Create a Country

My first 2 create a country threads had a lot of posts so lets hope this one will too! I have changed it a little bit I want to see timelines of countries from beggining or Independence to the present 2004 or end of the country by invasion from an other country or something else like makining them a rump state. Include military expeditions or wars, political occurreneces, economic factors, and foreign affairs. Some examples are Nazi Germany 1942-2004 or Roman Empire lasting to the 20th century, or Confederacy 1862-2004.
 

Xen

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I'll give this a whirl. My country is the Byzantine Empire not only surviving but being stronger.

The Byzantine Empire or the Eastern Roman Empire had a life span from 395 AD to 1918 AD, existing for a little over 1500 years, the successor to the Roman Empire accomplished many things in its history. What is not commonly known is how close the Byzantine Empire came to falling, as corruption grew in Constantinople, so to did the Empire's enemies, the Empire's savior arose from the ghettos of Constantinople. Little is known of Theodore's early life, but it is known he was conceived in a horrible fashion. His mother was the youngest daughter of a poor street merchant in Constantinople, when she was 14 she was brutally raped by a group of soldiers, thus beginning the life of the Empire's greatest leader. At the young age of 17, Theodore quickly rose through the ranks of the army fighting the barbarians to the north, by the time he was 20 Theodore was the chief commander of all the Empires armies.

During the Fourth Crusade, Theodore had led the Byzantine armies into Egypt to reconquer the ancient land from the Muslims. He again proved his military genious again and again, with several victories over the Arabs. As his armies moved down the nile and further away from their supply lines, the casualties began to mount, and victories were more difficult to obtain. The Egyptians were mistrustful of the victorious Byzantines, Theodore assured the Egyptians he wasn't fighting to return them to Constantinople, instead he fought for Christianity. To assure victory Theodore called for help from the Christians of Europe who betrayed the Byzantines in 1204 by sacking Constantinople. Upon hearing of this outrage, Theodore appointed his most trusted commander, his brother Frederick to continue the fight in Egypt. Taking only the elite of his armies, Theodore left Egypt for Constantinople.

Theodore led the liberation of Constantinople in a brilliant campaign that took the Crusading Armies off guard and sent them fleeing out of the city. With the battle's end, Theodore proclaimed himself Emperor. Unfortunatley tragedy would soon follow, his brother Frederick was killed in a battle in Egypt. The new Emperor departed Constantinople to Egypt where he buried his brother and took his revenge on the Muslims in what became known as the Bloody Nile Campaign. The few surviving Muslims were sent back to Europe, the men were sold into slavery for hard labor, the women were sold into slavery as well, but as sexual toys for the Empires elite. Those Muslims who agreed to convert to Christianity would remain free, but second class citizens of Egypt.

Theodore left Egypt in 1206, keeping his word by crowning his sister, whom he adored as the Queen of Egypt. In truth Egypt was a puppet of the Byzantine Empire as the young Queen constantly submitted to her brothers will. Upon returning to the capital, Theodore swore that the Empire would never again join in the Crusades, and warned to keep the rest of Europe at an Arms length. Theodore's long reign ended in 1267, but his dynasty would be one of the most glorious in Europe.

The Byzantine's biggest challenge would come from the Ottoman Turks and the Mongols in the 1400's, both invaded Byzantine lands and had the Empire on its knees. The teenage Byzantine Emperor married the second of three daughters of the King of Egypt, a distant cousin. Egypt sent aid, along with its southern neighbor Ethiopia, the combined armies were able to drive the Mongols and Ottomans out of Byzantine Europe.

