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[classical_hero]

Or Australia?

 

[Koelle]

China 2050

 

[mythmonster2]

Why does Vietnam have Southern China?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

The Great Sino-Vietnam War! Duh...

I suppose Vietnam decided they needed more room and raw materials so they took over collapsing China's economic powerhouses of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangdong.

 

[Koelle]

Why does Vietnam have Southern China?

Actually, Vietnam doesn't have Southern China for now. It's widely believed among Vietnamese that Southern China was part of Vietnam and they just want it back

 

[aronnax]

If South Ossetia remains in Georgia after the current war, then Europe will end like this in 100 years



1. Iberian Union
2. Arab Republic
3. The United Anvegin Kingdom (A little poke at France)
4. Orleanic France
5. Greater Netherlands
6. Greater Germany
7. Why dont I have a number seven?
8. Yugobalkgaria
9. Central European Union of Czechslovagary
10. Poland-Lithuania
11. Russia
12. Albanturkia
13. Scandinavia Union

However, if South Ossetia becomes independent, then Europe will look like this.
Every crackpot seperatist group with a flag and a political party in Europe will gain independence

In Blue




My two cents

 

[Arwon]

No independent Balearics or Canaries or Valencia? For shaaaaame.

Hahaha, and why is half of Castille independent of Spain

 

[aronnax]

Thats Andulasia...

 

[jeps]

what about the Caucuses Emirate?

 

[mythmonster2]

If that second one happens... that's more for me to remember in Geography. DESTROY SOUTH OSSETIA! QUICK! I'LL DONATE TANKS!

 

[Loki130]

Why does everyone always group Denmark with Sweden. (not to mention Norway and Finland! for the last time Finland isn't Scandanavia) We'd never go for that.
And BTW, I vote for the second one-Denmark remains intact while Sweden loses Skåne. Also, you missed Schleswig-Holstein.
EDIT: and the faeroes

 

[aronnax]

Why does everyone always group Denmark with Sweden. (not to mention Norway and Finland! for the last time Finland isn't Scandanavia) We'd never go for that.
And BTW, I vote for the second one-Denmark remains intact while Sweden loses Skåne. Also, you missed Schleswig-Holstein.
EDIT: and the faeroes

Cause Danish, Swedish and Nowegian can almost be used interchangebly... Plus a 1000 years worth of history being attached to either one or the other. Sweden and Denmark basically throw Norway at each other (etc. Kalmer Union, Denmark-Norway, Sweden-Norway)
And Finland was like a Swedish colony for a couple of centuries and it felt complete.

 

[Loki130]

Cause Danish, Swedish and Nowegian can almost be used interchangebly... Plus a 1000 years worth of history being attached to either one or the other. Sweden and Denmark basically throw Norway at each other (etc. Kalmer Union, Denmark-Norway, Sweden-Norway)
And Finland was like a Swedish colony for a couple of centuries and it felt complete.

Have you ever seen Denmark and Sweden together? We've always been fighting each other. It's like calling Poles and Russians the same, or Brits and French.
(BTW, couldn't find anything about Kalmer Union)

 

[silver 2039]

Have you ever seen Denmark and Sweden together?

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

The Kalmar Union (Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: Kalmarunionen) is a historiographical term meaning a series of personal unions (1397–1523) that united the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway (with Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney) and Sweden (including some of Finland) under a single monarch, though intermittently.[1]

The Treaty of Kalmar was signed on September 25, 1397 between representatives of the three Nordic kingdoms of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The accord established the Kalmar Union whereby all three realms were to be ruled by one monarch. However, the treaty did not unite the different legal structures of each kingdom. The agreement was broken when Gustav I of Sweden left the Kalmar Union on June 6, 1523.

 

[Loki130]

Very well, we were once 'united,' But from the article it appears even then we were fighting, and many countries you would never place together today were once united.
Or perhaps I'm being too serious. Onwards with the silly maps!

 

[The Last Conformist]

Spoiler :

China 2050

You're leaving large swathes of historial/ethnic Tibet in Chinese-controlled Sichuan and Qinghai, you evil Han imperialist.

 

[The Last Conformist]

And Finland was like a Swedish colony for a couple of centuries and it felt complete.

It wasn't a colony, it was a fully integrated part of the kingdom.

 

[aronnax]

It wasn't a colony, it was a fully integrated part of the kingdom.

Finland is an interesting thing when you see it part of Sweden throughout the centuries. Was it part of the country or a colony. Its a bit of both.

Its much like Great Britian and Ireland. It close to the Mainland but the people rather resent the mother nation. The ruling elite spoke the motherlands language, the peasants spoke their own tongue. Sweden tried to replace the Finnish religion with their own which they did do and they "mordenise" the country, a trait found in many colonies

Finland is a bit of a colony and a bit of an integrated mainland like Britian and Ireland, France and Alegeria, Spain and the Netherlands

 

[The Last Conformist]

Finland is an interesting thing when you see it part of Sweden throughout the centuries. Was it part of the country or a colony. Its a bit of both.

Its much like Great Britian and Ireland. It close to the Mainland but the people rather resent the mother nation.

If the people of Finland resented anything, it was the central government, not the Swedish "nation", and the central government was equally resented in the non-Finnish provinces. (You may note that by far most of the revolts of the 15th and 16th centuries took place in the Swedish half of the realm.)

The ruling elite spoke the motherlands language, the peasants spoke their own tongue.

A substantial proportion of peasants in Finland spoke Swedish as their mother tongue from very early on (and equally, plenty common people spoke Finnish in the Swedish half of the realm).

Sweden tried to replace the Finnish religion with their own which they did do and they "mordenise" the country, a trait found in many colonies

Finland wasn't subjected to any "modernization" that wasn't also carried out in the Swedish provinces.

Finland is a bit of a colony and a bit of an integrated mainland like Britian and Ireland, France and Alegeria, Spain and the Netherlands

The most sensible comparison is with other medieval and early modern multiethnic kingdoms. Nobody would refer to the Slavic and Romance-speaking bits of the HRE, or the Finnic-speaking regions of Russia, or the Ukrainian part of the Rzeczpospolita, etc, as "colonies". The term is reserved for dependent areas that are cut off geographically and administratively from the metropole.

 

[Loki130]

oh dear, I seem to have started an argument here... I sincerely apoligize and hope it will not make this thread too serious.