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The Banat question is discussed in this 1919 book, FWIW: https://archive.org/details/europeinmeltingp00setouoft/page/334/mode/2up?view=theater

Interesting. Thank you. Also, this is off-topic, but do you think that there was ever any realistic chance of Vojvodina/the Banat ever being made its own independent state instead of it being split between Yugoslavia and Romania? It was rather ethnically diverse, to my knowledge. The Banat is...

Or you could have the CPs win WWI and support a mini-Yugoslavia under Montenegrin leadership to punish Serbia for having its intelligence service kill FF, right? ;)

He also played a role in organizing the assassination attempt on FF in Sarajevo in June 1914, though IIRC he chickened out at the last moment and unsuccessfully tried to cancel this plan. Also, this is somewhat off-topic, but did Montenegro ever lay a claim on the Serb-majority parts of...

Nicaea served as the nucleus for the recreation of the Byzantine Empire in the late 13th century in real life. Maybe Trebizond or Epirus could fill this role instead with a sufficiently early PoD?

That makes sense, actually. That could actually work with the right PoD, I think. I just don't know what the right PoD for this is. This doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't exist, though.

Yeah, the risk being that once Soviet troops were in Poland they wouldn't leave for a very long time. The events of 1945-1989 proved the Poles right, as did the previous events of 1920.

If Russia and Czechoslovakia have a common border here and Russia hasn't purged its military, then the Anglo-French might very well be willing to fight over Czechoslovakia in 1938 in this TL.

AFAIK, he wanted to destroy the Hapsburg Empire through the use of terror but was sort of vague as to how exactly this was going to be accomplished after the act of terror itself was going to be done. Apparently it was an attitude of letting fate do its work/job after he himself committed the...

@stevep Returning to Gavrilo Princip: If one ignores morality and basic human decency, then Gavrilo Princip's calculation actually wasn't that bad. I mean in the sense of using terror to spark a general European war that will result in the fulfillment of his and many other South Slavs'...

Do you remember the name of Uhtred's friend who was raped? I know that Uhtred and his gang saved Abbess Hild from being raped, but are you talking about her or about someone else?

Alfred doesn't strike me as being an arrogant religious bigot in this series, and I say this as someone who has recently finished watching this entire series--as in, all five seasons of it. Rather, Alfred strikes me as being a noble and decent man in this series.

This is the Netflix series for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Kingdom_(TV_series) What's the other TV series for this? Or do you mean the 1st book series for this? And Yeah, it's pretty cool how this author decided to write a book series about England's founding. The US already...

There's actually a great Netflix series about Wessex unifying England called The Last Kingdom. It's highly worth checking out, IMHO. :) Anyway, any other examples of this?

Here's the exact Gavrilo Princip quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip#Arrest_and_trial

If I recall correctly (based on what I read, if my memory is correct), during his trial, Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian nationalist who murdered Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo in June 1914, said that he wanted Serbia to become a Balkan version of Piedmont-Sardinia (the Italian city-state...