italy

Older brother of Napoléon III died in 1831 of measles(?) while he was involved in some carbonari activity in Italy IIRC. So what if he hadn't? Might we see a Bonaparte headed movement in Italy? Or would he fail there and make a comeback in France as his brother did? Also, he's been married to...

What if the Carantanians had managed to defeat the Lombards sometime around the 8th century, and occupy Northern Italy? Perhaps all the way to Mantua, to keep it more or less realistic... How would the Carantanian state develop from there on in, in terms of: -Language and culture? -Foreign...

Northern Italy unified only in the early 15th century by Gian Galeazzo Visconti and grew to eventually encompass the whole peninsula, but what if he died before he united his domain into a single state? Would Italy remain disunited for centuries more, eventually brought into order by HRE or...

Inspired by my question regarding Eduard of Simmern's son surviving, I decided to look at another Pfalz prince who also lost a son that could've had an interesting effect on the European chessboard: Eduard's distant cousin, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine of the Rhine. Now, JW was a notorious...

What were the actual plans both Italy and Germany had for France in the event of an Axis victory (assume Britain is knocked out of the war)? The territory France loses to the Axis powers seems to alternate between Germany owning the north half of France and Italy owning the entire Alps region...

With any POD after 1900, make Italy a major power and player in European and global economics and politics. Bonus points if it's after WWII.

So, for whatever reason Bismarck is convinced to annex the german parts of Austria into Germany (maybe the king forces him to accept it or something, it really doesn't matter). To prevent rhe backlash that surely would come from neighboring nations if such thing happened, he tries to involve as...

OTL, Yugoslavia never got to fight a real war, and ethnic tensions remained the biggest sources of division. An ATL Yugoslavia would need at least two PODs to survive to the present day. A major war involved with the state's founding and a Cold War partition that cuts across ethnic lines are...

I've always had a fascination with both Mussolini and Fascist Italy because unlike say Hitler and Nazi Germany, Italy is more ridiculed rather than despised, and Mussolini is often portrayed as a buffoon rather than evil. But it wasn't always this way for Mussolini. Although he was always...

The idea was outlined in my "Anyone but Leo X": Instead of going south to Naples and winding up in Spain and then getting killed in Navarre, Cesare heads to France. There he reunites with Charlotte d'Albret, meets his daughter, Luisa (who IIRC never met her dad OTL), and because Charlotte hasn't...

This is an interesting idea I've thought about. How can this happen, and what if that did happen?

Yes, this is in fact real. https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/gabriele-dannunzio-irish-republic-1919-21/ During the Irish War of Independence there was a plot by the Irish Republic and Italian fascists to smuggle guns into Ireland on a boat called the Stella Maris. At one...

So, assume that the Roman "barracks emperors" are even less competent at defending the empire from the Germanics, Persians, and other usurpers, and the whole thing collapses into multiple squabbling states sometime around the 270's AD. One of the Germanic tribes, led by their king, estabilishes...

What if the king of France Charles VIII had never invaded itaIy in 1494, kick-starting the Italian wars? His plan was to take southern Italy and use it to start a crusade against the ottomans, but how would the history of Europe change without this series of wars during the 16th century? And...

So I was looking at a nice AH map the other day about an "Italian overseas territory" called Nuova Toscana in the area of the Guyanas and the Orinoco river, based on the Thornton Expedition, and I was thinking: If this somehow happened, how would it have affected the demographics of Argentina...

Part of the reason Italy joined the triple alliance, was because France took Tunisia despite Italy's desire to have her. Suppose France is more accommodating. Is this enough to prevent WWI? Presumably, without Italy as an ally, Germany will have a more timid policy or will become an ally with...

How realistic would a restoration of the Kingdom of Naples or Two Sicilies be in a CP victory? Maria Sophie of Bavaria, the wife of Francis II, presided over an informal Bourbon court-in-exile and supported the Central Powers in the hope that they would restore the Kingdom of Naples upon an...

It's been discussed here plenty of times if Mussolini won and how he could have won. So I'm not here to ask about that. If Mussolini did win though, ideally rejects Hitler as he did seen him as a clown and a barbarian no different then the Germanic peoples of Roman times. Let's say he's able...

What if Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor of the house of Hohenstaufen, had died and never returned to Pavia after his defeat at the Battle of Legnano, at the hands of the Lombard league? -How will his successor negotiate with the Lombard League, and the pope? -Can Henry the Lion, Welf Duke of...

What if Roman EMPIRE, not Republic, in around its peak bans slavery? Rome decreases slightly in size due to the military power needed to enforce this act. Would this allow them to survive longer or perish faster?