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The Republic of Genoa, in conjunction (and opposition) with various banking families in Germany, was the first country to produce "modern" financiers. In addition, it was probably the first country that had a central bank (and the bank-dominated government of the republic earned accolades from...

Historically, there have been quite a few anti-religion movements, mostly based in communist nations (USSR prosecution of Orthodoxy, Enver Hoxha in Albania, China, etc), but there has never been a nation that has waged war with the sole purpose of spreading atheism. In most places where...

At what locations and PODs would it have been possible for a major Slavic Muslim state to emerge? Bonus points if it's Shiite.

Have there been any TL's that explore the possibility of the KMT's victory over the communists in China? What would be the latest possible POD for a China (relatively) united under the KMT?

To survive and thrive as Europe shifted from early medieval city-states to landed empires? I'm somewhat skeptical that any of them could have become colonial powers without major PODs, but I'm glad to hear other opinions.

Would there have been any way for Greek to overtake Latin as the most widely spoken language in the Roman West in addition to the East?

What if Tigranes the Great had begun to prepare for a Roman assault in ~72 BCE and was able to defeat Lucullus after the Roman surprise attack? Perhaps a lull on the Roman front would have allowed Tigranes (or his successors) to totally subjugate Parthia and set up an Armenian Empire?

This is my first timeline. It deals with a Stefan Dusan who lives to be crowned Constantine XI of a revived Byzantine Empire. I'd like to thank Basileus Giorgios, without whose encouragement and advice I would not have been able to get this thing started. :p An excerpt from The History...

Norwich hypothezied that if Basil had been able to marry his son off to the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis II, East and West might have been united. If the arrangements had been successful and Constantine had not died prematurely, would there have been a possibility of a political union?

(Afaik) Apoulia and Calabria had Greek-speaking majorities until the late Middle Ages. Under what circumstances could a Greek-speaking Maritime Republic develop on the peninsula, akin to Amalfi or Venice? Perhaps a Republic of Bari?

Say that the Serbian rebel leader Petar Gojnikovic remains loyal to the Bulgarians and a chain of events leads to a strong Serbo-Bulgarian alliance. Simeon is not bogged down in uprisings in the West and is able to finally conquer Constantinople. Would the Slavs be able to hold onto the city?

Several of the Taifas (I know at least of the prominent taifa of Denia) were created by Slavic Muslim generals who were former slaves. Large portions of their armies were similarly made up of Slavic people. While these Slavs were heavily Arabized, it is possible that many retained a Slavic...

Say that the British and French did not abandon the Greeks and Armenians and that the Turkish War of Independence was a decisive loss for the Turks. What kinds of republics would arise? An independent Pontic Republic, an Armenian-Pontic confederation, or even a new "Greek Empire"?