AH Challenge: Europe, 1912

[Snowman23]

Make this map the map of Europe in 1912. I know this in POD after 1900, but feel free to use whatever one you want.

Now, GO!



Note-I didn't have the patience to pan out the Middle-East/Central Asia exactly so feel free to do whatever there.

[M79]

OK, so the POD is 1830 and instead of letting Belgium go free the Dutch decide to keep the place. In response large parts of the country strike but to no avail, they succeed in 1848 when all heck breaks loose and Franconia decides to join France. The same year, Austria-Hungary collapses while renewed nationalism within the Ottoman Empire begins a ten-year war of rebellion which causes attrition and desertion in their ranks. Greece, independent from 1830, pounces on the opportunity and with Egypt dismembers much of the Ottoman realm. Venice goes its own way and never joins the Italy assembled by Garibaldi from the South, the Genoese likewise stay independent and the Po River Confederation along with the Republic of Pisa stay out of the international limelight. Scotland experiences terrible violence after the 1848 rebellions spread to Edinburgh and Glascow following an increase in old mill closures. The death of one of the mill workers results in the movement to America and eventual rise of noted international industrialist Andrew Carnegie, whose wealth was used to quietly secure independence of Scotland from the British crown in 1895 via referendum (some say he simply bought the land from Queen Victoria and then refused the crown, others say their rumored secret deal involves a clause for what should happen if war comes between the UK and US, the rumore only get worse from there). The House of Hohenzollern marries into the House of Orange just before the Franco-Prussian war sees the unification of the German Empire in 1870 with Luxembourg being wrangled as a dowry with a hefty price - without a land connection it would be difficult for the Netherlands to defend. Germany then allies with Japan in 1895 to secure international alliances, the war in 1905 sees Germany taking Poland while Japan takes Sakhalin Island and the Amur River Valley. About the same time the dying corpse of the Ottoman Empire falls apart as the "Young Turks" attempt a takeover but only manage to irritate Armenia, Kurdistan, and Iraq into secession while Bulgaria and Albania declare independence simultaneously. Venice seizes the Suez Canal from the Egyptian oners while that country is in internal turmoil and the Italians sieze Palestine and Tunisia.