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I lost all my old base maps. I'm looking for the most up to date 1890 and 1900 base maps please. I know they were akin to the attached map.

As the tin says, after 1914 create a realistic scenario where Germany goes communist and the Russian state is fascist. A sort of opposite as to what happened in OTL after WWI.

"Mega-Normandy" seems interesting, and very different for a timeline.

A barbarian state at the time, realistically could hire other barbarians as mercenaries. Like the formation of Alaric's Visigoth army in OTL, these mercenaries, whether individuals or whole tribes of barbarians, may eventually integrate into the Visigothic kingdom. As for your second question...

After doing research on the first and second Arab sieges of Constantinople, I've decided to go with Constantinople falling in early 717 to the forces of Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik. I just need to come up with a detailed and realistic way for the Arabs to take the city. Let's say Constantinople...

Thank you both for the maps and information, it should serve me well. I think I'm going to begin the TL earlier than 711 and start it in 674-678 during the first Arab siege of Constantinople. I have some ideas to realistically have the Arabs take constantinople, one of them having the inventor...

Unfortunatly I cannot understand Catalan or Occitan, and my French will get me through "hello, how are you? Can I have a drink?" :p Again LSCatilina, thank you for your wealth of information. Might I implore you shed light on the following for me? 1. What was the visigoth policy toawrds the...

Thank you for the insight. I was not aware that the Hijab was a tradition/cultural idea the Arabs borrowed from the Byzantines. As for the 670's POD, that was my original plan but I went between it and Constantinople falling in 711. I'll have to look into the earlier date of 676. Thank you...

Thanks for the insight Basileus, and to be off topic for just a moment, I think 'Isaac's Empire 2.0' is wonderful timeline -one of the best on the board. That's a very interesting idea, thank you. I had planned on the Lombard King, Liutprand to devour most of Italy, but that seemed somewhat...

To go along with my post, here is what I have written so far: Disclaimer: This is a very rough draft, I also don't profess to be the best writer. :o North Africa, 698-711 In 698 Musa bin Nusayr became governor of Ifriqiya. For the first decade of his rule, he cemented Umayyad lordship over...

I'm writing a timeline that starts in the 700's. The key POD's in the beginning are that Visigothic Hispania is left largely unscathed by the Arab conquests of 711-712 and that Constantinople falls to the Umayyad Caliphate in 717-718. Essentially this would be the opposite of what happened in...

After 1900, is there a way to keep Great Britain out of, what would become the Triple Entente?

That's all very good insight/ideas. I'm curious about what route you think foreign intervention may take if the 1905 revolution begins to deteriorate into a 1917 scenario. Obviously World War I hasnt taken place. I suspect Germany, perhaps followed by Austria-Hungary might get...

Thanks for the reply, Yes, I agree, in general the people who participated in the 1905 revolution were more moderate than in the 1917 revolution. What I'm asking is peoples opinions on how to realistically turn the 1905 revolution into one like the 1917 revolution, or, to put it another way...

How far do you think the 1905 Russian Revolution can go? Is it realistic to say there is a chance that it had the potential to end up like the successful 1917 Russian Revolution? Who do you think the major players would be in 1905 revolution that ends up looking like the 1917 Russian...