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garfaagel @sh.itjust.works

2y ago

Europe in the 20th century, as imagined by Henri Dron in 1863.

One more map:

Dron wrote a booklet about the dream he had about this future Europe, and how it all came to be. It is available in French here.

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"Circassian" isn't a word I've heard before, but it has an ethnography:
https://study.com/academy/lesson/circassians-history-culture.html
Circassia and that Greek Empire are both pretty bold predictions for 1863, along with a World Capital in Lisbon. I wonder what Dron would have predicted for Anatolia... maybe some sort of renewed Caliphate across the mideast? I think it's interesting that Gdansk/Danzig seems to be in Germany but Konigsberg/Kaliningrad is in Poland. Seems like a pretty arbitrary straight line border there, I guess Dron couldn't predict a border at our current one after Germany lost two world wars.