visigoth

In 647, outside the temporary capital of the exarchate of Africa, Sufetula, the Muslims crushed the Roman army, killing the exarch Gregory. Leaving the rest of the Roman Maghreb defenceless. Commanded by some of the most senior of companions of the prophet: But instead of pressing on, they...

Lately I have been researching the Western Roman Empire and I have been making a mapgame of the usurpation of Magnus Maximus and I have asked myself the following question: What would have happened if the destinies of the West and East were reversed? that is, the Western Roman Empire manages to...

What if Clovis failed to conquer Gaul from the Gallo-Romans, preventing his conquest of the Alemanni and the Visigoths in Aquitaine? This would leave the Franks probably divided, pagan, and inhabiting the substantially "barbarized" former Roman frontier. While the Franks were Romanized...

As I understand it, the Visigothic Code gave women the right to inherit land, arrange their own marriages, and represent themselves in the court of law. Did the Ostrogotgs have anything similar? Could the Ostrogoths have developed something similar if they had survived in Italy or was the...

Imagine a world where the 7th century had gone somewhat differently, where the Arabs had successfully taken Constantinople (how much of the Byzantine Empire in Anatolia and Southeastern Europe would stay under Arab control long-term is up for debate), but the Arab conquests of North Africa had...

What if the Visigothic Empire and Byzantine Empire had reversed fates from the 700s on? The Visigoths repel the Umayyad invasion, surviving for centuries, sometimes expanding and sometimes declining until an ultimate fall. Afterward an Ottoman-like empire (but Berber) takes over and rules...