A United Iberia
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Thanks for the publicity!
A good start for a united Iberia could be make Miguel da Paz, Prince of Asturias and Portugal, survive until adulthood. There is a good TL recently started about this subject: The Prince of Peace. Condottiero also made a TL about it some time ago: Trastamara TL.
Other idea for an united Iberia is the Portuguese independence of 1640 failing. It could have interesting consequences not only in Iberia and the Portuguese and Spanish colonies. ITTL, for example, Charles II of England would never marry Catherine of Braganza, as she was the daughter of the OTL Portuguese king, and so he would probably have other wife, who could give him a son.
Edit: Nek was faster than me!
I'd say arguably the bigger difference between OTL and TTL given the lack of Braganza marriage isn't Charles' children but the fact that it denies the English their port of Bombay...
That's true. However I think the English really wanted a port in India around that time, and if they had not receive it as downry they would have made as the Dutch and just conquered it. A Portugal united with Spain would still be an enemy after all.
How soon are you wanting a united Iberia?
If you're talking about after the Muslim conquests, then you could go the route of Eudo of Aquitaine not losing against Abd der Rahman and forging stronger political ties with the Moors (he did wed his daughter to one). Then through a series of betrayals and incursions Aquitaine brings Iberia back into Christian control. It may be verging on absurd, but a superpower Aquitaine controlling southern France and all of Iberia would be interesting to see . . .
If you're talking about after the Muslim conquests, then you could go the route of Eudo of Aquitaine not losing against Abd der Rahman and forging stronger political ties with the Moors (he did wed his daughter to one). Then through a series of betrayals and incursions Aquitaine brings Iberia back into Christian control. It may be verging on absurd, but a superpower Aquitaine controlling southern France and all of Iberia would be interesting to see . . .
You have also an opportunity by the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberism
Hashasheen
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I have a united Iberia on my TL!
But then again, I have a Mormon Ronald Reagan on my TL.....
But then again, I have a Mormon Ronald Reagan on my TL.....I have a united Iberia on my TL!
Yes but youre TL supports Muslims therefore it is invalid as an argument.
Hashasheen
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Noob say what?Yes but youre TL supports Muslims therefore it is invalid as an argument.
Don't make me bring out the kebab pikes now....Noob say what?
I have much more posts than you have
. We have Wine lances!!!Hashasheen
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Number does not mean experience.I have much more posts than you have
I'd like to see you pull of the following: 1. Creating a Caliphate ruling over 3 continents
2. Creating a New Roman Empire; only for it to fall under the boots of the Hashemite Caliphate and for Venice to get nuked.
3. 4 different Jewish nations (Khazaria (Caucasus), Himyar (Yemen), Judah(Sinai))
4. A kingdom of Afghanistan as a major power
5. A Al Saud ruled Khanate of Turkistan
6. Wanking Japan to levels never before seen
7. Creating a socialist militant black organization in America
8. Destroying most of the First World.
9. Recreation of the Papal States
10. Kingdom of Iberia
11. Creating a mercenary fleet under Russian Admiral Wrangel
12. Turning a failed warlord of Manchuria into the Dragon Emperor of China
13. Creating a successful Mongolia
14. A Romanov Kingdom of Greece and a later one of Ukraine (this also included several twists and turns involving a Caliphate-Greek War, annexation of Macedonia and Greece and the Caliphate originally being allies in WW1)
15. A Romanian Civil War
16. Completely different French Resistance
17. Good! Taliban
18. Mormon! Ronald Reagan.
19. Changing the Eastern Front in a completely original way no one else has done
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