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[jrittenhouse]

Coming Anarchy also highlights multiple historical places with the same name; Albania, Iberia, Alexandria,  various African nations, and Guinea.  They don’t have one for Galicia, but they ought to.

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[seawasp]

And where is Grand Fenwick?

[jrittenhouse]

Last I heard, it was absorbed by Ruritania.

[ckd]

Which is itself now a province of West Xylophone.

[stickmaker]

Or was it Freedonia, which turned Marxist?

http://go.to/footnotestohistory

[jrittenhouse]

Fredonia, Republic of- When Mexico opened Texas to settlement by American citizens, land speculators rushed in to make their fortunes. One of these carpetbaggers, Haden Edwards, infuriated many settlers in 1825 by producing a contract he had extracted from the Mexican government. It required Texas settlers to prove their ownership of their land or pay Edwards rent. The outraged settlers naturally complained, and the Mexican government revoked Edwards' contract and expelled him. In December of 1826, his brother Benjamin Edwards led a group of thirty men into Texas. They seized control of the town of Nacogdoches, and declared eastern Texas the Republic of Fredonia. The nascent government allied with Cherokees who had taken refuge in Texas under Dr. John Hunter; the resultant agreement basically divided Texas into Anglo-American and Cherokee halves. Edwards quickly realized that the American settlers had no intention of backing him. The Fredonians melted away at the first rumor of Mexican troops. Outraged at this lack of backbone, the

Re: http://go.to/footnotestohistory

[stickmaker]

Uhm, actually, I was referring to the fictional Freedonia, from the Marx Brothers movie _Duck Soup_.

Re: http://go.to/footnotestohistory

[jrittenhouse]

*grin* I know.