byzantium

With a POD no earlier than 1000 AD, make sure Eastern Roman Empire keeps Anatolia until modern day. What would this development change elsewhere in Europe, Middle East and the world?

All italy under Rome is basically greek nowadays, and so I was wondering: How could south italy be latinized? Like in the times of the roman republic? And would it be more prosperours less prosperous than nowadays south italy?

The challenge is to have the Goths conquer Roman Egypt. Hard mode: make it last.

I wrote a overly long explanation, but I decided to erase it and put it here: Starting in 602 AD, can the Byzantine empire crush Persia in such a way, that it manages to fully colonize it in the following centuries, resulting on Persia being recognized by it's habitants as core byzantine...

Elena Asenina was the wife of Byzantine Emperor Theodore II Laskaris in the mid 13th century. Her husband was a great reformist who attempted to break the power of the big aristocracy, but his early death doomed his dynasty and his reforms. IOTL he was succeeded by his young son John IV, with...

This will be a TL based upon the successful reforms of Cleomenes III.235–222 BC. He led a series of reforms which i believe could have stopped the Spartan decay by redistribution of land, population growth, and forging a series of "Spartan tiered citizenship structures". The successful reforms...

Victory is Red – Hundred Years War TL Preface I want to create a TL that butterflies the Columbus exploration and colonization of Americas and revives the Byzantine Empire on a late POD, I did another TL before with this premise with a later POD, I decided to rehash it with a different...

In this poll, I wanted to write some options as to the decline/fall of the Abbasid that was different from otl. Then, have a poll to see which ones interested people most and get reasons why each person chose a particular outcome. The only option not included is otl, obviously, but if you favor...

I mean, a survival of the Roman Empire, but a lot smaller in area and power. POD before the final division of the Roman Empire in East and West. Roman culture must survive too, and an overseas empire in the 1600s-1900s as France or England could also be accepted

No, I'm not talking about a ISOT, I'm asking what could have happened if the Sultanate of Rum had defeated the byzantines instead of the ottomans, and as the time passed they unified anatolia and greece and invaded europe earlier than the ottomans did OTL, what would have changed? Could they...

My first TL, so please be gentle. Please tell me if/what you like. Burgundy and Byzantium, Pheasants and Philippe Or how a Valois became Emperor in the East The year is 1454. Constantinople had fallen to the Ottoman Turk, and the Church in the East had been subjugated. Few still held hope for...

March 15, 970 AD Near Arcadiopolis, Rhomania "Sir! I see riders coming up behind us!" Borislav, appointed commander of the Rus army, twirled his horse around and peered where one of his druzhinniki was pointing. He squinted trying to focus his vision in the early morning light. Yes, indeed...

What are some underrated points of divergence during the fall of the Roman Empire and early "Dark Ages", especially from 313 AD to 565 AD? Persia or China are relevant as well, though the main focus is Rome and the foederati.

Easy, assume the Ottomans are crushed fully by Timur and Anatolia remains a mess of Anatolian beyliks and Greek citizens. Byzantium does not recover these areas and instead remains a rump state for the time being. What would be the effect of a survived Byzantium upon Christian Europe...

Question time - The Byzantine's lost Crete in 825, Sicily in 827, some of Southern Italy in early 800s as well, what would have been the short term impact on the Empire until say, the early 900s?

Byzantion was colonized around 657 BC by Greeks from Megara. But the Phoenicians had been colonizing the Mediterranean for centuries beforehand. What if the Phoenicians were the first to establish a colony in that strategic spot, settling Phoenician colonists there and establishing a fishing and...

The Roman-Sassanian War in 602-628 was one of the most pivotal moments in history, with several opportunities for a completely different outcome. As it says on the title, what if the conflict ended with a Persian victory with the Roman Empire reduced to client status or absorbed. There are...

Which of these Ancient/Medieval TLs sounds most interesting? Any criticism is welcome. Go West, Great Ashur: King Ashurbanipal lives five more years, crushing the Scythian-Median invasion that his sons faced and recruiting the northern barbarians as mercenaries. After Ashurbanipal’s death...

The following is drawn from a document I put out to friends, a few of whom are starting to think about ideas. The Project The Crown of St Stephen is a collaborative writing project, working at multiple levels, in which an alternative history exists that began to diverge from our Original...

Could the Danube River have become the main artery of trade and travel for a new empire after the fall of the western Roman Empire? How does the navigability of the Danube compare to the Dnieper River that allowed the Kievan Rus to raid the Black Sea? What could create a river-based empire in...