italy

So, after the fall of The Elder Welfs, the closest occasion where the Kingdom of Arles or the Kingdom of the Two-Burgundies was created was with Charles I of Anjou. He and Pope Nicholas III were planning to create the Arelat as a separate state from the Holy Roman Empire with Charles Martel, who...

As we all know due to an invigorated sense of piety combined with nationalism in the mid-1800s in Italy the papal states led by the pope eventually created an Italian confederation with himself at the head. However the short-lived prime minister of piedmont-sardinia Camillo Benso wanted the...

Your challenge is to have a Slavic polity exist on the Italian peninsula for a time. It can be a brief time, it just has to be a distinct political entity. EDIT: Whoops, this was supposed to be in Before 1900. Could a mod please move this thread there?

What if Italy hadn't stayed neutral? POD is the German advance through the Ardennes catches the French by surprise, so the war doesn't "stall" like OTL, making Mussolini ready to join. Would North Africa have been a major front, or would it have gone the same as Germany's colonies in WW1? How...

Felice Orsini succeeds in assassinating Napoleon III on January 14th 1858. How does this impact the remainder of the 19th century?

The question I must ask, is to which degree the rise of the Roman Republic in Italy was a foregone conclusion? Further, what is the status of Rome in say 600 BCE? Which factors led to the rise of the eventual Republic and what are these contingent upon? My assumption, is that Rome developed...

Instead of doing Operation Barbarossa, what if Hitler instead decides to focus on invading North Africa and working with Italy. In this scenario, Hitler would try to seize Egypt and the Middle East to cut off the British in the Mediterranean and seize vital oil supplies. Without invading the...

In 1484 pope sixtus IV dies, the greatest opponent to Lorenzo Il magnific. the next Pope the genoese Vybo elected as Innocent VII was even a fan of Lorenzo. Pod: what if Lorenzo is able to create a stable Italian league were the Italian state won't anymore battle between them but solve disputes...

In 1882 the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I survived two assassination attempts by the Italian irredentists Guglielmo Oberdan and Donato Ragosa while visiting Trieste. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Oberdan What would have happened had they succeeded? Would that have meant war...

Assuming Karloman survives and fights with Charlemagne, could a Lombard Version of Charlemagne arise in Western Europe? Italy despite being ravaged by the Gothic Wars and Lombard Invasions was still the wealthiest region in the Mediterranean world. Assuming some military genius...

pod: Kaiser willy imposes to stay defensive on french front focusing to destroy Russia first( no one knows how really weak the tsarist troops are), Moltke disobeys and is forced to resign, welcome falkenhayn( no schlieffen) .Britain might join the war anyway but not in 1914. France is arrogant...

In OTL's First Balkan War, the Balkan League made substantial territorial gains into Albania, arguably an Ottoman ally. Serbia was close to acquiring a Mediterranean coastline (the Durres/Durazzo/Dyrrhachium port), Shkoder had been taken and Greece had made some inroads into southern Albania...

Now this is probably borderline asb, but what do we have to do to unite Germany as a cohesive nation state (or at least kingdom), separate from the HRE before the 1700s? With or without austria, your choice. Now the easiest would probably be preventing Otto I's forming of the Holy Roman Empire...

In this alternate timeline, the Ottomans are far more hostile to Italian traders in the wake of conquering Constantinople. Now being cut off from a large source of their profit, and desperate to make it up, the Doge of Genoa, Paolo Fregoso, accepts Christopher Columbus's plan to attempt finding...

With a PoD after the 1848 revolutions are suppressed, how can we improve the economic development of Italy in the late 1800's?

As the title suggests how would we get more nations like San Marino and Liechtenstein, small nations part of ethnic groups of larger nation-states but left out of consolidation because of geography or politics. San Marino left out of Italy not because they arent Italians but because of politics...

In a scenario where Austria is high favorable to German unification, with it accepting leadership of a united Germany at the Frankfurt Assembly, what would then happen to the non-German lands under Emperor Ferdinand and later Franz Joseph. While an Austrian-led Germany can be acceptable at the...

In OTL, the Bienno Rosso (Two Red Years) was a short period of intense political and social unrest in Italy in which the left and right clashed all over the north and center of the peninsula. This led to sharp repression of the revolutionary left and the rise of the Blackshirt fascists and...

In OTL, France demanded territorial compensation from both Austria and Prussia in return for neutrality. France demanded Venetia and an independent Rhenish state from Austria in the case of an Austrian victory, Austria agreed but an Austrian victory is very unlikely so we can ignore this...

introduction: in 1925 a crisis occurred on the Bulgarian/Greek frontier which escalated with Greek occupation of Petrich in attempt to enforce some demands. pod: WI the league of nations( as usual) fails to make a negotiation and Greece declares war to Bulgaria? consider that both nation weren't...