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[Disclaimer]: This is quite an old drawing of mine and there are quite a few things I would have done differently now and corrected

Descriptions adjacent to the names are taken from Wikipedia: List of Fictional European Countries. Underneath each description is a short account of my reasoning in placing each country onto the map, based off of information in their respective works of fiction. My limit was 2 nations per franchise to avoid getting too cluttered. Some countries that you might be looking for won't be on the map, and in the context of this timeline, it's assumed that these particular nations don't exist anymore; they have been annexed and absorbed into larger countries. I also left out a selection of less serious, mock countries such as 'Chokovakia' or 'Bacteria'.

Feedback and suggestions are certainly welcome.

List:

Alaine: small European kingdom from the film His Majesty, the American (1919).

A small nation surrounded wholly by France, likened to how San Marino is a small nation surrounded wholly by Italy.

Anatruria: Balkanic kingdom in the Bernie Rhodenbarr novel The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart.

Placed in the balkans in the vicinity of Italy, as the name resembles Italian.

Arstotzka: the communist state in the video game Papers, Please where the player character works as an immigration inspector at a border checkpoint.

An existing map depiction resembles the region around the Ukraine-Russia border on the Azov Sea. The native name written in Cyrillic could be Арстоцка. Kolechia, a neighbor, is a rival to Arstotzka despite having a lot of common history. On a side note, Kolechia almost perfectly fits where in OTL lies the Donetsk People's Republic. Obristan, Antegria, Impor and Republia, are no longer sovereign.

Ascovia: a fictional east European nation featured in the 1987 Eagle Annual.

I didn't find too much information regarding this nation, so trying to place it somewhere was more of a guess than placing the other nations. It's somewhere Eastern Europe, somewhere Slavic. Cyrillic: Асковия.

Baltish: a fictional country from a Lithuanian TV show of the same name.

Parody of Post-Soviet Lithuania and the Baltic region. The native name could be something like Baltaš.

Drica (Bandrika/Mandrika): Eastern European Alpine country, the setting of the first part of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Lady Vanishes. / Mountainous European country on The Lady Vanishes (1938).

The film actually has depicts two separate alpine nations known as Bandrika and Mandrika. Let's assume that in this timeline they unite to form Drika/Drica (for the sake of simplicity.

Barataria: fictional island nation, presumably in the Mediterranean; setting for part of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. Becomes a Republican Monarchy during the course of the operetta.

Sounds Turkic (I think), so near Turkey in the Mediterranean.

Baronia: the country from which Prince Paul comes in The Secret Series by Enid Blyton.

Somewhere around Eastern Europe; Slavic. Native name: Борония

Blitva: state in northeastern Europe, ruled by a dictator; in a novel Banket u Blitvi (Banquet in Blitva) by Croatian novelist Miroslav Krleža.

Again, slavic, around Russia in northeastern Europe. Native name: Блитва.

Borginia: Northern-European country feature in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.

I could base this country around the real city of Viborg/Viipuri in Northern europe, due to the name being similar. Native name: Виборгиния.

Borovia: A communist Eastern European country in the G.I. Joe comics by Marvel Comics.

Another, *sigh* yes, Eastern European country. There will be quite a few more to come down the list. But, understandably, this is because of the political situation of the cold war era, which in turn fuelled many stories form the plentiful material. I decided against including all the other nations form the G.I. Joe universe as there are quite a few, many with quite odd names (Wolkekuckukkland?) that wouldn't fit. I actually wanted to include these places too, but couldn't. So, assume as a part of this timeline that they have ceased to exist as nations. Native names: Боровия (Slavic), Boróföld (Hungarian), Bârău (Romanian). Because Borovia lies on the confluence of these three people groups.

Carpania / Trans-Carpathia: European kingdom in film The Great Race (1965) / A country in Eastern Europe, used in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Trans-Carpathia is also a real region in the Ukraine.

Since these two countries are described fairly similarly with considerable overlap, I decided to merge them into one general nation of 'Carpathia', based on the OTL Trans-Carpathia region of Ukraine.

