early middle ages

With the beginning of the Arab conquest of the Sasanian Empire from 632 AD onward, shah Yazdegerd III spent the rest of his reign constantly fleeing further and further east: first to Hulwan, then Isfahan, Istakhr and finally Merv, in Khorasan, where he was eventually murdered. Suppose the...

Introduction Oescus, Moesia Inferior 468 AD Dengizich, son of Attila. After the disastrous incursion over Roman Thrace, Dengizich, son of Attila, decided to stop the aggressions and agreed to make negotiations with the Eastern Roman magister militum Anagastes. The conversations took place at...

Consider these two maps of the Roman Empire in 330, plus some important info on the first three Justinian emperors. We can discern the following: The Eastern Roman Empire is a mostly Greek-speaking empire since forever (read: Alexander the Great), but its northwesternmost territory is...

After its disastrous defeat at al-Qadisiyyah and the fall of Ctesiphon to the Arab invaders, the Sassanid Empire had only one army of note west of the Zagros Mountains by 637 AD. Said army was stationed at Jalula, along a narrow strip of land flanked by a river on one side and impassable terrain...

Woo i'm finally making a TL post on this forum, woo If anyone has been paying particularly close attention to the r/ImaginaryMaps discord server over the last few months, you might (might) have noticed that I've been posting very sporadically about some "unnamed Gothic Empire timeline". This...

Okay so I have an increasong obsession with the 10th century fueled largely by autism and the fact I've been actively making a lot of noise towards Paradox in the hopes they'll bring back my favorite CK2 start date, 936, in CK3. The CK3 thing is beside the point though. The thing is, I feel...

Peroz I was Shah of the Sasanian Empire from 459 to 484. He fought three wars against the Hephthalites during his reign, and while they were all defeats, the last one was especially catastrophic since it ended with his death and that of several prominent nobles in a battle near Herat, after...

The Battle of Vouillé was, IOTL, a devastating defeat for the Visigothic Kingdom, which not only lost its king, Alaric II (killed in action), but was also forced to give up also half of its territory to the Franks, including the capital city of Toulouse. According to Wikipedia, the kingdom went...

I was inspired by this thread. https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/hypothetical-germanic-city-names-in-a-germanic-occupied-eastern-roman-empire.489148/ So lets say sometime during the 600s or early 700s during some war with the Arabs or Persians they invade and colonize Greece . What...

Just as the title sais, how would the land develope differently under this families rule ?

What would a French and Italian based Holy Roman Empire look like assuming that the Kings of France or West Francia managed to attain the Imperial Title rather than the Kingdom of East Francia or Germany it otl? What would this French based HRE look like? Would it be more of a contender to be...

Exactly as in the title. Could a surviving Kingdom of Soissons be considered a restored WRE? If not, which conditions would be necessary for this to be the case? And last, but not least, which could be the differences between the two?

============================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. On the Road to Malaca 2. Men and Horses 3. The Smith 4. On the Road from Malaca 5. Watchtower 6. Clouds of Dust 7. The Death of Delius 8. A Poorly-Written Action Scene 9. State-Endorsed Horse Theft 10. Relief of...

I'm guessing that most of you who clicked on this assumed that the title refers to Ioustinianos I Megas, but I'm afraid it doesn't. The title refers to this Ioustinianos, the youngest son of Maurikios who almost/may have escaped the lynch mob as his body was never found and he may have escaped...

Hello, I want to write a TL focused in a alternate south slavic nation replacing Bulgaria on a early conversion move. Now, I need some fresh ideas on how could such ATL bulgaria-a-like develop its culture and religion having another ground for the byzantine eastern rival-and-friendly neighbour...

Could the Magyars have migrated somewhere other than the Carpathian Basin/Pannonian Plain? On one hand, the Carpathian Basin is the westernmost extension of the Eurasian steppe, which would imply that it was the most pragmatic place for the Magyars to settle. On the other hand, there's plenty...

What regions and historical areas of interest do you like the most in the Early Middle Ages (500-1000 AD)? What historical processes, empires, wars, social developments, economic advances, technological developments, do you think are good timeline material?

This is one of the most unplausible threads I have ever created, but I still think that with the right PoD, most likely a "great man PoD" this still can be realized, basically a germanic pagan "reconquista" of northern europe This is a religious map of europe and north africa around the early...

Rex Odoacer (433-509) is known as one of the most respected characters on post western roman history (being him the one who started this age by conquering Ravenna in 476 also), Odoacer pragmatic views resulted on one of the most prosperous revivals known in history, as he kept the roman senate...

To be more direct, i mean Francia after 800, when Karolus Magnus was crowned as the roman emperor of the west and the name of the kingdom changed to "Romanum imperium", in your opinion, did Karolus Magnus really became the sucessor of the old WRE or not, and why?