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Across the 1860's, there was apparently an effort by quite a few political entities in the Balkan peninsula (mainly Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, and anti-Ottoman Albanian tribes) to form a diplomatic alliance with the ultimate goal of creating a large-scale revolt against Ottoman rule in the...

I'm pretty sure most people here know that the as of late decline of social democratic parties has been labeled "pasokification", after the acronym PASOK of the Greek Social Democratic Party; from 44% of the vote in 2009, they managed to score 13% in 2012, and 4% in 2015, and are now polling at...

introduction: in 1925 a crisis occurred on the Bulgarian/Greek frontier which escalated with Greek occupation of Petrich in attempt to enforce some demands. pod: WI the league of nations( as usual) fails to make a negotiation and Greece declares war to Bulgaria? consider that both nation weren't...

Okay, so I don't know enough about Bulgaria to be able to think up a good POD for them joining the Entente, however, I do know that the king of Greece was related to Kaiser Wilhelm II and was heavily sympathetic to the German cause. So, let's say that, for some reason, Greece joins the Central...

Is it possible for the Greeks or the Italian to successfully offer to trade Greeks non-mainland (Aegean islands) in part or in full for Italian colony's (Eritrea for example) at any point after 1900?

The first modern Greek State had Otto I as it’s monarch, of the House of Wittelsbach. Despite his being a philhellene, and apparently loving Greek history and culture, his reign is regarded as, less than a success, in part because of his absolutism, in part because of his governments’...

Was it ever possible to have a united Greece in ancient times? If so, how? I don't count Philip nor Alexander because the country was actually Macedon.

King Nabis of Sparta was the last remarkable king in the history of Sparta, having fought his wars and pushed his reforms in the backdrop of the first war between the Roman Republic and Macedon, after the former spectacularly defeated Carthage. He allied himself to the Roman side and against...

Georgius Gemistus Pletho was a Byzantine scholar and intellectual from the late 14th till early 15th century who appears to have had an influence on the "neoclassical" elements of the Renaissance. In the 1410's, Pletho proposed a bill of reforms to the Byzantine emperor and aristocracy, in...

In 1821, the Greeks took up arms and rose up to fight the Ottoman Empire and gain their independence. This revolt had been partly planned,aided or funded by the so called "Filiki Etaireia", a secret society bent on Greek Independence. It lasted for quite some time, but generally, militarily and...

What do you think would have happened if Alexander , king of Macedonia, hadn't died during the siege of Thebes during the second year of the 111th Olympiad? Do you think that he would have really attacked the Persian Empire if he had survived?

Historically, the Treaty of Sevres was the treaty initially enforced on Turkey after WW1. However, due to the Turkish War of Independence, it proved to be stillborn, replaced with the Treaty of Lausanne, but what if the Turkish War of Independence was a defeat for the Turks? What happens...

Ive been on this board for a while now and have been thinking of an idea i got from a map on deviant art and the idea of the ottomans purchasing the Louisianan territory due to a few pods Such as a less powerful janissary corps a earlier military modernization a stronger hold on ottoman...

With any POD after Greek independence, wank it so then it AT LEAST has Constantinople, the rest of the Marmara Region, most of the costal parts of the Aegean region, all of Cyprus, and at least a population of 30 million with most people identifying as Greek and being Greek Orthodox. I am using...

Surely this is a common topic here but I thought I would take a crack at it. The divergent point for this alternate universe from our own occurs much later than most Byzantine survival scenarios. I like the idea of Alternate history running parallel to our own almost as if this scenario is the...

Assuming that either empire manages to capture Macedonia, Greece, and the primary bases of their rivals (essentially creating the old Persian borders for the Seleucids and the borders of Eastern Rome for the Ptolemies) , do they symbolically or actually move their capital? I feel like the the...

I have been reading a bit on ancient Greece recently and I thought about what would happen if the Persians managed to conquer ancient Greece. I thought about how this would effect the expansion of the roman empire considering the attempt to conquer Greece occurred the same period as roman...

Saw this get released today and it got me thinking, if Rome did get annihilated by the Gauls or puppeted by the Etruscans as AHH suggests what do you guys think happens to the Gauls, Greeks, Germans, Britons, etc? Obviously Kody will go into it next ep but thats a while away most likely and im...

So, i've been playing around in my mind with a Napoleonic scenario whereas Nap ultimately decides that Tsar Alexander of Russia is trustworthy as an ally, or at least co-belligerent, and does not invade Russia. Instead, France and Russia gear up for an invasion of the Ottoman Empire by land...

This timeline assumes that the Greeks still win at Marathon. What effect would this have had on Greek history had Themistocles been killed at Marathon in 490 BC? He is well known for leading the Athenians against the Persians at the Battle of Salamis as well, essentially destroying the Persian...