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I'm wondering about the ramifications for World War I and beyond where the Ottoman Empire still lost The Italo-Turkish War between 1911-1912 and lost their territory in Libya but still managed to retain their holdings in the Dodecanese Islands. What are the effects of this on the Balkan War...

So, here's my idea: in 1808 when Joseph Bonaparte is appointed King of Spain the Kingdom of Naples is not given to Murat, but instead merged with the Kingdom of Italy. OTL the King of Italy was Napoleon, but Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson, was the viceroy and, until the birth of an...

Class relations if following happens Soviets conquer Poland in 1920 and industrialise as much in OTL 1941 by TTL 1934 under an alternate leader after Lenin dies earlier and invade just Hitler is fuhrer and quickly sweep Germany and Balkans with deep battle, large numbers and are Stopped at...

So, in a scenario inwhich the Italians do not enter WW2 during the fall of France, and thus the African and Balkan campaigns don't happen, how could the Germans fare on their own during and after their invasion of the Soviet Union? As a rule for the thread, Romania and Finland can join the war...

Supposing the Kingdom of Naples ruled by the House of Murat remained in place after the Congress of Vienna like it almost did in otl, how would the Bourbon Kingdom of Sicily develop? What would be the likely geo-political and economic developments of Sicily in this tl? How would this Kingdom...

During the Italian wars, the French had their main objectives of enforcing their Agevin claims and capture both Milan and Peninsular Sicily and it's islands (Sicily and Sardinia), however due to a number of factors (coalitions against them, military failures, etc) they were kicked out of the...

Hi, following the continuous questions rising around in the forum about Italian unification, I would like to open a discussion about the likelihood of a different compromise, Austria recognizes its Italian holdings as an equal partner instead of Hungary. The Habsburg relatives of the Emilian...

The Republic of Florence was a very important state in late medieval and Renaissance politics. Florence is commonly considered the birthplace and centre of the Renaissance, and was the hometown of such eminent figures as Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, and Niccolo Macchiavelli. The...

POD any time after 1918. What are some possibilities to make Italy communist?

say that, sometime after the collapse of the League of Three Emperors collapsed, Germany and AH had their own diplomatic falling out, (perhaps over nationalists in Austria being supported by parts of the German government, albeit not Prussians) and while Germany is able to maintain the Italian...

During one of the Byzantine empire's weaker stages in the late first millennium, what would be the impact if an orthodox kingdom (thinking the Serbs but it's open) were to control the Western Balkans and all of Italy? Could an Eastern country controlling Rome cause a smaller schism that pushes...

In our timeline, in 950 AD, Lothair II of the Bosonid Dynasty, King of Italy, died, many suspect poisoned, by Berengar of Ivrea, who later became Berengar II and attempted to usurp political power and legitimize himself only to see Otto I, King of Germany intervene and create the Holy Roman...

By bad luck, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy dies of a respiratory illness in late 1925, when Mussolini was pushing most of the laws to finally silence the opposition and entrench the Fascist party. The crown is supposed to pass to his only son, Umberto. What does this mean for the political...

A random thought occurred to me when I saw a HoI4 YouTuber play as Italy in the Great War mod: would the Central Powers have been better off with Italy joining in instead of the Ottomans? The Italians tied down a lot of A-H troops that would otherwise have been freed up for fighting the Serbs...

Hello all, So, back in the late 1940s (shortly after World War II), there was a fringe political party in Italy called the Italian Unionist Movement, which had the goal of joining the US as a state. It was hoped that this would strengthen both nations, and that the US would become a world...

There is a great debate and discussion on who the successor to the Roman Empire is. From the Holy Roman Empire, to the Ottomans, to the Russians, it stems the points of culture, language, lineage, legality, religion and location, on who truly is the successor to the Roman Empire... This isn't...

what if muslim arabs after winning at tours and kill charles and conquer a collapsed france due to death of charles and Later umayyad emirate rules both Spain and France and later conquers Italy can they conquer England or Germany will flat plain warfare be successful in these densely forested...

Let’s say Alboin isn’t murdered, and after taking Pavia in 572 the Lombards siege and capture the Byzantine holdout of Ravenna. Rome is next and the rest of the peninsula quickly follows. By 600, all of Italy is united under Alboin. What does this mean for Europe?

As the title says. What would be things be like for Fascist Italy if they’d stayed neutral or at some point joined the allies? What would their position be in the Cold War and new alliances? Would they be roughly in the same boat as Franco or would they be closer to the west and get in on NATO...

What happens if the Commune of Rome set up in 1144 actually manages to turn the city of Rome into a Republican Municipality under the HRE?