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I, and undoubtly others as well, have had quite some trouble with finding good lists of names from several more exotic languages and cultures. So I decided to set up this thread with lists of such exotic names and sites with such lists. Here's a good site that I found with Iranian names...

While browsing through this topic, I came across quite a few scenario's that involved the destruction of Mecca, and usually also Medina. ...and the destruction of these cities is in most scenario's followed by the rapid decline of Islam, which usually has all but disappeared after a century...

Plain and simple: what if the Sassanids were actually successful in their last great war with the Byzantine Empire, and effectively defeat the Byzantine Empire? ...and with 'defeat', I mean that the Sassanids conquer and hold on to Egypt, Syria and Palestine. They don't need to conquer...

What if king Ezena never converted to Christianity in the fourth century, and Christianity in Ethiopia would have remained a small minority movement, with relatively few indigenous converts, changing things in such a way that the Judaic religion of the Beta Israel (a.k.a. Falasha's) remains a...

Pretty much what the title says: what of the Huns for some reason stayed in Central Asia, or never even became a real force to begin with? What would Europe have looked like if the Huns never drove the Sarmatians and Eastgermanic peoples westwards? How much longer would the Western Roman...

Quite an open question this time: what if the Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade still attacked the Byzantine Empire, but failed to take Constantinople? My guess is that they would still have occupied quite some territories of the Empire, and at least intend make some attempts at taking the...

Finally - I have managed to gather my courage, and finally began posting a basic sketch of my first written TimeLine on AH.com... I have already given a few examples from this TL, so quite a few of you have already gotten a taste of what is going to happen in this TL. .. The few POD's in...

The title pretty much says it all, two important questions here. 1 - what would it take to a late Medieval and post-medieval Hindu empire that dominates most of the northern part of the subcontinent (no Dravidian Hindu empire, because those already existed in OTL in about this period). My...

...the title says it all; explore all possebilities to make a TL in which at least one Native American empire/civilisation colonizes parts of the Old World. One of the requirements is that the Native American civilisations retaining their culture and religion in the process (...perhaps...

Here's a little idea I had for a challenge: have the region of Tabarestan (roughly the Iranian Caspian coastal area) survive with a fairly strong Zoroastrian majority until the Mongol invasion. Some historical background: Tabarestan was the last part of Persia to be conquered by the Arabs, and...

I was just wondering.....are there any ATL's here that are in their turn based on an ATL? You see - during the writing of my R1TL, I got the idea that, even though some states and empires are doomed to perish because of incapable rulers, they could very well have been very impressive nations...

Here's a little question: what would the America's and human civilisation there have been like if the Panama Isthmus was never formed, and the two continents would have remained separate? And keep in mind that the formation of the Panama Isthmus also caused significant changes in sea...

The scenario's of the survival of the Byzantine Empire as a small state with a lot of successor-states and no (or at least a seriously weakened) Ottoman Empire have existed, have made me wonder; what effect would a lack of Ottoman dominance in the Middle East have on the Persians and Shi'a...

Exactly what would have happened if (one branch of) Gnosticism would have survived and outcompeted Christianity in those early centuries? I mean, how much would it change Europe and the rest of the world? Would it result into an age of enlightenment for Europe? Or would there simply be...

The title pretty much speaks for itself: What if something very much like the French Revolution would have taken place in the Byzantine Empire, in a scenario without any Turkish conquest of course. I mean, the Byzantine Empire had most "ingredients" for such a revolution; a corrupt and...

When getting and comparing ideas for Africa in my own timeline, I just got this idea of forming a strong polytheistic (or possibly henotheistic) religion in Africa, in a way not unlike Hinduism in India. The basic concept is that this religion is based on one or a small number of gods and...