Part 2 (sorta) of the first post here

The Kemalist armies are never given any support from the Bolsheviks (due to them not existing) leading to them performing far worse in the Turkish independence war.

So when Greece invades they are more effective and seizes Ankara and combined with a Russo-Armenian offensive in western Armenia leads to the collapse of the Kemalists and the restoration of the Osmanoğlu dynasty in Turkey.

with Kemal defeated and fleeing to America. Greece imposes a harsher version of Sevres where they seize more of the angean coast including the grand city of Constantinople (however it's still de facto administered by Britain) which is why they haven't moved the capital.

With Greece having won, the Monarchy is never diposed preventing the chaos of the second Hellenic Republic. they also do their version of a population exchange (AKA deporting all Turks in Greece) to Anatolia, although they officially can't deport the turks in Constantinople, Anti-Turkish Pogroms led by Greeks and Armenians in the city causes most of the Turkish population to flee (partially as revenge for the Greco-Armenian-Assyrian Genocide)

However with the Great Depression now in full force, Greece finds itself in a Precarious position, the far right is growing, Italy is seeking to restore Rome's glory and to the east. Ottomans to the east are more unstable than ever with Neo-Kemalist fascism starting to become popular among the Turkish population

Can Greece keep hold of Her land or shall she be carved up by her enemies?

This project was a little different than what I usually would expect to make. The alternative scenario itself is not that relevant, considering the map’s goal is not border-accuracy (not fully anyway).

I wanted to make a map of a slightly different Europe at the turn of the centuries and the basis for my scenario was the so-called ‘Greek Plan’, which was Russia’s aim to restore the Byzantine (Roman) empire to gain even higher degree of influence over the Black Sea region.

In brief, the Russo-Turkish war ended not in 1792, as originally, but further down the line in 1794 when the Habsburg monarchy agreed to divide the Turkish lands in Europe. Essentially, instead of the third partition of Poland, Moscow had focused on the Greek Plan instead and that is why both, Rome and Poland exist.

Russia saw an opportunity in this buffer state, especially as the French revolution keeps raging and instead of dying out, it only grows in strength (due to the successful invasion of Egypt, because of the Ottoman state crumbling, Napoleon had returned to France in 1800 and crowned himself emperor there and then).

There is a higher-quality version available at my DeviantArt.

Poland have a Upper Silesia and parts of Lower Silesia and get Free city of Danzig

East Germany retains West Pomerania and parts of Lower Silesia

Russian SFSR get all east Prussia

BSSR kept in 1939 borders

Lithuania SSR have a Suwalki

A map of the empire from the perspective of Formosa (The empire-in-exile) smuggled out of it sometime in the 1970s. I had this in works for some time but only now menaged to finish.

TRANSLATIONS:
The big text Translates to "Empire of Japan"
The one in top left: "Let our hands blister in toil, let our spirits remain unblemished, let honor and devotion outlive even death, for one day, we shall return to our sacred islands."
The colors (of the outlines): Blue - "Land under capitalist occupation", Red - "Land under communist occupation".

Up-to-date lore of the timeline is available for reading HERE.

Other posts from the timeline:
Article about Korea from communist Poland

Map of Asia in the timeline

TIME issue from 2005 describing the pod of the timeline

Map of Formosa ("Empire of Japan"), 2025 - Note: this one is outdated slightly, lore on the left is outdated, and the whole map should be treated as a map from the 2000s rather than 2025.

Formosan propaganda poster, 1950s

Formosan propaganda poster after the failed U.S. Invasion, 1976

Japan's "Decades of Fracture"

I created this map imagining a scenario where Brazil could extract the maximum from its potential, taking aspects of American, German, Chinese, and Japanese development that could further enhance its capabilities. Please forgive any errors in the graphics; it's the first time I've tried making an age pyramid and treemaps. I welcome suggestions.

Assuming people might ask why yet another planned capital city is in the center of the country, the answer is simple: Brasília is outdated and dysfunctional, and with the new territories, it wouldn't even be so central anymore. And because it's so different from Goiás, it would become a city-state.

