Forum:Territory application/UL13b

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	Territory ID and proposed name
	The Territory ID (from OpenGeofiction:Territories, e.g. AR123a) and proposed name of the country

UL13b - Harnacja

Sketch of the country:

https://imgur.com/a/hsjFhrI

	Physical geography
	An overview of climate, topography and landscape of the country. It is advised to also create a sketch, you can add a link to this (hosted on imgur or similar)

Harnacja is located in temperate climate, similar to climate in central-eastern Europe. It landscapes varies from plains by the coast to medium high mountains on border with Silland and Lechia. The middle part of Harnacja is mostly made of rolling hills, with some wide valleys of main rivers, which are: Sztoła, Łomnica, Dymawa, Korboła, Wisiel. Overall, landscape is similar to one in polish region of Lesser Poland. There are two main mountain ranges - Góry Dymawskie (Dymawa mountain range) - higher, more "soaring"; and Pogorce mountain range - lower, more accessible, but covering larger area (basically all border with Lechia). The westernmost part of Harmacja is filled with lakes - remains of ice age  and its mostly covered with forest area. Except for that most of Harnacja's landscapes are fields - however, the higher we go, the less fields and more meadows we would find.

	Human geography
	A brief description of the territory demographics, economic development, land occupation, infrastructure and mapping style

Harnacja is evenly populated - most of population lives in the middle part of region, the lowest population density is on west edge of its territory. However, only ~50% of population lives in cities - its an effect of overpopulation of villages that occured in XIXc, and it has its consequences to this day. Because of it the agricultural land is highly fragmented, and average field area is only ~2ha. This left an opening for industrial development which occured in early XX century - Harnacja has a developed industry - e.g. zinc and lead mines and industry in Ciętowice, biggest refinery in entire region located in Skoczanów, and two sea ports located in Żółkwica and Krzczów. The capital of Harnacja is Harnacz - the city located in central-south part of country, founded ~1100, 600k inhabitants. Other important cities are: Krzczów, Przybędza, Męcina, Pogorzec, Żary, Malców, Leciszel, Skoczanów, Podborów. Total population of all Harnacja is ~11 mil inhabitants.

	History & culture
	A brief description of the intended culture and language

Culture of Harnacja is similar to that in Southern Poland. Harnacians speak specific dialect of Lechian - what stands out is in Harnacian dialect is changing "cz" to "c" (equivalent to "ts" sound instead of "ch"), and replacing "o" with "ŏ" (equivalent to "uo" instead of "o". Most of population is consists Harnacian Lechians - called "Harnacy", "Pogorcy" - which are Harnacian highlanders, and "Mazury" - who live in the west and on the coast. Small, westernmost part of Harnacja, in the surroundings of Leciszel town, lives small minority of Sillanders. In the easternmost part of borderland with Lechia, there lives an ethnic group of Red Rusyns - whose has its own autonomy.

	Past mapping
	To support your request provide links to areas of OGF mapping which showcase your mapping skill. Mapping relevant to the requested theme & geography is especially useful
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I've already mapped some villages and towns in Ardence, you can see here:

https://opengeofiction.net/node/225920151 - Szlachcianki-Zdrój town, Zabawa Górna/Dolna villages, Pietrzykowice Szlachcianeckie village

https://opengeofiction.net/node/256793832 - Brzegówka and Choczowa villages

https://opengeofiction.net/node/344647253 - Darkowice village

I have also experience in mapping from OpenStreetMap, where u can also see my edits:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/49.87672/20.67048

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/50.34609/20.35005

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/49.48934/20.67183

I also have one request:if I got permission to edit in this territory, I would ask for previous editions to be cleared.

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KtoTam39 (talk) 13:27, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

	Discussion
	Discussion for clarification & decision

	Territory application closed
	Denied due to no recent mapping activity. ⸺ Bixelkoven (talk) (West Uletha Admin) 15:51, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
	Despite your mapping being okay, though definitely possible for it to be improved, we'd like to see more recent mapping from you given that all but one of your recent changeset are from 2 years ago at the latest. The plans and sketches you have provided are mostly fine (lower national population is highly suggested), but without any mapping we cannot accept your request.