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Nova Anglia: The First New England Compiled from Newly Discovered Sources from the Collection of Marios Antonas Resistance Against The Normans and Beginning The Anglo-Saxon Government-in-Exile was established on October 14, 1066 after William the Conqueror's victory against Harold Godwinson at...

Let's say that the empire avoids the Byzantine-Sasanian war and manages to repel the Arab invasion to the best of their ability. After that they have a series of competent military emperors (not necessarily consecutively) that reconquer as much of Europe and North Africa as logistically...

"What greatness am I to muster when better men than me have come before? Am I too supposed to be great?" Attributed to Emperor Artemios I 'Keraunos' [2] Argynos [1], founder of the Imperial House of Argynos. -- I am often at what one could call an impasse for sources and functions; even as...

No, I'm not talking about Heraclius. I'm talking about the period leading up to the Umayyad siege of Constantinople in 717. During this time the Byzantines were wracked with internal problems and their morale was reeling. In OTL Leo III forced the abdication of a weaker emperor and managed to...

Can they hold the Exarchate of Africa because of the roman identity, or would it eventually break free from the empire?

Its quite a stretch to expect the Byzantine empire to last longer than it did. With Ottoman expansion, the writing was on the wall and the empire was always crippling itself away. That being said, there were many key moments in history where Byzantine could've stayed stronger and been more...

The Battle of the Masts was one of the most pivotal and disastrous naval battles in Byzantine history. Most of the 500 ships were destroyed in a day, and it proved the mettle of the Muslims on the seas. Emperor Constans II barely escaped by trading clothes with another man and being disguised as...

"Let none say that God's Chosen People have not struggled; yet in His Wisdom, we endure through greatness held aloft by our Basileus," - Attributed to Mathew I Psenas, Patriarch of Constantinople, successor of George II, 1204. -- Hello everyone! I've had a timeline of this sort swirling around...

Flavius Phocas(602-610) was one of the worst emperors Byzantium had. Taking advantage of pay disputes to seize power, he proceeded to brutally purge his opponents, mismanaged the army and bureaucracy, and triggered a 26-year long devastating war with the Sassanids, which of course he completely...

Just to be clear, I am referring to the Byzantine emperor who reigned for a few months in 641, not the Western Roman usurper. Constantine III was made co-emperor by Heraclius in 613, and seemed a competent character. What if he had not died of tuberculosis just a few months into his reign, and...

As the titel sais, is it possible to get a roman empire rump state or successor in Iberia ? I know all the Barbarian Kingdoms would be successor but i am more talking about a state that is atleast in some way a direct continuation with an atleast partly roman ruling class, so no HRE, Vandals or...

The Dominate, inaugurated by Diocletian, succeeded the Principate of Augustus following the Crisis of the Third Century. The reforms of Diocletian and his immediate successors, notably Constantine, marked major changes in the internal organization of the Empire that made the Dominate differ so...

In the Byzantine Empire and later the Ottoman Empire, not to mention Arabia and India, there was a long tradition of castrated males who served as "non-gendered" or "a-gendered" servants to high-ranking females, and were called "Eunuchs". They were technically a member of a male human social...

Introduction: The Komnenos dynasty presided over an era of prosperity for the Byzantine Empire known as the Komnenian Restoration. Their overthrow led to the rise of the incompetent house of Angelos, which failed to stop the Turks, Bulgarians, and Crusaders, and Isaac II Angelos' Latin-backed...

By the way, I love that story.

The Crucible Century By Klara N. Kawakatus Markus Sverre University, Stadakona Campus 12/18/2019 The course of the modern world was radically altered during the years between 1279 and 1426, often called the ‘Bloody Century’ due to the many deaths caused by the great political, social and...

Had there been delays or a shift in schedule of events so that the Persians and Romans had enough time to recover from their war, how much would the Caliphate be blunted in their conquests? Would they shift more of their energy into the South (and perhaps East)? How long would it even take for...

The Roman Empire is undeniably the most powerful nation in the Mediterranean, controlling Anatolia, Italy, The Balkan Peninsula, Egypt, and the rest of North Africa. However there was one moment in history when the empire seemed on the verge of losing everything, Islam had risen in Arabia and...

The idea of the Mongols (or an independent Mongol warlord) taking over Constantinople, adopting Greek traditions, converting to Orthodoxy, and subsequently establishing a new Eastern Roman dynasty during the 13th century is commonly brought up, but how and when could this happen, and who could...

Today, the Byzantine Empire (also known as the Kingdom of Rhomanoi), is a world player, with a seat on the UN Security Council. It is widely considered the most powerful state in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, stretching from the Danube in the west to the Euphrates in the east. Although it...