Germanic Italy

drakle

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Simply use a POD to Germanise as much of north Italy as you can without making the Germanic people smaller in other parts.( like being pushed west by Poland.
 
Maybe no Rome and later Germanic invasions that assimilate Italy, but then there's the butterfly effect...
 
Eh I don't know. Maybe it would have to open up with a Butterflied Rome and a successful Celtic invasion of the North that disrupts urban living patterns allowing for a destabilization of society in time for the Germanics to move in.
 
I honestly think that a united Lombard kingdom (meaning their first king isn't assassianted, and then the Dukes splinter off for nearly 50 years) might have been able to do it. Italy was severely depopulated at the time due to the Plague and the Gothic Wars. I think, in this case, at least Northern Italy is Lombardish speakers.

In a timeline I'm working on, Gothic ends up surviving as well, and becomes the defacto language of Northern Italy, but the events that lead to it are a bit long and indepth :)
 
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