Though the Byzantine Empire had remained at arms distance away from Europe, King Julian realized if his Empire was to flourish he needed to trade with its European and Ottoman neighbors. Julian sent his sons across Europes as his ambassadors to open up trade, little did he know that his second oldest sons travels to England would become a legend, and one of the great romances of history. The reign of Henry VIII was a bloody time in England and a time of great religious turmoil. Prince Mark arrived in the heat of it all and met the young Queen Anne Boleyn. During his stay in London, Mark and Anne began a love affair, resulting in the birth of Princess Elizabeth (same name different woman). When Henry tried to have her executed Mark stepped up on her behalf, even threatening war, this Henry could not afford. Problems with the Catholic church came to a head when the pope refused to grant a divorce. Prince Mark negotiated with Henry which led to Henry's conversion to Eastern Orthodox, and his marriage to Mark's older sister Theodora. After Henry's marriage to Theodora, Mark married Anne Boleyn. He remained in London until his sister gave birth to Henry's child also called Henry. Prince Henry would be the first of four sons she gave the King. Mark and Anne left England in 1538, their romance was wrotten into legend by William Shakespear in the story of A Visitor from the East. Anne and Marks first child, Elizabeth married Ivan the Terrible while still a teen.

The Byzantine Empire attempted to keep a colony in the New World around modern day Texas. Disease, constant Indian attacks, and poor financial backing caused the colony to fail, and the Byzantines never again attempted to colonize the new world.

The Byzantines allied with Russia against the Ottomans in 1711 and the Swedes in 1715. The temporary alliance led to Russia's position as a power in the black sea, but failed at the Empire's goal of taking control of Armenia and Georgia. The last hoorah for the Byzantine Empire came during the Napoleanic Wars, afterwards the Empire began to become divided, with the Ottomans helping Greece establish independence in 1826. Shortly there after other nationalities rose against Constantinople with Albania being granted independence in 1866, and Serbia in 1877. The Byzantine Empire now encompassed modern day Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova as well as Thrace.

An alliance with Germany was formed in 1896 and renewed in 1912, unfortunatly Europe would explode into World War in 1914 and result in a loss for Germany and its allies in 1917. Bulgaria was granted independence by the Treaty of Paris and the old Byzantine Empire succumbed becoming the Republic of Romania. (the borders consist of Moldova, Romania, eastern Bulgaria and Thrace). Since World War I the successor of the Byzantine Empire has yet to find the same level of success. The Republic was over run by the Nazis in 1940 with Constantinople being plundered and visited by Adolf Hitler in 1941. It was "liberated" by the Soviets in 1945 and a Communist government installed. Constantinople was seceded to the USSR as Constantinople SSR in 1946 and the capital shifted to Bucharest. With the collapse of the USSR in 1992, Constantinople became part of Romania, and served as capital again in 1993 to present. The Republic of Romania joined the EU in 1999, and NATO in 2001.
 
That was a very good timeline! What did the Byzantine Empire do during the American Civil War? Did they support the Confederacy or the Union?
 

Xen

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ConfederateFly said:
That was a very good timeline! What did the Byzantine Empire do during the American Civil War? Did they support the Confederacy or the Union?


Thanks. I havent thought about who they'd support in the American Civil War. Looking at who in Europe supported who in the war, its most likely they would have favored the Union. Western Europe tended to favor the south while Eastern Europe favored the north, so going by that I'd say the Union would have a friend in Constantinople.

This will lead to a second timeline and is part of my Write Your Own History, that I am working on.
 
Confederate States of America(1862-2004)

