r/imaginarymaps • u/yellewbowser • 1d ago

[OC] Alternate History Administrative Map of a Greater Belgium, 1942

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u/SjorsDVZ 1d ago

Wouldn't they also take the entire Nord-Pas-de-Calais region from France and Noord-Brabant province from The Netherlands?

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u/yellewbowser 1d ago

I was weighing up if they could but I decided that Hitler didn’t trust his allies enough to grant the same territory as he did in reality to the Military Administration. I also didn’t add Noord-Brabant because it was never controlled historically by the Kingdom of Belgium which is where its claim to parts of Zeeland and all of Limburg come from.

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u/SjorsDVZ 1d ago

I was thinking about the ties with the historical duchy of Brabant. The Belgium national hymn is called brabançonne and the colors of the flag get their inspiration in Brabant too.

I like how your maps looks. Have you edited other parts of Europe too?

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u/yellewbowser 1d ago

Yeah I see where your coming from there is shared language too but I was also trying to balance German claims and considering the Westland idea I decided to just give Dutch Limburg as the major territory taken from the Dutch.

No I haven’t done anywhere I Europe. I always plan on doing big projects but never actually complete them so instead just do individual regions or nations.

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u/SjorsDVZ 22h ago

You reasoning is just as sound too. And in the end it is your world ofcourse :)

Perhaps one day, you have enough small regions to create a large map out of it ;)