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the exact thing you are looking for is the interregrnum mod for good old eu2 where nasrids consolidate andalusia and byz survives, along with both france and england fracturing. it's basically an underdog-wank (including bretons, welsh, burgundy, kingdom of jerusalem, occitania, hohenstafuen...

hi all, just started reading a week ago and i'm at page 481. So far it's been one of the best AH experiences of my life. I always hang out at before 1900 so this has been quite a ride. i wish there was some art to enrich the world of ASIP like Fight and Be Right. Election posters, zeppelin...

I think it is assumed that whoever is actually ruling khwarezm will do great as they will not have been deprived of their urbanization, know-how and population i.e. not get razed. the area used to be quite the center of trade and culture before the mongols as i understand. so it could be khitai...

bukhara and khwarezm will be the big winners (at least in the short term) as they will have a chance to survive and flourish with the silk road trade. however, people seem to neglect the numerous inventions & military innovations that the mongols and later turks have brought with them. so...

instead of consolidating the mohammedan dynasty's rule, i can see his son & heir get assassinated before he can ascend to the throne (much like Ali or Alexander the Great's son) and the empire getting divided between rival contenders for the position with a much earlier schism. now this might...

how about this: al-andalus survives, discovers south america, incans convert. but andalus isn't as strong as OTL spain, and can't really turn south america into new andalus as it can barely hold onto spain & morocco. it's more lenient than the conquistadors and the local cultures survives...

grand fleet of the romans: do they refer to themselves as romans or rum/rumi? i hope things get rougher for the new kayser as otherwise this would end up a wank, and the timeline is too fun to turn into "after securing england, ottomans conquer china and the people rejoice".

Along the same lines "Al Gharb Jadida" the New West. There is after all wadi al jadid (the new valley) so it wouldn't be too out of place. We would have to imagine what land south america would resemble to the explorers - north africa is too arid, what tropical land would they be familiar with...

quesadillas as we know them wouldn't exist

the moorish quasi-vassal (they could remain technically at war) statelet could be used as a loophole to trade with the muslims, deal with barbary pirates and a diplomatic back channel without necessarily incurring cristian wrath - a cunning spanish king can recognise its value and keep its...

gotta stop people from commiting suicide.

oh, of course you wouldn't see territory loss through the period of expansion. I meant after the "5 good padişahs" (or however many). it is a dynasty after all, you're bound to get some weak monarchs rising to the throne (some ruled by their wives/mothers), pretenders to the throne and all...

this should entail over-extension, alienating the arabs & traditionalist, followed by losing swathes of land perhaps including eastern anatolia (this third rome is too fun to become a mary sue) I could see earlier salafi equivalents rising in response to the gavur-emperor to cleanse the...

perhaps it's better that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Alliance restricts selim iii a bit while this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemdar_Mustafa_Pasha runs the show. let's say a POD wherein he is informed about the janissary revolt before it breaks out. perhaps he can establish...

how about it starts out as saqartvelo, then foreign invaders mutate it to something else like Al-shuqartubel Sacartivelum Iskartaval or Kartvelebistan