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The Makedon empire, or Basileía Rhōmaíōn as it was called at the time is one of the sucessor states of the Roman empire, that splitted from the Byzantine empire in the 700s under the macedonian general Alexandros Angelius (later known as the Alexander the great, not to confuse with the first...

IOTL, Quintus Labienus, son of pro-Caesarian general Titus Labienus, was a rogue general who opposed the Second Triumvirate (42-31 BCE). He estabilished an alliance with Parthia and raided the Roman Oriental provinces, mainly Syria. He was defeated by Marc Antony’ forces in a battle somewhere...

If any province(s) or diocese in the Roman Empire became the center of a new Roman empire (like the Byzantine Empire) ruled by a Roman usurper but "going native" or developing into its own tradition, which province would lead to the most interesting result, and why? If you're thinking of a...

In OTL the roman empire hardly could be called a monarchy, as their rulers usually fell to coups or to assassinations that resulted on a general or politician rising to power with their own clique to become the next emperor, and this was also true to the pre Makedon dynasty byzantine empire, and...

What if the Roman Republic lost most of the key battles of the Cimbrian War (maybe through Gaius Marius dying in his fight against Jugurtha of Numidia), in the late 2nd century BCE? What would happen next? Could the Cimbri and the Teutones invade the italian peninsula and sack Rome? Could they...

The ERE/Byzantine army under the Macedonians reached a size of 200,000 soldiers.While its’ understandable that the empire’s ability to raise armies would be impaired by the erosion of the theme system and the loss of territories,much of the land still retained by the Turks following Alexios and...

ok! I will post each map made in an individual post.

So a friend of mine linked me an image since they're aware of my love of women in practical armor, but the moment I saw the picture, my mind started picking it apart. After several rather pedantic discussion points - Why would a centurion be using a spear? That's an auxiliary weapon! Where's the...

A quick question that I think has some interesting potential ramifications. For those who don't know, the Dominion of Soissons was a rump Roman state founded by the Roman general Aegidius after the assassination of Emperor Majorian. For 25 years, he and his son Syagrius ruled over the...

During the era of the Enlightenment when Latin was highly favored as the language of letters, or during Romanticism when the Roman Empire was absolutely idolized by states like the French Empire, could at least one Romance country (In Europe or in Latin America) engage in an orthographical...

IOTL, roman forces clashed with sassanian persian forces at the Battle of Edessa, in 260 AD. The persians ended up winning, and even captured the roman emperor, Valerian, who was held captive by the persian king Shapur until his death. So, what if the battle had a reverse outcome, with Shapur...

Two of the most important battles in Muslim expansion were the Battles of Yarmouk and al-Qādisiyyah. What if the opponents had won these battles instead? A: Romans annihilate the Rashidun at Yarmouk, including killing all major commanders such as al-Walid. B: The Sassanians destroy the...

Let's imagine that someone in Alexandria invents a practical printing Press around 300 AD. How would it affect the Roman culture? could it help Romanize the germanic tribes after the fall of the Western Roman Empire? Would this invention be relevant or would it be a footnote in the annals of...

The territory that roughly corresponds to present-day Transdanubian Hungary (the Western part of the country) was part of the Roman Empire and called Pannonia. On the Hungarian website "gyakorikerdesek.hu" I have read about an ATL that describes a fictional continuation of this state as a...

What if the Romans, during the height of their power, had established a completely centralized secret police that eventually increased in power and took over the state? What might this look like? Historically, the Romans were not unfamiliar with espionage. In the 2nd century, Hadrian...

What if Attila, king of the huns, had managed to defeat the romans and their barbarian allies at the Battle Of The Catalaunian Plains (451 AD)? Would he be able to conquer Gaul? And after conquering Gaul, where would he go next? Italy? What are the effects on the barbarian migrations? What are...

How could Carthage have created a professional army, instead of mercenaries? Correct if I'm wrong but isn't the reason that they didn't was because Carthage had a lot of skilled people in the capital (Carthage). So, why didn't they just levy troops from Iberia, Berber North Africa, Sicily, or...

In a scenario where the Byzantines win Yarmouk or otherwise repel the Caliphate's invasion, it seems likely that they could hire Arab and Persian foideratoi; Christian and Jewish Arabs emigrating from the Caliphate, some originating from the Ghassanid realm. As well as Christian, Mazdaki...

What if, after the third Punic War, Rome turned Carthage into a client state? Effectly allowing Carthage to survive. Instead of, in our timeline destroying Carthage. Would anything change in North Africa? Probably a long shot but is it possible that after the fall of the Roman Empire that...

The Exarchate of Ravenna fell long before the empire did. However, it did last a full 167 years and its borders may be less unstable than they'd appear. If you examine the territorial extent of the Exarchate of Ravenna in the 590s, it's actually pretty similar to the area of Roman colonization...