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So Dubais rise to fame has been VERY recent. However, the area has an interesting history, it used to have Mangroves, at one point included cattle raising, and their creek has always been an option for smaller craft. The challenge is to make Dubai the centre of an independent Arabian state...

Beginning in 632 AD the Arabs, united by the new Islamic faith, began their first incursions into the Sasanian Empire as well as the Byzantine state. Due to the long, drawn out, conflict between the Byzantines and Persians (and owing a fair bit to religious divisions within those states as...

Is there anyway that instead of the Pagan religions of Europe, North Africa and Arabia being stomped out by Christianity, instead they reformed into Monotheism? After all, every modern monotheistic religion came out of polytheism. Zoroastrianism came out of Iranian Polytheism called Ashurism...

Hi everyone, I finally managed to find enough courage to get back to work on my earlier TL. This is going to be at first a reboot of The Scorpion Bite and I will then, hopefully, manage to continue it beyond where I left it the last time. First of all the title changes slightly (It occurred to...

Listo f geographic names and their OTL equivalents: Adarbaigan =Iranian Azerbaijan Albania= Azerbaijan Assyria= northern Iraq (including Irasqi Kurdistan) Betica= Andalusia Beth Qatriye= Qatar and UAE Ifriqia=Tunisia and ad Tripolitania Mazun= northern Oman Miaphysite = Oriental Orthodox...