AHC/WI: Byzantine-Sassanid union

[Otto Kretschmer]

Any chances for Byzantine and Sassanid empires to unite peacefully?

 

[NotAMyth]

 

[Red_Neptune]

Perhaps if Khosrau had been fully adopted by Justin I, but that’s quite unlikely to actually materialize into a full-fledged “Byzantine-Sassanid union.”

 

[Otto Kretschmer]

Perhaps if Khosrau had been fully adopted by Justin I, but that’s quite unlikely to actually materialize into a full-fledged “Byzantine-Sassanid union.”

Such a union would be beneficial to both sides

 

[ImperialxWarlord]

Not happening. The armies and nobility of each empire would not accept it. Who ever tried to seriously implement such a union would catch a sudden case of the dead’s.

 

[Madhukar_Shah]

Well it's not peaceful but I can think of a way to pull off a union without a Byzantine Sassanid war. Have some of the royal houses of Iran flee to Constantinople from the Muslims, and over a few generations or so they christianise and then in about 800, lead the reconquest so that they all affirm the supremacy of the Byzantine emperor, after the Zoroastrian population is no longer hegemonic but before there's a Muslim majority either. I don't think it'd last very long but maybe it could briefly work?