Thread 216389713

Post your town/city during medieval times

just picture a giant swamp

>>216389713 (OP)
wow bro you preordered eu5, congrats

>>216389753
answer my question you greedy german merchant

>>216389713 (OP)
My city was founded in the 1600s with the annexation of previously danish territory. It's predecessor a couple of kilometers upstream looked like this apparently

Is was all pine trees as far the eye could see where the animals and people lived in natural harmony... Then the white man came

>>216389713 (OP)
My city didn't exist till the 1920s

Does 1500 count as medieval?

it didn’t exist, it was a couple of villages then, it was founded in 1780s because they found coal

>>216390121
>start fort
>medieval

>>216390155
What happens there today?

>>216389713 (OP)
Can't bro, but I have this pic of it back in imperial times.

>>216390599
Today for comparison

>>216390539
Rape and murder

>>216390121
looks like shit

>>216389713 (OP)
>Post your town/city during medieval times
This thread is extremely burgerphobic

>>216391204
Germany used to be so beautiful

Didn’t exist

Ugh...

>>216389713 (OP)
It probably looked like 3-4 houses like the picrel.

>>216391497
looks like shit

>>216390012
>people lived in natural harmony
>burns down entire forest to hunt game

>>216391567
Yeah, my city was founded in 1723 or someshit. Before that there were some villages.
And there was probably something in the medieval times, since next to the centre of the city was discovered a neolithic site, it dates back to 15000 BCE.

Just a picture of a land surrounding a river rapids with some wigwams n sheit.

>>216391672
Irkutsk?

>>216391802
No. Ikrutsk is actually older.

>>216389713 (OP)
theres no medieval depiction of it because its a meaningless small town, back then some backwater very small village. Here is Linz however

>>216391493
There is an actual drawing of the city from 1581. Why not post that?
Still completely recognizable today.

>>216391871
thats more early modernity to be fair

>>216391871
1581 is a bit late but yeah I'll post it

>>216391885
Still, it's the oldest contemporary depiction of Bergen, and it would still be evocative of the medieval era. Even today, you can recognize the harbor, the fort and most of the churches based on that 450 year old drawing.

>>216391950
The leftmost part with the fort is largely unchanged too.

>>216391950
>Bergen
You don't suffer

>>216391950
>>216392014
it seems like its not defended much against possible enemies from the sea, considering the town was like one big port

My town was built by the Soviets

>>216392121
A fate worse than death

>>216392121
Visaginas or Elektrėnai?

>>216392121
Vaginas or Electroanal?

my ancestors invaded Tenochtitlan

>>216392421
That's where the best mariachi come from

>>216392107
It's quite well defended. The whole fort is build on an elevation, and is surrounded by walls and cannons. A few dozen of the cannons are still there today, along with some newer ones.

>>216389713 (OP)
There is no medieval depiction of my hometown (which got mentioned in church documents the first time at the end of the 12th century) but here is a depiction of medieval Cologne from the Nuremberg Chronicle, which was finished in 1493. You can see the building of the cathedral.
>>216389918
Neat carved model

>>216392620
>You can see the building
Don't tell me what I can or can't do

Barcelona 2000 years ago.

my town was created in 1849 by order of the emperor to kickstart the German immigration in the south of the country.

>>216390121
Is this Prussia or what. The houses in the background don't look Russian at all

>>216393362
Every Hanseatic League city had almost the same architecture.

>>216393289
>pic
AHAHA

>>216393594
So it was Prussia after all

>>216393880
ah yeah the mighty caproney

My grandma has this painting on the wall

>>216394117
Although this is slightly after the end of the medieval times

it looked more like a village from todays perspective, it was small and under the ottomans

>>216393880
I've heard of Novgorod, but Pskov was also the part of the trade?

>>216395493
Pskov would have been trading with both Novgorod and Hansa, yeah

>>216389713 (OP)
Around the year 1100 Cahokia (modern day Missouri) is estimated to have had a population of 20,000-30,000 people, larger than London at the time.

It's unfortunate that I couldn't find an image online despite our town having been mentioned 793 for the first time. There is a painting somewhere in town which shows an old depiction but it's pretty much hidden.

It was just a few farms along the Rhine

>>216389713 (OP)
It would have looked something like this minus the introduced European fashions

VGH

>>216389713 (OP)
this is how Buda looked in the 15th century

>>216394324
here it is a hundred years later

>>216390096
Medieval era end exactly when the americas were discovered. So unless it's an indigenous city there's no medieval city in the americas .

>>216397934
Is that a recent picture?

>>216389713 (OP)
How many Lithuanians lived there back then, 3%?

>>216398835
Probably 50%, the rest were mostly jews, germans and orthodox slavs.

>>216398991
>conveniently ignores the biggest ethnicity out of pure butthurt

>>216399024
is everything alright, pumpkin?

>>216392363
Fuckin lol

The castle Tre Kronor later burned down and they rebuilt it in french style, which is why it's so ugly today

>>216398797
No, sadly we were infected with the plague known as Spain.

>>216399462
you can compare the right side of the panel with today.

>>216389713 (OP)
Confirmed by Catherine the Great

>>216399306
What, are you some kind of subhuman native or something?

