balkan

Even today, Bosnia stands out for having a Muslim European population. While Albania also has a Muslim population, it is not Slavic, making Bosnia more unique IMO. Of course, other Balkan nations had (and still have) significant Muslim minorities (e.g., Bulgaria, Greece), but most were either...

IOTL the Vlachs were a major population in the southern balkans and formed a pillar community in major balkan polities, such as the Bulgarian empire. however did the vlachs stand a chance of gaining control over the balkans? And if so what would the effect of an eastern romance people...

Romania (as the Romanian People's Republic) started a nuclear research program in 1949, focusing on radioactive isotopes in medicine and industry. Some have interpreted Romania's actions to have a dual purpose, as the military program began in 1978, jointly operated with the program for the...

Like it says, if the 4th crusade or at least the 1204 sack of Constantinople and the subsequent partitioning of the East Roman Empire never occurred, what would happen with Bulgaria and the Balkans as a whole? Bulgaria had recently broken away from Byzantine control, declaring its second empire...

what if Napoleon jointly invades ottoman empire ? by negotiates a ceasefire with Austria, Russia, Spain forms alliance with them and Qajar Persia against ottoman empire and supports nativist and religious rebellions all over the ottoman empire invaded ottoman Egypt and Syria along with Austria...

The Battle of Ankara almost ended the Ottoman Empire iotl. Iotl, Bayezid I arrived on the battlefield on the 19th, but decided to camp instead of attacking immediately when Timur's army was strung out and could have been defeated piecemeal as advised by Stephan Lazarevic. Let's say Bayezid takes...

Hello all, there has been plenty of no Ottoman/Osmani screw timelines, and all involve clouds of butterflies. So I was wondering what would be the specific effects on the Habsburg dynasty and the Holy Roman Empire as a whole? I don't think that the specifics are too important. Whether...

Idea I've had for a timeline with a pod of 1848 with possible some minor pods before then. Feel free to comment and offer criticism on the timeline. Thank you. Mexican Cession The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American war on February 2, 1848. The treaty would see the United...

How do you think European culture would have turned out like if most countries would have been successfully converted to Islam in the 16th and 17th century, following a successful Ottoman occupation? Modern Turkey seems to be a curious mixture of German and Middle Eastern culture. Outside of...

So, according to McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame, on the 5th August 1914 M N Leontiev the Russian Military Attaché in Constantinople paid a visit to Enver Pasha the Ottoman Minister of War. What Enver proposed was staggering. According to McMeekin (referencing diplomatic notes and diary entries...

In Hellas, Bulgaria, and Albania, Islam is so well-established that it’s hard to imagine a time where any other religion was practiced. However, before the Ottoman conquest of the region, the people were Orthodox Christians. However, the Ottomans also conquered Serbia, Croatia, and Romania, but...

Across the 1860's, there was apparently an effort by quite a few political entities in the Balkan peninsula (mainly Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, and anti-Ottoman Albanian tribes) to form a diplomatic alliance with the ultimate goal of creating a large-scale revolt against Ottoman rule in the...

pod: after ww2 bulgaria joins Yugoslavia(albania too) , than the split from urss still happens as OTL. what happens until 2017? how changes the battle royale of the 90's( if it still happens)? (Please bypass the usual "why they can't/do merge" thank you).

If Tito's dream of an SFR Yugoslavia that contained Greek Macedonia, Thrace, Albania, Bulgaria, Carinthia, and Friuli Venezia Giulia had come into being, what effect would it have on the Yugoslav Wars (ignoring all other butterfly effects). The Yugoslav Wars of this timeline would probably be...

Like the title says, assuming the Balkans (comprised of Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria) have remained under rule of the Ottoman Empire, what will does the Balkan region would looked like under the industrialized Ottoman Empire?

Would an Ottoman empire with more or less the same european territory but with a stable border on the Taurus mountains be posible and viable? Could they be able to keep the balkans for more or less the same time they did in otl? What other thing could change with this?

Just an idea I thought might be fun to explore: OTL, Hoxha’s Albania split from the USSR camp over Khrushchev's de-Stalinization and instead choose to partner up with Mao’s China in economic and military matters. Then in 1970s when China’s relations with the West improved Albania and the PRC...

Flag of the Serbian Empire Đavol (Devol), Macedonia [1], 1355. The stress of the latest string on failures was too much on the Emperor - in the south, the eternal thorn in everyone's side was John IV Kantakouzenos, and his machinations cost the Serbs the important town of Veria, an extremely...

Instead of different ethnic nation-states(Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia) on the Balkan gaining independance from the Ottomans, have a non-ethnic religiously(Orthodox Christian) based state gain independance. How would the inter-ethnic relationship be in such a state? Am i right in...

As you may know, King Stefan Dusan of Serbia planned to take and hold an empire spreading throughout the Balkans, from Serbia to Greece, and to spearhead a crusade to drive the Ottoman Turks out of Europe when he died. If he didn't, do you think he could have succeeded?