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  1. Buba

    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    @Eparkhos - oh, yes, it would require the Champa not being Champa :)
  2. Buba

    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    @Eparkhos - Indochina could had gone Islamic - all :) it takes is Champa beating and rolling back the Dai Viet.
  3. Buba

    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    If the Duchy of Aquitaine falls, then indeed it will be the Franks on the frontline. I do not dispute the Franks being a state in the mid 700s, or being able to stop the Arabs on the Loire and Rhone, what I dispute is them having stopped the Arabs. Beating off a single slave raid i.e. POITIERS...
  4. Buba

    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    Frankish propaganda. A fable presented in chronicles written on Frank order and perpetuated as part of French founding myth to this day. The Arabs were first stopped by the prosperous Duchy of Aquitaine, facing a two front war with the Arabs and Frank barbarians.
  5. Buba

    Which further Muslim expansion is less implausible or difficult?

    I don't think that Hungary is a valid example. It was at the edge of the area which the Ottomans and their logistics could hold. And over half a thousand years later. The Arab conquests were more centrifugal, at some point the marches/border barons breaking off and ruling themselves and keeping...
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