balkans

In OTL, the muslims of Bosnia (according to Austrian census) comprised only about 32.25% of the entire population of the territory in 1910, surprising since in modern it has increased to 51%. However, the challenge presented to you is, have Bosnia, with no POD earlier than 1848 become a majority...

Context: So, the 1997 Montenegrin republic-level presidential election was very close. It was mainly a context between prime minister Milo Đukanović and incumbent president Momir Bulatović, both of the fracturing Democratic Party of Socialists. In the first round of voting, Bulatović had won...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_Ivaylo Ivaylo was a Bulgarian peasant who rose up against the rule of tsar Constantine Tikh, whose reign saw the loss of territory to various foreign adversaries. Ivaylo quickly gathered followers to his cause, and within a year or so of launching his...

If WW1 never occurs, what is the fate of the Balkans? Perhaps the tensions will last until a later conflict similar to the Great War, or will the Ottomans find themselves in another Balkans War?

Suppose that the Treaty of San Stefano is upheld, for one reason or another - either because the vehemently anti-Turkish British prime minister Gladstone keeps his office in 1874 instead of losing it to Disraeli, or because Bismarck supports Russia in the Congress of Berlin - and a Greater...

During its last few decades of existence, and particularly from 1973 onward, the economy of Yugoslavia fell into a decline that turned into a death spiral, with high inflation and rising debt. Naturally, this contributed to the radicalization that led to the horrors of the Yugoslav Wars. Was...

After WWII and after Tito and his party take power in Yugoslavia, let’s say he decides to split up Bosnia and Herzegovina between Croatia and Serbia with much of the Muslims going into the Serbian part of it. He does this as a way to placate both the Serbs and Croats since he fears that a...

Pretty much as the tin says, what if the Ottoman Empire did not declare war on Bulgaria (or anyone else for that matter) during the Second Balkan War? Would Bulgaria be able to hold itself against just the Serbs, Greeks and Romanians ? If not, would Greece end up being able to take more of...

IOTL, they only really managed to convert Bosnia and Albania, at the country level. One TL idea of mine involves the safe majority (c. 60-80%) of the Balkans (as well as some other regions in the Ottoman periphery, like Wallachia/Moldavia; only Greece is not necessary) being converted to Islam...

------------------ Part 1: Of Bandits and Princes If history can, with much effort made by those who study it, be considered a series of smaller, usually predictable (and often romantic) narratives intertwined with one another - all protagonized by kingdoms and empires which formed, grew and...

Ok, let's suppouse that the 1993 WTC bombing suceeded and Clinton declares ''War on terror'' 8 years earlier. Most probably, US would invade Sudan and pay more attention to Somalia and Rwanda than IRL. Considering that in this world "post-9/11'' anti-muslim narrative emerges in 1993 instead...

While checking the various revolts made by Bulgarians against the ottomans i stopped on the second Tarnovo Uprising. while composed by less man, it's main cause of failure is the premature start. The rebellion, led by Rostislav Stratimirovic failed because only 4000 people gathered and as i...

The Ottoman Empire was in a very bad spot by the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th: it had suffered several devastating defeats at the hands of Russia and its growing might, banditry was rampant throughout Rumelia, the empire's heartland in Europe, and much of its territory...

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With any POD you want, make the Ottoman Empire keep the Balkans(Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Southern Serbia at least) until 1945(when the Russians would storm the Balkans and seize it). Bonus points if Romania and Serbia remain some sort of vassals.

So the Aromanians are an ethnic group in the southern Balkans who speak a Romanian-like language. They weren't the most prominent but they were significant enough to be noticed. However events like the sacking of Moscopole (a major Aromanian city) in 1769, and assimilation by independent nation...

During one of the Byzantine empire's weaker stages in the late first millennium, what would be the impact if an orthodox kingdom (thinking the Serbs but it's open) were to control the Western Balkans and all of Italy? Could an Eastern country controlling Rome cause a smaller schism that pushes...

So, let's say he manages to avoid whatever illness it was that claimed him. How would things go with Andy III making it to the age of 60 (his grandfather died at 75, and his son at 58, so it's not entirely unlikely) rather than up and dying when he did?

Going through a phase of Ottomania right now, I was scrolling through some older threads and found this extremely interesting map by a now long banned user AHP: Now this had me thinking. Considering the size of the Balkan Muslim population (mid 1870s prior to the Russo-Turkish war), could it...

If the Gepids were able to win the Avar-Lombard coallision or if it never existed, what happens to the southern slavs? Would they still exist and raid the balkans depopulating it and settling there, or would Gepidia, as a east-germanic speaking entity, would still surviving in the east of...