MAPS OF THE FICTIONAL PAST


This part is a project which still needs inputs from national historians.

Many old maps can be found at the Alvare Institute, Lendosa, like the following:

Map of the Ulanova Empire (817 BP):

From: Lavrenti Kukov
Date: Mon Aug 9, 1999 6:35 am
Subject: [vexillium] Re: Call for Ancient Historical Maps

To His Royal Majesty Edward II of Christiana,

Attached is a copy of a map which hangs in my office and has been the epicenter of my life's research into the early history of the Ulan Empire. The original is kept in the Ulanova National Archives, in the basement of the Presidential Palace under the care of the Department of Records.

The dating and naming of most of the places on the map are mostly a mystery. The Ignallish alphabet did not reach the Ulan culture until the Danske sacking of Ulana in the fifth century BP; the original map is written entirely in an ancient Ulan hieroglyphic which eludes all attempts, it seems, at translation. The few legible portions on the map I am sending you were translated with the aid of tax records and accounts from the early Second Ulan Empire--from which a handful of documents containing both languages have survived.

It's commonly believed that the 15th Year of Yuri II corresponds to roughly 817 BP in our modern calender, dating the map at 1100+ years.

I have sent you this map in the hopes that it will aid Christiana in the publication of the Atlas of the Ancient World. I am eager to see the
fruit of this ambitious endeavour and wish your cartographers the best of luck.

With deepest respect,

Dr. Lavrenti Kukov, PhD
Professor of History
University of Port City West

Some of the maps found by or submitted to the editor in this context have already been revealed as fiction or propaganda. As an example see the map published by Christiana and scrutinized on the Feniz homepage.


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