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    Also habe ich eine Fantasy-Karte der Niederlande erstellt und brauche Ihre Hilfe
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    Also habe ich eine Fantasy-Karte der Niederlande erstellt und brauche Ihre Hilfe

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    1. highestzociety on

      Hey everyone,

      I made this map as a part of a series starting with Germany and then moving to the BeNeLux. It’s currently work in progress over on Patreon.

      As I am not from the Netherlands nor able to speak Dutch, I had trouble coming up with funny wordplays for the city names. That is where I need your help:
      – any fun wordplays for the city names?
      – any regions that feel left out?
      – any landmarks I missed?
      – any locol folklore that could be turned into sth on the map (like the Flying Dutchman)

      I apologize to anyone who’s from the city of Urk. Someone suggested, that no one wants to go there so I made it barren. Apparently, Drenthe doesn’t exist, so I added a lot of fog. And I also heard rumors, that the people of Nordbrabant only drink and party all the time – hence, the name.

    2. pavel_vishnyakov on

      Renaming Leeuwarden to Tulpstevig kinda misses the point – tulip farmers are between Amsterdam and The Hague (Henepdam and Het Dok on the map).

    4. Dense_Emergency5292 on

      Muiden feels a bit misplaced near Middelburg and Vlissingen 😉

    5. Cheraldenine on

      „Standbeeld“ means statue, I don’t think anywhere near there is especially related to statues.

      Arnhem is one of the very few hilly cities in the Netherlands (being on the edge of the Veluwe), with heights ranging all the way from roughly 5m to 80m! And its name means something like „home of eagles“.

      So maybe something about high mountains, Arendpiek or so? I don’t have much inspiration.

    6. dsisds on

      Near Groningen we have some „man made“ earthquakes due to income and gas mining. If you’d want you can make a storyline with that.

      Other cool storylines could be Tulipmania, or something that. Since you called Amsterdam Hennepdam you could do something with crossbred hemp.

      Brabant is the biggest exporter of harddrugs. Maby you can do something fun with that also!

    7. zero-cinque-zero on

      I like Noordkroon, Groningen City is really the crown of the north.

      In Groningen we say: „ain pronkjewail in golden raand“

      Which basically means: a jewel surrounded by gold. Where the jewel represents Groningen City and the gold represents the Groningen Province.

    8. OllieV_nl on

      Why is Utrecht Intrecht? That makes no sense compared to the other fake Dutch names because Trecht comes from latin Trajectum, bridge.

    9. Otherwise-Cup-6030 on

      First off, I just want to say I love this.

      One thing I would like to suggest is changing the name Vedwenen to something that fits a bit better.

      Maybe something like Vergetelheid, which kinda translates to oblivion. Even though vergetelheid is also just a regular word like vedwenen, it’s one of those old timey words that not many people use anymore. So it kinda fits a bit better with the old timey fantasy vibe.

      Maybe even add ‚de‘ before. ‚De Vergetelheid‘

      I would let my fellow redditors judge if this would be a good name change.

    10. marijne on

      I would call Rotterdam ‘t Dok (saw somebody referring to this as Den Haag). Den Haag could be ‘heggetje’.
      Suggest you out in Kaasstad (Gouda, or Alkmaar)

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