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This seems likely, considering that various norse-gaels and gaels participated in the settlement of iceland, based on the personal names in Landnámabók.

There is always sort of "arms race" between phages and bacteria. Bacteria needs to be more resistant for bacteriohages in order to survive, and phages needs to be virulent enough in order to reproduce. They are also highly selective, so there are lesser side effects.

I'm not sure how it could be accomplished, but Rugian, Vandalic, Burgundian or Gothic Britain sound nice to me.

Therr are slavic toponymy all around Austria, sans Tyrol, and large parts of northern Austria were parts of Great Moravia, and later Bohemia. Slavs also inhabited small part of north east Bavaria.

This is quite interesting, watched.

Well, it could, Varanus komodoensis propably evolved in north Australia, and during lower sea levels spread into indonesia, where it survives today.

Maybe in distant future, a rewilding project could release both pygmy and great hippos to madagascar as a ecological sort of replacemrnt of the three species of madagascar hippos which went extinct during medieval ages? As well as more pleistocene rewildings, such ad capybaras in florida etc.

I'm sorry but Rhinoceratidae are only very distantly related to Hippopotamidae, and no species of Hippopotamus ever was native to Americas during their whole evolutionary history.

There werent any Hippos in Americas. There was a species of rhinoceros, Teleoceras, which propably occupied similar enough ecological niche, but it went exist long before Pleistocene.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Teutonic order yet. OTL, before they settled in Prussia, they were granted Burzeland by Hungarian king Andrew II, but they were later expelled by king and his army (though, they allowed german settlers to stay). In 1224 knights petitioned Pope to be placed directly...

OTL Pre-christian Baltic people and ancestors of Estonians as well as coastal "Wends" were historically known as good sailors, pirates and raiders. Narentines, a slavic pagan tribe, of the adriatic sea were quite a nuisance for Venetians till 11th century.

You wrote that Czech borders are not along Carpathian range, which is not correct. Whole eastern border of Czechia is along Carpathian range.

Western parts of Carpathian range are actually located in Czechia and parts of it forms border between Czechia and Slovakia, and used to be borders between Czech kingdom and Hungary. Also, I found a video which roughly shows how borders of Czechia changed through history. You can exactly see...

Well, they were important for Czech tribes, duchy and kingdom. :D

I guess it would be the one, which would live in the most productive agricultural land and thus it would have the largest population. But you would first need the Volga Finnic people to start using agriculture on greater scale than they did OTL during this period.