Elinora, a Medieval Gem

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The national flag. The bird is a dove, which stands for peace.
It is red, to memorialize the people who have died in wars, and casualties across the globe.


Basilique Saint David



King Edwarde I, founder of Elinora

Above is King Edwarde I, who was at first an explorer. Vincent de la Edwarde, an explorer from France, was looking for a place to settle not far from his homeland, in an attempt to have a government under his utopian ideas of peace. He was very young... *cough* lol, and a devout catholic, and visited mass every single day of his life. He was tired of the government of France, however, and it's Empireness... (Sorry jarnomiedema... )
Anyways, he was the first king. He was the founder of the country, and landed off the coast of Islleburgh, on a landmass located near the Baltic Sea, and built a castle. Sadly, however they were extremely vulnerable to nearby enemies, so they decided to move farther away to the modern-day capital, Tillaney, located on a protected harbour. The city of Tillaney became a large trading center after years of settling. The emperor of France, Napolean I, was very very jealous of this rich new colony, so he sent his army over to conquer it. Sadly, they won. Tillaney lost power as a cultural powerhouse, and all of the sucked out culture moved to Paris.
Later, France was pushed out by Sweden, since they found the place to be much warmer than mainland Sweden. The country was under Swedish rule for about 30 years, until it was taken over by France again. Then, France granted the Duke of Elinora to make the small territory into an indepentant monarchy. The Duke of Elinora was suprisingly King Edwarde I's great-grandson. He was named King Edwarde IV.


King Edwarde IV

King Edwarde IV was very young when he became the king, only 36. He was trained in the military to fight for France, but after witnessing gruesome events, he turned to religion to help him. He followed his father's utopian vision to create a fair government based on religion.



Lady Priscilla's famous portrait

Lady Priscilla was King Edwarde IV's gorgeous wife, and she charmed the entire nation with her seductive personality. She was pretty much the Marilyn Monroe of Elinora... (Except the magazine pictures... )

King Edwarde IV ruled until his death, leaving his wife behind. She eventually died behind him.

After a decade, came the 1900's. Elinora was a booming area for trade, specifically the city of Tillaney. Tillaney was bustling with horse carriages, trains, ships, boats, and more. The gig was going great, especially when King Edwarde V visted America. He went over during the 20's , completely amazed by their development. When he came back, he completely revolutionized the city into a more modernized city. He added more parks, fixed public utilities, and etc. However his hard work was in danger when the country heard news of Nazi Germany, rising with power to conquer almost all of europe. The city was bombed, bombarded, and slaughtered by the Nazis, the hardest hit area being the Jewish Quarter. Luckily, after all of the death and destruction, the country arose again, being rebuilt with just as much beauty as before, but more.
By the 60's and 70's the country became a democracy, and monarchy was over. However, King Edwarde VII was gladly made the first president. Also, western pop culture sweeped the nation. Children were dancing to disco music, Youth were wearing their bellbottoms through town, and adults were hanging at the roller disco. It was a very psychadellic period. lol However, in the 80's, this fad completely wiped out, and was tooken over by sophistication, modernism, and business. The country became very sophisticated, and at the same time, religious and peaceful. The 90's came, and the threat of communism completely dissapeared from the worrying minds of parents. Technology such as internet became extremely popular, and then that was the birth of..... The Internet Geek!

And below, I just decided to add a teaser picture

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[Vegeta The Puppet 0]

very interesting history ! nice work panther! The region looks nice

[choco1 4]

Fantastic Start, looks brilliant! I absolutely love the region shot and the history is a great addition! Can't wait to see more!

[Nardo69 51]

Nice start and a great map. I just don't see a lot of agriculture ... later maybe ???

Nardo

[yoder7652 21]

I like your region shot!...your map looks incredible. Good start with the history, I look forward to more

[Mr Piggy 1]

Great stuff here Panther. I like the very European style you are going to take with the city. You flag is brillinat and so is the storyline. The teaser pic was pretty cool.....

 

There is huge potential here.

 

Keep It up

[SamFlash 0]

The history is a great teaser for your CJ.  Your off to a great start.

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Artist's Illustration of the clash of Swedish troops taking over Elinora





After a whole decade of war, the Royal Kingdom of Elinora was devastated. However, The kingdom had been rebuilt into a grander city of culture, knowledge, and even good food...

