Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy series is set in a rather skewed Renaissance-type world loosely modeled on our own as you can see by looking at the map and at the place names.

For example, Hellas would be Greece, Alba is Great Britain, Menekhet is Egypt, etc.

Terre d’Ange, of course, is France.

This doesn’t detract from the story (from what I’ve experienced), and tends to give an exotic flavor to places we’re already familiar with. *s*

The list of lands are, in alphabetical order (with Terre d’Ange last — but never least!):

• Alba
  • Bryn Gorrydum
  • Clunderry
  • Dobria
  • Innisclan
  • Three Sisters
• Aragonia
  • Amilcar
  • New Carthage
• Bhodistan
• Caerdicca Unitas
  • La Serenissima
  • Lucca
  • Milazza
  • Tiberium
• Carthage
• Ch’in
• The Chowat
• Cythera
• Drujan
  • Darsãnga
• Eire
• Empire of the Sun
• Ephesium
• Euskerria
• The Flatlands
• Gotland
• Hanzu
• Hazaran
• Hellas
• Illyria
  • Epidauro
• Jebe-Barkal
  • Debeho
  • Meroë
• Khebel-im-Akkad
  • Nineveh
  • Tyre
• Kriti
  • Phaistos
  • The Temenos
• Menekhet
  • Iskandria
• Nubia
• Saba
  • Tisaar
• Skaldia
  • Maarten’s Crossing
  • Norstock
• Tatar Territory
• Terra Nova
• The Umaiyyat
• Vralia
  • Miroslas
  • Tarkov
  • Vralgrad
• Terre d’Ange

{Note: to be edited as needed.}

Tags: Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Legacy, Places