Chernarus: post-soviet country in the video game ArmA 2 and its spin-off, DayZ.

There is an existing map of the country being depicted on a south-easterly coast. The best place I figured would be to put it on the predominantly Slavic Crimean Peninsula, along the Black Sea (Hence 'Cherna' Rus), despite having to make the country quite small. Takistan Borders Chernarus to the west. It could be inhabited by a Turkic group, related to the Tatars.

Costa Lottsa: Tiny nation located between Italy and France, mentioned in San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups.

Small nation like Monaco, tourist hotspot, speaks Italian.

Dalmatia: a tiny Germanic nation whose royal family were exiled to Great Britain after a communist revolution there. Seen in the TV series You Rang, M'Lord?

I decided to base this off the real life counterpart of Dalmatia, the native germanic name of their country could be Dalmazia like in OTL standard German.

Drasuvania (ドラスベニア Dorasubenia): is a fictional Eastern Europe country in the world of 11eyes. It is the home country of Verard and Yukiko Hirohara. It lies at the border between Europe and Asia.

Many animes tends have a lot more creative and fantasty-like settings, not constrainting to a strict realistic depiction of OTL Europe, so I was unsure where to place Drasuvania. Thankfully, Drasuvania is further out near the continental borders, much further from the rest of Europe, so there isn't too much contrast created.

Estrovia: European kingdom in the film A King in New York (1990).

Slavic. I decided to place it so that it holds the title as the southernmost Slavic nation. The area where it lies was a part of Bulgaria at one period.

Evallonia: Central European country in the novels of John Buchan.

Sounds like Wallonia.

Evarchia: Eastern European country from Brigid Brophy's Palace Without Chairs.

I decided that it sounds like Wallachia, so placed it nearby, as such.

Graustark: Eastern European country in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon.
I excluded.

Mentioned as somewhere in the Carpathian mountains near Romania. It's neighbors from the franchise, Axphain and Dawsbergen, no longer exist.

Hav: A European city-state in Jan Morris's novel Last Letters from Hav. Crimea-like in location.

Small city-state. Native name: Хов.

Krakozhia: from the film The Terminal (2004).

Partially recognised, as happens in the film. Would be near Bulgaria, as the language spoken by Tom Hanks' character is heavily based off Bulgarian. In this timeline, Krakozhia is a small nation vying for independence (similar to Kosovo) from both Bulgaria and Serbia (being claimed by both). The war ravages and destroys many people's lives.

Laurania: the republic in Savrola (A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania) by Winston Churchill.

Along the Mediterranean coast, based off of Italy.

Leutonia: Eastern European home of the Happy Wanderers (Yosh & Stan Shmenge) from SCTV.

The name sounds more Romance than Slavic, so around Moldova and Romania would suit it.

Lichtenburg: Balkan grand duchy in the film The Son of Monte Cristo (1940).

Similar micronation as Liechtenstein.

Lucrania: pro-Nazi country bordering Germany, France and Switzerland in Biggles – Secret Agent by W. E. Johns.

Marshovia: small Eastern European kingdom most likely located somewhere near Transylvania in the operetta The Merry Widow.

Маршовия. Mostly based on the real life region of Bukovina.

Medici

Italian island nation in the Mediterranean sea, from the video game Just Cause 3.

Moldavia / Molvanîa: Eastern European country from Dynasty TV series / Molvanîa: Eastern European country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.

Multiple fictional nations inspired by the real life Moldova exist, so I decided to combine their representations into the real life Moldova, and call it Moldavia.

Mypos: Native home of Balki Bartokomous on Perfect Strangers.

Greek island unnamed on the map. Just west of Crete.

Poictesme: a country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell.

The existing map of the country is too stylised and and general, so I didn't take much advice from it. Modern spelling as Poitême.

Pottsylvania: from Jay Ward's cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

In this timeline, the rough region of East Prussia becomes its own country after the conclusion of WW2, inherited by the 'Potts' people, a Balto-slavic group. Pocówo in Polish, Pocuva in Lithuanian.

