Spain is a country with a long, proud history. It's been everywhere from Occupied-By-Romans to Ruled-By-Visigoths to Invaded-By-Berbers to Richest-Country-In-World, and back to Downtrodden-Minor-Nation. Spain has influenced the world in many ways, and in turn is often the focus of AH.

Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Spain.

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• Spartacus reaching Spain
• Challenge: Keeping Spain pagan
• Plausibility check: Roman settlement of the Canary Islands or Cape Verde and west African trade
• Challenge: Spain as Second Rome
• Challenge: Basque nation
• WI: Larger distribution of Basque/Aquitanian/Vasconic peoples
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• Visigothic Spain without the Arab Conquests
• Prevent Visigothic Iberia
• DBWI: The Visigoths conquered by the Moors ?
• Challenge: Spain as Second Rome
• WI: Carolingian Spain (Franciberia)
• More peaceful co-existence of Abrahamic religions in Iberia
• Discussion on a Jewish nation being formed in Spain
• Plausibility check: Dynastical union between England and Castille
• Spain becoming in union with Portugal much earlier
• Discussion about Spain never expelling the Spanish Jews
• Spain staying Muslim
• A longer lasting Granada ?
• Can the Caliphate of Cordoba be saved ?
• Formation of "Iberia" ?
• Castille and Aragon never unite
• Implications of no Spanish Conquista ?
• Portuguese Spain instead of Castillian Spain
• House of Trastamara PODs
• Plausibility check: Ottoman help for the Muslim states in Iberia ?
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• Implications of no Spanish Conquista ?
• WI Joan of Castille officially supported the Comuneros ?
• Spain never becoming Hapsburg
• Spain without an ounce of silver
• House of Trastamara PODs
• A personal union between England and Spain ?
• Phillip II of Spain deposing Queen Elizabeth of England
• No Iberic Union founded in 1580
• Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia as King of Spain
• Admiral Santa Cruz survives to lead the Armada
• WI: Philip II averts or supresses the Dutch Revolt
• WI: King Philip II of Spain gives brother Juan title "King of Tunisia"
• Spain consisting of all the Iberian Peninsula (if Portugal didn't break away in the 17th century)
• Challenge: Keep Spain and Portugal united
• What is so special about the Algarves ?
• Portuguese Spain instead of Castillian Spain
• More colonization of the Americas by Spain
• More Spanish colonization on the OTL US East Coast
• Challenge: A Franco-Spanish Union
• WI: Rhenish Moriscos
• Challenge: Protestant Spain
• Plausibility check: An Iberian Aoteroa/New Zealand ?
• WI: Charles II isn't impotent
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• Catalonia becomes independent in 1714
• Challenge: Make Spain and Portugal lose their Atlantic island territories with a POD starting in 1740
• WI: Luis I of Spain lives
• A Bavarian succession in Spain ?
• WI: Spanish Algeria ?
• Minorca staying in British hands
• WI Napoleon doesn't invade Spain ?
• No Peninsular War, what does Napoleon do instead ?
• Effects of no Peninsular War on Latin American Wars for Independence ?
• Discussion about Spain becoming Carlist after the Napoleonic Wars
• Discussion on the Spanish monarchy vacating to the American colonies after invasion by Napoleonic France
• How would the Spanish Constitution of 1812 prevent the fall of Spain ?
• Spain keeps the Chiloe archipelago belonging to modern day Chile
• Challenge: Spain achieving a larger population already in the 19th century
• Challenge: Russia vs. Spain War (with a POD between 1815 and 1900
• Portuguese Spain instead of Castillian Spain
• Challenge: A Carlist Spain AND a Liberal Spain
• Balkanized Iberian peninsula in the 19th century
• Plausibility check: US and Spain go to war over Louisiana Territory before 1840
• Spain tries to keep the Dominican Republic, 1861-5
• WI The 1866 rebellion to dethrone Isabel II of Spain was succesful
• Challenge: Keep Amadeo I as King of Spain
• Leopold zu Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen becomes King of Spain (1)
• Leopold zu Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen becomes King of Spain (2)
• Spanish-American War PODs
• Plausibility check: Could Spain narrowly win the Spanish-American War ?
• Plausibility check: Spain winning the Spanish-American war
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• Discussion on the plausibility of Spanish balkanization in the 20th century
• Discussion on Spain entering WWI
• Discussion on Spain joining the Central Powers in WWI (1)
• Discussion on Spain joining the Central Powers in WWI (2)
• Spain in WWI
• Spanish Civil War PODs
• Why didn't Spain under Franco join WWII ?
• Discussion on Spain joining the Allies in WWII
• Spain in the Axis in WWII
• More discussion on Spain in the Axis
• Spain being invaded by Germany in WWII
• Spain, Sweden, and Turkey join the Axis
• Spain and Turkey enter WWII
• Axis Spanish Cuba ?
• Plausibility check: A Nationalist Spain on the side of the Allies in WWII ?
• Mainland Spain remained under Western European Time zone
• Worse Palomares crash
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• Names for Spain without Hispania as the root
• WI: A Spanish East Indies without Luzon
• Challenge: Spanish Hawaii
• Challenge: The sun never sets on the Spanish Empire
• WI Sovietic, pro-Stalin Spain in the Cold War (with a Republican victory in the civil war POD)
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• The Stranger (of Strangerverse fame) visits Isabel and Fernando
• WI: Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia, and Italy ISOTed to 1914
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