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I've been catching up on this @Sersor quite interesting TL. Now seems like the Massaliot Legue have to find a way out of the situation. Bad time with the situation in Hispania in mind but would probably be the place for an attack on the Cartagenians to take out the Barca family estate. Try...

His actions regarding Denmark doesn't look like. Widukind fled to Denmark but Denmark wasn't attacked! By 782 Charlemagne negotiate with a Danish embassy at Lippe. 800 Charlemagne makes defensive arrangements in northern Francia due to Viking raids on Northumbria the previous years. 804 during...

Don't take my answer too literal. Even Charlemagne had to be off on campaign and often were so there would be plenty time to make a hit and run here or there. Of course when he builds his coastal defences then that will force the Vikings to go to Britain and Ireland. Slavic settlements on the...

I don't see them shifting from one Khazar group to another rather like in the west; well the Brits were a tough nut - lets go to France!

With the BEF in place in Poland prior to war the Danes would feel much more comfortable when the Germans ask them to mine the straits. They wouldn't outright say NO, but inform the British of the demand and ask what to do! Anyway if the British decide to send the BEF pre war to Poland the Danes...

Don't think so - the Khazars may stop the Vikings but they would only shift to another fertile field to plunder.

The daughter of Sigurd Hring - Geva - was married to Saxon duke Widukind hence Sigurd probably wouldn't tolerate raiding the Saxons. The Frisians were another cup of tea as their royals had been married into the Danish royal family and hence would be elegible for taxing - one way or another.

Frisia had been a vassal of the Danish/Nordic kings. Danish king Godfried did demand tax from the Frisians 810 just before being killed. The accepted view is that the Viking raids were done by nobility and their hird when the Danish king were strong - then they had to go abroad to raid and get...

This is quite sketchy: The romantic period in Germany begins at Leipzig with the Battle of Nations - German Nations! The later part of the Napoleonic Wars in Germany is known as the German Liberation War. That makes for German peoples to want a Germany with a constitution and personal freedom...

Did RN or anybody else seriously consider EVACUATION of BEF prior to mid-May 1940?

Keep it out of Europe where Warsaw Pact plans involved use of nukes as SOP. Somewhere in a war of proxis where both NATO and WAPA decide to intervene directly without it triggering war in Europe!

As the majority of German colonies was settled post this era I don't see why some German state or the confederation shouldn't do so in your era provided it gets the impetous to do so. The internal problems of Germans wanting to be united and revolutions occurring 1820-1830-1848 with the ruling...

Allalia was what I was thinking of concerning the Etruscans. There was a short discussion on that quite some time ago. They may not hold out indefinitely on land against the Celts but the naval aspect would be interesting. Together with the Cartagenian and Greek city states they rule trade.

Britain made it quite clear to Denmark that a committal of forces to shore up the minor neutral would only weaken the main effort whereever that be! So fend for yourself or get swallowed.

It seems you are limiting the area to the Western Med. I assume the Greeks will still be in Greece and Egyptians in Egypt Persians in Asia Minor etc. Without Rome, Carthage and stagnant Greek states it seems to me you have overlooked the Etrurian federation. It might not have been able to carve...

Denmark mined the straits on 20. November 1939 following German pressure to do so. Copenhagen Roads had been mined in the days following the outbreak of war.

There apparently was two bishops who died in Vinland; Jon a Saxon or Irishman who had travelled to Iceland and then on to Vinland where he 1059 was killed by the heathens thus becoming a martyr. The second bishop was Erik Gnuppson Uppsi who travelled to his new seat in Greenland 1113 or 14; he...

Quite. Just needs a little fleshing out; an extra paragraph here and there and then we go. Marjack@ - welcome to the board. Read on and join discussions. Everything, well almost everything mature with time. ;)

He, he, funny reading on invasion of Faeroe Is and Iceland during the Great War. There was close to no military presence in either perhaps if you're lucky a small fishery inspection ship but that would be it. Perhaps the Danes would like to send a few troops off but that would be few and anyway...

King Hussein of Jordan surviving umpteen assassination attemps; in one firing at the attackers. Anker Jørgensen PM of Denmark during the 1980's; during his military service in WWII with the Guard Hussars Cavalry the German attacked the Danish armed forces 29. August 1943 and according to rumour...