User:ChrisL123/Atlantic Islands

A sandbox for possible new articles/changes to the Atlantic Islands timeline.

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=Kingdom of Tariqua'a= The Kingdom of Tariqua'a (pronounced // , : Fa:qua'a lar Tariqua'a) was a powerful ancient empire based in the . The earliest proof of its existence dates from the 10th century; a Norse explorer,, wrote that he visited the kingdom c. 832. In Tariquan, ta means great, ri means "oceanic" or "of the ocean" and qua'a means "kingdom." (literally great oceanic kingdom or great kingdom of the ocean.)

In the 850s, the kingdom was attacked and conquered by. Many settlements were established, but many settlers were attacked by the Tariquans.



History
=Atlantic Islands in Popular Culture=

Novels

 * 1874:  (French: L'Île mystérieuse), by Jules Verne. Five prisoners escape and hijack a balloon and land on an uncharted island in the Atlantic after harsh storms.
 * 1954: The Volcano (Dutch: De Vulkaan), by . Set in World War II, a volcano erupts in New Velsen Island, and with little help from the Netherlands, leaving the survivors helpless.
 * 1989: The Unfrozen World of Atlantis (Portuguese: Descongelada Mundo da Atlântida), by Carlos Brochas. An alternate history novel explores the world where the ice caps never retracted after the (which meant the sea level was lower), and Atlantis really did exist.
 * 2011: Perditus, a supernatural thriller by Daniel Smith. After a mysterious case of amnesia, shipwrecked passengers must discover where and why they woke up on an uncharted island in the Atlantic.

Television

 * The  series was originally going to be set in the Atlantic Islands, but the producers thought the Atlantic Islands were too populated to have a deserted island in it.
 *  was filmed and located on a small island in the Atlantic.

Other

 * The wikia Wikination revolves around a fictitious country, Lovia, that is situated in the Atlantic Ocean. (heh.)
 * The Alternative History wikia Althistory includes an alternate history 1983: Doomsday. The timeline revolves around a world where a nuclear holocaust takes place and the world tries to recover. In it, the Atlantic Islands have recovered to make several new nations:


 * AI1983Flag1.png Açor Republic
 * AI1983Flag2.png United Ötica Republic
 * AI1983Flag3.png Azoren Republic

=Contributors=

Original Contributors

 * 71.197.149.61 - Original creator


 * AirshipArmada - Initiator


 * Owen1983 - First adopter


 * Alexanders - Second and current adopter

Collaborative Users

 * ChrisL123 - Map and flag maker


 * Crystalbeastdeck09 - Contributed to
 * Granero - Contributed to and, and other French-controlled islands.
 * Yankovic270 - Contributed to

Map Game

 * Denmark - Mister Sheen


 * England (UK) - ChrisL123


 * France - Granero


 * Italian States - CrimsonAssassin


 * Morocco - Benkarnell


 * Netherlands - Crystalbeastdeck09


 * Portugal - Parsifal br


 * Spain - BlackSkyEmpire


 * Sweden - Fedelede

=New Portugal: Florido?=

History
The area was originally discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon. A legend, unlikely to be true, says he discovered it while searching for the Fountain of Youth. Although it is often stated that he sighted the peninsula for the first time on March 27, 1513, and thought it was an island, he probably saw one of the Bahama islands.

The land was unclaimed until June 1520, when Portuguese explorers, sailing through the Atlantic Islands looking for new islands, found Florida by accident. They claimed the land for Portugal and had brief battle with the natives living there.

Ponce de León returned with equipment and settlers to start a colony in 1521, but they were driven off by Portuguese and the native population.