WI Charles d'Anjou-Durazzo was not assassinated? Could a Hungary-Naples Personal Union have lasted?

Well, there is the religious barrier between Catholics and Orthodoxes to consider and the fact that there will likely be more imminent problems for Hungary-Naples, both in Italy and possibly from Bohemia and Poland.

In any case the battle was very close iotl and, while the fact that the Ottomans have great reserves even if that army is destroyed still stands, a possible Serbian victory is bound to cause interesting divergences, for example in relation to a
Nikopolis equivalent.

Also isn't there a large minority of Orthodox Christians in the very south of Italy e.g. Apulia and Calabria?
 
Don't think such an union would have lasted - the distances are simply too great, as far as the times were concerned, for it to work. It might have gone on de jure, but de facto it has too many enemies to be kept up for very long with any meaningful success.

Also isn't there a large minority of Orthodox Christians in the very south of Italy e.g. Apulia and Calabria?

Orthodoxy is sizable in Calabria, actually to the point of near-majority, but probably lower in Apulia, and somewhat in the middle in Sicily. So yes, there is a very sizable minority.
 
Don't think such an union would have lasted - the distances are simply too great, as far as the times were concerned, for it to work. It might have gone on de jure, but de facto it has too many enemies to be kept up for very long with any meaningful success.



Orthodoxy is sizable in Calabria, actually to the point of near-majority, but probably lower in Apulia, and somewhat in the middle in Sicily. So yes, there is a very sizable minority.
To be honest that's my assessment too after thinking on this for some days - that said the pod has very interesting ramifications in itself, if it means no Imperial claim over Hungary and a different set of royal marriages at the turn of the century.

About Orthodox people in Apulia and Calabria, yes there well still communities, especially in the terra d'Otranto, but by the time of the pod I wouldn't call them very significant, especially not politically/militarily soggnificant.
After the great Ottoman expansion in the Balkans and the Skanderbeg wars great numbers of Greeks, Albanians and Slavs came over, with some communities surviving to the present day, but I think they quite soon became Catholics, while keeping the Byzantine rite. See on the matter the quite comprehensive wiki article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Albanian_Greek_Catholic_Church
 
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