Constantinople
Banned
Inspired by the recent Vandal: How could we allow for the survival of more germanic kingdoms, not just as political entities, but cultural ones too. You know still speak some Germanic language (east or west or north).
Interestingly, I was musing on this. Without the Huns the Germanic tribes more likely would be ending on establishig some of more stable kingdoms along Roman border or/and in Ukraina1. The Huns do not move West, as a result the Goths successfully establish a Ukrainian / Black sea Kingdom.
Without the Huns to cause so many deaths other East Germanic tribes are able to grow larger than in OTL, thus,
2. The Gepids and Burgunds establish Balkan Kingdoms.
3. The Vandals and Langobards move into Italy on schedule and establish Kingdoms.
Bump. It happened with the Goths just a bit in the east. Could it happen again, maybe in france?
Gaul's population would be too large for them to manage it...
As a whole, yes. Though, if they only rule parts of Gaul... like the Burgundians in, well, Burgundy...
Could a Frankish kingdom that is limited only to northern France (and perhaps Belgium, The Netherlands and western Germany) work?
Could a Frankish kingdom that is limited only to northern France (and perhaps Belgium, The Netherlands and western Germany) work?
Heh, thats probably a better location than the Rhone Valley, yeah, because it would partly still be in Germania, so demographics would be in its favour.
Im not so sure nearness to Italy is a factor, though, seeing one of the last Germanic languages of the migration period to die out was Langobardic...
Maybe if the invading Germanic peoples were more brutal and killed more of the people already living in those areas, there would be less of a Romance-speaking population base to assimilate them. So if say the Ostrogoths killed more Italians, or the Franks killed more Gallo-Romans, they would comprise a larger population percentage than IOTL.