AHC: Alternate ethnic movements and migrations?

Here are my ideas in alternate migrations:

  • Anglo-Saxons move to Northern Spain which will be used against invading Umayyads
  • Lombards settled in Illyria instead of Italy
  • Avars pushed out by Bolghars and settled in Italian Peninsula
  • Visigoths settled in Northern Gaul
  • Franks settled in Southern Gaul, then invades Iberian Peninsula
  • Jurchens settled in Danube
  • Berbers settled in Egypt
 
Anglo-Saxons move to Northern Spain which will be used against invading Umayyads
Similar to this, I wonder if the County of Portugal or Kingdom of León in the 1060s-1080s could have invited the exiled Anglo-Saxon lords and retainers from the newly Norman-conquered England as mercenary troops to fight against the taifas and Almoravids. Then maybe Southern Portugal would speak a heavily Portuguese and Arabic influenced Old English or vice versa.
 
The Angles stay on the continent and push the danes out of jutland and a few of the islands, thus the danes focus more on hold expanding their "swedish" holdings
 
Having a Samaritan diaspora, and a diaspora as distinct as the Jewish one could be quite fun.
Given the Sarmatians and their Alannic cousins largely settled or on the borders of Greece, perhaps they could be used to settle the Anatolian-Persian borders or the Levant?
 
I like the "Wakashan" one a lot. Wakashan is a small language family of coastal British Columbia and the Olympic Peninsula, including the Nootka and Kwakiutl languages. Imagine them in Hokkaido.

@ramones1986 was this idea based on Michael Fortescue's theories?
I recently discovered Michael Fortescue, but I think it's just a coincidence. :)
 

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Many of these are Turk related (recent, well-documented and such):

  • Slavic Scandinavia is an intriguing option, especially if we accept autochtonist views (slavs were natives of the Balkans, migrated across Europe and the 6th century migration are basically returnees)
  • Turks settle partially on Tibet and from there spread into China, India and Indochina
  • Turks settle in Arabia, Middle East and North Africa instead of Anatolia
  • Turks push further into Russia
  • Turks in some feat of insanity go northeast to Chukotka, cross the Bering strait and swamp the Americas (the diseases will sadly still destroy many of the natives), with the results being the entire Americas becoming much more advanced
  • Arabs fail to spread to Africa in any meaningful manner, spread all the way to Central Asia and India
  • Indians settle Oceania
  • Bantu expansion fails spectacularly, resulting in the entire east coast of Africa being staunchly Afroasiatic and Khoisan-speaking
  • Austronesian Americas
  • Austronesian Australia
  • Austronesian invasions of Madagascar much bigger, and they continue to Africa. Madagascar thoroughly Asian, and parts of East Africa like Madagascar is today
 
Indians colonizing southern Africa or at least portions of it, as result of a surviving Vijayanagara empire that becomes interested in sea exploration.
 
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