The C.S.A wins Independence after France reconizes them when they agree not to interfer with Maximillian. In 1867 France starts to pull troops out of the Empire of Mexico so the Confederates start to prop up Maximillian. This starts a long frienship. 1869 The Confederacy, Empire of Mexico, and Empire of Brazil form an alliance and the Confederacy recieves the Northern Mexican provinces of Baja California, Sonora, Chiuhuhua, Tampulias, Nuevo Leon, and Coahulias. The Confederacy starts a war with Spain over Cuba and Puerto Rico. The Confederates have a motley looking navy and army but still defeat Spain. At the Berlin Conference the confederates get an african colony to continue the slave trade. 1893 Confederate-Nicraguian War When Confederates help the pro-confederate Nicragugua to defeat Nicraguguian rebels, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. After France, Britain, and Mexico condem the Confederate slavery they turn to Germany. WW 1 The alliance of the Confederacy, Germany, Empire of Brazil, Turkey, and Austria. The Confederacy and its allies lose in 1918 after the U.S. entered. The Confederates and Germany aren't allowed a Navy, Air Force, tanks, or artillery and their Army is extremely downsized, also teh Confederacy and Brazil have to Gradually emancipate in the next 25 years. During the calm years of 1919-1939 Rise of Hitler and both Germany secretly help each other build up their Militaries. election of Strom Thurmond in 1939 and the pact of Nazi Germany, the Confederacy, and Japan. The Confederacy battles hard but is ultimly defeated in 1944 nad Slavery completly eliminated. The Confeeracy joins the U.N. in 1949 and they develop a strange relationship with the Soviet Union and join the Warsaw Pact in 1951. They send covert aid of weapons and Rangers to North Korea. 1967 start sending covert aid of weapons and Special forces to train North Vietamese and Viet Cong troops. In 1991 The U.S. and teh C.S.A. join forces in fighting Iraq. The Confederacy joins NATO in 1993. Send troops to Somalia to help the U.S. peacekeepers. Also sends troops to Bosnia and Herzgovinia in 1997. One of the Confederate pilots are downed and then Rescued and the movie Behind Enemy Lines is made. September 11, 2001 Bombings by Planes on The WTC in the U.S. and the Pentagon in the Confederacy sparks the War on Terror. The U.S. sends 15,000 troops to Afghanistan and the Confederacy sends 11,000. In 2003 the U.S., England, and C.S.A. send troops to Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein. The C.S.A. sends 75,000 troops to Iraq and 50 ships to the Gulf. The C.S.A. takes Um Qusar and Basara. Also help in Mosul and Tirkrit. The Big thing of the year A Confederate Task Force finds Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in a Cave South of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Saddam and Osama are both ragged with long beards and Osama is close to dying because of complications with his Kindney Disease. But Confederate Doctors have him in stable condition.
 
Good TL's so far. ConfedFly, I like the fact that the CSA and the USA actually became allies, instead of hating each other for all time. However, I'm a bit surprised they allied with the USSR. I guess that's why you called it strange....
 

Straha

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just wait till my TL gets posted and we see how Japan-USA cold war politics get dicey with the japs supporting confederate conservatives
 
Thats what I was thinking of putting in my Confederate History just diff. time w/ the Confederacy supporting the old Emperor and the samurai in 1877 after they are pushed out power. They would help with weapons, volunteers and the confederate trade companies(like the British East India Company) at the Japenese ports helping with volunteers. And even going as far making a Confederate Foreign Legion.
 

Straha

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umm.. thats not whats happening in my TL.. I'm gonig to have the USA,weimar gemrany,imperial japan and britain agaisnt communist italy,communist turkey and trostky's USSR.
 
ConfederateFly said:
Thats what I was thinking of putting in my Confederate History just diff. time w/ the Confederacy supporting the old Emperor and the samurai in 1877 after they are pushed out power. They would help with weapons, volunteers and the confederate trade companies(like the British East India Company) at the Japenese ports helping with volunteers. And even going as far making a Confederate Foreign Legion.

Okay, why not do a lot of research before you post.

1. There is no "old Emperor" in 1877. The Emperor and the samurai (or at least most of them) are two seperate entities. Don't rely on "Last Samurai" for any information besides there was a country called Japan.

2. A Confederate Foreign Legion would be made of up foreigners wanting to fight for the Confederates.

3. What your describing is nothing like the East India Company. Its more like the Kramer Company from "For the Want of a Nail".
 
Virginia

The Peoples' Empire of Virginia might never have existed if the Federalist Party had been successful in thier deciet in trying to get the abomination known as the American Constitution ratified. The brave and patriotic People of Rhode Island were the only Imperial American subjects willing to stand up to the tyrranical designs of foreign merchant bankers and refuse to submit to an American Crown disguised as representative government.

