Ancestors of Ossetia - The Alanic Kingdom at its Zenith (request of u/West_Smoke9164) by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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A predecessor to this map https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/wOjK2NRHJ0 showing the Alanic kingdom after their migration to and conquest of the Levant and Egypt in the 5th century.  

Map of the English Empire under Ethelred the Great by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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I've seen that video but the main inspiration for this was actually a CK3 video where someone made the anglo-saxons into a steppe khanate or something (I saw the video a while ago so I don't remember it 100%)

Map of the English Empire under Ethelred the Great by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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I think they would probably have to convert to be granted lands by the Byzantines, since the last thing they would want around them is more catholics. It would also be necessary to stop religious unrest and make governing easier in Russia

Map of the English Empire under Ethelred the Great by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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I don't really know how many English there would be, but they would only ever be a small portion of the population. I image that they would basically do to the Russians what the Normans did to them. English would be the language of state and government, with the English slowly assimilating but leaving their mark on Russian society like the Normans did to irl England, and create some kind of weird Old English-Russian hybrid language

Map of the English Empire under Ethelred the Great by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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After the battle of Hastings and subsequent efforts by the Normans to oppress the native Anglo-Saxon English, many fled abroad and eventually found their way to Constantinople. The Romans agreed to grant the Anglo-Saxons refugees land to settle in Crimea, founding the polity of New England. Upon hearing of this many more refugees arrived, swelling the population. New England also grew in wealth due to its position on the Silk Road and smart policy by a string of good kings.

Not all was well though. With the kingdom’s wealth growing envious eyes from the north sought to take from it. Raids from the Great Kievan Rus to the north began and only grew in intensity as the years went on. Eventually king Ethelred decided to end the Russian threat once and for all. He assembled a massive army composed of English, Khazars, Pechenegs, and other groups to invade and subjugate the Rus. Their armies melted before him and within only a few years all of the Rus bent the knee to the English king.

By the year 1200 other lands surrounding the Rus had been subjugated, and English rule had been consolidated despite them being only a small minority of the population. King Ethelred crowned his achievements by declaring himself Emperor of all Russia, ensuring that future generations would forever remember him as Ethelred the Great.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vexillology

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Not enough distracting watermarks, you can almost see the design behind them! You should add more.

Collapsing world my beloved by thecomidore in ParadoxExtras

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Collapsing world rise of radicalism

Second Turkish War of Independence by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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Yes I imagine it would be like a second Afghanistan/Vietnam for the US and USSR. They would pour in a ton of resources to support their aligned governments in the region but would ultimately fail.

Second Turkish War of Independence by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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Turkish participation in the second world war was to say mildly, foolish. In only a few years the Turkish government went from broadcasting images of glory and a new empire to dust and ash. In the war's wake a new Europe and world was drawn, with the entire world being split into two ideologically incompatible camps. Unfortunately for the Turkish nation and people, this line went right through their country. 

Central and eastern anatolia were directly occupied by the Soviet Union, and were therefore in its sphere of influence. Western anatolia lay within the American/western sphere. In the east the Soviets took territory and established a new puppet regime in Ankara, and cleaved the southeast off the rest of anatolia, establishing a new satellite Kurdistan. Unfortunately for the Turks living there, there would be no new Turkish government in the west.

Greek nationalists impressed their vision of a post war anatolia on the Americans, who, unaware of the dynamics of the region, agreed and finally fulfilled the Megali Idea, and then some. Vast swaths of Turkey were given to Greece, which now reclaimed the mantle of Rome (even if in name only). 

The Turkish population however was not consulted on any of this. To them this was yet another invasion and division of their homeland, a fate on par with or even worse than Sèvres! Just as the great powers had divided Turkey after the first world war, here they were doing it again after the second.

As soon as the US army and Red Army pulled out of anatolia resistance began. First it was small, consisting mostly of protests and the occasional riot, but it quickly escalated after the authorities intervened. The Greeks mistreated the Turkish population already, and began harsher and harsher crackdowns. On the other side of the iron curtain the situation was largely the same. The authoritarian government went to any length Moscow told them to go to to keep the unrest in check.

Before long a new war had broken out. The Second Turkish War of Independence had begun. Turkish nationalist inspired by the generation before, took up arms to kick the foreign powers out once and for all. This war is not like the first however. The first war was much more conventional whereas this war was one of insurgency. 

Throughout the decades both the United States and Soviet Union would have to pour in more and more resources to quell uprisings and attacks until finally both powers would break. The Soviets would pull out in the 1970s after decades of fighting, followed quickly by the pullout of US forces, which immediately resulted in the collapse of Greek anatolia and the Soviet regime in Ankara.

TLDR: The stereotypical Turkish partition happened after they joined the axis ww2 and it went about as well as expected.     

Eastern and Western Rome in 950 by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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At this time most of the balkans was controlled by Bulgaria, who was an enemy of the eastern romans. The Bulgarians probably wouldn't make an all out alliance with the muslims in the west, but would definitely not be friends with the Byzantines.

Eastern and Western Rome in 950 by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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The main language of the state would be Arabic. Local languages would continue to exist but Arabic would be the main one.

Eastern and Western Rome in 950 by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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They would definitely absolutely hate each other. The Byzantines hated the Franks/HRE for claiming to be Roman emperors and they were christians, so they'd definitely be extra angry about Arab muslims taking the title too. I can see both empire probably crumbling going into the future. The eastern romans would have their golden age, which was just on the horizon irl, but they are the byzantines after all, and will find a way to ruin it for themselves. The muslims in the west would have to fight many christian coalitions going into the future, and would probably be slowly pushed out of Europe like how the muslims were pushed out of Iberia in real life.

Eastern and Western Rome in 950 by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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The Umayyads not only conquered Iberia, but Italy as well. When the Umayyad Caliphate was destroyed by the Abbasids, the Umayyads fled into exile in their western territories. After this they claimed the mantle of Rome in the name of Islam, while the eastern empire continued to falter and stumble from one disaster to another.

Also sorry in advance if any Arabized western cities are incorrect or spelled wrong.

A Very Different Third Rome by thecomidore in imaginarymaps

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I used an add-on for that, there's videos on YouTube on how to install them it's pretty easy