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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(curopalates) I know it's unlikely, but say that the whole revolt ends with Peter not dead, and instead placed on the throne by the army after his brother is ousted. Would that be better or worse than Phocas becoming emperor?

If the Gepids were able to win the Avar-Lombard coallision or if it never existed, what happens to the southern slavs? Would they still exist and raid the balkans depopulating it and settling there, or would Gepidia, as a east-germanic speaking entity, would still surviving in the east of...

The Gagauz Turks are a Turkic-speaking, majority Orthodox Christian (curiously for a Turkic culture) ethnicity who today inhabit some regions of the eastern Balkan Peninsula, principally Dobruja, the Danube Delta, the Budjak in southwestern Ukraine, and the Autonomous Territorial Unit of...

According to the video embedded (timestamp 30:30) Fritigern sent multiple envoys to the Romans before the battle of Adrianople. What if rather than continuing to deal with the Goths militarily, the agreement was made with a condition? Rather than simply King of the Goths and retreating - the...

The Lion Haired Men - Estan should voyage outside the Pillars of Byax and found cities along the coast of Khestiu and the islands of the Weshesh. He set forth with twenty ships of fifty oars and a multitude of men and women, to the number of ten thousand, and with salted meat and other...

How feasible or possible is it for Moldavia & Wallachia to defect to the Holy League during the war, or perhaps proclaim Leopold I their sovereign so long as they attain certain guarantees like the Serbs. Apparently both leaders of Wallachia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Șerban_Cantacuzino)...

Attila's Empire was notably more of a series of tributary relationships and alliances against the Roman Empire between various migratory peoples, rather than an actual empire. How could Attila's empire have turned into an actual sedentary and urbanized empire stretching from, at the least, the...

Hello everyone, here is my third timeline. It is going to be much more limited in content (the framework is a History Class at an alternate institution of higher education which discusses one single source), and at the same time much more insanely divergent from anything we know than any of my...

With a POD no later than 1900, make Hungary and Romania have no real tensions between them, even among their nationalistic parties.

Could the Danube River have become the main artery of trade and travel for a new empire after the fall of the western Roman Empire? How does the navigability of the Danube compare to the Dnieper River that allowed the Kievan Rus to raid the Black Sea? What could create a river-based empire in...

In worlds with very early PODs, the year 1000 or earlier, what rivers, mountains, and such in Europe will always become borders, and which won't? For example, the Carpathian Mountains were a very important border from the 1400s to 1914, but are totally disregarded in national borders now. The...