The first First Secretary of our Glorious Republic, Mister Thomas Jefferson, perhaps said it best when commenting upon the bravery of the Rhode Island martyrs:

In all the Creator's glory did He deem the People of Virginia worthy of the sacrifice of those who were willing to die where they stood, our stalwart friends and compatriots in Rhode Island and on the Providence Plantations, when the mercenary armies of those vipers and snails who wrap themselves in the very skins of the People while counting thier notes did sentence them to trial by lead and death by blood for thier insolence.

Today Virginia bestrides the planet like a colossus. The poor and illiterate indigenous peoples of our colonies in the exotic lands of Oceana and Africa join hands in thanksgiving every morning--as prescribed by law--to the People of Virginia. Our semiliterate subjects in our lands to the south, formerly ruled by the Crowns of Spain and Portugal agitate openly to be granted citizenship in our Great State and fall over themselves in thier efforts to please us.

We Virginians effectively rule half the world (more than half if one counts the radiologically contaminated lands of the former nations of Europe--but those areas won't be usable for another hundred years or so). Were it not for the actions of those Rhode Island Martyrs, our boundaries might not stretch further than the Appalachians, and our People would be subjects of an evil cabal of moneylenders rather than rulers of all we desire. Even the mighty Ethiopian Empire dares not challenge our claims in Yemen for fear of swift Verginain reprisal.

Glory to the Eternal Beacon of Liberty, Virginia.
 

Xen

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A continuation of my previous post:

The Ethiopian Empire

Africa's most influential Empire reached its pennicle in the Midieval Age after most of Europe's great Empires had already come to an end. Ethiopia shared close relations with the Byzantine Empire and with Coptic Christian Egypt.

After visiting Egypt and the Byzantine Empire, King Mengistu became inspired to create his own African based Empire equal to that of his Christian allies. By his death in 1381, Mengistu saw his empire claim dominance over the Red Sea by conquering Somalia and begin its expansion westward. Mengistu's son continued his father's dream seeing his Empire expand to the Gulf of Guinea. He is often credited with the term, One Land, One Religion, One Language, One Nation.

The Ethiopian Empire reached its height in the mid 1500's as it expanded from the Red Sea to Dakar in the west and as far south as (OTL) Angola. The Portugese arrived finding a flourishing Empire that expanded across most of the continent. In the south the Ethiopians faced a dangerous enemy in the Zulu who raided the southern provinces, and other enemies came from the east when the Ottoman Empire conquered Somalia in 1543. Portugal forced Ethiopia to cede its Northwestern Territory in 1589 and allied with the Zulu selling them weapons in their war against the Ethiopians. Portugese missionaries began converting the Zulu population to Catholicism, converting the King in 1607 making Catholicism the official religion of the Zulu.

Ethiopia's capital was sacked by the Ottomans from Somalia in 1645, and though it was recaptured the following year it marked the end of the Ethiopian Empire. In the following years divisions between the provinces came to a head and one after another left the Empire. By 1700, Ethiopia now made up a small but powerful nation along the Red Sea. Subsequent wars with the Ottomans lasted until 1754 when the Somali's cast their Ottoman overlords out.

Though the Ethiopian Empire was short lived it accomplished much, unfortunatley it was responsible for many genocides for those unwilling to submit to the Emperor or the Church. Its greatest legacy was leaving behind well developed nations, though still a few centuries behind western Europe much more advanced than before they had been part of the Empire.

After 200 years of Portugese rule, Niger (NW Africa) inspired by the American and French Revolutions declared independence becoming the first African Republic. Wisely Niger voted to remain neutral in the Napoleanic Wars.

The former Ethiopian provinces began to flourish during the Industrial Age, but was way behind Europe and the United States. During the last half of the nineteenth century many Africans began to immigrate to the America's. Instantly they became second class citizens in the countries they arrived (not too unlike the Chinese and Irish).

