constantinople

In 1398 Timur was fighting wars in India, before he turned westwards, fighting among others the Ottomans. In 1402 he won the battle of Ankara, which weakened the Ottomans, although Timurs death three years later lead to the demise of his empire. But what if he had died in the Indian wars? Would...

AH discussion. With a time period of 600 to 1453, what city or cities would you find exceptionally defensible, economically dominant and culturally important. Also I would like to compare these cities in terms of their relevance for the period. Especially when it comes to comparing the...

This is one question that has been plaguing my head for quite a while. Suppose that the Marmara area which connects Europe to Asia Minor is uninhabited, and you are tasked with choosing the capital of a state centered in this location. The question is, which of these two straits is more feasible...

With a POD no earlier than 1775, how could the Ottoman capital city, Istanbul (called Kostantiniyye at the time) become permanent territory of the United States by 1950? The territory doesn't have to be intended to be permanent when initially acquired, but perhaps a situation like WW2 and the...

For all the things he did, they was just a few that was out of his reach. He plundered the Balkans, but failed to take Constantinople. His invasions of Persia failed. He crossed the Rhine, but got beat at Catalaunian Plains. He invaded Italy, but unable to take Rome. And thus died before he...

626: The siege of Constantinople in 626 was both the culmination of the last great Roman-Persian War and the first of centuries' worth of large-scale attacks on the New Rome. The Sasanians had marched from their homelands in Mesopotamia and the Iranian Plateau all the way to the Asian side of...

If the Ottomans took Constantinople 31 years earlier, what effect would that have? Murad II would probably be more secure on his throne, though there could also be a crusade called on him. Also, I assume Istanbul would become a larger more powerful city earlier?

As title really, with any POD after Justinian have Constantinople be the remnant of the Roman Empire as it was, a lone city state that continues the state of the Roman Empire. It cannot fall to conquest, only usurpation. Have it survive till the modern day as one of the greatest cities in the...

This isn't as far-fetched as it sounds: Churchill supposedly proposed it to Lloyd-George during the Entente's occupation of the Straits Zone after the First World War. How would Mustafa Kemal react to this? What role would a neutralized Constantinople play in the post-war development of Europe...

If the Byzantine Empire had survived and essentially taken the role of the Ottomans as an eastern Gunpowder Empire, how would they react to a Reformation (similar to the OTL Protestant Reformation) occurring in the Catholic world?

Since it seems a few of people have been debating this in other threads, I thought it would be interesting to see what the general consensus is as I find this question rather interesting. One could argue that since the Empire was partioned following the 4th Crusade the political continuity that...

Would it be possible for the Roman Empire to "survive" as the holdings of a figurehead emperor in Rome/Milan/Ravenna/Constantinople, while various warlords fight for imperial backing, hegemony of the Mediterranean, and title of magister militum? Basically, the shogunate reoccurring as a Roman...

How likely is it that the seat of the League of Nations would move from Geneva to Constantinople? That said, I don't know of a better location for the World Moot than the Intercontinental City. (And I'm not the only one, see links below.) Certainly, it would give the Entente greater incentive...

Introduction & Overview Justinian: The most fascinating yet overlooked Emperor of all the Roman Emperors that I know about in the 1500 years of Empire in OTL was an arrogant, stubborn, cruel and oppressive individual who ended his days in insanity and blood-soaked revenge of all those he...