constantinople

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...

This is a new TL on the darling of the alternate history community: Romanía/Byzantium! Rest assured that this will be a good one, if extensive and filled with many divergences, some small and others not so much. I will look forward to starting this very soon. For now, some maps.

So, I received my copy of Rome West today, and was wondering if anybody would like to help me flesh it out a little bit. A bit of background: Rome West is an alternate history comic book originally released online and published in physical form by Dark Horse Comics. The PoD is a Roman fleet...

What if constantinople never became a US state? The us took it durring the Russian civil war to make sure that a red Russia wouldn’t have access to the Mediterranean. What ithe League of Nations never gave the US constantinople? What if it remained Russian? Or ended up in Greek or Turkish hands...

Is it possible for Nicomedia, with dedication from whoever controls it, to surpass Byzantium/Constantinople as the major Marmara Sea port? Would this require a PoD before or during Constantine's reign? What sort of advantages did Nicomedia have, compared to Byzantium?

With a POD of 1453, you’r challenge is to have the Three Romes (Rome, Constantinople, and Moscow) be owned by a single empire all at the same time. Bonus points if this empire survives to the present day with the Three Romes inside it’s borders. So which countries would be the best cannidates...

I was going to post something on the ATL City guessing game, but the more I wrote, the more it started to look like a full TL idea than an article for the thread. Obviously, this was inspired by the Mahakhitan thread of a similar idea (Liao Empire in India), but I want to ask if it's possible...

Hi everybody, and welcome to my new timeline “From exile to triumph”, a story based on the roman emperor Julius Nepos and how he was able to reverte the destiny of his empire. Feel free to post any comment, suggestion or idea and please forgive me for any error you will find in the story or in...

I am working on a TL where the Byzies keep Crete and Euphimius doesn't defect to the Aghlaribs, so Sicilia is still part of the empire. Basil still becomes emperor and reforms the Empire and the navy, so a more successful naval state with Sicilia and Sardegna still kicking the Arabs butts. Now...

Now, this is probably close to, if not entirely ASB, (especially considering this is not my strongest place to speculate further upon.) But that’s what intrigued me about it. The idea of having such a large and historical city divided in half between Greece and Turkey to (hopefully) appease both...

I know that this question has been asked some times before, but it's been itching in the back of my head. What if Greece had managed to defeat Turkey in the post-WWI Greco-Turkish War? Maybe through a different turnout at Sakarya, or through a better disposed and disciplined Greek army at the...

Sorry for double posting but i meant this to be posted in pre 1900, please delete the one in post 1900 as it obviously deal with a medieval/early modern technology. For an empire ruling from Byzantium, what territories can be held long-term and economically integrated into the state? This...

For an empire ruling from Byzantium, what territories can be held long-term and economically integrated into the state? This question assumes pre-industrial technology, but I am also open to speculations about the size of a hypothetical Constantinople empire with telegraph, railways, and...

Most of the discussions about a reverse outcome at Milvian Bridge i see here often focus on the development of christianity as a religion. But, here, i'll like to ask: what are the effects of an absent constantinian restoration on the Roman Empire as a whole? How would the empire be divided...

It seems that a year before WWI there was an unsuccessful assasination attempt on George I of Greece. What if it succeeds? His heir Constantine was a famous germanophile, and he probably would have stalled Greek enterance into the war on the side of Entente. Would it be enough for Turkey to...

In 1805, Napoleon asserted that if he had: "been able to take Acre [in 1799], I would have put on a turban, I would have made my soldiers wear big Turkish trousers, and I would have exposed them to battle only in case of extreme necessity. I would have made them into a Sacred Battalion--my...

Let's assume that the greeks won the greco-turkish war and that they managed to make a deal with the allies in order to take Constantinople, what changes would they have made to the city? For example, Hagia Sophia, would they have restored it to a church or would they have turn it into a museum...

The Sassanid-instigated Siege Of Constantinople pitted the Eastern Roman Empire against a coalition between the Sassanid Persian Empire in the eastern side of the Bosphorus and the Avar Khaganate in the western side. In the end, the byzantines managed to hold out. But what if the perso-avar...

What if the Empire Of Nicaea (the power that IOTL went on to reconquer Constantinople from the Latin Empire in the 13th century) was defeated by the Seljuks sometime before managing to reconquer Constantinople, such as during the Battle Of Antioch-On-Meander (1211)? Who is more likely to conquer...

In the event that Russia manages to survive the First World War that is OTL, or a visibly and situationally similar one, and manages to survive the aftermath of the war long enough to stay on its feet (instead of collapsing in the aftermath), what are the gains that are made by Russia...