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The Places
of Terre d'Ange and their Real World Equivalents
Terre d'Ange : Real
World Equivalent
Alba:
Britain (England and Scotland)
Amilcar :
Barcelona
Aragonia :
Spain
Bhodistan :
India
Bryn Gorrydum :
some draw a connection
between Bryn Gorrydum and London. However, it is closest to the
area of The Wash. There is no city there, but Peterborough is the
closest big city.
Caerdicca Unitas
: Italy
Carthage :
the ancient empire of Carthage; coast of modern Morroco, Algeria,
Tunisia, and Libya
Ch'in : China
The Chowat : Hungary, Bulgaria,
Romania
City of Elua :
Avignon
Clunderry : Stoke-on-Trent
Cythera : Cyprus
Dobria : Dover (notable for its white
cliffs)
Drujan : Azerbaijan, Georgia, parts
of Northern Iran, and possibly parts of Southern Russia along the
Caspian Sea.
Eire : Eire
The Empire of the Sun : Japan
Ephesium : Turkey
Euskerria : Basque country
The Flatlands : the Benelux
countries- the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium
Gotland : Norway, Sweden, Finland
Hellas : Greece
Illyria : the Slavic coastal regions
including Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Albania
Innisclan : roughly, Carlisle England
Iskandria : Alexandria
Jebe-Barkal : Ethiopia, plus some
parts of Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti and southern Sudan
Khebbel-im-Akkad : the old Persian
Empire, which makes a bit of sense as the Persians conquered the
Akkadian empire, situated along the Iranian plateau
Kriti : Crete
Kusheth : the region of Bretagne in
France
La Serenissima : Venice
The
Lake of Tears : Lake Victoria
Lucca : Lucca
Marsilikos : Marseille
Menekhet : Egypt
Meroë : Khartoum
Milazza : Milan
Miroslas : most likely either Kazan
or Ekaterinberg
Nahar River : Nile River
Nubia : Chad
Saba : derived from Sheba, contains
parts of modern Congo, Uganda, and Kenya
Shangun : Beijing
Skaldia : Germany
Tarkov : Moscow
Tatar territory : a general area
encompassing the vast expanse of the Mongol Empire (probably under
Ghengis Khan/Temujin)
Terra Nova : America
Terre d'Ange : France
Tiberium : Rome
Tisaar : Kisumu
The Umaiyyat : the Arabian Peninsula,
which is interesting because "ummah" in Arabic stands for the
entire united Arab world... which, during the time period of about
630-750 AD consisted solely of the Arabian Peninsula
Vralgrad : St. Petersburg (Petrograd,
Leningrad)
Vralia : Russia
This information was compiled and contributed by members: Daphne, Dowayne of Eglantine House and
Niklos Shahrizai, Adept of Bryony House.
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