WI Hunnic Empire Never Rose?

[stevej713]

Perhaps a more gradual influx of barbarians on the borderlands could result in a more Byzantine decline, where the West is slowly reduced to Italy? Invasions and coups would probably still lead to its fracturing like OTL, but this development might take centuries. Conflicts with the Pope would still be an enormous issue and alternate forms of Christianity, or autocephalous churches, might predominate as Roman Catholicism would be associated with Imperial authority. This would result in an entirely different Middle Ages. Might be worth a TL.

 

[Goldensilver81]

The huns while not being the main cause of the Roman empire they greatly accelerated the fall of it by pushing the other barbarians west
While they're where moving west I don't think it would be close to the scale of what we saw so no kingdom of the visigoths neither an ostrogothic kingdom
But most importantly the huns destroyed in a sense the Roman balkans leaving them open for Slavic migrations
With the huns i see a delayed fall of the Roman empire by some decades or even a century
If a justinian type empeor still exist he could save more of the western Roman empire and have a stronger Eastern Roman empire

Or maybe the avars become the huns of this timeline

 

[PBJ]

Thats right. Gauls had assimilated into the Romans when the Gaul was conquered. Gallo-Romance is just due to the region's name and not the linguistic influences, AFAIK.

At this point of time, there were only Romans there.

Er, no actually. While the urban portions of France were very heavily Latinized, from what we can tell, various Gaulish dialects survived until the Frankish conquests in the 6th century in rural pockets across the region.

 

[John7755 يوحنا]

Er, no actually. While the urban portions of France were very heavily Latinized, from what we can tell, various Gaulish dialects survived until the Frankish conquests in the 6th century in rural pockets across the region.

Certainly. The situation was very diverse, this much is assured. Latin speakers predominating in urban areas alongside Germanic speakers of many different types who had become at least acclimated to Latin. Then there was the Gallic contingent in pockets. Further, some areas in the so-called Seven Provinces, remained non Indo-European speakers, Vasconian or Aquitainian.