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Quick question: Does anyone know what the regions of Normandy and Lorraine where called before the Normans (for Normandy) and 843 (for Lorraine)?

title says it all realy:p well, not quite. So, alot of stuff (states, towns, regions, etc) in the original 13 states of the USA are named after places/people in England. Could there, either during or after the ARW, a process of de-Englishfication, that is the replacing of places named...

ok. this is just the prologue of my timeline, the rest will start as soon as my uni term is over. i think this, and the title give a hint to what it is, but i am also experimenting with a narrative style of writing a timeline. - - - The old man sat at the campfire, poking at the flames...

Since we have a Writers contest, shouldnt we have a Cartographers contest? obvioulsy we wouldnt give as long as the Writers contest, perhaps...two weeks for each round. I think rather then each do his own, a vauge sugestion of a map is given, and those who enter the contest must work to...

This is a tough one to do without getting rid of Islam... The main problem is that the Visigoth kingdom was to centralised: Once the King was killed by the Saracens, then the whole place kinda fell apart. So perhaps a slightly less ridgidly centralised kingdom? or perhaps another POD...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_Revolt what if they had suceeded, and somehow forced the Tsar to install a liberal constitution in Russia in 1825? A Liberal Russia in the early 19th Century with emancipated serfs, liberal democracy and laws at the same level as western Europe...

The Treaty of Versailles in 1918 or The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 vote!!!

or at the very least, the idea of a nation-state is an aberation? how could this come about? perhaps no French (or American) revolution? or has this been done before?

What powers would be in a position to do such a thing? I think GW had this occur in one of his stories, by the French? (unfortunetly he didnt go into that much info about that area) What about the Russians? Although could you have a Byzantium without Constantinople...

What sort of POD would we need to get a 'Europe' which includes, say Asia Minor, the African Mediteranian coast, and the Holy Lands? By "Europe" I mean what people think of as Europe, rather then in a purely georgaphical sense...

Now I have seen this on several maps, timelines etc, where Russia gets Constantiople from Turkey, or it annexes Turkey. Now does Russia just get the city and the straights, or does it get Asia minor as well? What about Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine et al? puppet states? When can this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jever this is interesting. it became a possession of Russia in the reign of Cathrine II, held during the Napolionic Wars, cept when conquored by Napoleon in 1807. the Russians held it after the war, and handed it over to Oldenburg in 1818. Now, lets say that...

why was it an Imperial Province in Germany, and not divided up, say the Prussians get part, along with Bavaria and Baden?

oooh synopsi and bookcover coments.:D curtesy of Amazon.com Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly The compelling third volume (after Drive to the East) in Turtledove's third alternate history of WWII series opens with the Confederacy reeling after the loss of their forces in the...

Ah the Hanseatic League they became rich off the Baltic trade routes, but the rise of the Netherlands eventualy doomed them. Now, is there any way for the Hanse to survive longer then they did IOTL? perhaps if instead of compeating with the Netherlands, some kind of allience between the Hanse...

huh. anyway, i was sorting through my files on my computer, and i came across this short little thing about no Black Plague. dont no when i wrote it, some time last year i think. Its not *exactly plausable, but I thought i would share * * * Kaffa, Genoese trading post in the Crimea. 1346...

the term Balkanisation was coined to describe how, first in the Balkan Wars and then the Yugoslav wars of the 20th Century, the Balkans split up into cultural groups. now supposing that, for the sake of argument, lets not get into the minor details here, that Spain 'falls apart' in the civil...

I was thinking about this today when i was reading my latest book about the Batavia shipwreck...anyway, the dutch settled the south african cape in order to have a good stopover point for the VOC ships on thier way to the Indies. but lets say someone beats them to it, a third party establishes a...

:eek: so...what if Belgium decided to throw its lot with Germany rather then France and Britian, and alows the Germans military access to strike at France? Would France declare war on Belgium? what about England?:eek: :confused:

stupid laptop...crashed before i could post this...have to type it agian...based upon the *actual ToBL, and my maps of said Treaty anyway, post WW1 where the CP win. not to sure of the POD, but I am thinking of having France collapse into revolution in 1917-18. anyway here is easern Europe...