Neutrality kept Ethiopia and its former Empire out of World War I and World War II, however the Cold War would divide the continent. Niger, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Guinea allied with the United States, while Somalia, Mozambique and Congo allied with the Soviet Union, as did their former enemies KwaZulu. Like in Europe the communist nations eventually collapsed, Somalia left the Soviet sphere after it invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Communist regime collapsed in 1983. Congo and Mozambique's communist governments collapsed after the USSR in 1992, leaving only KwaZulu as the last Communist nation in Africa. The KwaZulu military seized control of the government in 1997 and has come under pressure by the EU, and US to give power to the people.

At a meeting in Narobi in 1996 the African Community was formed consisting of all African nations except KwaZulu. Inspired by the success of the Euro, the African Community is making plans to launch its currency, the Afro (not to be confused with the hair style) in 2007.
 
Soviet Socialist Republic of Persia

Soviet Socialist Republic of Persia

In early stages of World War 2, Persia (Iran) came under a government that sympathetic to the German Nazis, and the Soviets invaded in 1941. The Soviets held onto most of northern Persia through the whole war. After the war, realizing that the Soviets needed another Asian ally, they created the Soviet Socialist Republic of Persia.

In 1949, Persia joined the UN, and during the Korean War, gave supplies to the North Koreans. Southern Persia, or the Republic of Iran gave supplies to South Korea.

1955 saw the Persian War. The Persians invaded Iran early in June 3rd, and pushed through half of Iran in two months. Immeditaley, the UN began to send military forces to Iran to help her along. The war ended in 1959, with no territorial changes.

During most of the Cold War, the Persians remained quiet. In 1979 when the Russians invaded Afganistan, so did Persia. The Second Persia War was sparked off. This war was short and sweat, and saw that Persia's Army could not help the Russians.

1989 saw the Berlin Wall come down, and the collapse of Communisim. Months after the Soviet Union collapsed, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Persia too collapsed. Iran invaded, and set up a pro-western government. But that did not last long.

In 1994, the Iatolha (spelling, or whatever the OTL rulers of Iran are) came to power in Persia. The new Islamic Republic of Persia became the home to Osama bin Laden in 2001, and Saddam Huessein in 2003.

In mid-2004, American and Iranian special-ops took control of a small mountain, and found Osama bin Laden and Saddam Huessein together. Ossama was charged with over 3,000 counts of murders in New York, and was sentenced to death. Saddam was shipped to the Hague, were he currently sits waiting for his trial to start.
 
Republic of Lithuania (1918 - 2004)

After the Great War, many new democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe were crushed by fascist, nationalist or communist uprisings and revolutions. In some countries, for example Germany (in 1933), these were defeated by the semi-defunct Entente powers of France and Britain. In others, like Poland and Lithuania, they remained.
The slight power balance in Europe was destroyed when the Soviet Union invaded Finland in 1940. Although a nationalist government by itself, the Finns received aid from democracies like Sweden, Norway and even Great Britain. Some other smaller countries, as Lithuania and Estonia, sent help too, and together they managed to defeat the Soviets in what was later known as the Second Northern War.
This war, which lasted from 1940 to 1942, was a good precedent to create the Baltic Entente between Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. This union, alliance, supported by UK and to a lesser extent, France and Germany, soon became a strong international force and, what is more important, made the authortarian member nations to gradually reduce the political pressures in their internal policies. Lithuania became a multipartial democracy after the death of Antanas Smetona in 1961, Finland became one three years earlier, together with Estonia.
Also, this alliance soon grew to an international military, economical and political union, whose joint research programs were leading in the world in many areas - like social sciences (especially women rights), aeronautics (first faster-than-sound airplane), cosmic exploration (first manned space station, second moon landing after USA, first Jupiter probe, international space station with European Union - France, UK, Germany and Spain) and so on.
The political developments of the union and its member countries were varying. The plebiscite in Danzig and Vilnius in 1964 showed a major support for the areas to return to their former owners (Germany and Lithuania, respectively), but Poland denied these results. This caused the Twenty Days War, which ended when a popular revolution overthrew the government in Poland. Poland retained a small coastline with the port city of Gdynia, but Danzig region was ceded to Germany, as well as Vilnius and Suvalkai, which were granted to Lithuania. On the other hand, Poland soon became a member of the Baltic Entente, which helped the country much more than what the war took from it. Another conflict was with Latvia, whose military dictatorship clung to its position with any means possible. When international human rights experts noted such things, Latvia was invaded, the regime overthrown and the country partitioned between Lithuania and Estonia.
When the USSR collapsed in 1989, the new Republics of Pskov, Belarus and Karelia were invited to join the BE and accepted the same year.
Since then, the Entente retained good relations with the EU, and participated in many international operations (as the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and the Saudi Arabian anti-terrorist operation in 2000, as well as peacekeeping operations throughout former USSR, also border conflicts between various African states). The economical and political borders continued to loosen as well, and by 2001 BE had its joint constitution, and by 2003 a joint Parliament and Chamber of Ministers. A complete union of all the member nations into one large federation is planned in 2008.
Lithuania has one of the strongest positions among the BE members. Their technological strength is unequaled (Vilnius' King Mindaugas Physics Institute was where the atomic bomb was designed in 1969, and the largest nuclear power plant in the world stands in Ignalina). Their economical might is only second to Sweden in BE, and fourth (after UK, Sweden and USA) in the world. Military power in constantly being reduced, but the worldwide famous Lithuanian anti-terrorist team 'ARAS' is teaching special agents from throughout the world. The territory of Lithuania includes OTL, plus northwestern Belarus, northeastern Poland and southern half of Latvia.
 
