Pax Alania: The Rise of Bosphoran Alania Discussion Thread

...No we don't. The PoD wouldn't affect the Americas for several centuries, so keep it in Eurasia, slow, steady, and detailed. We'll help you on the way. ;)
 
I would have to make the timeline under a different Pax Alania, but I'll have to put DO NOT POST on it since this thread will be the discussion thread. We may have to start with the exiled Alanic prince though because I don't know any 150 AD Gothic or Hunnic figure that lived at that time.
 
Gothic names typically end in -ic, while Hunnic names end with -a. Alan names on the other hand, I will have to use modern Ossetian names to correspond with it.
 
I think that in one of the books I read there were some Iranian names recorded along the northern Black Sea coast in the 2nd and 3rd century AD. I look for it.
 
The size of such a thing is very dependant on the personality of people ruling it, the more badass and capable the head honcho the bigger the thing. If I had to make a realistic guess I would say river Prut in the west, Caucasus in the south, river Ural in the east while the border in the north is a very flexible thing, it would probably be a change from the forested steppe into the forested zone but it would depend on the people they could attract under their leadership. More Finno-Ugric or Balto-Slavic tribes they have greater the likelyhood they expand further north.

On average Nomadic Empires lasted roughy a century and a half before the ruling family was replaced by another and a new empire would rise though there wouldn't be much difference between the fallen and the risen Empire apart from the ruling group.

Since this Empire would have a sedentary base to retreat to and than later to expand from they might even survive to this day in a sort of Jo-joing of their borders until the country becomes developed enough to be able to completely stop Nomadic hordes like Russia did OTL.

This Jo-joing we can even see in OTL with core that created Bulgarians. They were first an independent group apsorbed by the Huns and became part of the Hun core, when Huns confederation fell apart they went independent for a while only to be apsorbed by the Avars, when the first Khaganate fell to infighting they were expelled and went to form the core around which "Bulgarians" were formed.

I was also wondering if the Alans could have become a nation that is invaded by other marauding nomadic tribes but the invading tribes end up assimilated into the culture of the lands they conquered. Something like a Turkic tribe invading hypothetical Alania, but in the process they end up adopting Alanic culture and language.
 
I'm also wondering since the Alans are going to become one of the great states, could they retain the name Alania while absorbing other tribes?
 
There was one other thing that I need to clear up: with a sedentary Alanic state emerging in the Bosphorus, would they actually be influenced by the Armenians though? I'd like to experiment with the analogues, with Armenia the analogue to the Byzantines and the Alans as the analogue to the East Slavs. (as in, they influenced them to adopt Byzantine culture. So in this case the Alans can be influenced by Armenian culture) It's just that I have to construct what a sedentary Alanic culture will resemble.
 
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