western roman empire

--------------------------------------------- Part I. Controversial peace Oescus, Moesia Inferior December, Year of Our Lord 468 - CDLXVIII Dintzic stood before his perished troops, clearly worried and furious, after the catastrophic onslaught in Bassinae, where the Ostrogoths, led by King...

So obviously in terms of who would collapse first, the odds were always stacked in favour of the richer and more populous eastern half of the Roman Empire. But what if the Western Roman Empire, perhaps under a surviving Majorian for example, succeeds in not only reclaiming North Africa from the...

According to some historians, Honoria, the sister of Western Roman Emperor, Valentinian III, was going to married off to a Roman Senator. She didn't want to be married off, so apparently, she sent to the one person she thought could help her... Atilla the Hun. Now, whether or not she sent the...

The last Western Roman emperor whose authority was recognized by the east, Julius Nepos was deposed from his throne in favor of Romulus Augustulus in 475. Though the WRE was offically dissolved a year later, Nepos, having taken refuge in Dalmatia, continued to claim the imperial throne, and he...

Hello there. I've been fascinated by the Roman Empire since I read Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series in middle school. My interest was reinvigorated by Oversimplified's First Punic War videos. And while most people imagine a surviving Roman Empire to be polytheistic and filled with...

I made this for school a while back, and i think it might be worth posting here. Obviously it has it's issues, but it's a start The Western Empire Survives BACKGROUND Before I dive into this story, I must disclaim that this is not a real analysis of “What if the Western Roman Empire...

Which timeline would you guys be most interested in seeing? The Cross in the Sky: A Maxentius Victory TL In this timeline, Maxentius defeats Constantine at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge and kills him. Roman history, especially in the east, is forever changed. The Flame of the West: A...

I'm thinking of writing a timeline about a surviving Western Roman Empire. The PoD would be Majorian's fleet not getting burnt by traitors, allowing him to reconquer North Africa. Because of the extra revenue, he's able to keep some of his army around, so Richimer can't kill him. He survives and...

Let's say Constantine never converts to Christianity and the Roman Empire still splits between West and East. IMO, it's possible that the Eastern Roman Empire would still have converted to Christianity as it had a much larger Christian population. However, the Western Roman Empire almost...

Let's say for the sake of argument that the Western Roman Empire was able to not only survive but last in some capacity until the modern day (at least inside Italy) and the Eastern Empire falls sometime around the same time as the WRE in OTL. What impact might this have on European history and...

Lately I have been researching the Western Roman Empire and I have been making a mapgame of the usurpation of Magnus Maximus and I have asked myself the following question: What would have happened if the destinies of the West and East were reversed? that is, the Western Roman Empire manages to...

Recently I have been reading and researching about the Late Roman Empire and I have come across a character that has caught my attention, Magnus Máximo, a Spanish general who rose up in rebellion in Britannia, invading Gaul and defeating Graciano. Although a usurper, he would manage to be...

It seems that Emperor Maurice had plans to divide the Empire between his sons. The most common consensus about this scheme is that it would be a return to the division of the East and West rather than a new tetrarchic system where it would be split among all his sons. Supposing that Emperor...

While restricted to northern Portugal and Galicia for most of its existence, the kingdom of the Suebi did, for a brief while, rule most of the western Iberian Peninsula (and launch raids on the rest of it, which went as far east as modern Catalonia), during the reigns of Rechila and his son...

The Battle of the Frigidus, which happened in September 394 AD, pitted the forces of Eastern Roman Empire, led by emperor Theodosius I, against those of its western half, led by emperor Eugenius and magister militum Arbogast, who was the power behind the throne. IOTL Theodosius won the battle...

Some people argue that regions like Britannia, Dacia, Germania and Mesopotamia brought instability to the empire, which was relatively safe with its borders in the Rhine, Danube and Osrhoene/Western Armenia. What do you think? Were these regions really worthy of conquest? Would the empire...

From: WI Emperor Leo I declined to name Majorian as Western Roman Emperor in 457 AD? Leo I (Valerius Leo) was indeed a very influential emperor in the west. In fact, there were three instances where Leo was sole Roman emperor (461, 465-67, 472-73), and he was the one who appointed Anthemius as...

What if Roman authorities in Britannia found the Tyndrum gold mine sometime in the 140s, when the empire's power was at its peak? Would they be able to extract it with the technology they had, and, assuming such a thing was possible, would they be able and willing to subjugate all of Britain...

So, I was on the AH Discord for the time I was away (Long story short, I couldn't get to my computer and my phone is incompatible with this site fsr) and I consistently asked several questions on the Western Roman Empire. I did do some research here and there, but not much, so please, feel free...

So two scenarios 1) he looses the battle but survives 2) he looses the battle and is killed