Caghlm (Qwghlm): a country off the northwestern coast of Britain in Neal Stephenson's fictions Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.

I edited the name to make it slighly more suitable for Celtic orthography.

Ruritania

There are multiple countries based on the theme from 'Rurutanian Romance Genre', which I represent with a general 'Ruritania' nation. The genre was given rise to by Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and associated works. Fictional nations inspired by so: Marisi and Fasilica appears in Rex Stout's A Prize for Princes, Sciriel in Roland Pertwee's late (1927) Ruritanian romance, and Barscheit which is a principality in The Princess Elopes (1905) by Harold MacGrath.

Sauville: small kingdom between France, Switzerland and Italy from anime series Gosick. It consists of parts of the real Italian provinces: Aosta Valley, Liguria, Piedmont.

A Romance, French speaking nation.

The People's Republic of Slaka: a Balkan communist country in Malcolm Bradbury's Rates of Exchange and its sequel Why Come to Slaka? It also featured in the BBC drama, the Gravy Train moves East.

Sokovia: a Eastern European country home of H.Y.D.R.A. and birthplace of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver from Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Соковіја. Like with the G.I. Joe universe, I refrained from including all nations mentioned in the franchise, especially the original comics, to prevent clutter. Sokovia is the most well known nation form the franchise. Spelling convention suggests relation with Serbian Cyrillic, so Sokovia wouldn't be a far out East Slavic nation. Also depicted as being quite mountainous.

Island of Sodor (UK): between England and the Isle of Man

The setting for the Reverend Wilbert Awdry's and his son Christopher's The Railway Series (Which is what the popular children's TV show Thomas The Tank Engine is based off of) railway network managed by Sir Topham Hatt aka The Fat Controller. Wilbert Awdry and his younger brother George, created impressive workings of Sodor's history, geography, culture and language (Sudric), more than they would ever use in the series.

St Gregory (UK): A British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands, featured in the ITV series Island at War. Based upon Jersey and Guernsey.

Unnamed on the map. West of the channel islands.

Syldavia: Balkan monarchy featured in four stories of The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring Borduria. Borduria: totalitarian state from the comics series The Adventures of Tintin, located in the Balkans.

Probably one of the most well-known nations from fiction and one of my personal favorites; Created by the Author, Hergé, taking inspiration form Balkan countries, namely Montenegro and Greece. He even created a functioning language, Syldavian, a 'South-Germanic' language influenced by Slavic. Syldavia is partially what inspired me to do this whole project.

Transylvania / Vasaria

The very well know land of Transylvania; its name synonymous with 'horror', source of many well-known stories, home of the mythical creature known as the 'vampire'. I decided to use the original inspiration; the OTL region of Transylvania in Eastern Europe, which I combined with Vasaria: A Central European state which served as the setting for a number of classic horror films produced by Universal Studios during the 1940s. Specifically: Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and House of Dracula.

Varania: appeared in the Three Investigators series (created by Robert Arthur, Jr.) in the book The Mystery of the Silver Spider (1967).

Westmark: country from Lloyd Alexander's Westmark Trilogy.

Placed it close to the real region of Westmark, but more south where Alsace and Lorraine are, on the border between the German and French speaking areas.

Zubrowka: location of the eponymous hotel in the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel, a European alpine state ravaged by war and poverty; unrelated to the Polish vodka Żubrówka.

And lastly Zubrowka, the other of my favorites, a Central European country with German and Czech influences. Between Austria and the Czech Republic, Zubrowka is an Alpine nation. The same area in OTL doesn't have alpine areas, so as a part of this timeline, an extension of the Alps exists in this region. In the film it is said that Zubrowka is eventually annexed (around about the beginning of WW2) by an imperialist nation, presumably Nazi Germany. The country' s fate is not clear, so I have assumed that after the war, its status as nation would be restored.

I quite enjoyed working on this map, and in the process learned about many works of fiction that I hadn't known or known little about, including many respected and forgotten works.

