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Your challenge is as follows: - Make the Republic of Venice win a decisive victory in a land-battle at Vittorio Veneto (or at least, near Vittorio, the important is the battle have "Vittorio Veneto" in the name) - The commander of the venetian army have to be of venetian blood!!!!!! - The...

What if the Republic of Venice was never established? How might things be altered?

In 1484 pope sixtus IV dies, the greatest opponent to Lorenzo Il magnific. the next Pope the genoese Vybo elected as Innocent VII was even a fan of Lorenzo. Pod: what if Lorenzo is able to create a stable Italian league were the Italian state won't anymore battle between them but solve disputes...

In this alternate timeline, the Ottomans are far more hostile to Italian traders in the wake of conquering Constantinople. Now being cut off from a large source of their profit, and desperate to make it up, the Doge of Genoa, Paolo Fregoso, accepts Christopher Columbus's plan to attempt finding...

Christopher Columbus asked Genoa and Venice for support for his western route to Asia, before going to Castile. What if one of them agreed to finance the project? Can you imagine a Genoese or Venetian colonization of the Americas?

What if Christopher Columbus had discovered the Americas, but working not for Spain, but for the other countries in which he asked for an audience? As far as I know, the countries are England, Portugal, Venice and Genoa.

Just like the headline says - your challenge is to make and keep the Republic of Venice independent all the way to 2019. The Republic doesn't need to control any territory outside the city of Venice itself to count for the challenge but the city itself must be independent (i.e, not part of a...

Columbus was from Genoa and Cabot from Florence, they both didn’t find financiers in Italy so they were paid by Spain and England, but what if they found some investors in their homeland? Columbus could’ve found some patrons in his native state and Cabot would propose a similar deal to Venice...

Similar to my previous post on Pope Innocent III and the Papal, states, this post will focus on an individual polity and involve a point system. The system is formatted as such; a point is defined as a particular gain by Venice, the goal is to achieve as much possible points as is feasible and...

For whatever reason, Marco Polo stays in, or isn't allowed to leave China, or he dies from some kind of disease/accident there. He doesn't get to dictate his Travels while in prison by the Genoese. What kind of effect would this have, if any on the age of exploration?

Challenge: With a starting time, between 1814 to the 1870s, have the Cities of Genoa and Venice gain independence as a Vatican City Style City-State, or San Marino Style Microstate from either Austria, Italy or France

At the end of the Middle Age, Genoa, Firenze and Venice were powerful city states that had a vast economic and cultural influence over the rest of Europe, Venice controlled a large part of the trade in the Mediterrannean, so did Genoa, along with strong financial ties with Spain in its early...

Other than Rome, are there any other cities that could rise from a city-state, to a large and expansive realm named after that city, all the while transitioning from a monarchy to a republic to an empire? The early period of the city should be full of mythologized drama and dominated by other...

OTL Queen Charlotte of Cyprus had strong ties to the House of Savoy, marrying her first cousin, Louis of Savoy. After she and her husband were exiled from Cyprus, she continued to rule as pretender against her bastard half brother, James II, who was in control of Cyprus. Eventually, his wife...

"Dalmatia Ascendant" - a Zaratin timeline _________________________________________________________________________ The great city of Zara. __________________________________________________________________________________ Greetings, This is a reboot of my first (and, at time of writing...

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So reading about the battle of Lepanto, one of the things that stood out to me was the importance of reserves; the Christians were able to hold off the Ottoman left's attempted envelopment long enough for their right to return to action thanks to their reserve. By contrast, the Ottomans had...

Summary: The story of Venetian suffrage as the Patricians of Venice blunders unintentionally toward equality and industry. This TL is written so that no background knowledge is required to enjoy the TL. Q&A in the post below. The focus is on social change in the aristocratic police state that is...

Summary: This is an Italo-centric techno-economic Tl starting in the 14th century, the Visconti duchy was perhaps the last pre-modern chance of a prosperous Italian state and this tl will delve into that. The POD will be revealed into the story. The Dance Of The Lion And The Serpent: The Story...

This will be a TL primarily concerned with the rise of the Dalmatian city of Zara (modern Zadar, Croatia) to a status rivalling the power of the Italian maritime republics of Venice and Genoa. It was inspired by the following two threads...