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In the first two decades of the Cold War, the intelligence services of the West Block made some startling discoveries that hinted at an unexpected build-up of Soviet military capability, airlift capability, and even spaceflight capability. With spyplanes temporarily grounded due to certain...

What if the Ottoman Empire had won the Great Siege of Malta and conquered the island?

By Maltese I mean a Christian population in Europe who speak a language based off of Siculo-Arabic. I guess Sicily would have to be more thoroughly Arabised by the time of a Christian conquest, and also the conqueror having less of a base in Italy or less ready to send Italian colons to the...

What if the Great Siege of Malta had ended in an Ottoman victory? What repercussions might their triumph have had?

How would Malta develop if the Knights of St. John get Malta at the Congress of Vienna either as a fully independent country or as a British sattelite. How exactly would the order ruling in the 19th century actually work?

In 1956 Malta held a referendum to see if the people wanted to become an official part of the United Kingdom. With 59% turnout 77% voted yes. There were several people in both countries against integration and Malta eventually received independence. What if Malta successfully became part of the...

Just finished an excellent new alternate history, The Falcons of Malta. I was put off by the price – 99 cents! - surely a piece of crap. But the price is a come-on, the book is great. Rigorous history, pitilessly gritty and realistic, and well-written. Very good on a lot of details (I’m a...

This is a split off for my "Bahia de Todos los Santos: Spanish Colonization of the Mid-Atlantic" timeline. In this path I look at another divergence, where instead of founding the Republic of Gran Colombia, the forces of Carolina and Joseana would remain disunited. The Disunion of Roble and...

During the negotiations for the Third Coalition in 1805, one of Russia's demands for entering the coalition was that Malta be evacuated by Britain. The British, desperate to have Russia as an ally, ultimately accepted to this, and prepared to seize Minorca from Spain instead as an alternative...

What if the Hafsid Dynasty (13th-16th centuries) of Tunisia had succeeded in capturing the island of Malta in 1429? Can they embark in further conquests across the mediterranean? How much wealth can Malta provide to the Hafsids?

Simple question: what if Mussolini joined WW2 straight away in September '39? According to a biography of Mussolini that I read Egypt was practically undefended at the time and even the incompetent Italian army should have been able to make serious inroads, especially given British commitments...

The failed ottoman siege of Malta was the turning point of the ottomans' expansion into the mediterranean. The siege indirectly led to the battle of Lepanto in 1571, which knocked the ottomans for good out of the mediterranean islands. Previous conquests into locations like Corsica and Nice, at...

How can Malta still be part of the UK? What would be the outcome for the island and the world? Resulting economic for not malta independent?

Hello, fellow allohistorians. I'd like to discuss the development of a somewhat larger (but not overblown) Maltese Air Wing post-Maltese independence in the 1960s. This is part of my tongue-in-cheek LOSERS project. The main POD behind the changes to the Maltese Air Wing is a somewhat higher...