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IOTL, the kingdoms of Aragon, Navarre, and the County of Barcelona were for a time united under a single monarch between the late 1050's and the death of the heirless Alfonso I ("the Battler") in 1134, after which Alfonso's own absurd will (which would have left the country to three Knightly...

What if the Umayyads had won the Battle of Covadonga? How might things have changed?

Simply put, a version of the Second World War where Iberia is more heavily involved than Franco simply supporting the USSR invasion.

King Alfonso V of Aragon had no children with his wife, Maria of Castile. Upon his death he was succeeded by younger brother in Aragon and by illegitimate son in Naples. Say that ATL Maria of Castile is not childless-she has 3 surviving kids with Alfonso (Ferdinand b. 1422, Alfonso Jr b. 1426...

As we all know, the Briton peoples of what is now England apparently fled in the wake of the Anglo-Saxon invasions and settled in the Armorican peninsula in northwestern France, forming the modern cultural region of Brittany. But, less well-known is the Breton settlement of Galicia, in...

When and how can we insert a strong Berber cultural, political, and religious component into Al-Andalus, after its conquest by Islamic forces? Perhaps through a more successful spread of the Berber Revolt of the 740's into Iberia? What would be the effects of a less Arab, more Berber Al-Andalus...

What if the Spaniards were able to keep Portugal in the Iberian union? How would this affect the Atlantic Slave trade? How would American colonies develop without slaves or with less slaves?

So apparently the Spanish and Portuguese liberals had both agreed to give Pedro IV (who was also the emperor of Brazil) the crowns of both Portugal and Spain and give him the title of Emperor of Iberia as a constitutional monarchy in 1830. Yet nothing came of it. I haven't found much concrete...

How could Iberia become Basque speaking? Could Basque somehow become the dominant language(spoken by elite) in Iberia? Could Basque become the majority language of Iberia, with atleast over 50%, meaning majority not plurality? Could Basque somehow become the dominant and/or majorit language of...

IOTL, during the Migration Period that destroyed the Western Roman Empire, there was an Alanic kingdom in Iberia that lasted for about a decade before being conquered by the Visigoths. The Alans seem pretty interesting to me as a people, since, rather than being a Germanic tribe, they're an...

So, suppose that the Almohad Caliphate never manages to conquer North Africa out of the Atlas Mountains, maybe by being defeated by the Almoravids at Marrakech. What happens next? The Almoravids are still in decline by this period. How does the lack of the Almohads affect the Iberian reconquista?

Instead of Castille becoming dominant what if Portugal became dominant.

During the Napoleonic wars, When Napoleon invaded Iberia, the Portuguese Royal family fled to Brazil. After the Napoleonic wars ended, and Portugal became independent again, the Royal family actually stayed in Brazil for a few more years, until the Portuguese public wanted them to come back to...

Magnus Dux Portucalensium The Emperor was dead. And the people of León mourned his passing, for he had been a powerful Prince, that had expanded the borders of his Kingdom further south than any of his predecessors. Under him, the armies of Christ had reconquered the old capital of the...

So, the challenge here is to have Spain and Portugal unite politically, with a PoD after 1640. Bonus points if you manage to create a republican Iberian Union.

In this scenario the Caliphate of Córdoba is not plagued by leadership crisises and stays a strong and powerful state at least into the eighteenth century. Presuming America is still discovered (though probably not by Spain) what is the likelihood that a Muslim nation begins to colonise the new...

Any POD you want, any time period, any degree of screwing, etc... it's all your choice, just fuck up Castille somehow. I was hoping that this would end up with a bunch of languages/Spanish-dialects that were marginalized and replaced with Castillian OTL surviving (because what Spain needs is...

So I recently found about a Succession Pact, that may have been agreed upon in 1105, between Count Raymund of Galicia and his cousin, Count Henry of Portucale. On it they decided on how to deal with the partition of lands after the death of Alfonso VI of Leon. Raymund would become King of...

Chapter I: Trafalgar and its aftermath - PT. 1: Trafalgar and England's Invasion "Damn you, Nelson! Damn you!!!" - King George III of Great Britain upon receiving the news of the home fleet's destruction at Trafalgar. In 1805, Europe in conflict for a year. Napoleon I of France had by this...

Suppose that Afonso I of Portugal loses the Battle of São Marmede (1128 AD) and, thus, never forms Portugal as an independent country. How could this affect the makeup of the iberian christian kingdoms? Would Castile and León remain separate?