Posts Tagged ‘gagauz’
[AH] Five r/imaginarymaps #alternatehistory maps: Turks, Prussia, Prussia-Poland, Austria, Bavaria
- This r/imaginarymaps map imagines the creation, via migration in the 13th century, of a Turkic Christian minority akin to the Gagauz concentrated in northwestern Germany. Nice map, if questionable borders.
- What would have happened if, as nearly occurred in 1762, Prussia was crushed by its neighbours and divided? r/imaginarymaps shows the outcome.
- Could there ever have emerged, after the partitions of Poland, a dual-nation kingdom of Prussia-Poland? r/imaginarymaps shows this country.
- This r/imaginarymaps map imagines a southern Germany unified under Austria, separate from the sphere of Prussia in the north.
- Could a union of Bavaria with the German-speaking lands of Austria after 1919 have worked? r/imaginarymaps shows it.
[URBAN NOTE] Five cities links: Hamilton, Detroit, Luxembourg, Lisbon, Comrat
- Mark McNeil at the Hamilton Spectator notes that real estate prices in Hamilton, often thought of as Toronto’s less expensive bedroom community, are also rising very quickly.
- The VICE article takes a look at the man who created Detroit’s African Bead Museum.
- The former red-light district of Luxembourg City is also maneuvering to take advantage of the post-Brexit resettlement of Europeans financiers. Bloomberg reports.
- Architectuul looks at how architects in Lisbon are trying to take advantage of their changing city, to help make it more accessible to all.
- The Guardian has a photo essay focusing on Comrat, a decidedly Soviet-influenced city that is the capital of the autonomous region of Gagauzia, in Moldova.
[BLOG] Some politics links
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer is concerned with Trump: what would happen if a terrorist attack occurred under his rule, would he actually be able to save money from changing foreign basing, do terrorist attacks help him in the polls?
- Towleroad notes the advent of marriage equality in Greenland.
- Window on Eurasia notes legal challenges to Russian autocracy in regional courts, notes Tatarstan’s controversial support of the Gagauz, notes Protestants in Ukraine are strongly Ukrainian, and analyzes Russia’s response to the Brussels attack.
- The Financial Times‘ The World notes Poland’s use of public relations firms to deal with its PR problems.
[LINK] The Gagauz
The position of the Gagauz, a rare Orthodox Christian Turkic nation concentrated in the south of Moldova. I just wish that I knew more about them–their origins, the process of consolidation, their current dynamics–than what’s in the above linked Wikipedia article.