lithuania

What if the Jagiellonian dynasty didn't come to an end with Sigismund II Augustus' death? First of all, I know the Union of Lublin wouldn't be a thing, since there would be no need to create a real union between Poland and Lithuania for the two realms to remain connected. The Jagiellonians were...

Main PoDs are: -Matthias Corvinus has kids with Beatrice of Naples* -Sigismund Jagiellon dies before 1506. Result? According to Hungarian customs one Matthias' legitimate sons should be elected to the throne after his death. Meanwhile as Treaty of Olomouc from 1479 stated, Vladislaus...

What would be the consequence IF everything that can go wrong GOES wrong for the Germans and their allies in Operation Barbarossa and after? What if they CANNOT even reach cities like Vilnius, Minsk or Khmelnytskyi ?

On 1379, Andrei of Polotsk would be crowned as King of Lithuania with the support of Muscovy and prevailed against the younger Jogaila and the other sons of Uliana of Tver with Algirdas, this which would cause the conversion of Lithuania to Orthodoxy and the cohesion of the state of Lithuania...

Lets assume, that traditional "Old Jogaila" theory is true (so he really was born around 1352 rather than 8-10 years later) AND that before Hedwig d'Anjou is available he is already married (perhaps with Rurikid princess ) and has a son (<insert random Lithuanian name> @Augenis ) Now lets go to...

Lithuania Marches On Chapter 1 - Lithuanian Independence Operation Barbarossa. Its Sunday of 22 June 1941, 3 million soldiers at the foot of the motherland. One of the Hitler's goals was to reach Leningrad, however the Baltic nations (under Soviet control) stood in the way. As Army Group North...

This question is especially concering The Battle of St. Mathew's Day. If they could've defeated the christians, how long could they have stayed pagan? How feasible could an alliance with pagan Lithuania been?

Surprised that there isn't much discussion about this, at least none i can find. Given the depopulation of the southern Rus, would a different external power such as Poland or Muscovy conquer the region instead? or could a local kingdom such as Galicia–Volhynia fill the power vacuum in that...

In 1605 Polish-Lithuanian (mostly Lithuanian tbh) army under hetman Chodkiewicz stomped Swedish army at Kircholm and Charles IX had to flee from the battleon a borrowed horse. So, the question is, what if, one way or another, he was intercepted by PLC cavalry and taken prisoner? What will...

Surprisingly, not a single thread about this PoD seems to have existed anywhere on the foum prior to this. Guess there's a first time for everything. Anyway, while Lithuania was mostly ruled by Grand Dukes, there was actually one crowned King of Lithuania, sanctioned by the Pope: Mindaugas...

In the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev suggested that the Lithuanian SSR should annex Kaliningrad oblast. Irl, Antanas Sniečkus declined this offer as it would give Lithuania a massive russian minority. But, what if he accepted? Would Lithuania be subject to the same colonization by Russians like...

Short and sweet, was there anyway for Lithuania to become a majority Protestant state? The only pods that come to mind are that Lithuania gets conquered by the Teutonic order, they get conquered by Prussia or Sweden, or that Poland converts to Calvinism and it spreads from there. Were there any...

how high do you think the Baltic (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) population could have been?

What hurdles would need to be overcome for the Lithuanians to convert to Orthodoxy early as possible and how would that affect eastern European history? To my knowledge individuals have converted to Christianity on occasion albeit to Catholicism, but that they didn't convert nationally until the...

Hello all, So, Lithuania was a powerful realm in its heyday. Mindagaus -- the first Duke and later King of Lithuania -- fought and won many wars against Christian forces, defeating Polish and Crusader enemies and conquering land from the Baltic into Ruthenia. However, though Mindagaus was a...

If the Lithuanian people remained pagan instead of converting, how possible (if unlikely) was it for Lithuanians to be used for forced labor. In an alternate 16th century, could it be possible for Sweden and Poland to allow slave raids against pagan Lithuania and ship them around Europe, the...

What if instead of becoming a theocracy administered by the Teutonic order, Prussia and Lithuania became a crusader state led by one of the German houses like the ones in the levant? What would be the major effects of Prussia becoming an actual monarchy 300 years early and united with the Baltics?

Thanks to chain of lucky marriages Habsburg domain vastly expanded during late 15th/early 16th century, but what if Habsburg luck happened few generations earlier? Their expansion would not look exactly like IOTL-my plan is: -William the Curteous has a son with Joanna of Naples. That means...

I've read recently in book "Ladies of Władysław Jagiełło" about likely reason, why talks about marriage between Hedwig, daughter of Władysław Jogaila, and Bogusław IX, Duke of Słupsk, were cancelled-it was death of Jogaila's third wife Elżbieta Granowska in 1420. Granowska was only wife of...

While Habsburg on the throne does not need to mean, that internal situation of PLC is drastically different (although to some degree it certainly would) foreign policy of PLC and its neighbors would certainly change grom the very beginning of Habsburg rule (which must start early after creation...