Recent content by Andrei

I don't think Germany would have attacked the Soviet Union over Besserebia at this point. In fact , I think it would have been more likely for the Axis members to also attack Romania. As a result , Hungary would have taken the entire Transylvania , Bulgaria would have taken Southern Dobruja at...

Slovenia didn't have a sea exit before OTL's WWII. That land , as well as the Istria peninsula belonged to Italy. Otherwise , nice TL.

I'm not sure it had so much to do with the religion of the Ottomans but with the fact that the Roman Empire was conquered by them , instead of evolving into a state where islam was the main religion. IMO the Ottoman Empire was as Roman as the Holy Roman Empire.

What do you think it would take , besides the failure to take Constantinople and half the promised sum , to make them leave ? Would Crete or some comercial advantages suffice , or would they refuse to make a deal and sack the rest of the empire ( as the Grand Catalan Company did ) and maybe...

I see. But the fact that they had a power base in the area , allies in Georgia and a better claim to the throne than Alexios V is a problem. I consider the sack of Constantinople to be an effect of the problems the empire had at that time rather than a cause of it's problems. The crusaders...

According to Wikipedia ( I know it's usually not a reliable source , but it is the only place where I could find detailed information about the empire of Trebizond ) Alexios Comnenus invaded the region with Georgian help and took control of the region a month before the fall of Constantinople...

In order to gather the 200,000 silver marks he promised to the crusaders for helping him to become emperor , Alexios IV had to confiscate the properties of his enemies and of the church . He only managed to gather half the promised sum and this measures made him very unpopular. In january 1204...

The civil wars were caused by the premature deaths of the emperors coupled with the lack of acceptable heirs , so it would be easy to avoid the wars by avoiding those deaths. Option1: - Manuel , Michael's youngest son , is not accidentally killed by his older brother's men - because he hasn't...

It seems that Michael was a brave but poor general. I don't know what kind of administrator he was , but I doubt he was worse than his father. Michael's death caused the civil war between his father , Andronicus II and his son , Andronicus III. If Michael had lived longer , Andronicus II...

I don't really understand this part. Bosnia had been occupied by Austria in 1878 in TTL , as in OTL , right? That means that Austria could just take advantage of the war between the Balkan countries and Russia and the Ottoman Empire in order to annex Bosnia. The annexation of Bosnia would make...

That would have meant that the 2nd crusade of OTL wouldn't had taken place. This could mean less tensions between the crusaders and the Byzantines. Another result of this POD might be a weaker Portugal. IN OTL , on their way to the Holy Land , the cruaders from NW Europe liberated a significant...

So what? This is WWI , the defender has an advantage over the attacker. Saying things like "Turkish and Serbian soldiers kicked ass " or "British and Austro-Hungarian soldiers were bad " is unfair and childish. The British did get through , eventually. With the collapse of Germany ...

The point of this divison is to give both empires some territories which would be easy to defend. The Persians ( or other Eastern enemies ) would probably be more interested in Syria and Egypt , and they will probably attack the Southern Empire more often. And even though they might overrun...

I was wondering what would have happened if the Roman Empire had been split in a Northern half and a Southern half. I was thinking that the North would take Britannia , Gaul , Italy , the Balkans and Anatolia , while the Southern Empire would have Spain , North Africa , Sicily , Egypt and the...

Romania was a royal dictatorship between Feb1938-Sep1940 but the Iron Guard was not in power. The relations between the king and the Iron Guard were tense during this period . The Iron Guard's leader and other members were arrested and killed in prison in november 1938 on the king's orders.