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  1. How do you guys believe European history would shift and change if the Indo-Europeans never existed?

    https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https://preview.redd.it/how-do-you-guys-believe-european-history-would-shift-and-v0-bfhrwkhn3poa1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bfdf804929d922e5d6bac55a71a1a5bf6a08ab1c I stole this idea from r/AlternateHistory So here are my thoughts; A Monotheistic...
  2. What we know about Medieval Genghis Khan’s tribes?

    Let’s consider to the "Compendium of Chronicles" what this source tells us about Medieval Genghis Khan’s tribes. For example, let’s consider one of the biggest and most powerful tribes called Naiman. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the full English version of "Compendium of Chronicles", so I will...
  3. Which explains the religious tolerance of Genghis Khan’s Mongols?

    Which explains the religious tolerance of Genghis Khan’s Mongols? As we all know from history, Genghis Khan’s Mongols conquered a large part of the Eurasian continent. Where there were different people with different religious beliefs, like Christians, Muslims, etc., Despite this, Genghis Khan’s...
  4. Where are the historical Genghis Khan tribes today?

    I love history, and when I read historical sources about the history of Genghis Khan, I was surprised to find that most of these historical clans today form the backbone of my nation. Today, historical tribes such as "Naiman, Kerey, Dulat, Zhalair, Katagan, Alban, Kongurat" are among the most...
  5. Abd ar-Rahman II

    WI: Pecheneg Victory at Levounion 1091 /Tzachas Islamic Roman Empire

    Tzachas Bey https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzachas a Turkic Muslim hellenophile warlord having for ambition to become Roman emperor and take Constantinople for this purpose he built a fleet wich woul achieve some success and allied the Pecheneg a at least partially Muslim Turkish tribe wich...
  6. GauchoBadger

    AHC: Gagauz Nation-State

    The Gagauz Turks are a Turkic-speaking, majority Orthodox Christian (curiously for a Turkic culture) ethnicity who today inhabit some regions of the eastern Balkan Peninsula, principally Dobruja, the Danube Delta, the Budjak in southwestern Ukraine, and the Autonomous Territorial Unit of...
  7. GauchoBadger

    WI: Turgesh victory at the Defile (731)

    The Battle of the Defile (731 AD, 109 AH) was a military engagement between forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, led by the governor of Khorasan, and forces of the Turgesh Khaganate, led by the warlord Suluk, who had, since ten years earlier, been raiding and ravaging Transoxiana after kicking the...
  8. AHC: Turkic dynasty of Byzantine Emperors

    Is this actually possible? Do you need a POD where some Turkic tribes are more drawn to Orthodox Christianity and speaking Medieval Greek rather than Islam and speaking Persian or Turkic languages and actually integrate into Byzantine Empire. I know there were Slavic and Armenian dynasties...
  9. AHC/WI Uyghur Dynasty of China

    Based on what the title says, what happens if the Uyghurs (whether they be Buddhists, Nestorian or Muslim) took over the Middle Kingdom and became the emperors of China like the Mongol Yuan and the Manchu Qing? What'll be their dynastic name then if that happens? How will Uyghur-ruled China be...
  10. Ottoman-Persian Ezafe ("-i" suffix) adopted across Mediterranean

    In many Iranian languages, the suffix -i or -e is used, roughly equivalent to the English word "of". This is called ezafe. Ezafe was intentionally adopted into Ottoman Turkish and Urdu as the Turco-Persian tradition spread. It convergently resembles the Arabic genitive. By coincidence, ezafe...
  11. Incanian

    Does anyone know any really good Sources/Books On the Qajar Dynasty?

    I've been very interested in Qajar Persia, and 19th century Persia. And I would like to learn more about the Turkic Dynasty. So, if you have any books, sources, or anything regarding the Qajar Shahs, Qajar wars, Qajar Economy, Qajar Foreign Relations, etc, please tell me. Thank you.
  12. [Ottoman AH] - Stronger Turkic plantation across the Middle East?

    See above. Could the Ottomans have managed a greater settling into the likes of the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Cyprus, Mesopotamia and Yemen than OTL, enough to subsume or outnumber "native" Arab, Aramean, Assyrian and Jewish communities by the 1900s? Would it at all have been to their...
  13. AHC: Largest contiguous Turkic country

    Today, Turkic languages are spoken by 170 million people natively among a very fragmented area stretching from Turkey to eastern Siberia, with the largest language being Turkish itself. Could there have been a very large Turkic empire, not the Ottoman Empire or Seljuk Empire, surviving to the...
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