Description

[Disclaimer]: This is quite an old drawing of mine and there are quite a few things I would have done differently now and corrected

Descriptions adjacent to the names are taken from Wikipedia: List of Fictional European Countries. Underneath each description is a short account of my reasoning in placing each country onto the map, based off of information in their respective works of fiction. My limit was 2 nations per franchise to avoid getting too cluttered. Some countries that you might be looking for won't be on the map, and in the context of this timeline, it's assumed that these particular nations don't exist anymore; they have been annexed and absorbed into larger countries. I also left out a selection of less serious, mock countries such as 'Chokovakia' or 'Bacteria'.

Feedback and suggestions are certainly welcome.

List:

Alaine: small European kingdom from the film His Majesty, the American (1919).

A small nation surrounded wholly by France, likened to how San Marino is a small nation surrounded wholly by Italy.

Anatruria: Balkanic kingdom in the Bernie Rhodenbarr novel The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart.

Placed in the balkans in the vicinity of Italy, as the name resembles Italian.

Arstotzka: the communist state in the video game Papers, Please where the player character works as an immigration inspector at a border checkpoint.

An existing map depiction resembles the region around the Ukraine-Russia border on the Azov Sea. The native name written in Cyrillic could be Арстоцка. Kolechia, a neighbor, is a rival to Arstotzka despite having a lot of common history. On a side note, Kolechia almost perfectly fits where in OTL lies the Donetsk People's Republic. Obristan, Antegria, Impor and Republia, are no longer sovereign.

Ascovia: a fictional east European nation featured in the 1987 Eagle Annual.

I didn't find too much information regarding this nation, so trying to place it somewhere was more of a guess than placing the other nations. It's somewhere Eastern Europe, somewhere Slavic. Cyrillic: Асковия.

Baltish: a fictional country from a Lithuanian TV show of the same name.

Parody of Post-Soviet Lithuania and the Baltic region. The native name could be something like Baltaš.

Drica (Bandrika/Mandrika): Eastern European Alpine country, the setting of the first part of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Lady Vanishes. / Mountainous European country on The Lady Vanishes (1938).

The film actually has depicts two separate alpine nations known as Bandrika and Mandrika. Let's assume that in this timeline they unite to form Drika/Drica (for the sake of simplicity.

Barataria: fictional island nation, presumably in the Mediterranean; setting for part of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. Becomes a Republican Monarchy during the course of the operetta.

Sounds Turkic (I think), so near Turkey in the Mediterranean.

Baronia: the country from which Prince Paul comes in The Secret Series by Enid Blyton.

Somewhere around Eastern Europe; Slavic. Native name: Борония

Blitva: state in northeastern Europe, ruled by a dictator; in a novel Banket u Blitvi (Banquet in Blitva) by Croatian novelist Miroslav Krleža.

Again, slavic, around Russia in northeastern Europe. Native name: Блитва.

Borginia: Northern-European country feature in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.

I could base this country around the real city of Viborg/Viipuri in Northern europe, due to the name being similar. Native name: Виборгиния.

Borovia: A communist Eastern European country in the G.I. Joe comics by Marvel Comics.

Another, *sigh* yes, Eastern European country. There will be quite a few more to come down the list. But, understandably, this is because of the political situation of the cold war era, which in turn fuelled many stories form the plentiful material. I decided against including all the other nations form the G.I. Joe universe as there are quite a few, many with quite odd names (Wolkekuckukkland?) that wouldn't fit. I actually wanted to include these places too, but couldn't. So, assume as a part of this timeline that they have ceased to exist as nations. Native names: Боровия (Slavic), Boróföld (Hungarian), Bârău (Romanian). Because Borovia lies on the confluence of these three people groups.

Carpania / Trans-Carpathia: European kingdom in film The Great Race (1965) / A country in Eastern Europe, used in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. Trans-Carpathia is also a real region in the Ukraine.

Since these two countries are described fairly similarly with considerable overlap, I decided to merge them into one general nation of 'Carpathia', based on the OTL Trans-Carpathia region of Ukraine.

Chernarus: post-soviet country in the video game ArmA 2 and its spin-off, DayZ.