I repost this little masterpiece of mine :D

The Federal Empire of Lutherania

The origins of the Federal Empire of Lutherania trace back, obviously, to the Protestant Reform of Martin Luther.
The first idea of a common front of the Protestant states of northern Germany can be found in the written of Melantonius in 1547, after the battle of Muhlhausen in which Charles V won over the Protestant league. But realpolitik prevailed after the Augusta accords of 1552 and every Protestant power kept on just like before. The real shock which led to the creation of the Empire was the horrendous Fifty Years' War who devastated great part of Europe between 1618 and 1668. The Danish intervention in defence of the Protestant states of Germany in 1621 was completely defeated by 1627. Then the Swedish king Gustav Adolf invaded Germany in 1631, and was killed the following year at the battle of Lutzen. By 1638 even the Swedes had to get back home. When the Catholic cause seemed on the way to prevail, the unexpected French intervention in 1639 caused the collapse of the Hapsburg power in the Flanders after the battle of Rocroi (1643). This gave courage to the Protestant states of Germany and Scandinavia, which united to form the Lutheran League at Wittenberg in 1645. The united armies of Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, Brandeburg, Oldenburg and the former Hanseatic cities managed to push back the Austro-Bavarians at the battles of Erfurt (1646) and Leipzig (1647) and conquered Prague in 1648. The following year they failed in the siege of Vienna but managed to link up with the Transylvanian Calvinist rebels led by Bethlen Gabor, with its Hungarian Protestant allied. The devastations of war now ravaged across Austria, Bohemia, Slovakia, Hungary and Transylvania, ruining them for a century to come, as the Turks tried in vain to exploit the chaos to expand further north. They only managed to be fought off by the Protestants at Pressburg (1650) and by the Hapsburgs on the Mura (1652).
In 1650 Europe was in complete chaos. Civil war ravaged Spain in Catalonia and Portugal, had finished a year before in England and was beginning in France (1651-1653). The Protestant League had the upper hand but in 1652, when all parts wher on the verge of signing a peace by exhaustion, the sudden attack of Poland on the Protestant League reopened the war. The Poles conquered Prague and Bohemia cutting out much of the Protestant forces. The ensuing battle of Budweis was a slaughter in which a Protestant army of 80,000 thousand was exterminated by a joint attack of Poles from the north and Austro-Papists from the south (the Pope had joined his troops after the Poles attacked). When a Hapsburg army under Montecuccoli defeated again the Protestant League at Wurzburg in 1653 the Catholic were able to advance and fiercely pillage what remained to sack in the Low Saxony, whereas the Poles were stopped by Prussian and Swedes at Stargard. Called for help, Russia attacked the Poles at east in 1655. This, together with a major Cossack revolt in Ukraine under Taras Bulba, effectively put an end to the Pole menace. In the same year 1655 Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sent an army of 30,000 on the continent after settling out his quarrel with the Dutch (who savvily kept out of the war after the fall of the Spanish Flanders). This, together with a great rentrèe of the French army across the Rhine and renewed rebellions in Hungary and Transylvania, equilibrated the situation. Meantime the Savoyard king had ridden of the French influence and enetered the war on the Hapsburg-Catholic side, the Swiss knew their second civil war (1655-1659) making their country a battlefield between Hapsburgs and Bourbons. The English general Monk led the Protestant to the victory of Munster that forever chased the Catholics from the north of Germany, but with the death of Cromwell the English army was retired. At this point Prussia-Brandenburg and Sweden resolutely agreed to better unite forces, which was made through a