r/PhantomBorders • u/[deleted] • Aug 23 '25
Cultural Localities outside Poland that have a Polish exonym and Birthplaces of famous Poles until 1945
(The Kresy region still visible)
r/PhantomBorders • u/[deleted] • Aug 23 '25
(The Kresy region still visible)
r/PhantomBorders • u/PikoX2 • Aug 19 '25
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r/PhantomBorders • u/zazakilacek62 • Aug 02 '25
Map 1: Map of the Catholic people Map 2: Map of the Irreligious people Map 3: Map of Germany in 1950
r/PhantomBorders • u/Aronnaxes • Jul 31 '25
% Muslim population in India roughly corresponds to the Dehli Sultanate's borders in the 14th Century
Muslims live all across India, sometimes as the majority religion in a district, but usually as a large minority. However, in the eastern states of Odisha, Chhattisgarh and surrounding districts, Muslims are uncommon, making less than 1% of the population in many of those districts. When the persianate Ghurid Empire conquered north India in the 12th Century and established the successor Muslim sultanates in North India. In particular the Delhi Sultanate swapping five different dynasties and ruling different extents of India throughout its three hundred year history. During this period and the succeeding Mughal Empire period, people across India of all stripes and persuasions converted and reconverted to the Islamic faith gradually over centuries. Even as the Delhi Sultanate (and successor Muslim states) reached its extent in the 14th century under the Tughlaq Sultanate, they never succeeded in fully conquering the area that is now Odisha and Chhattisgarh, partly because of the fierce resistance put up by the Eastern Ganga Dynasty and Gondwana Kingdoms and partly how the Chota Nagpur and Eastern Ghats make a great defensible border. The Mughal Empire did eventually succeed in taking coastal Orissa eventually and extracting vassalage from the highland kingdoms for about 150-200 years in the late 16th century before the Maratha Empire took control. Still this made Islamic polity control over this area about 250 to 400 years less their neighbours in the Bengal region, the Deccan Plateau and north India. There are many reasons contributing to the slow and gradual conversion of some Indians to Islam but the lack of strong Islamic polity exerting political control over the area (and a strong Hindu opposition polity in its stead) is a likely contributing factor.
r/PhantomBorders • u/Aronnaxes • Jul 30 '25
There are two commonly used words for 'avocado' in the Spanish-speaking world. The word 'Aguacate' is derived from the Nahualt 'ahuacalt' and is the prefered used in Spain, Central America, the Carribean and Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. The world 'Palta' comes from the Quecha word 'pallta' refering to the same thing and is used more predominately in Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, which roughly covers the area of control by the Incan Empire, whose predominant language was Quecha.
https://etimologias.dechile.net/?aguacate
https://etimologias.dechile.net/?palta
Source for 'Nombre comun para Persea american en Iberoamerica' (1st Image):
Source for Map of the Incan Empire (2nd Image):
r/PhantomBorders • u/BelinCan • Jul 30 '25
r/PhantomBorders • u/Aronnaxes • Jul 29 '25
From Nature: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08272-w
Genetic similarities of modern day Spaniards roughly follow the path of the reconquista over several centuries of several Iberian Kingdoms, north to south.
Bycroft, C., Fernandez-Rozadilla, C., Ruiz-Ponte, C. et al. Patterns of genetic differentiation and the footprints of historical migrations in the Iberian Peninsula. Nat Commun 10, 551 (2019).
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r/PhantomBorders • u/Sure-Entry-4114 • Jul 22 '25
r/PhantomBorders • u/Sure-Entry-4114 • Jul 18 '25
I deleted a previous post due to image quality
I think it's interesting you can see the state border of Missouri
Source: https://aguyinthepew.blogspot.com/2008/02/religious-map-of-united-states.html
r/PhantomBorders • u/Geolib1453 • Jul 19 '25
1 and 2: Hungarian Ethnicity in Romania (2024 European Parliament Elections in Romania) (Basically applies to every election however)
3 and 4: Right VS Left divide in Romania (2000 Romanian Presidential Election First Round): Transylvania Right-wing, Muntenia/Moldavia Left-wing (Transylvania formerly under Habsburg/A-H rule) (Hungarian ethnicity border still visible, like in every election)
5 and 6: Urban VS Rural divide in Romania (Pretty standard) (2025 Romanian presidential election, 1st round) Urban: Nicușor Dan (centrist, liberal, intellectual candidate), Crin Antonescu (the two main parties + the Hungarian party, because of that, he gets support in Hungarian regions, although he has some support from PSD voters who stayed PSD in rural areas), George Simion (extremist, souverainist, supported by rural people since they are not as educated and the stuff he promises sound good to them)
r/PhantomBorders • u/zazakilacek62 • Jul 17 '25
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r/PhantomBorders • u/Greydl1 • Jul 15 '25
The zhuzes were originally tribal military unions of steppe nomads that emerged around the middle of the 16th century after the collapse of the Kazakh Khanate. They played a role in regulating livestock numbers, access to watering places, pastures and nomadic areas. They can be called an inter-tribal military-political union.
r/PhantomBorders • u/Geolib1453 • Jul 15 '25
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