Hello! I'm
Alta Italia. I haven't been able to post this on my Factbook yet, but Alta Italia was formed from the merger of the four historical Italian Maritime Republics - Venice, Genoa, Pisa, and Amalfi. As such, its territories comprise northern Italy, the Amalfi Coast, Corsica, the coast of Dalmatia, the coast of Albania, Peloponnesia, Crete, Cyprus, and assorted islands in the Aegean Sea close to the shores of Greece, and its entire economy is almost entirely dependent on trade. As such, I'd like my nation's territories to be dispersed a relatively long ways across the TNP map, such as Corsica is far from the Aegean, which would enable trade to flourish. (Note: In this post, I'm going to assume that you can create some new islands or create non-adjacent territories, as it appears it has been done before.)
Firstly, I can't help wanting some land near the river that is located at I6. It'd be great if that little peninsula was also included. This will be Alta Italia proper, corresponding to modern-day northern Italy, and including big cities and cities of huge historical significance to Alta Italia such as Venice, Milan, Genoa, Pisa, Turin, Bologna, Florence, etc. Either Venice (probably) or Milan will be my national capital. Make this as big or small as you deem proper; however, I'd like this to be by far my "main" and biggest territory on the map.
The Amalfi Coast is not adjacent to Alta Italia proper. In addition, the Amalfi Coast territory is very small. As such, I'd like to have a very, very small - probably only a few pixels in size - territory on the southern coast of the same landmass (as Amalfi is on the southern part of the same landmass [Italy] as Northern Italy in RL), at J6. The location I am envisioning is near or at the very southern tip of the landmass. It can be very small, as the only city there, really, will be Amalfi.
There are other overseas territories that I'd like on this map as well. You can decide how big or small they are, what shape they are, where on the map they go, etc., but I'd be really grateful if islands such as Corsica, Crete, or Cyprus were represented. I6, D4, anywhere you think would be a good fit. If you do decide to add islands, I'd like them to be bigger than the Amalfi Coast territory.
Generally, for overseas territories, I'd like as many scattered about as possible, at the likely expense of their sizes (though I would prefer if they were easily visible [besides the Amalfi Coast territory]). I don't care for much inland territory; the maritime republics had pretty much no inland territory. They were all about peninsulas, islands, and coastline, and if you decide to add overseas territories besides Amalfi, I'd like to keep to the same idea. The only territory I'd like that is in any way far from the sea is in the first territory I mentioned (which I called "Alta Italia proper" and compared to modern-day northern Italy), especially if it is near the river at I6.
If you read all that, firstly, wow, and secondly, thank you. If you need me to trim down how many requests I have, provide greater clarity as to what I want to claim, provide a TL;DR version, or anything, be sure to let me know. Thanks!
