Ethnic Alan minorities in Western Europe

Within the Germanic migrations, there had been Alans who also assimilated with them, Alans came to Western Europe, too. What if Alans had been a recognizeable minority in certain areas in Western European kingdoms for centuries too come ? Maybe entire villages/settlements and even fiefdoms . Maybe in more plainlike eviroments they maintain a horse-based culture and supply their lords with mounted archers ? Maybe even a Middle Ages migration west through pressure of other peoples?
 
There were such things: settlements in France, and official status in the titles of Suebia and Vandalia in both Spain and Africa.

They weren't numerous enough I guess.
 
Alans got thrashed by the Visigoths sent by Rome to retake Spain (I think their king was killed in battle but I don't remember it too well). The survivors went to the Vandals and submitted to their king, who took the title of King of the Vandals and Alans, and quietly faded from History.

So there's your POD. Different, unsuccessful or non-existent Gothic intervention, and you have Alans settled in central Spain, with Sueves on the west, Vandals on the south and Romans retaining the east (with the Goths as de jure vassals in Aquitaine).
 
Within the Germanic migrations, there had been Alans who also assimilated with them
Don't forget that Germanic peoples were importantly Sarmatized too, the Alan influence being more or less undistinguishable at this point.

What if Alans had been a recognizeable minority in certain areas in Western European kingdoms for centuries too come ?
Giving that Germanic peoples didn't became recognizeable minorities within Romania, I don't see how it could happen.

I should point you did have Alanic enclaves within Romania, notably around Orléans or other places in France that keep having a toponimic clue on their presence. They were eventually swallowed up by the Romano-Barbarian kingdoms.

Remember that Barbarian identity, originally, is esentially political : you're a Goth because you're part of the Gothic ensemble. Not because you're an Eastern German (Goths themselves are the result of an ethnogenesis, importantly influenced by Rome, of Germans, Proto-Slavs, Dacians, Sarmatians, Romans).

At best, you'd have a similar ethnogenesis at the benefit of an Alan identity, whom main cultural features would probably, as Romano-Germans IOTL, be made up after their entry in Romania to get more distinct from provincial peoples they were close (culturally speaking).
I'd stress this : they would be pretty much undistinguishable, wherever they settle, from the Romano-Germans that would have taken the same place IOTL.
 
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