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  1. Chances of A-H surviving up to the present day if no World War happened?

    Which are the chances of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to survive until the present day if somehow the World Wars (or similar large-scale war in Europe) were avoided during the 20th century? Would it manage to survive in peace times or would its dissolution/partition be unavoidable at some point?

  2. Q: An alternate Kalmar Union between Denmark, Norway and a non-HRE Germany against an expansive Sweden?

    How it would have fared an alternate Kalmar Union between Norway, Denmark and a Kingdom of Germany non linked to HRE, formed as opposition to an expanding Sweden which would dominate most of the Baltic (Finland, Baltic states, Prussia, Further Pomerania...)?

  3. Q: Chances of Gothic to became the prestige language of Medieval Western Europe instead of Latin?

    Gothic language was associated to the Arian Church in both early Visigothic Spain and Ostrogothic Italy. However, the conversion of the first to Nicene Christianity and the conquest of the second by the Byzantines sealed the fate of the Gothic language in Western Europe. However, in other...

  4. Queen of Kings: bio of an Empress of the Arians in the late 19th century

    Background At the sunset of the classical Roman Empire, the Germanic tribes invaded most of its western part and founded several kingdoms which were virtually independent from the Roman capital in Constantinople. Out of those originally Pagan nations, only the Visigoths* converted directly to...

  5. Q: 'Reverse Denmark' possible and functional?

    During the Middle Ages, Denmark was composed by three national territories: Jutland - the Danish Islands - Scania, with the political nucleus just in the center (the islands). But during the 17th century Sweden expelled the Danes from Scania and this territory was (relatively) 'swedified'...

  6. WI: No Congress of Vienna after the defeat of Napoleonic France

    Which could have been the consequences for Europe if after the defeat of Napoleonic France there would have been any Congress of Vienna or similar treaties, and every victorious power would have tried to impose their 'solutions' to the other? I.e. Prussia/Austria restoring 1795 borders in Poland...

  7. WI: Pepin succeeds Charlemagne instead of Louis the Pious?

    Pepin was tipped by historians as a more capable ruler and ambitious like his father, having a prominent rule in several Carolingian expansions, specially in Pannonia against the Avars. What could have happened if Pepin had suceeded his father as Emperor instead of his weaker brother Louis...

  8. Crusader states as HRE colonies in the Eastern Mediterranean?

    Several historians have argued that the crusader states were a sort of early form of European overseas colonies, but that at the ned they lacked of a proper colonial model while their administration did not belong to a single metropoli. As they were relatively ephemeral, the impact of...

  9. Alt-Bismarck in a surviving HRE?

    Let's consider a scenario with the following premises: - The French Revolution fails to succeed (= no Napoleon) - The HRE is not abolished and survives with aprox. the same borders, at least until the 2nd half of 19th century. - Prussia keeps the borders of 1795 (meaning that it comprises much...

  10. WI: the British Parliament had granted representation to all the colonies and dependencies?

    One of the claims of the American revolutionaries was that they did not have to accept taxation without representation in the British Parliament. What could have happened if the United Kingdom would have granted representation in the Parliament to all the colonies and dependencies (the Thirteen...

  11. Pan-West Germanic-Empire in an alternate no-HRE scenario

    Here is a refined map of my proposal of a pan-West Germanic Empire in an alternate scenario where the HRE did not exist: Basically the idea behind it is that the HRE is not revived in the 8th century and the Italian affairs remain peripheral for the Frankish dynasties. As relevant highlights...

  12. WI: Could the Vandals have survived in Poland as a distinct nation?

    The Vandals first settled southern/central Poland for a couple of centuries before moving into the Roman Empire during the Migration Period. Obviously not all the Vandalic population moved out from the region and there was left a remnant population in the area which later merged with the West...

  13. Q: Linguistic consequences of an early centralized HRE (with German standardized earlier)?

    Which could have been the linguistic consequences of an early centralized HRE where (High) German would have been standardized earlier (as French or Spanish did)? Could Dutch/Frisian be completely assimilated as Low German speaking areas did? Could the linguistic borders have expanded in areas...

  14. WI: Alsace-Lorraine transferred to Switzerland in 1871?

    It seems that Bismarck considered the possibility of transfering Alsace-Lorraine to Swiss sovereignty in 1871 instead of incorporating it to the German Empire. The reasons behind such pretty odd consideration were two: 1) Create a real buffer between France and Germany and avoid a direct...

  15. Q: What a surviving Weimar Germany would do in the event that the USSR would invade Poland and the Baltic States (no-WWII)?

    Let's consider a scenario where the Nazis do not take over Weimar Germany and the democratic regime somehow survives. IOTL the USSR had already coveted the idea of invading the Baltic states and Poland way before the actual WWII provided them the final opportunity to do so. Imagine that in...

  16. Q: Why Versailles was territorially harsher with Austria-Hungary than Germany?

    From a territorial point of view, the terms of Versailles were harsher and more unfair (if the ethnicity principles of the era meant to be applied) for Austria and Hungary than to Germany. If we do not consider the Alsatians 'fully German' (something that even the German Empire hesitated to...

  17. WI: Monothelitism succeeds as a unifying doctrine

    Monothelitism unsuccessfully tried to formulate an intermediate compromise between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian Christians, specially in the East. Despite some initial success, thanks to the decisive support of Emperor Heraclius, it was finally declared an heresy as it did not convince any...

  18. The Germanic Empire: the ultimate Megadeutschland wank TL
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    Background The Second Wave of Napoleonic Wars (1815-1819) led to the main victors (the United Kingdom, the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia) to design a new continental balance where these three powers would play an equitative role. The main product of this balance was the creation of...

  19. Could a more centralized, extended and stronger HRE develop an ideal of 'Reconquista' over the Ottoman Empire after the fall of Constantinople?

    Maybe this map could better reflect the proposed alt-scenario: In this alt-scenario the HRE managed to centralize and diminish the Papal authority during the Hohenstaufers rule. The union of the Kingdom of Sicily (which already retained the OTL-short-lived Kingdom of Africa) during that time...

  20. WI: The Norman Kingdom of Africa survives and it is incorporated into Hohenstaufen Sicily

    Which would have been the consequences for the Hohenstaufens and the HRE if the ephemeral Norman Kingdom of Africa had survived until the early 13th century and it would have been incorporated into the Hohenstaufen Kingdom of Sicily (IOTL the short lived Kingdom of Africa depended quite a lot on...
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