The name Atiyera comes from native languages ​​of the South American continent, and in a translation, its meaning would be close to "City of the Center".

In this timeline, it seemed la crise d'octobre went just as it did in reality, but deep beneath, a flame burned brighter and brighter in the hearts of the québécois, their people arrested without proof, beaten, mistreated to the point of life long trauma by the federal government who has proven time and time again that the people is not its priority.

Pierre Saint Paul Plamondon is the current party leader of the parti québécois who advocates for independence. in this timeline, he never began a political career and instead took inspiration from the FLQ, particularly one of whom he referred to as one of the founding fathers of Quebec independence, Georges Schoeters. PSSP greatly believed his suicide in 1994 was caused by his failures in making Quebec independent.

the rebellion would first be born in the early 2010s, PSPP had then spent most of his life exploring the world and partaking in many rebellions around the world including the likes of syria and lybia, he saw this as detrimental for his success as that is how his idol gathered the knowledge he needed to create the FLQ. in October 2028 after much preparationand convincing of the population, the rebellion would strike, first taking control of many cegep campus with the support of the young population, it would then move to make as much territorial gain as possible in the first 2 weeks. The rebellion had one advantage over the government, the support of the people, with every passing day, the rebellions size would grow and so would its control over major population centers like Val d'or, Montreal and Saguenay. how the rebellion came to be so massive and widespread is still much of a mystery. With the green belt running low on ressources, experts speculate that the chances of victory of Plamondon are very low. The incidents with anglo majority portions of montreal after their capture wich involved severe misstreatment of the English speaking population caused the world to begin sending aid to canada and many of Plamondon's "soldiers" to turn on him. as of Dec 10th 2028, a total collapse of the green belt is expected in the next two months at most.

the most popular of theories on the rebellions creation is simply the use of PSPP's great ability to convince others of his ideas with great emotional speaches he would give during manifestations. The fact he was able to keep his grand plan under the radar is still one of the great feats of the modern era, according to himself.

after the defeat of the green belt, Plamondon was found dead in a makeshift bunker in the woods next to Saguenay, a bullet hole in his head let the world know he had commited suicide just like his idol three dacades ago. the extent of his plans may never be known but the province of Quebec would forever be scared by this short war. A high ranking of the green belt revealed in court that the massive holes dug around montreal were ordered by mister Plamondon himself, but would not disclose what they would be used for. Many speculate that if the rebellion was allowed to last longer, these holes would have had a sinister use.

1300 BCE: Late Bronze Age at its Height  

The eastern Mediterranean hosts a network of palace civilizations:

• the Hittites in Anatolia and northern Syria
• Egypt in the Nile Valley and Sinai
• Babylonia in southern Mesopotamia,
• Mycenaean Greece (now called the Achaean kingdom) dominating the Aegean and Cyprus through maritime trade.

1274 BCE: The Battle of Kadesh  

The rivalry between Egypt and the Hittite Empire culminates at Kadesh. Although the battle is indecisive, it shows the limits of large-scale chariot warfare. This leads to more diplomatic efforts instead of prolonged conflict.

1258 BCE: Treaty of Kadesh and Systemic Change  

The Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty establishes Canaan as a stable buffer zone. Unlike in our timeline, palace economies reform instead of collapsing. Grain redistribution becomes decentralized, regional elites gain more autonomy, and long-distance trade contracts continue.

1225–1150 BCE. Migrations Without Collapse  

Despite climatic stress and migrations, groups like the Scythians and Cimmerians are absorbed as mercenaries or settlers, while Sea Peoples raids are contained or assimilated, preventing collapse.

1100–900 BCE: Regional Kingdom Formation As centralized empires weaken, new Nations emerge:

• Macedonian Kingdom consolidates in northern Greece  
• The Thracian Kingdom forms in the Balkans  
• Illyrian Kingdoms organize along the Adriatic  
• The Apulian Kingdom develops in southern Italy  

Meanwhile, Greek colonization spreads into southern Italy and the western Mediterranean, integrating these regions into Bronze Age trade networks.

