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Question: How would the District have developed if it had retained the Virginia half?

I figure, why don't we have an Byzantine Empire for the West? ---- Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus Augustus had been troubled by a rival in Gaul since 260 when the German legions raised among themselves Imperator Caesar Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus Pius Felix...

This idea sprang mostly from an interesting scenario I saw on the Imaginary Maps Reddit - where in the future the United States has gone the way of the Roman Empire splitting itself into three distinct governments to rule over the United States territory (with varying degrees of success and...

There can be some argument that Hannibal decided to attack Rome and their allies too early. In particular as the Carthaginian were still developing their Spanish territories, fighting Iberian tribes (who leapt at the opportunity to hold down reinforcements for Hannibal’s campaigns in Italy) and...

Now, those of you who have read my “Vive le Canada” TL know I have a thing for French Speaking Canada. That TL was enjoyable but I feel I let it run off the rails a bit with how OP French Canada became. So I want to take a look at an Independent French Canada again but from a different POD -...

Reading up a bit on the Mexican Underground article and it states that as early as 1831 at least one Mexican Senator was suggesting settling Ex-Slaves in Texas to prevent an American filibuster - echoed by then Colonel Juan Alamonte. Obviously this didn’t pan out likely because of the timing of...

Reading “America” by Robert Goodwin mentions one Pedro Menedez de Alvies (who would go on found St Augustine) won great esteem in Philip’s eyes when in 1556 he was in charge of the fleet that brought Philip to Spain following his father’s abdication. Apparently having been born in the area off...

Likely a more obscure scenario, but how could New Jersey remain separated colonies that eventually become two separate states in the United States? We have the more Quaker oriented West Jersey and the more Scottish influenced East Jersey which existed as separate administrations until Queen Anne...

Well, more like the ending of the last short story in the anthology. I have no clue what that ending was about. It reads like Godzilla came up out of the ocean and started to wreck everything.

Ive been reading “Lincoln’s Loyalists: Union Soldiers from the Confederacy” by Richard Current and passage came up. When talking about Unionists in North Carolina, most of whom were poor white farmers, they had a general support of freedom for the slaves but expressed a very descisive interest...

A friend of mine regularly writes historical articles for his job and journals here and there. Apparently for one he is writing now he discovered that Hamilton was almost gunned down by convicts in Philadelphia during the early days of the Constitutional Convention. What would have been the...

I want to explore the idea of the Hunnic Empire not only lasting much longer after the death of Atilla but also leaving a larger imprint of the European map with an actual Nation of the Huns. The POD would take into account two things about Atilla, considering he was such an influential figure...

This is a split off for my "Bahia de Todos los Santos: Spanish Colonization of the Mid-Atlantic" timeline. In this path I look at another divergence, where instead of founding the Republic of Gran Colombia, the forces of Carolina and Joseana would remain disunited. The Disunion of Roble and...

The 1789 vote for the future Capitol of the United States was decided by one vote, between Havre de Grace on the Susquehanna river and a site on the Potomac river. The vote divided the leaders, saying one or the other would represent the nation's future expansions to the west. However, what if...

There was a move to have the portions of Bengal, both Hindu and Muslim, to form a united country rather than be partitioned on communal lines. There seems to have been a good level of support for the effort and it was initially supported by the British, Ghandi and Jinnah. What seemed to ruin it...

Around 1340 the Marinid Dynasty of Morocco helped the Granada Emirate against an attack by the Reconquista powers of Castile and Portugal. The Battle of Rio Salado ended in disaster for the Islamic powers and was the last major attempt by a North African and Islamic power to invade or unite the...

Curious if it would have been possible for the Llanero people of the Los Llanos plains in southern Venezuela to have not joined the Venezuela Republic and gone their own way somehow. Maybe not joining Bolivar? Perhaps giving them Sea access by spreading their control up the Orinoco river to the...

Author Notes: In OTL for many years historians of Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon’s failed colony believed the original colony to be in Virginia not far from Jamestown on the York river. However recent investigation has placed the location of the colony along the Carolina coast, most promisingly along...

It looks like the route of De Soto's expedition came fairly close to the site of the Georgia Gold Rush around Lumpkin County. What if De Soto had discovered the gold or met with Natives who discovered the gold? How would this have changed Spanish interests in the region? It could possibly see...

If the movement for a United Indonesia had never happened how many nation-states could we get! Java? Sumatra? Bali? Timor? Etcetc