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In a "Mussolini joins the Allies" scenario, what does Greece do during the war? Would Italy still invade under the pretext of preventing Greece from joining the axis? Would Britain prevent Italy from attacking and Greece supports the allies? Or would Greece join the axis as a fascist state...

No, this is not yet another, 'What if Greece won the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-22 and restored Byzantium?' thread. I think the consensus that extensive Greek territorial gains in Anatolia were implausible - not least on ethnological grounds - has been thoroughly established numerous times...

The histories of Rome and Greece have always intertwined closely with one another, with Roman armies conquering Greek states while Greek philosophy and culture was conquering Rome. There have been plenty of opportunities for one Greek polity or another to take over more and more of Italy...

Can Greek nationalism rise in late Byzantium under palaiologos during 12th and 13 the centuries as it did in 19th century under ottomans due to events like sack of Constantinople and latin rule can it stop ottomans?

If Persian under Xerxes conquer Greece can Philip II and Alexander the Great still rise as rebel satraps, unite Greece and conquer Persia by Creating phalanx as Achaemenid macedonia had autonomy create armies and wage wars will they be more successful without disunity among Greece under...

As you may know i was doing the TL The Sands of Purple before I discontinued it after writing only 1 chapter. Now I came across This Thread which supposes that the Abbasids destroy the ERE in 806 . Now My Plan is to have an Islamic Greece , be it in Anatolia , Thrace or Greece Itself Under the...

Prologue: The Arab Conquest Of Rum and its aftermath The Arab Conquest of the Ruman Empire or the Rhomaion as the Greeks called it was a landmark event in History in 96 AH* . Within less than century , The Arab Muslims had conquered both the Sassanid Persian and The Rhoman Empire . After...

Your challenge is to have Greece acquire a colonial empire with a POD after the recognition of its independence in 1830. It doesn't have to be a big one and it doesn't have to last very long, it just has to exist.

When the Modern Nation of Greece formed in the 19th Century, they created a unitary state, with a monarch and later a president to lead it. Instead of the Ancient Past with Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians, Thebans, the Greeks sees themselves as Greeks. Challenge: With a POD from the Late...

Greetings, We know well from otl what the effect was on Greece and Hellenic culture when there was a large imperial regime and geopolitical power to the east in Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt in the form of the Achaemenid Empire. However, in opposition to a large unified imperium, what would...

In 2015 OTL there was speculation that Greece would leave the Eurozone. What if Greece left the Eurzone? How would that and Brexit affect the European Union? How would Greece reverting back to the Drachma effect the world economy? Discuss below.

Is there a possibility that the British allow Alfred to take the Greek Crown? What are the conditions that will get the approval of the British and Queen Victoria?

Basically as the tin says. IOTL, Constantine I had been suffering from pleurisy for quite some time and almost died in 1915. So, what if he had actually died two years into his reign and been succeeded by his eldest son, George II? Would George II have continued his father’s policy of neutrality...

What if Kievan Rus decides against importing the Orthodox faith but instead opts to create its own ‘brand’ of heavily Russified/Slavified Christianity incorporating many indigenous pagan ideas? In other words a centralized but indigenous ‘Christianity’ with its roots deep in ‘Slavdom’ as...

Edit, to avoid confusion... POD for these yearly memorial days (whether observed or not)... Greece – some time after joining NATO in 1952 Armenia – soon after independence So for this ASB-ish WI lets say some Christian nations memorialize THE ENTIRITY of their history regardless of what Turkey...

Suppose that you have your run of the mill Achaemenid success story in Greece. Thermopylae fails to hold the Achaemenids for even a few hours, the allied Greek navy gets smashed at Salamis and Themistocles killed, and with both land and naval dominance, the Peloponnese, as well as some Aegean...

When Greece regained independence in the 800' they trie to find a surviving descendant of the last byzantine emperor Costantine XI as Wikipedia also states: "Beyond Constantine's martyrdom, the Palaiologos dynasty had a lasting impact on the Greeks throughout the centuries of Ottoman rule...

This thread is inspired by a rather obscure WI I raised in another thread that proved to be surprisingly productive, and I'd like to focus more on the subject in the title, that of Enosis with a POD after 1950. Calling in @Tanaka did nothing wrong and @Lascaris, who did the bulk of the...

Upon the deposition of the first monarch to rule Greece post-independence, the childless Otto of Bavaria, the Great Powers were divided as to who should rule Greece. Many Greeks themselves apparently wanted Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert...

Georgios Papandreou was an influential liberal/social democratic Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of his country for three times, the longest stint lasting from February 1964 to July 1965, when he was dismissed by king Constantine II in what was called the Apostasia. What if he had...