Well, if someone has some insight about it, I would welcome it. I don't know much about this period of Japanese history, but if someone can contribute?
Shinto and the State, 1868–1988, by Helen Hardacre is something I was recommended for the history of the creation of modern Shinto. Apparently, prior to the Meiji, there no such thing as a religious marriage ritual in Japan. In my opinion, they copied idiosyncratically the parts of western...
I'm having quoteblocks trouble. I want this thread deleted because I can't delete the original post. I'm trying to post it in a more normal format, but I need to delete this thread first. EDIT: it's in he wrong forum anyway, it should be pre-1900.
Quoting John Cowan's comment from languagehat.com
https://languagehat.com/duncher/#comment-4562200
Nine, unless someone has changed them while I wasn’t looking; the Six plus three in the Republic. Still, considering that there are four provinces despite the Irish word cúige ‘province’ being...
That's quite a lot to extrapolate from a single event. I would focus on the immediate consequences -- How do Austria-Hungary and Russia react, and how do Bulgarians and Romanians react. I think some parties in the Bulgarian parliament would be unhappy, but not too much (I think Stambolov might...
Romania was switching from Cyrillic to Latin in the second half of the 19th century, even innovating hybrid letters. They had not yet adopted Latin fully at that time.
Adoption of nixtamalization globally alongside the spread of maize would be a huge diversion from OTL with regards to nutrition.
Also what Jürgen said about sugar beets.
@ ArcimedesCircle : Silphium seems to have been similar in taste and usage to asaphoetida / hing.
Not a united kingdom (and at the time Bulgaria was a princedom (княжество) in vassalage to the Ottoman Empire), a personal union. Bulgaria only became a tsardom in 1908. They'd be separate countries sharing a monarch.
He was a Bulgarian banker who, in his will, donated almost all of his funds to constructing the current main building of Sofia University. He also lived, for most of his life, in Bucharest. At the main entrance to the building are statues of him and his brother.