Recent content by Sevarics

Maybe have Isaac’s daughter Maria get married and her husband succeeds Isaac. According to Wikipedia, she was quite beautiful but remained unmarried up to and during Isaac’s reign and became a nun when he retired. She was born around the time Diogenes was so maybe Isaac had her marry him as an...

For a Mediterranean coastal port as a capital, there is always Cartagena instead of Valencia and Barcelona. "Cartagena has been the capital of the Spanish Navy's Maritime Department of the Mediterranean since the arrival of the Spanish Bourbons in the 18th century.[5] As far back as the 16th...

Looking at this map of the First Crusades initial battles, I think that we probably still have some sort of battle with the Seljuk remnants after Nicaea at Dorylaeion and then from there they move to either Amorion or Ancyra before heading to Iconion. IOTL the Crusaders were chasing Kilij Arslan...

So we potentially end up with Voimoundos Altavilla and Valduinos Voulónis as Byzantine aristocrats ? I know that Bohemond initially wanted to be Domestic of the Anatolikon. I wonder if he ends up getting that role down the line in this scenario.

The easy answer is probably for Europeans to bring Yaupon from North America over to Europe but for that to happen, they would have to not misunderstand the Native American ritual and mistakenly believe the drink causes you to vomit. Not exactly tea but similar enough.

If Alexios ends up leading the more cohesive Byzantine-Frankish First Crusade, I assume that both the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and the Duchy of Antioch (and by extension the County of Edessa) never come into being. So what do Bohemond, Baldwin and the Armenians end up doing in this situation...

One side effect of Kilij Arslan being captured so early in the First Crusade is that he won't have the chance to pursue a scorched earth policy between Dorylaoin and Iconion like he did in OTL. As a result, the Crusader forces won't have to pillage and ransack their way across Anatolia and will...

IOTL, Kilij Arslan underestimated the Crusaders after defeated the Peasant's Army. As a result, he went to fight the Danishmends in the East, only to have to make an about face and rush back to Nicaea when he got word of the ever growing Crusader forces at the city where his family was. He...

Will a larger Greece with Anatolian bits end up having a higher birth rate than OTL?

Wouldn’t you need the Oghuz Turks to go through the Khazars and Pechenegs for that to happen assuming they went around the northern coast of the Caspian Sea ?

@Tanaka did nothing wrong so you don’t think there is a best case scenario where Romanos IV successfully minimizes the Doukai ?

Do you not think that the erosion of the akritai and theme system in favor of professional armies played a major part ?

True but it does still seem like a lot of people wanted to kill him for one reason or another. Hell even his son was assassinated

Romanos will have a united army and Arslan will have lost men attacking the Fatimids.

In OTL, Alp Arslan learned that Romanos was marching on Armenia while he was at Aleppo preparing to march against the Fatimids. We have had several threads talking about Byzantine Victories at Manzikert but, what if Alp Arslan hadn't learned that the Byzantines were marching toward Armenia and...