And here's the next part of the world in 1896: Libya and the Middle East
Let’s start with the elephant in the room: the Terzi Dynasty. Over the past twenty years, the Terzi Dynasty has been significantly reduced. The official name for the Terzi Dynasty is the Turkish Empire, although with the Arabs of the Empire pushing for autonomy that name will change in a few years. In Libya, Turkish generals who supported Aslan over Terzi have attempted rebellions – some more successful than others. The eventual result was the collapse of Turkish rule in Libya.
This in turn has triggered the Scramble for Libya – European countries, specifically the Italies and France, have colonized parts of Libya: Venice has annexed Cyrenaica, the Two Scillies have annexed Tripolitania, France has annexed Tunisia and claims parts of Algeria, while Savoy has annexed Algeria and claims Tunisia. Three independent states remain: the Kingdom of Fezzan, the Kingdom of Morocco, and the Sultanate of Egypt. While Egypt looks set to remain independent, Venice and the Scillies have a plan to divide up the Kingdom of Fezzan and there is speculation that Portugal will try to bring Morocco into its sphere of influence. After all, Mauritania – not technically part of Libya, but not part of the Guinea either – is a Portuguese colony, and the Kingdom of Gibraltar is already under Portuguese control.
The Sultanate of Egypt has the largest population, economy, military, and land area of the Libyan states, and that largely comes from its control of the Nile river. While Transnilotic Egypt is a sparsely populated desert that, for the time being, the Egyptian government sees little value in, the Sinai Peninsula is far more valuable. The downside here is that while Egypt considers the peninsula to already be theirs, the Terzi Dynasty still considers the Sinai its own.
The Arabian Peninsula is slowly being unified: the Sultanate of Riyadh controls a large but sparsely populated area; the Emirate of Khafji has been consolidating the Arab lands north of the Sultanate of Riyadh and is planning to annex the Emirate of Amman next; and the other independent Arab states are the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the Kingdom of Yemen, the Kingdom of Hejaz, and the Sultanate of Oman. The British Republic has set up the Presidency of Hadhramaut on the coast, while much of the north is still part of the Terzi Dynasty – with the exception of the Sultanate of Baghdad, which is instead a Persian satellite state.
Further north, several nations have achieved de facto independence from the Terzi Dynasty but are still officially part of the empire: the Lebanon, Alawa, Armenia, the Pontic Republic, Assyria, and Kurdistan, are all essentially independent. The Armenian Republic controls the two Armenia-majority areas of the Turkish Empire but also wants a corridor of land to actually connect the two areas to each other – right now, just existing is a logistical nightmare. The Pontic Republic – officially the Hellenic Republic of the Pontic Sea – also claims more land than it has, specifically the area around the Bosporous.
Further east, the Persian Empire has been expanding, gaining both territory and satellites. Their current concern is Russia, which already borders Persia in the Caucasus and has been slowly expanding its empire in the rest of Asia. In response, Persia has been expanding into Central Asia and either annexing the countries there or bringing them into its sphere of influence, although in the case of the Khanate of Khiva it looks like it will be divided between Russia and Persia. With the Dutch showing little interest in expanding their colonies in India, Persia’s not too worried about threats east of the Indus Valley at the moment, and to avoid a costly war has allowed Portugal to take part of Sindh for themselves. However, Persia has still made most of the Indus Valley’s states into its satellites and has plans to annex them.
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That's about it for now. I'm starting university soon so I'll be busy for a while