1632 places

This is a comprehensive list article on various places utilized or mentioned in the epic alternate history book series that began with the novel (2000) and as of October 2007 numbers over ten lengthy books.

Badenburg
A fictional walled town of about 6,000 souls located closest (about between town centers, thus sharing some outlying territories)  to the fictional town of  in the series universe. Badenburg was the scene of the first joint operations between a company of Gustavus II Adolfs' Green Regiment under the leadership of Alexander Mackay, sent to southern Thuringia to thwart where possible, and to keep under observation any elements of the German Catholic League's army led by the wily veteran general Count Tilly, who in five decades of warfare had never lost a battle. The ensuing encounter, called by the Americans&mdash; the Battle of the Crapper was an eye-popping resounding victory to the Scots calvary unit not only decimating the Catholic mercenary force sent to take the town, but also liberating the town itself from the terrorisms of the mercenary battalion of Ernst Hoffman, who had effectively held the town hostage whilst demanding extortion to "defend" the inhabitants.

Grantville
A small typical American town from our world of the year 2000, chosen to similar and representative of many small American towns of his youth, according to seris creator Eric Flint. At the time that the Assiti Shard strike caused the observed 'Ring of Fire' exchanging Grantville in both space qand time with equally sized section of depopulated (May 1631) Thuringia, the town had a population of about 3000, that Flint planned on for his literary experiment involving an ensemble protagonist and it's influence on history, which concept gave rise to the idea for the Assiti Shard effect.