Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die

[Lexicus]

Lmao new Jersey didn't even get a caption...fyi, Washington's crossing of the Delaware happened in New Jersey: they crossed from Pennsylvania to the Princeton area (about 15 or 16 miles from where I grew up) and surprised a garrison of German mercenaries in the dead of winter.

 

[Kyriakos]

Lmao new Jersey didn't even get a caption...fyi, Washington's crossing of the Delaware happened in New Jersey: they crossed from Pennsylvania to the Princeton area (about 15 or 16 miles from where I grew up) and surprised a garrison of German mercenaries in the dead of winter.

One of them literally lost his head:

 

[AdamCrock]

Ahahahahah !! Hanna must be Montana, Oz must be Kansas, IDK the rest but Misery , Evil Oz and Diet Texas craks me up

 

[Kyriakos]

"The smallossus of Rhodes" ^_^

 

[Lexicus]

"The smallossus of Rhodes" ^_^

*Smolossus

 

[Kyriakos]

*Smolossus

I am just going by the term as written on the map

 

[Kyriakos]

I like how mean Portugal looks ^_^

 

[Lohrenswald]

imagine still posting polandball in 2019

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[cardgame]

can confirm american map, have had this as my location for what seems like 5 years now

 

[Lexicus]

I like how the Rio Grande and Florida are so clearly defined, and then Louisiana is just a square block

In fairness Louisiana has a really complicated shoreline that changes on a timescale of weeks.

 

[Kyriakos]

I c what you did with Norway.

 

[inthesomeday]

monster-woman on tumblr:

Quite late, but... what would be the absolute worst way to do this? Imagine if you had, say, a 10 line limit.

 

[Traitorfish]

Ten evenly spaced, latitundal borders. Eleven long, skinny countries from the Atlantic to Pacific.

 

[Takhisis]

Found this on twitter.
Can any American confirm how accurate it is ?

IIRC Canada should be a province.

 

[Kyriakos]

Need altered map? Why not Balkanberg?

 

[Hrothbern]

Need altered map? Why not Balkanberg?

Somehow you Greeks made some mistakes in the past by not conquering and keeping that whole basket of mountains and valleys under one empire.
Too occupied with the Persians Turks ?

 

[Kyriakos]

Somehow you Greeks made some mistakes in the past by not conquering and keeping that whole basket of mountains and valleys under one empire.
Too occupied with the Persians Turks ?

Following Justinian's megalomania the state didn't have enough forces to guard the ancient borders along the Danube, so slavs got in and settled in the region. Even during Basil II's time, or later the great Komnenoi restoration, despite the empire controlling the balkans the population was still majority slav and pretty much impossible to keep the region unless nothing major happened (eg fourth crusade).
That said, at least the hellespont + Constantinople could have been kept in 1922. Blame France for insisting all of eastern Thrace was given to Turkey - let alone vetoing the english declaring war on Turkey then.

 

[Hrothbern]

Following Justinian's megalomania the state didn't have enough forces to guard the ancient borders along the Danube, so slavs got in and settled in the region. Even during Basil II's time, or later the great Komnenoi restoration, despite the empire controlling the balkans the population was still majority slav and pretty much impossible to keep the region unless nothing major happened (eg fourth crusade).
That said, at least the hellespont + Constantinople could have been kept in 1922. Blame France for insisting all of eastern Thrace was given to Turkey - let alone vetoing the english declaring war on Turkey then.

So the rivalry between France and the UK in dividing up the Middle East, with France wanting control on Lebanon and West-Syria (the UK had the rest), caused that deal with Turkey.
Yes ?

 

[Kyriakos]

So the rivalry between France and the UK in dividing up the Middle East, with France wanting control on Lebanon and West-Syria (the UK had the rest), caused that deal with Turkey.
Yes ?

I don't know the exact reasons, though obviously it would have also to do with spheres of influence & control of the straits. The outcome, though, is that the only reason Turkey still has land in Europe is France.