There is an existing map of the country being depicted on a south-easterly coast. The best place I figured would be to put it on the predominantly Slavic Crimean Peninsula, along the Black Sea (Hence 'Cherna' Rus), despite having to make the country quite small. Takistan Borders Chernarus to the west. It could be inhabited by a Turkic group, related to the Tatars.

Costa Lottsa: Tiny nation located between Italy and France, mentioned in San Sombrèro: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups.

Small nation like Monaco, tourist hotspot, speaks Italian.

Dalmatia: a tiny Germanic nation whose royal family were exiled to Great Britain after a communist revolution there. Seen in the TV series You Rang, M'Lord?

I decided to base this off the real life counterpart of Dalmatia, the native germanic name of their country could be Dalmazia like in OTL standard German.

Drasuvania (ドラスベニア Dorasubenia): is a fictional Eastern Europe country in the world of 11eyes. It is the home country of Verard and Yukiko Hirohara. It lies at the border between Europe and Asia.

Many animes tends have a lot more creative and fantasty-like settings, not constrainting to a strict realistic depiction of OTL Europe, so I was unsure where to place Drasuvania. Thankfully, Drasuvania is further out near the continental borders, much further from the rest of Europe, so there isn't too much contrast created.

Estrovia: European kingdom in the film A King in New York (1990).

Slavic. I decided to place it so that it holds the title as the southernmost Slavic nation. The area where it lies was a part of Bulgaria at one period.

Evallonia: Central European country in the novels of John Buchan.

Sounds like Wallonia.

Evarchia: Eastern European country from Brigid Brophy's Palace Without Chairs.

I decided that it sounds like Wallachia, so placed it nearby, as such.

Graustark: Eastern European country in several novels by George Barr McCutcheon.
I excluded.

Mentioned as somewhere in the Carpathian mountains near Romania. It's neighbors from the franchise, Axphain and Dawsbergen, no longer exist.

Hav: A European city-state in Jan Morris's novel Last Letters from Hav. Crimea-like in location.

Small city-state. Native name: Хов.

Krakozhia: from the film The Terminal (2004).

Partially recognised, as happens in the film. Would be near Bulgaria, as the language spoken by Tom Hanks' character is heavily based off Bulgarian. In this timeline, Krakozhia is a small nation vying for independence (similar to Kosovo) from both Bulgaria and Serbia (being claimed by both). The war ravages and destroys many people's lives.

Laurania: the republic in Savrola (A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania) by Winston Churchill.

Along the Mediterranean coast, based off of Italy.

Leutonia: Eastern European home of the Happy Wanderers (Yosh & Stan Shmenge) from SCTV.

The name sounds more Romance than Slavic, so around Moldova and Romania would suit it.

Lichtenburg: Balkan grand duchy in the film The Son of Monte Cristo (1940).

Similar micronation as Liechtenstein.

Lucrania: pro-Nazi country bordering Germany, France and Switzerland in Biggles – Secret Agent by W. E. Johns.

Marshovia: small Eastern European kingdom most likely located somewhere near Transylvania in the operetta The Merry Widow.

Маршовия. Mostly based on the real life region of Bukovina.

Medici

Italian island nation in the Mediterranean sea, from the video game Just Cause 3.

Moldavia / Molvanîa: Eastern European country from Dynasty TV series / Molvanîa: Eastern European country from a parody travel guidebook; from the same authors as Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.

Multiple fictional nations inspired by the real life Moldova exist, so I decided to combine their representations into the real life Moldova, and call it Moldavia.

Mypos: Native home of Balki Bartokomous on Perfect Strangers.

Greek island unnamed on the map. Just west of Crete.

Poictesme: a country situated roughly in the south of France in the books of James Branch Cabell.

The existing map of the country is too stylised and and general, so I didn't take much advice from it. Modern spelling as Poitême.

Pottsylvania: from Jay Ward's cartoon series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

In this timeline, the rough region of East Prussia becomes its own country after the conclusion of WW2, inherited by the 'Potts' people, a Balto-slavic group. Pocówo in Polish, Pocuva in Lithuanian.

