Alternate History of Europe

Alternate History of Europe, commonly referred to as Varna, is an ongoing Alternate History of Europe series created by Brazilian Mapping. The first season ran from February 1st, 2018 to November 4th, 2018 and the second season has been airing since January 21st, 2019.
The series' basic premise is a universe where the Ottomans lost the Battle of Varna on November 10th, 1444 to Polish forces. Despite this being the key point of divergence, Brazilian has confirmed there are other minor ones. The series revolves around several characters, there being several simultaneous subplots occurring across both seasons.
==Background==
The series was first conceived in late January 2018. After scrapping an AFotW and an AFoE, Brazilian decided to settle on a series related to the game Europa Universalis IV. After making the map, work on the first episode began on January 20th, 2018.
== Lists ==
* Countries
* Conflicts
* Alliances
* People
* Treaties
==Episodes==
===Season 1===
Number	Name 	Name 	Date released 	Year 	Synopsis
I 	"Failure" 	"Failure" 	February 1st, 2018 	1444-1451	After a series of unfortunate events following a Polish victory at the Battle of Varna, the Ottoman Sultanate collapses, leaving a power vacuum in the Islamic world and the greater Mediterranean. Elsewhere, the Hundred Years' War heats up, with England and France calling in various allies to help their side. Aragon loses much of their territory, causing England to call Portugal into the war.
II 	"Protection" 	"Protection"	February 13th, 2018	1451-1455	Portugal joins the Hundred Years' War on the side of England, though makes a deal with Castile to get both out of the war. Portugal would annex Galicia from Castile to form Portugalicia. Then an earthquake hits Navarra, decimating French forces and forcing them to make peace with England, after a brief Burgundian intervention. Serbia and Bosnia form an alliance, worrying Venice, who is approached by Naples with an offer of forming an alliance themselves. As a show of power, Naples invades Albania, which convinces Venice to agree. Further east, the Timurid Empire collapses.
III 	"Collapse" 	"Collapse" 	February 22nd, 2018	1455-1461	Several nations take the opportunity to invade and annex Timurid lands, and several new nations emerge in the region as well. Castile enters a personal union with Aragon, and Sardinia joins the alliance with Venice and Naples, forming the Italian League. The Mamluk Sultanate invades both Rhodes and Hisn Kayfa, establishing themselves as the main Islamic power. Tunis declares war on Tlemcen, and Castile and Portugalicia declare war on Granada and Morocco.
IV 	"Showdown" 	"Showdown" 	March 13th, 2018 	1461-1470	The Reconquista ends with the conquest of Granada, and an opportunistic invasion by Sardinia weakens Tunis, allowing the Mamluks to subjugate them easily. The Nerasid Dynasty successfully unites Persia, and the Golden Horde begins to show signs of instability. Despite protests by Austria, the Italian League defeat their maritime rival Genoa, who is betrayed and annexed by Milan.
V 	"Tragedy" 	"Tragedy" 	April 12th, 2018 	1470-1476	Rum and Byzantium discuss forming a defensive alliance against the Mamluks despite their history as rivals, with the Mamluks then invading Qara Qoyunlu, who collapses. Poland invades the Golden Horde after its instability is made apparent, and Rum and Byzantium agree to an alliance after the Mamluks declare themselves as the Mamluk Caliphate. Rum and Byzantium take Cyprus before the Mamluks can. Muscovy and Ryazan betray the Golden Horde.
VI 	"Downfall" 	"Downfall" 	May 22nd, 2018 	1476-1484	The Golden Horde fully collapses, and the Great Horde is established, as the Mamluks form the Maghrebi League to counter the Italian League and the Iberians. The Italian League comes to the aid of Ragusa against Serbia and Bosnia, which escalates into a war involving various other nations in the Balkans. King Richard III of England dies without an heir, leading to the war of English Succession.
