Alternate History Map Thread

WolfBear

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A map of a hypothetical enlarged United States of Greater Austria:


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Personally, I'd remove the Italians from it, but everything else there looks rather nice. :) I do wish that it would lose its colonies in the long(er)-run, though. Though A-H rule could be more benevolent than what might replace it, so maybe not! :(

@stevep What do you think?
 

WolfBear

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VictortheMonarch

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(A map of the main nations of the narritive) -1750

After the Disastrous Ottoman-Safavid War the Ottoman Sultanate collapsed. Unable to bear the Stress of a massive Greek Revolt that lead to the Komnenoi Restoration and the Ousting of the Ottoman Turks from mainland Europe and the western coast of Anatolia, a defeat they would never return from. Eventually in 1764 the Ottoman Sultanate would be conquered by the Komnenoi Byzantines, and the peoples of the Sultanate forced to bear the Ευλογημένο Τάγμα του Αγίου Μιχαήλ (The Blessed Order of St. Michael) which acted as a religious Inquisition against Muslims in the region. Many Turks would later flee to Persia or convert to Christianity.

Further out in Persia the Safavid's would establish a Caliphate that was extant in beliefs. It adopted the ways of war that the Europeans had adopted and had begun a islamic westernization in the mid 18th century, Bringing in many Europeans to the lands of Mesopotamia and Persia.

Far to the South lay the lands of Ethiopia and Makuria. Ethiopia, led by the Solomonid Dynasty conquered the Horn of Africa and the lands of Yemen, later forced to fend of the Safavid Invasion of 1821, a War that would last two decades. At first the Safavid Empire would sweep the Ethiopians down to the city of Aden, but after British intervention and Aid Ethiopia would be thrust forth, given modern technologies and advisors a long war would spring out, a war of the Trench. At first a uncommon tool of war that would become a great defense against cavalry, Ethiopian Trenches would dot Arabia until eventually in 1843 the Treaty of Qasr Ibrim would end the war, with the Safavid Empire defeated and forced to accept Ethiopian dominance of Yemen.

Between Ethiopia and Safavid Egypt lay Makuria, The Land of Copts. It has remained neutral in wars for many years. Its Rise was slow, with the only notable war being one with the Rebellious Dongala. It is predominantly Coptic Christian.
 

VictortheMonarch

Victor the Crusader
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In 1113 a plan would begin. Duke William II of Apulia would Marry Sancha Raimunez and all lands belonging to his family, that being Sicily and Capua, would be seized by him in bloodless coups that would see a number of Hauteville's Exiled to England. (where some would later find titles in England, beginning the Hauteville-Cornwall line) Later he and his stepmother would begin a set of wars that would change history.

Gathering Mercenaries, Religious Orders and others, Apulia and Castile would land in Carthage, at the time known as Tunis. They would battle across the sands, slaughtering the native Butr peoples all the way to Mauretania, ruled by Almoravid Empire in 1122. Castile would begin it's invasion in Iberia, distracting the Almoravids there while Apulia would sneak by into mainland Mauretania, spewing death and destruction, much of which can be seen today in the necropolis's of Fez, Tlemcen, and Sijilmasa. Finally in 1126 the Apulians would subjugate mainland Mauretania and meet up with the Iberians who were held down by Ali ibn Yusuf "مأساة" or "The Tragic". They would corner Ali in the Battle of Cordoba where he would be thrown from his horse and drowned in the Guadalquivir river.

In the Immediate aftermath the Crusaders would sit down to the Treaty of Cordoba, where the lands would be divided between four crusader kingdoms, and settled with both Apulian's and Castilians. Although they were each 'independent' kingdoms they were often ruled by puppet dynasties, such as Mauretania being aligned with Castile, with Sabulo and Carthago aligning with Apulia. Constantine would often swap hands, but largely sided with Castile.

The Crusade would be the hammer on the North African Butrs, many being banished to the dry sands. Some of course would stay, converting and assimilating to the Mauretanian and Carthagian Cultures but most would flee.
 

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