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The Kievan Rus was a powerful Slavic kingdom, that controlled the lands of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, that later through decline, became a loose federation principalities and republics, with the Grand Prince of Kiev as Ruler. (Sounds Familiar *Cough* HRE *Cough*) The final nail in the...

The Duchy of Saxony was a decent power within the northern HRE, but was torn apart due to messy successions. But what if it was able to survive past the 1200s and into the 1500s or even 1600s? Based on its geography I could see it wanting to gain more power on the north sea and pose a...

POD is Charles V left no surviving legitimate sons and is succeeded by his oldest daughter Maria and her husband Maximilian, OTL Holy Roman Emperor. What changes would result from this? Max had Protestant sympathies, but as King of Spain he'd have even less reasons to express his Protestant...

Mary I of Portugal, before she married his uncle Peter III, was thinking to marry the future Joseph II of HRE and Áustria. What if this marriage happens?

Hello everyone. So, Richard of Cornwall, son of King John of England and brother of Henry III, was elected King of Germany in 1257, and formally held that title until his death in 1272. However, he was never crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope, and his kingship over Germany was contested by...

OTL, Otto I rebuilt the Holy Roman Empire, expanding his realm as King of Germany, repelling Hungarian pagans and effectively ending pagan raids on the W.Europeans, and even conquering Italy, creating the hot mess we now call the Holy Roman Empire. In fairness to Otto, it was largely as...

Found this weird ALT Germany. The website I found this on said that most of it was dominated by a terribly lose confederation, and this a successor state centered in Prussia. Is there anyway this is at all possible? I'm also surprised that it seem s France and Poland lost so much in europe...

I am wondering about what doing with Spain, Portugal, France and Navarre in this scenario... the only things I know are: Louis, duke d’Orleans will become King Louis XIII of France and likely will remarry before becoming King but I do not know who will be his second bride Dowager Queen...

OTL, Germany has a long, complicated history, and like France or England, much of it was as a relatively decentralized state, with feudal lords being able to stand toe to toe with the King. However,, over the centuries, the Kingdom of Germany was able to centralize- indeed it had to become one...

Otl, in the 900s, Otto I 'The Great,' conquered Italy and restored the Holy Roman Empire. But what if he failed to do so, or decided to focus his energies on the paganism surrounding Germany? And, recognizing that italy wasn't exactly the hardest thing to conquer, just assume that no one...

What if Charles I of Spain was chosen as the Holy Roman Emperor instead of Francis I of France? How would this affect the histories of both the HRE & Spain? How would Charles manage a ridiculously big domain with assorted laws, governments & customs?

During the 14th century, the territory of the duchy, like today, was small by current standards. The dynasty that ruled it however, the House of Luxembourg, was far from insignificant. It provided three Holy Roman Emperors during the 14th century, Kings of Bohemia and Hungary, and Archbishops of...

Change happens in 1410. William, son of Antoine of Brabant and Elizabeth of Luxembourg, survives, while his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sigismund of Luxembourg and Barbara of Cili, dies. If Sigismund remains childless, then his niece and her Valois son are his heirs. Luxembourgs made mutual...

What is the Plausablility of the Italian City States, 1100AD, Unifying into a sort of 'United States of Italy'? and if so, how powerful would said State be? Would it be Capable of becoming a expansionary and effective Mediterranean superpower? (remember, Rome started off like this:) Rome...

Could anyone of the Ottos conquer France as well and basically restore the empire of Charlemagne? How could France and her nobility be integrated into this realm? What would need to happen to get the French and German nobles to elect one monarch together after the demise of the Ottonians. Is a...

Change is simple-youngest child of HRE Leopold, in 1690 is a boy (Ferdinand? Maximilian?) who lives to adulthood. His existence likely would not change much until death of Emperor Joseph, but what would happen then? In 1711 case of Charles in Spain was practically lost, so Philip eventually is...

Frederick William IV of Prussia was a hardcore Romanticist, and the one of reason why he refused the Crown of Germany in 1848, besides calling it a "a crown from the gutter", he had Romantic aspirations to the re-establish medieval Holy Roman Empire, and would only accepted if the a...

Second wife of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold Habsburg had two short living daughters-Archduchess Anna Maria Josepha born in 1674 and Archduchess Maria Josepha Clementina born in 1675. So assuming that they're more lucky than IOTL and survived to adulthood, what would be their fate? @Vitruvius...

So, both the American Revolution and the French Revolution fail through a mixture of luck on the counterrevolutionary side and compromise; the British colonies in America get representation and, eventually, autonomy, and the French monarchy ends up reforming into a "constitutional" monarchy...

Otl, Germany, is one of the oldest powers in europe, holding the low countries down to the alps, as well as denmark for basically all of her history, and frequently having power in the Baltic, though it never lasted for more than a few years. They colonized neurort, tainolund, and most of...