Burgundian colony names

[Kansai-kun]

I'm currently playing Burgundy in a MP game and planning to have some colonies of my own in the Americas. My first instinct was: "Ok, something French" - but what exactly? France still exists, so I want to avoid to have two colonies with the same name existing next to each other.

What would be good names for Burgundian colonies? Should I really only use French names or maybe some of the "secondary languages" (Flemish/Dutch, German)?

 

[net.split]

Sounds like you're asking from a RP-ish standpoint, so... which approach are you taking? Are you a duke fancying himself as King of France (with the intent to conquer and make it so)? If so, yeah go with French stuff. Or are you going more of a "Burgundy is an independent kingdom not subject to the French crown with its own culture etc"? In that case you can go "Burgundian" because you're already establishing a new (ahistorical) cultural identity.

Or you could bypass that question entirely and use "New" instead of a cultural descriptor. "New Burgundy" for your first (non-isle?) colonial nation, then start using names for regions within your European holdings.

 

[zamieo]

Nouvelle-Bourgogne perhaps? Nouvelle-Anvers? Bourgogne Américaine?

 

[Petrucci]

Belgium!

 

[Kansai-kun]

Sounds like you're asking from a RP-ish standpoint, so... which approach are you taking? Are you a duke fancying himself as King of France (with the intent to conquer and make it so)? If so, yeah go with French stuff. Or are you going more of a "Burgundy is an independent kingdom not subject to the French crown with its own culture etc"? In that case you can go "Burgundian" because you're already establishing a new (ahistorical) cultural identity.

Or you could bypass that question entirely and use "New" instead of a cultural descriptor. "New Burgundy" for your first (non-isle?) colonial nation, then start using names for regions within your European holdings.

I'm currently trying to establish a new Burgundian identity centered around the Lowlands and Northern Germany, but French is still the official language - one idea was to look for historical Dutch colonies and use the French version of their names. Depending on how integrated England is at this point, maybe one of my colonies will be "Nouvelle-Angleterre".

Nouvelle-Bourgogne perhaps? Nouvelle-Anvers? Bourgogne Américaine?

I'll use the first one in any case.

Belgium!

Why should I name it after a non-existant entity?:blink:

 

[FreeSoc]

Nouvelle-Zélande for a colony in Australia, naturally.

Nouvelle-[Your Capital Province's City] would work for Eastern America, on the basis that the Dutch opted for New Amsterdam using their capital's name.

 

[wilcoxchar]

New Flanders and Nova Belgica.

 

[DC123456789]

Nouvelle-Zélande for a colony in Australia, naturally.

Nouvelle-[Your Capital Province's City] would work for Eastern America, on the basis that the Dutch opted for New Amsterdam using their capital's name.

New Amsterdam was actually used for New York, IIRC they called the colony itself New Netherlands with the Hudson River Area being New Holland (not so sure about this last one, though).

 

[Meds]

Since you hold the lowlands

Thirteen colonies: waffles
Canada: maple syrup

 

[AurochsAway]

Why should I name it after a non-existant entity?:blink:

It'll exist when you name it!

 

[Willem IV]

Nouvelle-Lotharingie, as you recreated the medival kingdom of lotharingia

 

[CNightwing]

Nevers-Forget
Free Bar

You can also name places after the king/queen when they are colonised. Charleston, for instance, or Phillipines, for Charles the Bold and Phillip the Good.

 

[thErgonomic]

Belgium!

Why should I name it after a non-existant entity?:blink:

Well the southern Low Lands had been called Belgica by the Romans. It's a bit like the area of Finland that had been called Finland long before the nation of Finland existed.
What did you think that they just came up with the name Belgium out of the blue?

 

[Kansai-kun]

Well the southern Low Lands had been called Belgica by the Romans. It's a bit like the area of Finland that had been called Finland long before the nation of Finland existed.
What did you think that they just came up with the name Belgium out of the blue?

Maybe because Netherlands was already taken? Just kidding - though I don't really like Belgica/Belgium as a name. The country's first and foremost identified as Burgundy - even if I ceded my southern provinces in a mutual agreement - so I'd like to avoid using Roman/Rome-inspired names for my colonies. It's bad enough that my liege can't stop shouting about being Roman Emperor.

Another idea: I could name one of my colonies after Jean Calvin. After all, Burgundy was one of the first Calvinist countries in our game.

 

[GothicEmperor]

Why should I name it after a non-existant entity?:blink:

The Low Countries were often called that in Latin, since the area was identified with the Roman province. It wasn't just invented in 1820.

 

[elmarcel]

Canada : cote des fourrures (fur coast)
Mexico : pays d'or (land of gold)
13 : New Zeeland (game doesn't have it IIRC, old zeeland is in the Low Countries)
Brazil : cap des fortunes (cape of fortunes)
Argentina : Ruyterville, after famous admiral
Australia : Tasmania (Tasman was Dutch)
California : Nouvelles frontieres (new frontiers)
Alaska : Cap inaccessible (inaccessible cape, in honor of inaccessible island )

Sorry about the accents, haven't set up my keyboard

 

[InFerroVeritas]

I'm a fan of naming my colonial nations after my rulers. Primarily because I dislike the default <Culture> <Region> format.

Although, for my England game, I just named everything Maritime <Region> because I wanted them to all be listed together in that war summary window thing.

 

[AurochsAway]

Although, for my England game, I just named everything Maritime <Region> because I wanted them to all be listed together in that war summary window thing.

Genius! Will have to do this in future.

 

[AntoniusFlavius]

I named thoses ''Généralités'' in my Bourgogne game, like a administrative division. So I had a Généralité du Canada, Généralité des Indes occidentales, Généralité de l'Amérique and so forth.

 

[shaldon]

Surely you would have to call one 'Ron Burgundy'?