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My first complete map after fooling around with paint.net, using base maps from historicalmapchart.net site. I think I really need to improve my border making skill, especially A-H and B-H's ones
. This TL is not very realistic, mostly for fun.
The POD is set in 1830 when Talleyrand's plan of Belgian partition was realized. The Netherlands kept Flanders, Prussia got the whole Grand Luxembourg. France, on the other hand, annexed Wallonia while having to cede Dunkirk & French Flanders to Amsterdam and Thionville to Luxembourg. The industrial power of Wallonia made France stronger and more influential in the coming decades. Being more overconfident than in OTL, Napoleon III and the Third Republic meddled in a lot of affairs, which led to the establishment of the Confederate States of America, a short-lived Republic of Ezo (being invaded and annexed by Japan during the Franco-Prussian War), a Maximilian-led humiliated Austria-Hungary yearning for reform and above all, a Britain which was more hostile to France after the Fashoda Incident.
The year is 1917, at the start of the Great War. The Entente included: France, Russia, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and the Union (late entry) while the Central Powers included: Germany, Austria, Sweden-Norway, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Ottoman, Japan and Britain (late entry). Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Greece and the Confederacy remained neutral.