germanic

Been thinking about the Crimean Goths and how ridiculously long they survived in some form until the 1800s. And I've been thinking, what if the Goths were more numerous and united in the Crimea? Say, they form a kingdom based around the Crimean peninsula, parts of the Southern Dnieper, and the...

Before conquering the Western Roman empire, the gothic tribes pillaged in Byzantine Europe before migrating west. If the went southeast to Mesopotamia instead and found a kingdom near the Persian Gulf, how does their culture develop in the next millenia? As the middle east is already a cultural...

Could Germanic Tribes like the Goths or Gepids move into Anatolia and turn it to into a Germanic speaking region ( or a good part of it) during the third century crisis or during after Huns.

Okay, so, Europe has historically been dominated by the Slavs and the Celts, with Celtic empires such as Prydhain and Gaul dominating the west while great Slavic cultural centers such as Poland, Bulgaria, and, to a lesser extent, the nations of the Rus hold court in the east. However, there are...

In OTL, English is arguably the farthest from any other Germanic language, and in fact blurs the line between Germanic and Romance languages, especially French, and to a lesser extent, Spanish. Basic Dutch, German, and Scandinavian still sounds vaguely familiar to a Native English-speaker, but...

There are many alt histories pre and post 1900 of germany and there seem to be alot of stereotypical topics and ideas which were already done alot of times. What do you think would be some interesting, obscure or overlooked Ideas/PoDs for "Germany" from the germanic people during Arminius till...

The premise is simple. With a POD between 350 AD and 1000 AD (part of the ethno-linguistic formative years of modern Europe), have Germanic languages be more widespread (by which I mean more majority Germanic-speaking countries). There are a lot of countries in Europe that were established by...

lets say that ulfilas becomes nicene instead, or an alt-ulfilas appears in the same time and beats the real one to the punch. the end result is this - the gothic tribes, and later the whole germanic world (except the norse, of course) are converted to the nicene creed in the 4th century (and...

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...

How far west could Germanic people groups and Slavs have migrated? Could Germanic people push into France, and Iberia? Could the Slavs have moved into Italy, Greece, Anatolia, or even parts of Germany? Just how far could each group have migrated, and what countries could be diffrent?

From its proto-form and early Roman influence, to the Norman conquests, to its transformation into a global lingua franca and contender for having most words, the English language has cultivated a vast and particularly fascinating vocabulary. It combines both a diverse array of foreign and...

IOTL, the future Roman emperor Julian (mostly known for his Pagan religious sympathies) was sent to the empire's Rhenish frontier by Constantius II in 356 AD to deal with a large Germanic invasion, spearheaded by the Alemanni tribe. The Germans were executing numerous raids across Gaul, and...

With a POD no earlier than Constantine's conversion, how can the Romance and Greek languages be subsumed and replaced by other languages to the maximum extent possible? How can Roman titles and institutions, and architecture, be forgotten, replaced, or minimized? This should be mostly...

So, yeah. Is it possible for the Franks/the Frankish Kingdom to remain speaking a Germanic language or are the odds too highly stacked in favour of them becoming Romance speakers?

The Germanic tribes/peoples in OTL had a very vague sense of unity that only really showed itself when a massive power like Rome showed itself. Even then it was very unstable. So, what if the Germanic tribes had a stronger sense of unity, similar to the Gallic tribes. The only thing I can think...

What are some underrated points of divergence during the fall of the Roman Empire and early "Dark Ages", especially from 313 AD to 565 AD? Persia or China are relevant as well, though the main focus is Rome and the foederati.

What's the earliest possible time that the agricultural output and population density of the area called East Prussia and Pomerania, could have supported an organized, centralized military power? It need not be Germanic or called Prussia at all, but its powerbase must be in what we call...