central asia

So this is my first thread on this site. I was a big fan of Alternate history since 2016, and I kept making a list for 2 years about Alternate history that came into my mind. I have 1200 Of them. My first post was about the American-Ottoman Alliance. I'm a Turk, so I love talking about Ottoman...

During the Russian civil war there were loads of nations that wanted and fought for independence ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-independence_movements_in_Russian_Civil_War ) could any of these countries gain independence? Which ones? How would these nations develop? How can we make these...

Could the Russian Empire have expanded into Kazakhstan earlier? Or was the mid to late 19th century the earliest possible time due to technology and the density of Russian settlement north of the Ural River? Alternatively, could Russian colonization of Central Asia have been delayed, and...

For my fantasy history, I had it so that the roman legion of Carrhae is exiled to Pontus rather than farther east and that the descendants of these people eventually become a tribe of greek-descendant speaking steppe nomads (this was easier to do in the context of my alternate history). I am...

Many turkic peoples invaded europe in the past, the avars, the huns, the cumanians, etc. Could any of them succesfully settle somewhere in central europe and became the majority of the population in the area?

What if Timur, sometimes referred to as The Lame, who conquered vast regions of Central Asia and Persia and even laid waste to the ottoman turks, had never been born or was killed in one of his earliest campaigns? What are the effects on... Ottoman Turkey, Anatolia, and the Byzantine Empire? The...

I made a thread about a united Central Asian state a couple years back. This is the result. I figure Heavy had the right idea- a timeline in a few days leaves me remarkable leeway to take my time researching stuff and pouring my precious time into an internet forum populated by people who live...

Could a settled/sedentary empire have controlled Central Asia, or is it always doomed to be dominated by Horse Nomads in pre-modern times? The empire doesn't have to be local or based there - Persia/Iran managaging to keep control of it works too - but that would be cool. There are some OTL...

In a Nazi victory scenario akin to Fatherland (except for the Britain gets occupied part) where the USSR is forced east of the Urals, we all know that European Russia is going to be subjected to Generalplan Ost with German settlers being sent in to replace the corpses, but what about the areas...

In pre-Islamic times, the ethnicity of the peoples in Central Asia was mostly East Iranian. Like the Bactrians, Sogdians and Scythians, with Zoroastrianism as the main religion. But after Islam, many Turkic Peoples moved to the region, like the Kazakhs and Uzbeks, bringing Islam to the region...

If the Mongols prior to Genghis Khan had been Sinicized like the Kara Khitai, or the Kara Khitai were the ones who formed the "Mongol" Empire, how would it change the history of the 1200s and beyond?

As you probably know, Practical Lobster "unfolded" Ephtalites-Chionites toward the Sassanid Empire, bringing India escaped another wave of invaders, and the Middle East has changed beyond recognition. I noticed that there were more people of India pokorvshie similar way. Greco-Bactrian kings...

What if the Islamist opposition won the Tajikistani Civil War? How could this be done? What would be the effects? How would Tajikistan be altered? Would Gorno-Badakhshan become independent in this Tl? What if?

Between 1946 and 1949, there was something of an undeclared war between the Republic of China and the Soviets (along with their Mongolian allies). WI it all escalated further and the Pei-ta-shan Incident had triggered a full-scale Soviet intervention in Sinkiang? Would a Soviet intervention...

The Eftal Shahs Here goes nothing. An Eftal Shah The fall of the Sassanian regime was not necessarily unexpected. The emergence into the historical record of the peoples the Greeks called the Hephthalites, and the Persians came to call Eftal, came at a time of great upheaval, famine and...