crimea

So, in his final years, King Wladyslaw IV of Poland dreamed of a great war with the Crimea and Turks, there were some alliances and foreign funding organized, Cossacks have been roused (which had very unfortunate results very soon) and the like. But Sejm was not interested in war, particularly...

DISCLAIMER: Please, remember the ''No current politics'' rule and don't discuss the ongoing armed conflict. I am talking about a scenario where the Supreme Soviet manages to oust Yeltsin during the 1993 constitutional crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis...

More than 30 years before their OTL conquest of the Crimean Khanate, Russia invaded it during one of its many wars with the Ottoman Empire, but in spite of capturing Bakhchysarai and other important cities/forts in the peninsula, the Russian troops suffered from plague and lack of supplies...

Would Kaffa be able to survive as an independent republic some time in the 13th or 14th century? Let's say Genoa loses a war pretty badly and the local government of Kaffa declares independence. What would be the goals of this new merchant republic? Would the self governing city be more able to...

Nova Anglia: The First New England Compiled from Newly Discovered Sources from the Collection of Marios Antonas Resistance Against The Normans and Beginning The Anglo-Saxon Government-in-Exile was established on October 14, 1066 after William the Conqueror's victory against Harold Godwinson at...

AHC: Ukraine Joins NATO before 2014 (POD of 1991) In this Alternate History Challenge you have to get Ukraine into NATO before the Russians can Intervene in Ukraine and take Crimea in 2014. Is this possible with a Pod of 1991 or is it ASB? How will you get Ukraine into NATO? How will Ukraine...

Point of divergence: Following the overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev declared the 1954 transfer of Crimea to be null and void, pushing for the immediate return of the Crimean Oblast from the Ukrainian SSR back to the Russian SFSR.

Using a POD no earlier than the 8th century, what would it take for the Crimean Goths to exist as a sizable majority in modern day Crimea, comparable to the Crimean Tatars? I reckon a situation where Saint John of Gothia had successfully expelled the Khazars from the region and established a...

Catherine, wife of Czar Peter III (1762-1804), was assassinated in 1762. Rumors tell that Czar Peter III was behind this and it is no secret he hated his wife Catherine. Now Peter III was not a bad Czar. He fought and beat the Danes in 1762-1765. He formed an alliance with Prussia (God knows...

Fact 1: Crimea has, to put it bluntly, a profoundly long and complicated history. Fact 2: One of the players in that history is Nikita Khrushchev, whose actions involving the region were out of affection for his native Ukraine. Fact 3: During the later years of Stalin, there were discussions in...

Let's say its May 2014, the Crimean peninsula has voted to join Russia and the Donbass elections showed the majority of people wanting to join Russian Federation. In Odessa, a large clash breaks out with anti-Maidan Ukrainians being attacked and some even killed. As a result, Russian president...

Make the Crimean Goths persist as a "people" into the 21 century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Gothic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Goths http://www.gotica.de/taurica.html (A. Busbecq´s Letters: Editions and Translations) https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/gotol/100 (Gothic...

How can you with a POD set in 500 AD, or later have the crimean goths survive as a distinct group into the 21st century? The group can be united by linguistic, religous, cultural, ethnic or a mix of these sides of the human experience. This group does not need to be bound to the geographical...

IOTL, in 1920, at the tail end of the Russian Civil War, there was a short-lived menshevik/white russian state estabilished in the Crimean Peninsula. It was overrun slightly later by the bolsheviks. My main question is: could it survive? Looking back at that time period, i think that one of the...

So, the challenge here is to grow the Bosporan Kingdom, which existed around the Sea of Azov and the Crimean Peninsula between 400 BCE and 380 AD, into at least a significant regional power that survives the invasions of the huns, the cumans, the slavs, and whomever comes after or along them. Go!

What if, for whatever reason, Khruschev never transfers Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR? I doubt it'd have major impact before the collapse of the SU, but after collapse of the Union(let's be deterministic here) there would be a more western-leaning Ukraine, if a bit smaller, and stronger Russian...

How can Russia join the European Union and NATO? In what period after the end of the Soviet Union is this likely? Can we say that Russia would once again become a Western country? as would be the crisis of the Crimea? Ukraine and Belarus enter too? What would be the relationship with Europe...

From about 750 BCE to 3rd century CE, the Crimean peninsula was invaded and settled by Schytians/Sarmatians, an Iranic grop who held a vast territory from present-day Ukraine to Central Asia and the northwestern corner of the Indian subcontinent. What POD(s) should be needed to make Crimea...