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I knew, but people make weird things sometimes... human acts even seem inspired by ASBs. Who could pose a threat or at least a distraction for the ottomans from the East? Is it possible to have a civil war in the 1570s?

We could go back to the 1540s, Tahmasp I helps more successfully Hamayun, the fleeing Mughal Emperor. The persians sign the Amasya peace treaty as IOTL, but they feel stronger with the help of the Moghul. When they know about Lepanto they feel their time has arrived and form an alliance with the...

This is an scenario I used in my first participation in a Mosaic-Earth. However I see it quite ASBish. I think that you'd need a distraction for the ottomans to look somewhere else (perhaps a successful persian invasion from the East), then cooperation from local rulers looking to get rid of the...

Hi Linense, welcome to AH. I hope you will share with us your ideas.

This is the second one

A couple of flags for a TL where Spain enters WWII on the allies side and is occupied by Germany. Hitler decides to create some friendly puppet states:

One minor detail: how can you have commie Turkey and non-commie northern Cyprus turkish republic? Apart from that: Impressive

There's something I do not understand, would the Cuban rebels really allow for a Confederate army to come to "liberate" them. I mean, probably the "criollo" rebels would see them as true liberators, but the lower classes of slaves, ex-slaves and "mulatos"? Maybe we could se a split a division in...

The Napoleonic invasion of Spain meant 700.000 dead for the spanish side, as well as an incredible destruction (the french and the english allies did a "good" job). No Napoleon would also probably mean no Trafalgar and the survival of a first tier spanish navy. With that the independence of...

It is a real image from Salamanca's cathedral.

Nope I just remembered that when they restored the entry of the cathedral they included some inusual images. There is also a dragon eating an icecream!

Aaaarg!!! The Bituriges control de celtiberian towns of Numantia, Tiermes and Uxama Argaela...

I agree with you, but in this point you are wrong. In fact the hispanic position was the other way round. They were french and english kings the ones that ordered the destruction of Francisco de Suarez "Defensio Fidei Catholicae adversus Anglicanae sectae errores" in which it was defended that...

That is not a fact, it is an oppinion. I would only call fanatic to someone who according to his/her contemporaries was a fanatic. She decreed the expulsion of jews, but was that something without precedent in the age: no. Jews had been expelled from England, France, HRE... before. She led a...

And your point is... I am not asking you to love them, just to try to understand the reasons behind them, have you ever thought why that doctrine was so "popular" in the XV-XVII centuries? As it was not just a problem in Spain, have a look at England, France, the Netherlands, Germany... Any...

Detail from the entry of St. Augustin cathedral in St. Mary of the Tranquilitatis (the Moon).

Just an impressive analysis. If someone in the past acts different from what someone from the present would do he is a fanatic asshole. Why did Isabel of Castille, the Duke of Lerma and many other people of the era see the moriscos as a threat? Why do many people in Spain (and outside Spain)...

I do not think that England would have the manpower, we could save the most interesting part that would be defeating France (Let’s keep apart the Scottish, Irish and Icelandic issues) and becoming a continental power in a hard situation in France. The consequences in neighboring countries would...

I suppose it depends on who you read... https://www.laislalibros.com/libros/COMO-LOBOS-HAMBRIENTOS/LAC62000071/978-84-96107-90-8 Just check the campaign of Soult in Galicia and Northern Portugal. I suppose you are right and he left 80% of his army garrisoning Galicia just to keep them away...

In that role you had the spanish guerillas, almost 80% of the French Army in Spain had to deal with garrisoning, protecting communications and convoys.