[Vegeta The Puppet 0]

good pics! the city looks very european keep it up

[jacqulina 162]

very nice start

[Kwakelaar 92]

Hey, a second CJ from your hands, what happend to Lenida?

[dimostenis 1]

I just love the old architectural styles of the buildings in Tillaney.

By the way, where did you get the tower-like monument located at the center of the city?

[Nik-nik 3]

Great start!

Nice city, I want to make such a city as well so please stop your CJ ASAP....just kidding, nice to see what you've done so far.

 

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looks very nice to me

 

 

Alek

[Jerebannus XVI 7]

This looks very promising, i love the history. can't wait to se more.

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Vegeta The Puppet: Thanks for your compliment!
chocolatemax285:You'll see alot more!
Nardo69:The agriculture is one of my top priorities... the agriculture makes the reigon looks alot more realistic... I'll get to it later on.
yoder7652: Thanks, and I love the King of the Hill avator!
Mr Piggy: Thanksies. I love the flag too, I found a bird picture off the internet, and then covered it with red so it would look good on the flag.
SamFlash: Thanks, I always love teasing readers
jacqulina: Thanks for the compliment!
Kwakelaar: Lenida glitched out on me.... Elynnburgh's police funding kept plummeting to $0, and then the mayor rating kept plummeting.
dimostenis: The monument is the Chicago Water Tower, ont he STEX somewhere, jut search Chicago Water Tower
Nik-nik: Hehehe, I'll make sure of it
aleking: Thank you for the compliment!
Jerebannus XVI: Thanks! I also love your CJ... Great history there too!

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St. Basil's Church Actually, it's the Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland, but I stole it on google.

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Today we visit Lanfuhre, a very mediterainean city located in an unexpected area...

[praiodan 78]

Whoa! I like this! Espacially that story from the beginning and also how you use RL pics of some BATs, very nice!

[jglei701 8]

PantherSim,

 

I love the european style with the W2W buildings.  I think you've captured something, however, that gets lost in people's presentations of the densely packed buildings... and that's open plazas and other open spaces that really bring out the cathedral and other important structures... they're not just packed in between the other buildings, but they stand out.  I like it!

 

Keep up the good work!!

[Kwakelaar 92]

Nice to see that you have put Prepo's new BAT to good use.
A pitty about Lenida, what a strange thing to happen.
But it seems this new CJ will be following the same idea as your last so I am completly content

[dimostenis 1]

Thank you for the information.

 

I truly like Tillaney, but  need to see more of Lanfuhre ot form an opinion about it.

[toxicpiano 125]

i like a lot!

[wallasey 8]

Fantastic! This is a CJ to be followed as the combination of history and the city development is just mind blowing! The old heart's of theplaces you have shown are really realistic and should be aplauded!

Great start, I can tell this is going places!

[Fabiocb 1]

simply amazing so far, I want some more, really inspiring.

 

[Mr Piggy 1]

Waho

That is gorgeous. It is brilliant. It is European a great palce. It's style is a favourite of mine. Oppies Colleseum is fabulous.

It is very Mediterranian and I am gasping for more.

 

 

EDIT Oh yes Nearly Forgot. Where did you get the Castle BATs. The ones before the Usepnski Cathedral, the Gate and the Castle Fort Buildings. There Brill EDIT

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praiodan: Thanks! I like using real life pictures in CJ's... it's fun to manipulate the people with horrible geography
jglei701: Thank you for the comment, and I'm glad you enjoy how I design my european cities!
Kwakelaar: Heh, it was a strange glitch. I want this CJ to follow Lenida, but not THAT much...
dimostenis: Later on I will post more pictures of Lanfuhre. I tried to make that city look a little more like Arles, France...
toxicpiano: Thank you for the comment!
wallasey: Thanks... I tried to make the city realistic in the old town.
Fabiocb: Thanks... I never really though MY cj would be inspiring...
Mr Piggy: I also love Oppie's Colluseum. BTW, the castle is from Simcity.com, in the cool stuff section, downloads, and landmarks & props. It's the castle ramparts, and the buldings included can be used in lot editor.

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In this update I'll show a couple more sights in Tillaney.

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The Tillaney Environment Project is a city-wide project to add more flora, less garbage, and restore many of the historic buildings. Below are a few pictures of the progress so far.