Poh-tayh-toe:
Coming Anarchy also highlights multiple historical places with the same name; Albania, Iberia, Alexandria, various African nations, and Guinea. They don’t have one for Galicia, but they ought to.
Category: exclave_enclaves
Rearranging Europe:
From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates. Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]
Geography quiz #3:
Many countries have come into being and changed their public names since they became a separate nation. For this one, I’ll give you the old colonial name, and you tell me the modern name. Note that some of the places I’m giving you were eaten up by a larger local state and don’t exist as [...]
Indian irregulars: Cooch Behar
Silliness in boundaries, where fusses first created before 1750 have made the boundaries between India and Bangladesh a serious mess of someone-else’s problem. Of course, this all should have been settled out long ago…
Another oil war:
I’d pay attention to the Georgia / Russia if I were you guys. There’s more than you think at stake.
Things that failed:
Not everything works that well. Here’s a posting about a set of ghost towns (some of which I had heard about, like the Walled City of Kowloon), and another about technologies that failed, such as webTV and the Newton.
Projects: overview
At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak. My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]
More on the Languages of Europe:
Cripes howdy, but I’m getting a lot of private mail on this one from that earlier post. Let me say that I was in a hurry to post, but that I had my own set of problems with all of those maps. Here’s some new maps that have been pointed out to me: This is [...]
Odd islands:
As some of you will note, Mr. Trivia and Mr. Map Enthusiast here likes to squirrel and roll around in all sorts of odd bits about odd bits of territory. Here’s a few recent adds: The Frisian Islands, all of which seem to have hung on to their own gumbly dialects – such as Texel, [...]