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The two men sat at a large semicircular desk, talking intensely and pointing at the documents scattered across the surface of the desk. Just by looking at them, one could tell that they were hardly ordinary men. One of the men was in his mid forties, though he looked somewhat older. He was...

There has been a rather large upsurge of Charles V threads recently, each discussing alternate divisions of this and that, which bits go to Austria, to Spain, new countries forming in Burgundy, etc. This got me wondering, why didnt Charles keep his massive empire intact, by not partitioning it...

Was watching a program on TV, and got me wondering, if Britain was deprived of a casus belli in the begining of WWI due to no invasion of Belgium, would they still have joined in the war? Lets assume that there is no Schlieffen Plan as we know it, instead a different plan is devised that...

Inspired by a Maltese programme, that obviously needed a few lessons in AH.:p For those who might not know, the Knights were extremely autocratic and hated, and when the French came with all their Liberte, fraternite, and the rest the Maltese hailed them as liberators. It was only when the...

So, everyone knows about the famous Frankfurt Parliament, the offer to the Hapsburgs and the Hozhollerens, and their refusals. But, what if one of them accepted? The Hapsburgs could either release Hungary as a seperate (Viceroyalty? Kingdom?) or actually keep it in Großdeutchland, both of which...

As we all know, Germany was divided into roughly eight parts post-war, four zones in Austria and four in the rest of Germany. This eventually was reduced into three states, West Germany, East Germany, and Austria. Now, there were of course other proposals for dividing Germany, and three of...

So, what plausible nation-states could have formed with a PoD, say, at the beginning of the Congress of Vienna? No major deviations from Europe's OTL ethnic map at that time, please, but it will be interesting to see what others could have arisen... And thought modern states arriving earlier...

Picture Im referring to is black and white, a close up of a man's face, possibly in his thirties, taken either in the early 1900's or late 1800's, Im guessing. The most important thing, though, is that the man is laughing/smiling stupidly. I can see it in my mind's eye, but I just cant put my...

Your challenge, chaps, is to have the Austrian flag of Red-White-Red as the flag of a (at least mostly) United Germany. The PoD must be from 1790 to 1890 BUT no using the classic 'Haspurgs accept Frankfurt Parliaments Crown' and then have some sort of coup and end up with an Austrian Germany...

Your Challenge is, that with a PoD not before May 8, 1945, you have the Soviet puppets of Eastern Europe, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, etc., unite in some sort of Federation. The capital can be anywhere, and the name can be anything. It must be more centralised than, for example...

How could Monarchies (constitutional, mind) be seen as typically Western in the Cold War while Republics are seen as Left-Wing and belonging to the East Bloc? Could more Western States (Germany, Italy, etc.) be transformed back into Monarchies at all? With a PoD after September 1939, how could...

I think it was possible. If the lookouts are issued with BINOCULARS, which they DIDNT EVEN HAVE, they might avoid the icebergs. Apart from that, we need to use handwaving. So, the question is, what would happen next? Would its survival lead to even bigger ships, bigger disasters, or even a...

Hi! This is my first real serious attempt at a TL, other ideas have run for a part or two and then faded away. So here's a hopefully better one. After all, I've only been here for a few months:). The PoD is that King Charles Albert of Piedmont was more shrewd and was planning for a war in 1847...

In a crisis that sparked the Franco-Prussian war, the Spanish Glorious Revolution ended with the appointment of Amadeo, Duke of Aosta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_I_of_Spain), younger son of the then Italian King, as King of Spain in 1870. OTL, his main backer and architecht of the...

My second attempt at a TL. The first one... never took off, lets say. Hoping this will be better.:) Im making a preview thread to test the waters for the demand for such a TL, and also cos I havent thought up a good name yet. To be brief, the main idea is that the OTL Lombard League that...

Hi, everyone! I was thinking about making a TL, and since one of my favourite areas is Modern(ish) Europe, I came up with some ideas, mostly revolving around early (by 25 or by 400 years :) ) Italian Unification. I mentioned one of them in a thread but it didn't get much replies. So I decided...

Hey,(woot 1st thread!):D I recently had an idea for a TL that I'm planning to do that involves a modified Congress of Vienna. The PoD is that the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia sent a very intelligent delegation to the Congress which was respected and listened to, especially if they brought good...