dynastical marriage between Queen Christine of Sweden and Prince Frederick William the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia (1659). The war dragged on harshly for some years, but after being defeated at Germersheim (1661) by the French, the Austrians were too much concerned with the Ottoman increasing strength to effectively continue the war. After years of debates and skirmishes it arrived to the Peace of the Palatinate (1668) which confirmed the "cuius regio, eius religio" principle. France annexed Savoy, Alsace, Lorraine and parts of the Palatinate, Prussia took Silesia and Pomerania, the former Catholic Munster was awarded to the Hannoverians, Hesse was finally recognized a Protestant state. The Austrians kept Bohemia and in the aftermath managed to crush the Magyar Calvinist revolts while keeping the Turks at bay. Switzerland's neutrality was officially recognized.
In the following years a weakened Denmark had the bad idea to make war on Sweden-Prussia on the issue of Lund. It was overrun with the conquest of Copenhagen by an assault across the frozen sea (1676) and obliged to signed a pact of vassalage towards the Swede-Prussian union. When in 1688 the Palatinate war broke out because of the French attitude towards southern Germany, the Protestant power initially stayed neutral, then enterd the war to protect Hannover in 1692. The bright victory of Kleve (1694) assured a reasonable peace treaty in Rijswijk three years later, by which Oldenburg, Hannover and the free cities along the North Sea and the Baltic all entered the Foedus Lutheranum signed in 1698 in Copenhagen. In 1701 Frederick I von Hohenzollern-Vasa was crowned King of Prussia, thus giving equal dignity to the two parts of his reign.
The Prussian-Swedish army became soon the most modern of Europe. Its skill and organization made it a terrifying instrument of war. It proved its valor during the long and bloody war with Peter the Great's Russia, the Great North War (1701-1711). General Karl Wagner von Jakobstadt defeated Saxony obliging it to enter the Foedus Lutheranum (1702), literally conquered all of Poland (1704) and entered the Ukraine. Despite the defeat of Poltava (1709), the final agreement of peace signed at Wilno in 1711 was favourable. The Russians gained Estonia and Ingermanland with their new capital town of St. Petersburg and ripped much of Byelorussia and Ukraine off Poland, who was to give the Prusso-Swedes Livonia and Danzig.
From the 1720s on the new empire searched for an identity. It assumed informally the name of Lutherania (first mention of this use in 1729) and expanded its navy establishing trading posts and colonies in Greenland, the Caribbeans (Virgin Islands), Suriname (taken to the Dutch in 1728), Gulf of Guinea (colonies of Fredericia, Nova Gothia and Benin) and Australia (colony of Fredericia Australis, 1740).
During the Austrian War of Succession Lutherania ripped Bohemia to Austria in 1742. It payed this very dearly. When it enterd in 1756 the Seven Years' War on the side of Britain it underwent the simultaneous attacks of Austrains, French, Poles and Russians. Only the extraordinary skill of its generals saved its southern part from being completely overrun. Stunning victories against the French at Leuthen and Rossabach marked the first two years of war, then the Russians invaded Prussia, setting Koenigsberg ablaze and conquering Berlin in 1762. When the war seemed lost, the Tsarine Elizaveta died, and his weak heir Peter, a fond admirer of Lutherania, exited the war in change of Livonia and another sizable chunk of the decrepit Polish kingdom. The final peace at Amsterdam (1763) regave Bohemia back to Austria, and that was all. The following years were marked by a growing critics of absolutism and a rise in science, technology and culture. These were the years of Frederick II the Bold. A new capital was built after 1765 at Fredericia, in the south of Sweden. German was the official language of Lutherania, but Swedish was also used and French was the language of the much-refined court.
