anatolia

With a POD after 1000 AD, find a way for Anatolia to become ethno-linguistically and culturally Turkic. Bonus points if you could get said Turkic Anatolia to control an empire which controls the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa after destroy the Rhomanian Empire as well.

This includes Cyprus. Your thoughts as to consequences, repercussions, etc... if the Ottomans expel all their remaining Greek citizenry to Greece proper? Edit: Or if you prefer, it's constructed into the treaty as part of the agreement. Greeks go to Greece, Muslims go to Ottoman Empire.

What if: Anatolia was Slavicised? Alternate history challange: How could Anatolia be slavicised?

What if, as in BasileusGiorgios' Isaac's Empire timeline, Isaac keeps the throne, promotes his nephew, and dies in '75 or so. Alexios, young and inexperienced may possibly have rivals, so perhaps a civil war from some of the eastern portions in Anatolia. Perhaps he wins, learns a few tricks, and...

With a POD before 1900 is it possible for Anatolia/modern Turkey becoming Gothic? By gothic it can either be as a national identity similar to France and the Franks. Or it can be ethnic, linguistic, religous or a mix. Is this possible without derailing the Gothic migration into Italy, Gaul and...

In my opinion, the Battle of Lalakaon (or Poson) (863 AD) in eastern Anatolia is one of the most underrated battles of Byzantine history. It pitted the forces of emperor Michael III on one side and the forces of the emir of Melitene, Umar Al-Aqta, whose state consistently raided Anatolia, on the...

I am trying to figure out how to make the Balkans and Anatolia have the same population growth as France and HRE until industrial age since there seems to be stagnation in demography in those regions. I apologize if my estimates are wrong. Please correct me. Around 100-200 AD, Anatolia...

What if the Soviet Union acted over their claims in Eastern Anatolia which they laid between 1945-1953 and launched limited offensives into Turkey to reclaim territories historically owned by Georgia and Armenia. Would the USSR be successful? Would this escalate into a full-out war with the US...

The Celts in our timeline had spread as far as Galatia in Anatolia. What if they went further then Anatolia like Persia, North Africa, Arabia, and/or the Asian steppes, maybe further? How could they affect the cultures and peoples of their new neighbors? Could we see modern Celto-Africans...

Could Pontus have ever had a colony in Thracia? I mean Thracia is right next to them and it would only further secure Pontic influence over the Black Sea. Plus Thracia already had a Greco-Thracian influence because of trade with Macedon, and other Greek city-states.

IOTL, during the Wars Of The Diadochi, there was a pitched battle between Antigonus I Monophthalmus on one side, and a coalition of Seleucus I Nicator, Cassander of Macedon, and Lysimachus of Thrace on the other side. Here's a map of the near east, previous to the Battle Of Ipsus: Antigonus...

How could a Celtic Anatolia come about? I'm aware of the Galatia tribe, but how much of an influence did they really have? Could Galatia have had more of an influence to leave a more Celtic influenced Anatolia? Thank you for your responses.

With a POD before 600 AD, the earlier the better, how could a significant number of Persians (not just nobles, but farmers, merchants, and soldiers) settle in Anatolia and assimilate it into the Persian sphere? What would change in the ultimate development of Anatolia if Persian agriculture...

Inspired by a discussion on a different forum: Let's say that the Ottoman Empire is knocked out of WW1 much earlier, resulting in Sykes–Picot Agreement being implemented. But the Bolshevik Revolution still occurs and the Russian-controlled parts of Anatolia are turned into the Turkish SSR. How...

Recently, I'm thinking of an idea where the Kurds substituted Turks in (most of) the Anatolian peninsula, as in beyond their homeland (OTL southeastern Turkey and the Zagros Mountains). While I really thought that such idea was almost/borderline implausible, I want to reassure if this...