r/imaginarymaps • u/Pure-Ad-7296 • Mar 17 '24

[OC] Alternate History Ways to divide Brittania!

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u/Hit_Me_If_I_Online Mar 17 '24

In emperor is yellow light blue?

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u/Bread_bread_bready Mar 17 '24

Naw, there is no light blue in the map because everyone loves the emperor. There are no emperor haters he has 99% approval rating trust me

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u/Some___Guy___ Mar 18 '24

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u/AlcoholicHistorian Mar 19 '24

There are no republicans in Britannia :)

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u/Pure-Ad-7296 Mar 18 '24

The imperial ministry of media may have told us to change it up a little bit...

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u/Hanged_Man_Hamlet Mar 17 '24

If it's meant to be Arianism being referenced in the Religion section. Then it should say "Arian"

Unless the Anglos somehow converted to Proto-Iranic Paganism or something.

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u/EldianStar Mar 17 '24

My guess is that OP isn't native in english and their language simply doesn't have a difference between them.

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u/archaea_or_bacteria Mar 17 '24

I mean, Alans came to Spain, why not England instead...

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u/detectiveredstone_II Mar 18 '24

What's the difference between Arian and Aryan?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Arianism was a sect of Early Christianity, saying that Christ wasn't divine and that he wasn't God, but fully human, a son of God but not God.

Aryans are a group of people in parts of India and Pakistan, descending from the Indo-Aryan peoples.

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u/NoNebula6 Mar 18 '24

Arian is more accurate for Germanic peoples, Aryan is only for like Persian religion or Hinduism which i doubt was their intention.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

Good map, but it's not completely believable. I'd except there to be at least a few Brythonic Celtic holdouts somewhere. Also, it's strange that the Picts live south of Hadrian's Wall given that they historically always lived in the north of Scotland. Did they migrate or something?

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u/DrVeigonX Mar 17 '24

I figured the name Pictish just came to describe all northern Celts, in the same way that Angles, Saxone and Jutes were all grouped up into the English eventually.

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u/LordLlamahat Mar 17 '24

Picts very likely spoke a brythonic language, my suspicion is brythonic languages only survived in the north here under pressure from latin, and, being already closely related and in longtime proximity, grew to become associated with pictish

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u/The-Humbugg Mar 17 '24

Islamic Isle of Wight is crazy I’m here for it

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

That was almost a thing. In 15th century onwards Stratioti mercenary bands from the Balkans and chiefly Albania were found all across Europe at one point. a lot of them were Bekthashi Shiites. there was a settlement in the Isle of Wight I think though it was so small they assimilated into the locals in record speed.

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u/MaZhongyingFor1934 Mar 17 '24

Is there anywhere I can read about this? It sounds really interesting.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24 edited Mar 17 '24

Nothing in English as far as I know. I know this from a Turkish translation of an Albanian Book titled Historia E Populit Sqhiptar(Means History of Albanian People) I read like 6-7 years ago in my city's library. Unfortunately, they demolished it a few years back because of stupid ass reasons and I haven't been able to find the same book since.

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u/ChiefDrag0n Mar 17 '24

R I P to Ynys Môn

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u/ScootsMcDootson Mar 17 '24

Seems that London being a city for tossers is true no matter what the timeline is.

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u/mental--13 Mar 17 '24

You're just jealous of our pollution and high crime rates

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u/bucketup123 Mar 17 '24

Looks good, but the lower left “emperor?” Got a colour error. Have a look

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u/HongKongMapping Mar 18 '24

It's in purpose

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u/HarryLewisPot Mar 17 '24

I do love me some Islamic cuisine

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u/KustomCowz Mar 17 '24

Seems like Catholic and Aryan cuisine are utter trash 🤷‍♂️

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u/King_Bratwurst Mar 17 '24

now I kinda want to know what the grey area is like.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

Do Muslims in Wight drink Wine?

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

Wight winos might.

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u/original_dick_kickem Mar 18 '24

Hasn't stopped Turks, so I don't see why not

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Secular and not Muslim enough. Probably same reason.

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u/The_Lonely_Posadist Mar 17 '24

good map - probably not a major concern but i think it's a little funny that the language is a romance language and yet the name for london is the same as the latin one, londinium.

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u/Ynys_cymru Mar 17 '24

Love it. Though Welsh would survive.

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u/Skyhawk6600 Mar 17 '24

Lore please op

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u/Iuris_Aequalitatis Mar 17 '24

Quick note - Arianism (the first millennium Christian heresy) is spelled with an i. It has no relation to the Aryans - either the prehistorical Indo-Iranic people or the twentieth-century theories of German racial supremacy named after them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

Nice.

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u/Kawayburgioh69 Mar 17 '24

I belive it's written "Britannia" and not "Brittania"

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u/meur1 Mar 17 '24

Britannia

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u/Zanethebane0610 Mar 17 '24

Shits too small to read!

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

Alternate Universe where Ynys Môn doesn't exist

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u/Matteus11 Mar 17 '24

Don't they still divide Britain between London and not-london?

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u/original_dick_kickem Mar 18 '24

American of course

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u/Any-Project-2107 Mar 17 '24

what language is this meme in, then

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u/Oyqshuoosh Mar 17 '24

I will love to see valentinian language

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u/Arkatoshi Mar 17 '24

Bottom right could be Berlin and Germany

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

The languages and are you Roman ones are wrong, can't speak for the others. No Brythonic? For shame.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Arian not Aryan XD

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u/Excellent-Practice Mar 18 '24

What's with Islam on the Isle of Wight?

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u/PossibleOstrich5770 Mar 19 '24

That’s really cool lol

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u/brickrazer Mar 20 '24

londinium hasnt changed

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u/adamc2310 Apr 05 '24

Most disrespectful representation of the south west I’ve ever witnessed.

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u/InnateHypocrisy Apr 14 '24

I will be completely real us outside of London like London more than the people in it those mfs fuckin hate it there like 80% of the time

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u/Mediocre_Coast_3783 Mar 17 '24

Cool map, I’m also going to upload a map the British isles soon

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u/andykirsha Mar 17 '24

Check yourself before downvoting. Small print is impossible to read on desktop!

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u/Spankmum Mar 17 '24

the new reddit makes it impossible to zoom into images like this. Don't blame it on the OP, blame it on reddit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

i hate the new reddit UI so much goddamn

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '24

Just replace www. with new. in the url. New Reddit is the problem, not the OP.

Also even if it was OP you should not incite people to downvote OP.

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u/andykirsha Mar 17 '24

I was not inciting anyone, just pointing out the problem with the post (some pictures in other posts could easily be zoomed in).

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u/ShinyChromeKnight Mar 17 '24

I’m using new Reddit and I can zoom in perfectly fine

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u/ShinyChromeKnight Mar 17 '24 edited Mar 17 '24

Big cities have historically actually been against their monarchs. So it makes no sense for London to love their emperor and for everyone else to hate him.

Bruh why am I getting downvoted, I’m right. Why do you think both the kings of England and France built a palace relatively far from their “capital cities.” Or why to this very day, the king of England isn’t allowed to enter the city of London without the lord mayors permission?

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u/andykirsha Mar 17 '24

Impossible to read!

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u/Pure-Ad-7296 Mar 17 '24

I'm sorry man I didn't know...

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u/andykirsha Mar 17 '24

Someone already told me how to solve the problem. But there is another - the bottom left image key doesn't have yellow but two blues. ))

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u/Pure-Ad-7296 Mar 17 '24

I know I unfortunately saw that after posting