In Regards to Slavic Migrations

How about you confine your criticism to relevant threads rather than making snotty asides that have nothing to do with anything?
I think he may have said that by accident (meaning to say 'underrated', or was being sarcastic or something, because he's linked me to Coronation of the Hun with a positive comment before.
 
Uhm.... If there's a Slavic Western Europe by definition there can't be a Spanish Sri Lanka.


Please I am talking about ASB theory here and even if not can't you leave me to my fantasies:p

But seriiously let's just say the Spain isn't considered part of Europe jn my scenario
 
The most westward penetration of any Slav group was a few miles west of Paris but they soon disapeared from history. The most southard penetration was Crete. Anything in between is a posibility.

Also an important aspect of Slav settlement is that it has often been described as a slow trickle rather than a full blow invasion. The Croats, Serbs are Bulgarians are (I think) only ones that migrated forcefull to their new homelands the others just seams as if they have sprouted out of the ground.

Sure there were raids into ERE in the second half of the 6th and first quarter of the 7th century but these don't compare to Vandal, Ostrogothic or Vizigothic invasions.

In order to get the Slavs moving you need to get the Germanics moving south and/or west to allow them influence history. Otherwise they just spread into north-east and continuing to coexist with Balt and Turkic-Iraninan speaking groups on their northern and southern borders.


As far as different focus of movement it would depend greatly on the choices of Avar expansion. Should the Khaganate make a serious war with Langobards I can see Slavs eventually overrruning northern Italy.
 
Maybe if they didn't have low populated or depopulated lands to settle, they would have become more aggresive in their expansion
 
Maybe if they didn't have low populated or depopulated lands to settle, they would have become more aggresive in their expansion

That doesn't make much sense, frankly. I don't think that further migrations (into more densely populated areas) would be that plausible. This is the main reason why I don't think a Slavic western Europe is doable.
 
That doesn't make much sense, frankly. I don't think that further migrations (into more densely populated areas) would be that plausible. This is the main reason why I don't think a Slavic western Europe is doable.

I never said there would be a Slavic Western Europe, just that they might become more aggresive in their expansion, like conquering other countries. Remember OTL, both Vandals and Goths settled in already populated lands and that didn't mean these lands became a Germanic Western Mediterranean.
 
I never said there would be a Slavic Western Europe, just that they might become more aggresive in their expansion, like conquering other countries. Remember OTL, both Vandals and Goths settled in already populated lands and that didn't mean these lands became a Germanic Western Mediterranean.

And those settlements required significant force directed at weakened enemy. In order to have Slavs doing same they have to increase their militarization while their enemy becomes weaker.
 
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