle reived. But don't worry, we'll announce ourselves in time. Unwanted, but not unannounced visitors.

 

[gay_Aleks]

We could also visit London's Eye.

You know? Take bunch of photos? Why you have to be so Medieval?

 

[Domen]

Warpus, are you Henryk from Axis History Forum, or do you know him? He lives in the same city as you.

BTW - Czechs and Slovaks seem to be NHL champions (in Europe).

 

[warpus]

Warpus, are you Henryk from Axis History Forum, or do you know him? He lives in the same city as you.

BTW - Czechs and Slovaks seem to be NHL champions (in Europe).

No, there's almost half a million people here, I only know like 0.1% of them. There's also a lot of Polish people here, I keep running into Polish people I don't know. We don't even exchange "hey you're Polish too" looks, that's how many Polish people there are here.

 

[Tee Kay]

America Redux