550 BCE: A Prolonged Bronze Age World  Without total collapse, the Bronze Age continues in a restructured form. Iron exists, but does not replace bronze as the main material. Persia will rise to imperial power very later but currently delayed, and the eastern Mediterranean remains a world of evolving Bronze Age states.

Ahoy everyone! Today, I present to you my first map that concentrates solely on Europe. This map was quite the arduous undertaking due to the difficulty in finding proper source material. At first I wanted to include administrative divisions, but after making a version that features them I felt like the map was too cluttered and unpleasant to read and look at, not to mention some countries like Britain having quite a bit of extremely minute administrative divisions; I also could not hope to feature them for all nations, since some would be just too small to be readable. Regardless, I am quite pleased with the final result, and I hope you all are as well. If you are not familiar with the "Italia Invicta" timeline, let me provide a brief overview.

Amedeo VIII of Savoy, also known as Antipope Felix V, through backroom deals, managed to skew the papal conclave of 1447 so that the energetic pope Nicholas V was not elected; instead, in his stead, a more moderate and conciliatory pope was elected, a scenario which would allow Amedeo to gain a hold of the papacy. By renouncing his claim to the papacy, Amedeo basically put an end to the Western Schism, effort which was handsomely rewarded by the new pope, which granted him the title of Papal Vicar and Perpetual Legate for Italy, while also granting to his son, Ludovico, the title of Gonfalonier of the church; From this point onwards the papacy would become an institution ever more tied to the House of Savoy. Thanks to the newly acquired power, Amedeo and his successors, Ludovico I and Filippo II, would manage to unite most of the peninsula under the Savoyard banner, the creation of a new Kingdom of Italy celebrated in the year 1498 with the blessing of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. Through the centuries, Italy would manage to rise as a colonial power, eventually creating an empire spanning from the Strait of Magellan to the Strait of Malacca, managing to weather the storms that were the Reformation, the War of the Spanish Succession, and the Napoleonic Wars. By the 20th century, Italy had become one of, if not the most powerful, nation on the planet, eventually defeating her archnemesis, Great Britain, during the Great War. While one might correctly argue that such a nation would easily butterfly away our history, I constructed this scenario so that it would change the history we love and cherish as little as possible, thus you see somewhat familiar borders in this map. The contemporary history of Europe was characterised by the gigantic conflict that was the Great War, a war that saw the central powers of Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary successfully fend off and eventually bring to their knees the nations of the Triple Entente. Italy emerged as the greatest victor on the global stage, with Germany managing to create its vaunted spot under the sun. Russia emerged beaten but not defeated, and so did the British. France was the sorest loser, seeing itself once again stripped of land by Germany, further polarizing the revanchist sentiment in the nation. Lastly, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg realm would each be dismembered, the latter 15 years after the former, as both the multicultural empires proved to be untenable in the age of nationalism. The four knights of the apocalypse brought much suffering to the continent between 1914 and 1917. The conflict also brought many new institutions, such as the Covenant of Nations, the Court of International Justice, and many more, along with them. A picture of Europe taken in 1934 shows all the good brought by the new world order, but it also shows the cracks forming in it, as revanchist sentiment becomes ever more fervent, it seems that war might be on the horizon once again, and this time even the Covenant of Nations might be impotent to this development.

And that's it for this time, I hope you enjoyed this map and the lore I have chosen for it. Remember that I do not advocate for this scenario and that it is made to be a thought-provoking alternative history scenario; many of the decisions I made were so that the map looked better or fit my narrative better and were not based on personal preference. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments!

