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Always in my universe, I share with you a map of Australia in 2016. If you don't know, in my timeline, sunni muslims were driven out of the Arabian peninsula and of Africa by a christian ethnic group, the Semorians.
You can learn more about this HERE , in the description. I tried to give realistic names, but it was a pretty hard thing to do. I've some knowledge about Islam and the muslims, but not many about the Arab language and the way they name places. I've started the creation of this map three weeks ago, maybe more, I did by myself each and every flag (sometime with shapes or coat of arm found on internet as free stuff). My favorites flags are maybe Nova-Java, Jaman, Dawha and North-Assynia.
If Australia was discovered by Ibn Batuta, a moroccan explorer working for the islamic sunni caliphate, the first settlers were actually portuguese. With the fall of the arabic caliphate and the rise of fahari islam supported by the Semorians, turks and mongols, and bloody massacres led by the Semorians, the sunnis massively left the Middle East to Australia (and also South America, Indonesia, west Africa). Nowadays, the Australian Islands are the scene of many conflicts, whether between different Muslim ethnic or confession, or between revolutionaries and loyalists. While the Middle East is relatively stable because of the imperial dictatorship imposed by the Semorians with the support of numerous ethnies (Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Bakhtiaris ...) and the massive christian immigration, the Australian Islands is a land where the red sand is no longer distinguishable of the scarlet blood. If the Islamic Caliphate wants to expand its influence and reconquer the Arabian peninsula and its holy places, they live on their land in relative harmony with the many Christians of Portuguese ancestry. At the same time, the Jamanis claim that the Sultan of Jaman, Sunfan Jamani is the expected Mahdi . A jamanist terrorist group Jaish al-Mahdi (Mahdi Army, not the same as the shia iraki Mahdi Army of our timeline) want to impose Sunfan Jamani as the great caliph of islam. The Jamanis believe that christians, shia and fahari muslims, are evil and need to be converted, expelled from the lands of Islam or killed.
(Sorry if I made some english mistakes, It's not my mother tongue and the english teaching in France is pretty lame)
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Semorians? Who are they? Can you explain it to me?
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How can Australia possibly have 124 million inhabitants? That seems like an awful lot.
other than that, it's a really good map though.
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Apart from the appalling aspect of this fantasy if it were reality you have completely ignored the pre-habitation of the entire continent by the original peoples - did your invaders kill them all off?
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[[ Anangu ]] are original habitats; so most likely no; actually do read the map; is OTL Australia that different ?! At least natives've their own state in this one tbh
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I forgot to ask; are there any aborigenes left in Australia or maori in NewZealand ?
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Some of these states look interesting. But the centre is pretty barren. They started up school of the air because the mail system was too slow. (I grew up out there, but live in an Brissie. ).
I probably would had went for having the pilbara and arnenland as indonesian or something, and papuans creeping across cape york.
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Intriguingly there is some Islamic radicalisation going on among many elders these days, so it's not unreasonable to assume that there would be some traction for Islam in aboriginal communities.
Historically there was already some degree of Islamic conversion going on in Arnhem Land before the British invaded;
""If you go to north-east Arnhem Land there is [a trace of Islam] in song, it is there in painting, it is there in dance, it is there in funeral rituals," says Bradley. "It is patently obvious that there are borrowed items. With linguistic analysis as well, you're hearing hymns to Allah, or at least certain prayers to Allah."
One example of this is a figure called Walitha'walitha, which is worshipped by a clan of the Yolngu people on Elcho Island, off the northern coast of Arnhem Land. The name derives from the Arabic phrase "Allah ta'ala", meaning "God, the exalted". Walitha'walitha is closely associated with funeral rituals, which can include other Islamic elements like facing west during prayers - roughly the direction of Mecca - and ritual prostration reminiscent of the Muslim sujood."
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-2726…
Coming from Brisbane with a family from Gympie, I think it's kinda funny to see they're the only ones intact in your world
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As an Australian, this is fascinating. Whilst I don't know so much about the viability of territorial claims to the rather inhospitable center of Australia without access to more livable regions (Anangu Emirate pops out), there's a commendable degree of creativity here. What I find particularly interesting is the integration of the Southern Cross into the traditional Islamic star and crescent moon in the flags of Novo-Java and Marbaa - given the thematic resonance between the southern cross and the Christan crucifix, how do you reconcile the combination of symbolism? Synchretism, multiculturalism, vagaries of alternate history, or something else?
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Thanks
In this universe, the technologies are far more advanced, in particular in agriculture and water desalination. Anangu Emirate is almost entirely dependent from the water provided by the Caliphate. The jamani rebellion often damages the water pipelines between Caliphate and Anangu Emirate, causing severe droughts.
About the southern cross on the flags of Novo-Java and Marbaa, the story is related to the friendship between Portugal and England. Portugal ruled most of the Northern half of Australia, from the Gulf of Cabanel (OTL Gulf of Carpentaria) to the west coast, while England was fighting against Netherlands and France for the control of the East. In addition to the present english territories of Brisbane & Macquarie, England ruled Marbaa, Jaman and Al-Sidani (Sydney). The English power used the Southern Cross on the flags of its australian colonies, and when Portugal and England decided to sign a treaty of close cooperation in Australia, Portuguese added to the flags of their australian colonies the Southern Cross as a symbol of christian unity.
