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Maybe this, but with the Spanish instead of Triunes (and perhaps further concessions in the East Indies instead of Bengal). IIRC the Spanish throne was worried about Roman influence in Italy upsetting the balance of power in the western Med, so a formalized agreement there may be the impetus for...

I firmly agree (and respectfully disagree with calls that Rhomania needs to be consistently winning). The story is vastly more interesting when Rhomania is capable of being defeated externally, self-sabotaging internally, and being in the wrong morally, than one where they steamrolled their way...

A True & Accurate Account of Nothing of Importance, by Joachim Pfÿffer (1576), is the only known account of the enigmatic Neuchaff culture. Pfÿffer, born in Füssen in southern Germany, was the scion of south German and Flemish merchants of middling local importance. The young Joachim spent much...

Llerogaco People (Canarian Jerojaco, Spanish Llerogaco, Gibraltarian Llerojaco, Moroccan Jerokhak, Tunisian Kanarya, Libyan Kanarya, American Llerogaco, Cuban Jerogaco) The Llerojaco (traditionally pronounced Yair-oh-jack-oh) People are a small creole population descended from indigenous...

Gulamis (Greek Ghulavi, Albanian Gholazmi, Turkish Ghulams, Cypriot Ghulamis, British Ghulavi) - A relatively small people group, the Gulamis are the descendants of a class of slave-soldiers imported by the Ottoman Empire between 1571 and 1656, as an attempt to curb the power of the Janissary...

Sometimes, the answer is yes! It is attested to that the Habsburg armies of Charles V, during their 1541 Campaign in Algiers, faced major difficulties in using their arquebuses due to rain, as well as due to high winds that would physically blow the gunpowder off of the exposed pans where sparks...

I wonder how a POD where Napoleon decided to try and hold on to the Louisiana Territory would affect Haiti. My gut reaction is that ongoing French/Napoleonic interests in Louisiana would spur further British interest in opposing them in the Caribbean, and thus the possibility for an independent...

My suggestion for a black-majority southern state would actually be Louisiana, rather than South Carolina or Mississippi. The percentage of enslaved persons in 1860 was nearly 50% (46% if I remember correctly), and New Orleans’s size and wealth more or less demanded a federal presence in the...

What is the status of the Appalachian region in the US? Is there an appreciable difference between southern Appalachia (NC, TN, AL, GA) and the rest of the Midsouth, and between northern Appalachia (PA, WV, OH) and the Midwest? Has a distinct Appalachian identity been sustained?

The swords of Andreas Angelos and Leo Kalomeros later show up as unlockable weapons for TTL’s Edward Kenway.

I hate to "like" the latest update, considering the subject matter, but it's exceptionally well done. It's tragic to see the fate of the Syrian Muslim population, and presumably the devastation of an ancient and brilliant culture, but unfortunately logical. It brought to mind for me something of...

I think it's worth mentioning that Louisiana is another viable option for this, although it would be tied up in a politically and economically dominant Creole class with a fair amount of differences to most free Blacks in the state. Prior to the war, 47% of the population was enslaved, and aside...

I hate to dogpile on with the "what about this OTL person?" questions, but since I just finished his memoir, I was curious how Stefan Zweig ended up in this world.

Speaking of Australia and the Wu, I wonder what effect Wu colonization, development, and collapse had on the demographics of Australia - I'd imagine the Aboriginal population is higher than OTL. If it is, that combined with continuous low-level contact with Indonesia, and through that, the...

Interesting that people seem to be assuming the culprit for the counterfeit IBCs is a foreign agent. I immediately thought that it would be high-ranking members of the Imperial Bank. They have the means (they're printing the real ones), the motive (they're stated to have pushed Demetrios III for...