AHC: Ethnic Arab Homelands in Europe

You could have some Arabs wandering around and settling somewhere in Eastern Europe. Of course, the catch is that eventually it won't be "ethnic Arab" per se, but ethnic *[insert-demonym-for-ficticious-Eastern-European-country-here]. However, the new language, whilst absorbing words from all over the region and probably written with some form (say a mixed OTL Czech/Polish/Hungarian/Romanian) as well as probably undergoing major changes in phonology, would definitely use Arabic grammar.
 
You could have some Arabs wandering around and settling somewhere in Eastern Europe. Of course, the catch is that eventually it won't be "ethnic Arab" per se, but ethnic *[insert-demonym-for-ficticious-Eastern-European-country-here]. However, the new language, whilst absorbing words from all over the region and probably written with some form (say a mixed OTL Czech/Polish/Hungarian/Romanian) as well as probably undergoing major changes in phonology, would definitely use Arabic grammar.
I was thinking that these Arabs would be localized, expelled at some point, and brought back by some victorious power to their home, bringing about distrust and hate from the christian nations around them.
 
You could have some Arabs wandering around and settling somewhere in Eastern Europe. Of course, the catch is that eventually it won't be "ethnic Arab" per se, but ethnic *[insert-demonym-for-ficticious-Eastern-European-country-here]. However, the new language, whilst absorbing words from all over the region and probably written with some form (say a mixed OTL Czech/Polish/Hungarian/Romanian) as well as probably undergoing major changes in phonology, would definitely use Arabic grammar.

You'll end up with Roman Arabovitch :p
 
A small outbreak of the plague kills both Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain in the 1470s, leading to internal chaos in Spain and the survival of the Emirate of Grenada, which eventually becomes a vassal state to whatever powerful southern Iberian state appears (Cordoba? Sevilla?). Possibly the emir ends up sponsoring Columbus, and Muslims are the first to discover the new world?

Killing the CCMM wouldn't result in that.

Nevermind, for every ounce of trouble you can create in Castile in the 15th century Granada has it a million times worst, sunk in the power struggles between the Zegries and the Abencerrajes clans and by the end with the three way open war between Muley Hacen, Boabdil and El Zagal. Hell, the final Granada War in OTL started because Muley Hacen idiotically decided that an attack on Castile was the best to make the people rally around himself (it did become a rallying point... for his enemies).
 
While that's true, it doesn't mean northern Greece was Jewish. The countryside was a mix of Albanians, Bulgarians, Turks, Greeks and Vlachs.

Indeed. Jews in Europe(and the middle east for that matter) have always been an urban people. In most places they were barred from landholding so they turned to jobs such as accounting. The countryside was very much not Jewish, and there were other towns such as Kavalla.
 
France is a lot nicer to Algeria and formally annexes it early on. Migration patterns and government policies lead to an Arab Corsica.
 
Were they Sephardic? I thought they were a distinctive Jewish culture - Romaniotes.

Romaniotes inhabited more central Greece than Salonika, which was mostly populated by Sephardis. The Romaniotes are an older breed who were sometimes landowners in Greece.
 
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