ottoman screw

What if The American Revolution never Happened has been done many times but not in this way. this was Inspired by Taiwan

In the late 18th Century, there was a plan drawn up by Catherine the Great, negotiated with the Habsburg Monarchy. The plan was called the Greek Plan and was an idea for a partition of the Ottoman Empire, and create a Neo-Byzantine Empire with Catherine's grandson, Constatine on the throne...

In the early 19th Century, the Ottoman Empire attempted an effort to modernize their nation, which coincided to their decline. It could be split into various parts: The first was the Nizam-i Cedid, during the reign of Selim III, who attempted to modernize the Ottoman Empire, especially the...

Like it says on the tin. At the height of his power, between 1833 and 1841, Muhammad Ali Pasha controlled a state made up of Egypt, Sudan, Syria and the Hejaz that was independent from its nominal Ottoman overlord in all but name. However, his empire was destroyed as a result of the Oriental...

The Battle of Samarra was the only defeat Nader-not-yet-Shah ever suffered in his entire career. Following Tahmasp II's disastrous offensive into the Caucasus in 1731, Nader sought to force the Ottomans to hand back the territories lost in that campaign by capturing Baghdad. Unfortunately for...

I've been looking into into what the Russian empire would want if they won world war 1 and would seek at the table. Note I imagine if they did still win they obviously would have many issues but it's best to assume in this case these are their maximalist goals that they would use first then...

Ali Bey al-Kabir was a mamluk who, after steadily accumulating power in Egypt in the 1760s, rebelled against the Ottoman Empire while it was busy fighting the ultimately disastrous (for Constantinople) Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774. Helped by the Russian navy, which destroyed a large Ottoman...

"It is easier to find men whom are willing to volunteer themselves unto death, than those whom are willing to endure pain with patience," - Gaius Julius Caesar -- No, your eyes do not deceive you. Yes, I have returned, and yes this is an entirely new thread with the same name as the previous...

"Let none say that God's Chosen People have not struggled; yet in His Wisdom, we endure through greatness held aloft by our Basileus," - Attributed to Mathew I Psenas, Patriarch of Constantinople, successor of George II, 1204. -- Hello everyone! I've had a timeline of this sort swirling around...

The Bulgarian Empire was a major force of southern and eastern europe, but fell into disarray and decline with the mongols and other invasions. It made recovery- albeit as a heavily decentralized state- in the 1300s... before being conquered by the ottomans in 1396. Your goal is simple: secure...

Hungary used to be a major power in eastern Europe, allied with the poles to keep the ottoman empire in check. But it eventually fell into decline (and the Hapsburgs) and was forced to play second fiddle to Austria. Your challenge is thusly, with a POD after 1371, when the ottomans effectively...