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Alternate History imagines what would happen if history had gone differently. We are a community for creating and discussing a wide range of alternate timelines: large and small, ancient and recent, realistic and fanciful. If you'd like to add to our growing multiverse, the following pages will help you get started.

First time here? See the Guide to Newcomers.
Need inspiration? Look over our List of Alternate histories, Points of Divergence, and Ideas.
Want to add to a timeline already here? Contact the author to discuss your ideas, and follow our Adoption Policy.

Before you start writing, read the Conventions of this wiki. Especially, please note:

Future history is not alt-history, so all our timelines must take place in the past.
Fan fiction is not alt-history, so timelines derived from other works of fiction are not allowed.

On This Day

13 September 1310 - An English and Alban army captures Edinburgh. John Balloil cannot be crowned king, however, as the Stone of Scone has been taken to Dublin by loyalists of the unified kingdom of Eire and Alba. (Brian Felled Brodir)

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This Month's Featured Althist

Basileus' Interference

This is an involved, far-reaching, complex timeline of human history from the times of Jesus onwards, to a newer, stimulating possible scenario. It was created by Stefano, an Italian fan of AH, as a means of both studying real history and exercising a bit of fantasy.

Features:

Do you wanna see how Belisarius and Totila befriend? Or how the Muslims are stopped in North Africa and the Maghreb remains Christian? Do you wonder why Charles the Great has been assassinated in 799, and why it was his father Pepin who founded the Holy Roman Catholic Empire of the West? And what about the Bulgarian Emperors of Byzantium and the Roman Western Empire reborn? And the Norse discovery of Hesperia (OTL America)? And what's that Greater Norman Empire, or Berestia?

This and many, many other PoDs and sub-PoDs in the Interference Timeline, with some map here and there, for your amusement and delight...

Start of the Timeline

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