[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13730) 12+1 nations patch

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13730 >


> Aside from this I haven't closely examined the nations or flags (I may
> just skim them before committing so if anyone feels strongly about
> nations you should give the patch your own review).
>
> -jason
>

Great. I'll make a brief presentation of the newly introduced nations 
here then.

The Uyghurs, Manchu and Tibetans are three nations that are more or 
less a part of China proper today. The Uyghurs are a Turk people and 
the Manchus are related to the Mongols and Koreans. The Tibetan nation 
is perhaps the best known in the West of these three, and shouldn't be 
controversial.

Uyghur flag is that of Turkestan, a presumptive region in Central Asia. 
It's very similar to the Turkey flag, but with blue background and 
without the thin white stripe on the left. Manchu flag is the imperial 
banner of the Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China. Qing 
dynasty was established by Manchu warlords after conquering the Ming 
dynasty in the 17th centry. This dynasty was also called the Great 
Manchu Empire and all emperors were ethnically Manchu.

Uyghur city names are historical and modern cities in Xinjiang province 
of China. Manchu cities were collected from a demographic report of the 
20th century Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (Qing cities are taken 
by Chinese nation and earlier records are difficult to find.) Tibetan 
cities are from a historical map of Tibet, complemented with modern 
Tibetan cities.

Ryukyans (or Luchuans) are the native people of Okinawa, now a part of 
the kingdom of Japan. Read more in it's original ticket.

Sami (or Lapp) are a semi-nomadic people in Scandinavia; theoretically 
related to the Finns. Sapmi (the name of the Sami nation) flag is 
official and adopted by the Sami Parliament in Norway. Cities are 
collected from a map of northern Scandinavia and carefully researched.

Australian Aborigines are the major First Nation of Australia (surprise 
surprise) and Maori is the First Nation of New Zealand. City names are 
a random selection of village names from Australia and New Zealand 
respectively. Flags are official but very recent: Both were adopted in 
the 90's.

The Lankese are the people of Sri Lanka, an island country south off 
the coast of India.

Iraqi and Cuban are both modern nations. So are Tunisian, Sudanese, 
Libyan and Algerian; all four modern North African nations.

Attaching a new patch that will fit the latest CVS. Hoping for the 
best. :-)

Daniel

P.S. Don't forget to remove columbian.ruleset and rename current 
iraq_old.svg -> iraq.svg D.S.

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