VII 	"Beyond" 	"Beyond" 	June 9th, 2018 	1484-1492	The Tudors win the war of English Succession with French help. The Mamluks invade Yemen and Ethiopia, and block the sale of spices to Europe. Various Dutch nations break free from Burgundy, forming the United Dutch Kingdom and achieving their independence with English and French help. A Sardinian fleet in the Atlantic gets blown westwards in a storm and is presumed lost. This fleet discovers the Americas.
VIII 	"Shadow" 	"Shadow" 	July 7th, 2018 	1492-1500	Sardinia forms a colony in the Americas, followed by Portugalicia, who then discover the Maya and Aztecs. Bengal, Jaunpur, and Vijayanagara form the Lakhnauti Pact to combat Delhi and the Bahmanis, and when Portugalicia contacts Vijayanagara, Delhi declares war. Delhi falls and is replaced by Bengal, renaming to the Empire of the Ganges. The Shadow Kingdom secedes from the Holy Roman Empire, triggering the Third Lombard War. The Italian League comes to the aid of the Shadow Kingdom as Austria prepares their armies to confront them. With Portugalician help, the Mayans defeat the Aztecs, just as Castile discovers the Americas.
IX 	"Dawn" 	"Dawn" 	August 1st, 2018 	1500-1509	The Papal State helps Austria in the Third Lombard War, however they lose, partially due to Bohemia declaring independence from Austria. France and Brandenburg took the opportunity to expand while Austria was distracted. The Nerasids conquer Tabaristan, in what they call "the last step to unify Persia". Naples gains a personal union with Provence, but the Provençal populace rebels, leading to the Three Rebellions, which are quickly put down by the Italian League. The Livonian Confederation, backed by Poland, declares independence from the Teutonic Order, backed by the Kalmar Union, ending with the Kalmar Union collapsing and the Teutonic Order becoming a Polish vassal. When the Mamluks finally begin their surprise attack on Byzantium in November 1509, Rum joins the Byzantine side, forcing the Mamluks to call in their own alliance. In reaction to this, Castile, Portugalicia and the Italian League all declare war on the Maghrebi League. The Great Mediterranean War begins.
X 	"Mare Nostrum"	Part 1 	October 30th, 2018 	1509-1514	The Mamluks successfully defeat Rum after the Ottomans re-emerge, and then form an alliance with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Bosnia, who defeat Wallachia, forcing them to switch sides. The alliance is formalised in 1512 as the League of Cairo. The Mamluks reannex the Ottomans, and capture Constantinople, forcing the Byzantine government to relocate to Athens. Poland declares war on the Mamluks, who allies themself with the Great Horde and some Moldavian rebels. France invades Spain and kills Aragon, however is then invaded by England. The Mamluks and the Great Horde attempt an offensive on the Polish capital of Kraków, which is halted at Lwów. After Tlemcen questions Mamluk authority, Tunis kills them, and the Usfurids are killed by Baghdad in the same way. The Mamluks then cross the Adriatic from Albania to begin an invasion of Italy, in the hope of reaching Venezia and ending the war.
X 	"Mare Nostrum"	Part 2 	November 4th, 2018 	1514-1517	After declaring war on Romagna and Urbino in order to reach the city of Venezia, the entire Italian peninsula declares war on the Mamluks and successfully pushes them out of Italy. After accidentally attacking a Dutch fleet, France finds themselves being surrounded by a coalition created to contain them. By 1515 France loses all morale and agrees to the coalition's demands. Nogai, Astrakhan, and Ryazan fight the Great Horde, and the Ayyubids form a rebellion in Tunis in an attempt to retake Egypt from the Mamluks. Castile unites Spain, and the anti-Mamluk forces create the League of Varna after defeating them at the Second Battle of Varna. Byzantium frees Rum and the Ottomans, and the three of them unite to form the Anatolian Empire. The Mamluks ask their vassals to join them, and while Baghdad agrees, Armenia, with some nudging from Anatolia, refuses and betrays the Mamluks, backed by the Nerasids. Realizing they have lost, the Mamluks inform Venice of the Malta Agreement, but the League of Varna betrays them, primarily due to having claims on Venetian lands. This results in the formation of the Italic Union. The epilogue shows the King of Naples and the Caliph of the Mamluks holding a duel in Cairo, where the Caliph loses.
