CaliGuy
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After 1900, but if Germany had won World War I, Posen (Poznan) might have become somewhat larger over the next century than it is today in our TL due to the possibility that it would have become a trade hub due to its central location between Germany and Germany's Eastern European puppet states.
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Great example. Rotterdam, too, in a country larger than the Netherlands - another excellent natural port.
CaliGuy
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Actually, I'm not so sure about that; after all, Pyongyang's status as a capital allows it to receive migrants from other parts of North Korea (well, presumably those whom the government approves of, that is).
Elsinore could have ended up Danish capital instead of Copenhagen, in which case it would likely be the same size as Copenhagen.
Flensburg would likely have three times as many people if Schleswig had stayed united. If Schleswig hadn't become a independent duchy Ribe would likely age ended up a major North Sea trading port.
Flensburg would likely have three times as many people if Schleswig had stayed united. If Schleswig hadn't become a independent duchy Ribe would likely age ended up a major North Sea trading port.
Anaxagoras
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Galveston, Texas, but for the 1900 hurricane, would have been what Houston is today. But for a railroad sighting decision, Jefferson, Texas, would be what Dallas is today.
I've always thought Genoa never lived up to its potential.
In ancient Greece, one would have expected Corinth to be right up there with Athens, Sparta, and Thebes in the struggle for power, but it always was second-tier.
I've always thought Genoa never lived up to its potential.
In ancient Greece, one would have expected Corinth to be right up there with Athens, Sparta, and Thebes in the struggle for power, but it always was second-tier.
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North Korea has most of the coal and iron of the peninsula IIRC, depending on how United Korea's economy develops Pyongyang can overtake Seul.
CaliGuy
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I don't think that Pyongyang would have been able to overcome the pull of the capital Seoul, though. Indeed, Seoul looks like it's (South) Korea's version of Moscow.
I think Toledo could have had a go at being a major city, with more favourable circumstances (quicker Reconquista) and as it could have kept its role as capital. I don't think a city as important as Paris (which always was a demographical monstruosity since the XIIth century at latest), but one of the leading cities including demographically in western Europe, maybe the double of Barcelona.
I always thought Zaragoza had the potential to become something like OTL's Madrid had the Spanish dynastic politics gone different.
The city began to decline by the IXth century (while remaining important). Letting alone the question of an absent Reconquista (which I admit find unlikely), Kurtuba held the main role because it was the head city of the emirate/caliphate : but I think it would have been nevertheless outgrown by Isbiliya in the XIIth especially if Kurtuba loose his political importance (as it began to did historically).
It suffered from being a border town, IMO, set on a variously navigable river and a bit too close from Catalonia being an economical/demograhical hub.
Maybe, but I don't think it's overly likely, a TL where Saragossa is conquered by Charlemagne, and turns out to be a main region of settlement by Hispani (roughly, refugees from Spain that settled in southern-western Carolingia, forming a strong demographical base in Languedoc and Catalonia in the VIIIth and IXth century). But even from this departure point (which could arguably diminish the role of Gothia Lunga (Languedoc and Catalonia)...I don't know, honestly.