>>216399754
Natives in mexico are a myth. They were all raped and killed by europeans. Their offspring now larp as noble savages but they guy you replied to it probably whiter than I am

hafnia is the latin name for Copenhagen.

>>216399798
It's worse than that. They're a mix of all that crap. You have a handful of natives, a handful of pure Europeans (mostly Spaniards), and a shitload of mutts who decide to adopt one identity or the other.
Everything south of the US is a prime example of why you shouldn't race mix if you're of pure European stock. Well, the US is also an example of that, but a more recent one. The US was successful because they didn't mix until recently.

>>216399865
what's wrong with COPEnHAVEN?

>>216399754
No, but I like to larp as if I was a Coahuiltecan.

>>216400010
What the fuck are you then? Too mixed to larp as a conquistador?

>>216399999
I prefer COPEnHAGn

>>216400095
>coping hanging

>>216400066
You see, Ahmed, sadly I'm not a Mestizo bull, so the only ethnic heritage I have is mostly Spaniard cum and Portuguese Jewish blood, what would you do if you found yourself in such a predicament? Would you "boast" about your Iberian subhuman stock? I don't think so. Fiction helps us transcend our horrible reality and become something greater.

Literally nothing has changed except that it used to be an island back in medieval times.

>>216389713 (OP)
That church looks baroque, not medieval

>>216400185
What the fuck? How many layers of insecurity are you on, faggot?

>>216400227
looking good, nice huts

>>216395819
What's up with the fleur de lys

>>216400227
Looks like all the houses were replaced, aside from the church. Did you have a great fire, or something?

>>216400185
lmao what is wrong with you

>>216399199
Thank you!

>>216395493
Is Pskov nice

>>216400299
Great fires were very common. Those houses were built so close together than once one caught fire the entire area was usually doomed.

>>216400227
if anything thats a downgrade wtf lol

>>216400299
Nope, some have been modernized but many are original. It's a UNESCO heritage site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammelstad_Church_Town

>>216400245
>>216400300
Is the internet such a novelty for you guys?

>>216400290
Looks like the coat of arms of the Medici popes, there's a papal tiara on top of the shield. The pope at the time was Clement VII. This makes sense considering that Tartu was part of the Bishopric of Dorpat and would be under the authority of Rome.

>>216400642
>Looks like the coat of arms of the Medici popes, there's a papal tiara on top of the shield. The pope at the time was Clement VII. This makes sense considering that Tartu was part of the Bishopric of Dorpat and would be under the authority of Rome.
Yeah makes perfect sense, thank you

>>216400383
Yeah, that shit happened to my town as well, for the same reason. It was so common that we ended up with several "great fire of 1xxx" every century. Thankfully, a lot still survives to this day, and now it's illegal to build like they used to.
Hopefully what's left won't burn down, given how much character and history it has. We even have a local term for narrow streets lined with wooden houses: smau.

>>216389713 (OP)
I never got how these cities of the past look physically so tiny but then have populations like 50k or 100k or 500k attached to them.
Especially walking around those areas today and it's so tiny in the "historical city"

Makes even less sense to me in the new world how populations of giant colonies could be in the single digit thousands and capital cities could be a couple hundred people while controlling huge amounts of land

>>216400441
>UNESCO
Yeah, same as my town. You can see it in the picture this guy posted: >>216391950

>>216391950
>>216392070
>>216392489
Oh right. We had the honor of being visited by the Germans back in the 40s, and for some reason, there was a massive explosion at the harbor in 1944, right outside the medieval fort you can see in these pictures, that leveled a huge part of the town.
Ironically, the occupying Germans actually ended up being the voice of reason in the aftermath of the explosion, and decided to rebuild as much of the historical harbor area as possible, most likely because it had historical ties to the Hanseatic League. That said, the reconstruction took more than a decade.
As for the explosion itself, it was apparently some Dutch ship that was loaded with explosives and ammunition, and no one knows why it exploded. The force of the explosion was so extreme that the ship's anchor was blown several kilometers away and landed on a nearby mountain. For whatever reason, people decided to bolt the anchor into the mountain where it landed, and built a cabin there, known as the anchor cabin.

>>216401426
That's cool, do you have a picture of the anchor? I tried searching for the anchor cabin but no luck

>>216400812
The population numbers of the past were just a fraction of what they are today, and back in those days, a small house or apartment would be crammed full of people, usually housing entire families of 10 people or more.
The first apartment I rented many years ago when I first moved out, was in an old wooden house from the 1800s, and while I had the apartment to myself, even as a student with a limited budget, I was told that a family of 10 lived there before the war.

>>216401576
Just google "ankerhytten".

>>216401664
>the war
Which one? Vietnam?

>>216401745
The Norse-Teutonic hyperwar.

>>216400414
What kind of dumb comment is that? What isn't a downgrade in this day and age? If nothing else, everything built after WW2 is a downgrade.

>>216403931
relax chuddy. islands are cool. also the church tower looked better

>>216389713 (OP)
Yuros first landed in San Diego in the 1500s but didn't make it a permanent settlement until 1770. A lot of the original colony is still maintained after all this time which is pretty cool, and there's lots of Spanish influences all throughout the city.

>>216404066
wtf lol

>>216389713 (OP)
UGH