When they gained independence, the arabized Jaman and Al-Sidani erased all trace of the English domination. Marbaa kept a great friendship for England, they decided to keep the southern cross on the national flag, by associating it with a muslim crescent. Same kind of story for Nova-Java, if the kingdom became a muslim place with the conversion of its king to islam, and if they are now allied with the Caliphate, they are still friend with Portugal and England. (As you can see, there is no pro-caliphate rebellion in Macquarie, Brisbane and Marbaa). Nova-Java rose as a very multicultural place where sunni and catholics live in peace, they kept the southern cross and added the caliphate green to the flag (blue for peace and sea, yellow for sun and wealth, green for islam and nature, black is the colour of the Nova-Java's muslim kings dynasty)
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Well-reasoned and an engaging read - thanks!
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I like the map. Have you by chance seen this alt history?
users.erols.com/mwhite28/misc/…
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I'm glad you like, thanks
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The amount of detail you have poured into this alternate history of Australia is astonishing, and I don't just mean in terms of visual detail
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Thanks
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I keep coming back to look at this map, it fascinates me so much
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How did you make this? It looks so beautiful....
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Thanks !
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Such as strange map and a really interesting scenario! Great work!
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So how does religion impact the Aboriginal people in Australia?
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Most Aboriginal people are sunni, and it kinda looks like islam in Africa, where the religion is really influenced by the local rites.
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Well, most Aboriginal people I've found still believe in the traditional dream-time beliefs pretty seriously even when the British honestly tried stripping it from them, so personally I find it unreasonable that most of them are Sunni without some real damned conflict and most of the population wiped out similar to now.
But... y'know, my opinion.
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Very nice! Can I ask you what fonts you used here? I really like them.
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Thanks ! I used Futura Lt BT
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Lovely! I am a bit skeptical about Australia (or Scorchingwastelandofpoisonbiteythingsstan) being able to support over 120 million people, but other than that, thumbs up for a fine and creative piece of work. I really like the flags and the detail work on the religious map. Will we get a world map one of these days?
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This is a Really Greant, İnteresting and Creative Alternate History !
Great Work !
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You are very much Welcome !
Great Work-Histories and Articles in your gallery !
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Best Australia map I've ever seen. I would be very interested in knowing the origins of these names.
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Japan is one of the major nation of this universe that controls almost fully the Pacific. Apart from its satellites states and protectorates, the japanese territory covers many Pacific islands, Hawaii, the northern part of the Philippines, Taïwan, Micronesia, Mariana Islands, Sakhalin, some parts of New Guinea ... Japan controls also some satellites like Korea, Ujira & Neraka in Africa (two states placed in OTL Namibia, created by japanese settlers) and have really brotherly relations with Condoria (a nation created by japanese settlers in south California/Baja California ...) Japan also own a lot of extraterrestrial colonies.
Concerning the Philippines, as I said, the Northern half is Japanese, while the southern half is part of the United Duchies of Malaysia, satellite nation of the Mali Empire
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This is so awesome, Australia is very rarely depicted in alternate history and usually when it's done it's very average this is so unique and very well executed I'm just in love with this map 
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Thanks ! I'm glad you like it !
The first known contacts of Aborigines with non-native peoples was with the muslims explorers during the second part of the XIVth century. If the encounters were peaceful, Muslims took away some indigenous to present them to the Caliph and study them. Most of them died of disease during the journey to the Arabian Peninsula. When the Portuguese decided to conquer the Terra australis, they began large evangelistic missions in Nova Java. Weakened by epidemics brought by Europeans, the natives often resigned themselves to suffer slavery.
When the islamic settlers came to Australia, they realized they would have to face the Portuguese power. They would have to destabilize the solid Portuguese colony that had settled and the solution wasn't so hard to find : they rallied to their cause the aboriginal peoples of the south and create a great alliance of all the aborigines by promising them that they would take back their land and their freedom. Centuries of war started then, and the aborigines where always sent in first line. The little islamo-arabic settlement became an empire, Australia and its natives were flooded under the arabic and european immigration. When the caliphate was proclaimed in Australia, the aborigines reminded to muslims their promise. The caliph decided to thank the natives by giving them the right to perpetuate their traditions and to be considered as equal. In fact, many aborigines were already converted to sunni Islam, and this new promise only create a derivative sunni islamic way of faith, the Anangi Islam. The Anangi islam is comparable to the african islam which is impregnated of ancient indigenous culture.
In the great influence area of the Caliphate, an aboriginal emirate was created, the Anangu Emirate with an emir of almost pure native ancestry. Nowadays, this emirate is in trouble, disturbed by the rise of communism in the traditional non-muslim aboriginal communities and by the wahhabi jamanic guerilla in the north of the country. Many massacres are commited by the Jamanis against the aboriginal populations.
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Thank you for the in-depth answer.
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