Season 1 (Playlist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_chiR4gU8w&list=PL0T6TpxfSoFK5xE1q8RnSqirJLC4I2CUp&pp=iAQB
Season 1 (Movie): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr2D_3nPbI0
===Season 2 (League of Varna victory)===
Number 	Name 	Name 	Date released 	Year 	Synopsis
Prologue	"Aftermath"	"Aftermath"	November 11th, 2018	1517 	The League of Varna ends the Great Mediterranean War through the Treaty of Cairo, and the league is disbanded. As the Mughals take power in Bukhara, Martin Luther's 95 Theses are mounted on the door of the church of Wittenberg, Saxony.
XI 	"Fiasco" 	"Fiasco" 	January 21st, 2019 	1517-1521	As the Iberians and Sardinians continue their explorations, the Italic Union slowly creates more enemies, notably the Anatolian Empire. With the Austrian Holy Roman Emperor taking Luther's side against the Church, a new conflict begins to unfold in the Central Asian steppe.
XII 	"Guardian" 	"Guardian" 	February 24th, 2019	1521-1523	With the entire steppe mobilised for the war, the Mughals begin their first expansion, and word of their leader, Babur, reaches Persia and India. As Spaniard Ferdinand Magellan completes the first circumnavigation of Earth, a Venetian envoy is discovered by a Ragusan fisherman, shortly before Ragusa's absorption by the Italic Union.
XIII 	"Breakdown"	"Breakdown"	April 21st, 2019 	1523-1527	As the north breaks down into war for control of the Russian and Finnish lands, a few European nations abandon the Catholic Church after being inspired by Martin Luther. Then with an election for a new Holy Roman Emperor, Italy and the Middle East break down into chaos once more.
XIV 	"Checkmate"	"Checkmate"	November 15th, 2019	1527-1533	The Italic Union successfully invades central Italy, but suffers a defeat against the Anatolian Empire. Italia also invades northern Italy, and is largely successful until Bruno Morosini leads the enemy army, crippling Italic influence over northern Italy.
XV 	"Calamity" 	Part 1 	April 4th, 2020 	1533-1538	As Italia falls into a succession war, the Protestant Reformation gains more steam, and the Mughals take their first steps towards India. The Lombards take the opportunity to put an end to the antipope's rule.
XV 	"Calamity" 	Part 2 	October 10th, 2020 	1538-1547	With Clement reinstated, the Italic Union redirected all focus to the succession war. As the Chagatai Mongols begin their resurgence, Europe is caught in the February Feud, upsetting the balance of power and ending with a treaty which would only delay the inevitable. As the ruling family of the Italic Union secures victory, a new power emerges to the east...
XVI 	"Ruination"	"Ruination"	May 27th, 2021 	1547-1556	
XVII 	"Heaven" 	"Heaven" 	March 13th, 2022 	1556-1571	The War of the Leagues - the long-awaited showdown between the Catholics and Protestants.
XVIII 	"Eclipse" 	"Eclipse" 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA
XIX 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA
XX 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA
Season 2 (Playlist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjwQOu4wygY&list=PL0T6TpxfSoFKThlZKdfoaT8wa7IQT16XQ&pp=iAQB
Season 2 (Movie Part 1 - "Fiasco" to "Ruination"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL86U1iGXzQ
=== Spin-off Season 2 (League of Cairo victory) ===
Number	Name 	Date released 	Year 	Synopsis
XI 	"Fianchetto"	July 28th, 2024	1513-1515	The events of the Great Mediterranean War if the Battle of Lwów was a Polish defeat.