The French revolutionary wars saw Lutherania opposing France after 1792. The first war raged till 1798 when the peace treaty of Strasbourg recognized the Batavian Republic and the French supremacy on southwestern Germany. When Napoleon dissolved the Holy Roman Germanic Empire in 1806 Frederick William III assumed the title of Emperor of Lutherania. The war broke out that same year, and the Lutheranian army was destroyed at the battle of Jena, after what all of Germany remained in French hands except Prussia proper, Denmark went her way and the Empire was humiliated. Its revenge came in 1813, after Napoleon's disaster in Russia. In the battle of Lipsia an Austro-Lutheran joint army thoroughly defeated Napoleon's last Armèe, then the following year, despite many tactical setbacks, Lutheranian troops entered first Paris. In 1815, then Feldmarschall Blucher destryed Napoleon at Namur without even the need of help by the English army of Wellington. The Congress of Vienna was a triumph for the Empire. It had to give Russia all of Carelia, but it was a long-due accord. For the rest, it retook all of its territories and all vassal countries not only reaffirmed obedience, but entered a federal union with the Empire which was to be progressively strengthened into a single, more powerful state. After the 1848 revolutions Lutherania too had its Constitution and slowly democratized, though a real constitutional monarchy was born only in 1867. Full male right of vote was given in 1896; women followed in 1916. In 1866 Lutherania lost a brief war with Austria re the control of southern Germany. General Benedek defeated Von Moltke's army at Pilsen and Lutherania recognized the Austrian sovereignity on the region, which was quickly incorporated in the new powerful Hapsburg Empire. In the following years, the British hostility obliged Lutherania to ally with Austria.
The scientific contribute of Lutherania to the world was astounding, in chemicals and engineering Lutherania was the best in the world, art and phyloslophy were thriving. It was the era of progress. In 1897 a Lutheranian engineer, August Karl Sonnenfels, built and piloted the first fragile motor airplane.
The First World War broke out in 1912 between the Franco-British-Russian Entente and the Pressburg League of Lutherania and Austria. In the end, in 1915, Russia had crumbled in pieces, France had to beg for peace and Britain agreed to the peace of Lausanne. The independent kingdoms of Poland and Italy were created, respectively vassal to Lutherania and Austria. Lutherania controlled the baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia too. In the 1920s the reunification of Russia by the fanatic United Motherland movement posed the pillars of the Second World war (1940-1946), which saw Russian and French forces overrun all of Central Europe and the Japanese rush across the Pacific. The Us-British-Lutheranian developed A-bomb solved the war after the destruction of St. Petersburg and Moscow. The Lutheranians had their part in in occupied Russia and annexed Carelia and the Kola peninsula.
Nowadays Lutherania is a stable and rich First World democracy, with a permanent seat in the UN, under His Imperial Highness Olaf I von Hohenzollern-Vasa and Prime Minister Hans von Pedersen, of the Lutheran Zentrum Party.
Its constituent states are the kingdoms of Sweden, Prussia, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Saxony, Hannover and the principalities of Oldenburg and Hessen plus the free cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Lubbeck, Stettin and Danzig. Its borders are west with Netherlands, south with the Hapsburg Empire, east with Poland, Lithuania and Russia. It controls Greenland and West-Australia as associated members of the empire for a complex of 75 M population. Lutheranian military have bases in Russia, Siberia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, France and Benin, besides all of the territories of the empire and associated members.
 
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