Caghlm (Qwghlm): a country off the northwestern coast of Britain in Neal Stephenson's fictions Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle.

I edited the name to make it slighly more suitable for Celtic orthography.

Ruritania

There are multiple countries based on the theme from 'Rurutanian Romance Genre', which I represent with a general 'Ruritania' nation. The genre was given rise to by Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda and associated works. Fictional nations inspired by so: Marisi and Fasilica appears in Rex Stout's A Prize for Princes, Sciriel in Roland Pertwee's late (1927) Ruritanian romance, and Barscheit which is a principality in The Princess Elopes (1905) by Harold MacGrath.

Sauville: small kingdom between France, Switzerland and Italy from anime series Gosick. It consists of parts of the real Italian provinces: Aosta Valley, Liguria, Piedmont.

A Romance, French speaking nation.

The People's Republic of Slaka: a Balkan communist country in Malcolm Bradbury's Rates of Exchange and its sequel Why Come to Slaka? It also featured in the BBC drama, the Gravy Train moves East.

Sokovia: a Eastern European country home of H.Y.D.R.A. and birthplace of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver from Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Соковіја. Like with the G.I. Joe universe, I refrained from including all nations mentioned in the franchise, especially the original comics, to prevent clutter. Sokovia is the most well known nation form the franchise. Spelling convention suggests relation with Serbian Cyrillic, so Sokovia wouldn't be a far out East Slavic nation. Also depicted as being quite mountainous.

Island of Sodor (UK): between England and the Isle of Man

The setting for the Reverend Wilbert Awdry's and his son Christopher's The Railway Series (Which is what the popular children's TV show Thomas The Tank Engine is based off of) railway network managed by Sir Topham Hatt aka The Fat Controller. Wilbert Awdry and his younger brother George, created impressive workings of Sodor's history, geography, culture and language (Sudric), more than they would ever use in the series.

St Gregory (UK): A British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands, featured in the ITV series Island at War. Based upon Jersey and Guernsey.

Unnamed on the map. West of the channel islands.

Syldavia: Balkan monarchy featured in four stories of The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring Borduria. Borduria: totalitarian state from the comics series The Adventures of Tintin, located in the Balkans.

Probably one of the most well-known nations from fiction and one of my personal favorites; Created by the Author, Hergé, taking inspiration form Balkan countries, namely Montenegro and Greece. He even created a functioning language, Syldavian, a 'South-Germanic' language influenced by Slavic. Syldavia is partially what inspired me to do this whole project.

Transylvania / Vasaria

The very well know land of Transylvania; its name synonymous with 'horror', source of many well-known stories, home of the mythical creature known as the 'vampire'. I decided to use the original inspiration; the OTL region of Transylvania in Eastern Europe, which I combined with Vasaria: A Central European state which served as the setting for a number of classic horror films produced by Universal Studios during the 1940s. Specifically: Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and House of Dracula.

Varania: appeared in the Three Investigators series (created by Robert Arthur, Jr.) in the book The Mystery of the Silver Spider (1967).

Westmark: country from Lloyd Alexander's Westmark Trilogy.

Placed it close to the real region of Westmark, but more south where Alsace and Lorraine are, on the border between the German and French speaking areas.

Zubrowka: location of the eponymous hotel in the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel, a European alpine state ravaged by war and poverty; unrelated to the Polish vodka Żubrówka.

And lastly Zubrowka, the other of my favorites, a Central European country with German and Czech influences. Between Austria and the Czech Republic, Zubrowka is an Alpine nation. The same area in OTL doesn't have alpine areas, so as a part of this timeline, an extension of the Alps exists in this region. In the film it is said that Zubrowka is eventually annexed (around about the beginning of WW2) by an imperialist nation, presumably Nazi Germany. The country' s fate is not clear, so I have assumed that after the war, its status as nation would be restored.

I quite enjoyed working on this map, and in the process learned about many works of fiction that I hadn't known or known little about, including many respected and forgotten works.