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The Year is 484, and the Frankish Empire has been defeated, and the victorious Soissons moves in on its territory, halting the barbarian advance. However, they still reign on in Iberia, Italy, Britain and Africa. The King of Soissons, instead of invading them, decides that hopefully the majority...

Say that the West Roman Empire managed to survive the perils of the 5th century, and at least lasts several more centuries. Rome also IDEALLY manages to keep her borders on the Danube and Rhine in Europe, or at least keeps a similar shape. So it can’t just be the Byzantine heartland with half of...

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...

The rise and fall of the Gauls and the Gallic empire was a rather interesting piece of European history. Native Celts in modern day France trying to fend off Roman invaders and eventually rebelling and attempting to form their own empire/nation only to fall in a matter of years and the Gauls...

Based on this post by David T, and the thought of Russian Germans suddenly popping into my mind. Basically, what if Soviet authorities had, contrary to local Khazak interests, managed to create a German autonomous republic in northern Kazakhstan in the 1970's, as a compensatory measure for...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_German_settlement_in_Central_and_Eastern_Europe http://feefhs.org/resource/germany-settlements-in-eastern-europe https://web.archive.org/web/20080302155203/http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20080301faessay87203-p30/jerry-z-muller/us-and-them.html...

Been doing research on the late Empire, and Stilicho has fast become one of my favorite Roman generals of all time. After his assassination in 408, the WRE fell apart fast. Not saying he could've saved the West on his own, since many historians think it was a lost cause by this point, but is...

First, thank you for accepting me in this website. Is there a way the Celts and the Germans could develop into a level of statehood and civilization like the Romans or Greeks had, without being conquered by them? Thank you.

This is a rather frivolous idea but what if, for some reason, the Soviets decided to deport(a portion of the) Volga Germans, captives and East Prussian Germans to northern Korea? They'd have to for some reason not want the Germans in Siberia. What effects would moving hundreds of thousands of...

Seen this map before? Ok, Maybe not this one specifically, but it still should tell you about what went down OTL Drang Nach Osten & Ostsiedlung, I.E German settlement east. I'm not gonna bore you with the explanation of why this happened (mostly because I know too little to add much). But as...

What if the allies intercepted the German air raid at Bari, Italy, on December 2, 1943? This was an air raid by the German forces in Italy against a major allied logistical port on the east coast of Italy. It was apparently a major supply depot, left weakly defended by British forces since they...

Let's say that the Battle for The Hague leads to the Dutch government (and royal family) being captured by the Germans before they could flee for Britain. What happens next with a "Vichy" Netherlands? Could the Nazis tell the Dutch government to hand over the Dutch East Indies to Japan (or at...