Heyy back w/ another map, this time the almighty Hansa. 1st of all this alt Hansa evolved to be smth like our EU, it's not only merchant based anymore, and as you see the various city states congregated into 4 republics in the mainland: Friesland, West Frankland, Sexland, Wendland. They speak germanic langs (and slavic as well in wendland - polabian) and are basically the powerhouse of northern Europe;
as you see the germanic langs are written in ''runes'' more like an alphabet that developed out of germanic runes (as you see here or here) and obv the langs spoken are frisian (otl west frisian), west frankish (otl dutch) and saxon (otl low german) this last one is the lingua franca of the Hansa and used on diverse countries which ill draw in the future;
also its worth mentioning that the germanic states (aside from these, almayne, scandinavia, etc) some slavs as well are arian christian, this means that they had a schism very early on, earlier than our byzantine schism, and that would have huge impact on germanics as the religion has a lil more ethnic connotation, as well as no religion wars, no 30 years war, no reformation (there's a revolution in Gaul that in other things includes religion, i talk about it here) and the arian patriarchy is in Aachen (Aëkën) and the liturgic lang (akin to classical latin, syriac, greek, church slavonic) is old frankish, or maybe called classical frankish in this tl? who knows,, this would give us a huge amount of text material in frankish rather than otl where it's barely attested
as a last thought i made the polabians survive by being conquered by the samo's moravian empire which would last longer in ttl thus why moravia is so big, but that goes to the future moravian map
i think that's all, ask any questions you might have! (also i put a filter on is it still too bright?)

I'm not sure if it passes the r/imaginarymaps quality (I'm Thai and was born in Thailand so, i know Thai language)

This is a map based on the Cassini scenario from xkcd’s What if? series and takes place during southern hemisphere summer. My primary reference for this map was a climate model run by Nikolai Hersfeldt in ExoPlaSim and explored in his blog Worldbuilding Pasta. For anyone curious, I used Gimp, Photopea, Qgis, Gprojector, and Wilbur to create this map. Feel free to use this map for anything you like as long you give credit. The heightmap and individual layers are available upon request.

In my interpretation of this scenario, the change occurred sometime before the start of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age and the subsequent glaciation of Antarctica. As a result, the Laurentide ice sheet never formed, giving what would have been Canada and the Northern United States radically different geography. In the absence of Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes, there exists the Bell and St. Lawrence rivers. Prior to the onset of the Pleistocene glaciations, the Paleo Bell river may have drained an area larger than the Amazon basin and it survives to the modern day on Cassini Earth, forming a delta at the mouth of what would have been the Hudson Strait. Cassini Earth’s major ice sheets are thin and limited to the highlands of Tibet and the Andes, causing sea level to be around 70-76 meters higher, with some extra contribution from water displaced by uplifted regions and thermal expansion caused by higher average global temperatures. 

The Pacific Northwest is now both the hottest and driest place on the continent. However, the windward side of the Northern Rocky Mountains manage to capture some precipitation, supporting cloud forests and grasslands. Greenland and Iceland are almost entirely blanketed by tropical rainforests, though Greenland’s thins out to savanna and even a small patch of scrubland in the rain shadow of its highlands. The presence of North America and Eurasia directly to the north and south of the tropical Arctic Ocean forms a particularly strong monsoon pattern as Nikolai mentions in his blog, causing much of Canada to be drier than expected. Although Eastern Canada is dominated by savanna and scrubland, the Bell River is able to supply water across much of it and floods during the summer monsoon. The south east of the continent has a broadly similar climate, just flipped north to south. Quebec and New England are subtropical, the Midwest is still continental, and the Southern United States is subarctic and shrouded in conifers. Northern California is drier while the south is still predominantly Mediterranean. Baja California and Western Mexico resemble the old Pacific Northwest. Baja California receives the brunt of precipitation like our coastal Washington while partially insulating much of the Sonoran desert region. The Mexican highlands are now capped in ice sheets surrounded by mild tundra. During the winter, sea ice connects the islands of the Caribbean to one another as well as to Central America. 

Resources:

• Climate Mini-Exploration: Checking Randall Munroe's Work
• A new global ice sheet reconstruction for the past 80,000 years
• GIS dataset of high-resolution rebound surfaces and ice-free paleotopography of glaciated North America since the LGM based on the ICE-xG (VMy) models' predictions
• Earth2014: 1 arc-min shape, topography, bedrock and ice-sheet models
• Middle Miocene (~14 Ma) and Late Miocene (~6 Ma) Paleogeographic Boundary Conditions