iberian pensinula

While restricted to northern Portugal and Galicia for most of its existence, the kingdom of the Suebi did, for a brief while, rule most of the western Iberian Peninsula (and launch raids on the rest of it, which went as far east as modern Catalonia), during the reigns of Rechila and his son...

As someone who's recently been rather interested in the history of relations between Iberia and North Africa , I noticed that one rather common tendency was for a North African power to exert influence in Al-Andalus, whether they invaded or were invited. How sustainable could this union be? The...

What if, after Wagram, Napoleon decides to handle the Spain problem himself? Of course, there is one caveat I will throw: if Napoleon doesn't beat Wellington and cure the Spanish ulcer by June 1812, he will still have to go to Russia. So with that in mind, assuming the campaign starts from...

The Battle of Vouillé was, IOTL, a devastating defeat for the Visigothic Kingdom, which not only lost its king, Alaric II (killed in action), but was also forced to give up also half of its territory to the Franks, including the capital city of Toulouse. According to Wikipedia, the kingdom went...

So the title states clearly the challenge, but it is lets say a multitiered challenge, it can be made under any kind of circumstances and events possible, it could be an imperial capital city of a united iberian nation, a city state, having OTL borders, some spanish autonomy becoming independent...

In a scenario without a successful Rome how would the pre roman peoples of the Iberian peninsula develop? For the sake of this scenario we could say that that Rome could be abandoned after its sack by the gauls in 390 BC.

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...

Prologue: The roots of an Empire Se Deus quiser, há-de brilhar, De novo a Coroa sobre as Lusas armas! Que a nossa Pátria soube, sempre honrar, Que a nossa Pátria soube, sempre honrar! The Kingdom of Portugal is a byproduct of the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. Founded in its...

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

The Umayyad conquest of Hispania left an indelible mark on the Iberian peninsula. It resulted in the destruction of the Visigothic Kingdom, the period known as the Reconquista, and left impacts on the Iberian languages that are still seen to this day, among other things. So my question is...

I'm current working on a post-middle age independent,when is castile and aragon don't remain united after Ferdinand and Isabella i'm current looking a flag and a map for Aragon and castille. their state are Castilian Confederation and the Republic of Aragon il would be apperciate to see any...

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...

Inspired by my esteemed colleague @Kellan Sullivan's thread about Catherine of Aragon being born a Infante rather than a Infanta I got a plotbunny gnawing on my head. What if Manuel, duke of Beja and the future King of Portugal was born as a daughter? What would become of Portugal's sucession...

Portugal along Spain was the first superpower in the world, being the nation that open the door to the era of exploration. The fifteenth century was the golden age of the portuguese empire. However, in 1578, the young king sebastian died in the battle of Alcacer-Quibir. His uncle, the cardeal...

At the last stages of the Thirty Years' War, the Iberian Peninsula and the Habsburg monarchy that controlled it was in disarray. The Portuguese, alongside the Catalans, revolted around the year of 1640 with assistance from the French and Dutch. At the same time as these two rebel factions were...

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...