crimean goths

Using a POD no earlier than the 8th century, what would it take for the Crimean Goths to exist as a sizable majority in modern day Crimea, comparable to the Crimean Tatars? I reckon a situation where Saint John of Gothia had successfully expelled the Khazars from the region and established a...

Where could East Germanic languages surive? How long could it persist? What would be the nature of the speakers(minority, majority, religious, legal, diasporic, scholarly, rural, urban, sedentary, aristocratic, nomadic, rich, poor)? How many East Germanic languages would be the maximum number...

Make the Crimean Goths become a diaspora people. Diaspora people similarily to how Romani are a diaspora people. Perhaps a new term should be used for Crimean Goths as they will not be concentrated in Crimea. What about Coths, as combination of the words "crimean" and "goth". Any suggestions?

Make the Crimean Goths persist as a "people" into the 21 century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Gothic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Goths http://www.gotica.de/taurica.html (A. Busbecq´s Letters: Editions and Translations) https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/gotol/100 (Gothic...

How can you with a POD set in 500 AD, or later have the crimean goths survive as a distinct group into the 21st century? The group can be united by linguistic, religous, cultural, ethnic or a mix of these sides of the human experience. This group does not need to be bound to the geographical...