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With any pod between 1050 and 1750, how cam we get a unified Caucasus under the Orthodox faith that can repel the Turkic invasions. Two possibilities that come mind are a Georgia that remains unified or a Circassia that decides to rebuild it. What other candidates are there and what major...

After the year 1525, how can we get Protestants and the Eastern Orthodox Church to see each other as common allies against the Catholics as opposed to merely seeing each other as another heresy as otl? While Protestants have moved historically to work with the eastern churches at times, was...

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...

Okay, so pardon me for being an ignorant New Englander, but history and culture and stuff are kind of a new interest for me, so I didn't really pay attention to these things until recently. I was aware that the Nahua were mostly Christian and had been since sometime around the 18th century, and...

What if Scandinavia (the cultural region, but I could also just be the peninsula and the nordic islands) had, instead of Roman Catholicism, converted to Eastern Orthodoxy?

Introduction: Early attempts to Christianize Sweden were not successful and Sweden was the last of the three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) [1] to fully Christianize. I had the idea playing Crusader Kings 2 however, what if I did a timeline where Sweden became Orthodox...

After conquer the city of Constantinople in 1453, the ottomans restored the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, giving to the eastern orthodox subjects of the empire a image to rally around. My question is, what if the ottomans don't restored the Patriarch? The Balkans would be islamized...

I was recently told in school about the Saints Cyril and Methodius and their evangelizing journeys in greater moravia. However, Svatopluk expelled all Methodius disciples and brought some francian ones instead. What if he allowed them to stay? What if the poles were also christianized by...

What if when during the argument with the Catholic Church over the right to Annul his marriage Henry VIII decided that it was more appealing to convert to Orthodoxy rather than joining to an untested religious movement he had previously argued against. How much opposition would he face in doing...

As the title suggests, make Russia as an Eastern Orthodox Theocracy, rather than turned into OTL Soviet Union. The POD is from 1900s.

Okay, so, so far this map doesn't have a timeline attached to it, but I'm working to fix that. It's called "Orthodox Germany" because the original idea of the TL was "what if Germany was Orthodox". After that, I just sort of ran with it and made a map. Sorry for the border gore, especially in...

Georgius Gemistus Pletho was a Byzantine scholar and intellectual from the late 14th till early 15th century who appears to have had an influence on the "neoclassical" elements of the Renaissance. In the 1410's, Pletho proposed a bill of reforms to the Byzantine emperor and aristocracy, in...

I have no idea if this is possible or not. @Valena @alexmilman @Rurik and others knowledgeable on Russian history. Say that Yaropolk had converted to the Latin rite (i.e. that his conversion had been formalized). Perhaps Vladimir is unsuccessful at murdering him, and is somehow...

I was browsing the internet back in August and came across this interesting tidbit of info: Apparently, Emperor Franz/Metternich broached the subject to Alexander during the Congress of Vienna (or shortly before). I realize the possibility of an Orthodox-Catholic match is awkward (although...

The Trans-Saharan trade routes served as the introduction of Islam and Islamic scripts to W/Africa. So maybe prior to the Muslim conquest of N. Africa can we have similar introduction of Eastern Orthodoxy and an associated script to W. Africa. Further, maybe following being cut off due to the...

This idea was inspired by the East Orthodox basically claiming Harold Godwinson as one of their own.What if Harold or one of the other kings sent emissaries to Constantinople to switch religious affiliation from Rome? How will if influence England? Would there be a noticeable Greek influence in...

With a POD after 1066 have England become orthodox. Does this require turning other countries orthodox? Or can it be done when Henry VIII breaks with Rome and having him go orthodox instead of Protestant? And with an orthodox England how is religion overall in the UK? Do Scotland, Wales, and N...

IOTL, Medieval Sweden has extensive contacts with Russia, which, as we all know, converted to Orthodox Christianity under Byzantine influence. Is there any way for this religious influence to somehow also be bounced off towards Sweden, resulting in an Orthodox Christian country in Scandinavia...

I was wondering, since Martin Luther, and the reformists didn't like the Catholic church, what was there opinion of the Orthodox church? And also what their opinions of Islam were. I saw a few quotes on Islam, the Ottomans, and Sulieman the Magnificent, but I would like a few experts to tell me...

Say in the 6th century the Somali tribes converted to Orthodox Christianity, what would the potential ramifications be? Would there be a chance of the entire horn of Africa repelling colonialists?