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    What if Sultan Abdulaziz yielded a territory instead of the Khedival title to Ismail of Egypt in return for crushing the Cretan revolt and tribute?

    By the way, I surprised myself with there being more dramatic divergences from reassigning Libya than I expected. In many ways, the differences for history of WWI and beyond were even more potentially dramatic than the differences for the next variation I will explore - Here's an idea for...
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    What if Sultan Abdulaziz yielded a territory instead of the Khedival title to Ismail of Egypt in return for crushing the Cretan revolt and tribute?

    Here's an idea for scenario A) Egyptian Libya, from the 1860s onward: The geopolitical effects of Egyptian rule over Cyrenaica, Fezzan, and Tripoli, Libya's three provinces, should be relatively undramatic at first. These provinces add little revenue to the Egyptian budget, just some additional...
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    What if Sultan Abdulaziz yielded a territory instead of the Khedival title to Ismail of Egypt in return for crushing the Cretan revolt and tribute?

    What if Sultan Abdulaziz yielded a territory instead of the Khedival title to Ismail of Egypt in return for crushing the Cretan revolt and increased tribute? From the wikipedia page on Ismail Pasha of Egypt: What if the Ottoman Sultan, Abdulaziz, pridefully refused to give in on recognizing...
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