@Constantinople: Russia is very different, with too many differences to describe. One can say though, it's refreshingly un-despotic (even Czarist South Russia), responsible for diverse scientific progresses (most important: The telegraph, of course, then starting the Communication Revolution) and culturally quite a bit Chinese-influenced (before 1850 more than now, however).
I didn't think that much about the ethnic makeup of Greece; but we can assume that the Seljuks (including Seljukized Greeks) had to leave the country after its liberation.
Germany is republican since the French invaded end of 18th century, and it never changed back to monarchy.
The Ukraine is controlled by Rurikid South Russia since centuries ago.
At the moment, the two Russias happily co-exist. Radical republicans in Novorossiya and monarchists in South Russia exist, but are a minority that isn't taken seriously.
@pompejus: Thx. The map for Europe's already here; but now, you also get a map for the world, showing the growth of Germany (browns), Novorossiya (blues), New Rome (greens) and Canada (reds). (Note that there's no year for when Korea became Russian; it gradually became a Russian protectorate.)
And if you thought the TL was good until now, you haven't seen the best things yet... now that we're in the 20th century, I feel like having returned to my home turf...
But first a retcon: More Catastrophes for the TL
1707: 30,000 Nipponese killed by Tokaido-Nankaido tsunami.
1737: Calcutta cyclone.
1780: Great Hurricane of the Caribbean. More than 20,000 people die.
1782: Tsunami in the South China Sea kills ~40,000.
1792: Mt Unzen in Nippon erupts, killing several thousand people - the deadliest eruption in Nippon's history.
1824: Flood at the area of OTL Leningrad, kills many people in the cities there which I didn't work out.
1825: Flood around Hamburg. Water measured to be about five meters higher than usual.
1826: More than 20,000 killed in Nippon by Tsunami.
1839: Cyclone in Coringa, India. 300,000 dead.
1857: Earthquake in Southern California (OTL Fort Tejon), maybe the strongest earthquake of history in the region.
Another earthquake in Naples.
1864: Calcutta cyclone, 60,000 victims.
1868: Over 25,000 people killed in New Roman Chile by Tsunami.
1872: Earthquake in OTL Owens Valley.
1876, October 31st: Bakarganj Cyclone in India - more than 200,000 dead.
1881: Cyclone in Haiphong, Vietnam. 300,000 dead.
1883: Krakatoa explosion.
1886: Earthquake in OTL Charleston.
1887: Huang He flood. One million (possibly more) victims.
Other retcons:
1694: In the peace of Amsterdam, Prince-Haralds-Land (OTL Newfoundland) is ceded by Denmark-Braunschweig to England. (Forgot this to mention.)
1779: After their division of Vladimir-Suzdal, the two Russias make an "everlasting pact".
1859: Canadian president Jacob Andrews gives the remains of the British Pacific fleet a new home in Canada, thus gaining the core of a professional navy, which can even rival those of New Rome and Russia. *This also means Canada can successfully claim British islands in the Pacific - including New Caribbea (OTL New Guinea).*
1874: The German population of Argentinien has grown enough that the country gains self-government.
The anti-Russian War detailed:
(It can be generally said, since the coalition powers didn't have a united command, that New Rome and the Seljuks did the fighting against South Russia and its Orthodox Balkan allies, while everyone else fought mainly against Novorossiya.)
1848, July: The coalition of New Rome, the two Germanies, the Seljuks, Sweden and Canada declares war, invades Poland, Bohemia and Hungary.
1848, August: German-Swedish navies defeat Novorossiyan Baltic fleet.
At OTL Grand Tetons, the first of many battles between Germans and Russians in Atlantis happens.
1848, September: New Roman spies infiltrate the "empty quarter", i.e. the area between Rockies and Sierra Nevada, Snake river and Colorado river, which Novorossiya claims. In practice, the area is home for a lot of communities - surviving Atlantean nations, sects, fled slaves and so on.
Swedish troops land at Oulu, start liberation of Finland.
1848, October: Germans have conquered all of Bohemia and Moravia, except for the Russian garrison of Prague.
1848, November: In the cavalry battle of Nagykörös, New Romans defeat the Russians. Hungary west of the Danube is liberated.
1848, December: Seljuks march into Pontic lands occupied by South Russia.
Winter of 1848/49: Northern Finland liberated.
1849, January: Canadian skiing troops score their first major victory against Russian near OTL Fairweather Lake.
1849, March: Bratislava conquered by Germans and Czechs. Germans in Herzogsberg (OTL Königsberg) rise up against Russia.
1849, April: Battle of Inowroclaw; with the help of uprising Poles, Germans throw Russian occupation army behind the Vistula.
In the battle of Medjugorje, the Serbs and Bosnians can stop the New Romans, using the difficult territory for their advantage. Emperor Benedetto decides to rather seek for the decision in Hungary, leaves Russia's satellites on the Balkan alone.
1849, May: Germans and Poles cross the Vistula at Sandomierz.
1849, July: Battle of Chelm. United armies of South Russia and Novorossiya beaten, have to retreat behind Bug river.
1849, August: Germans cross the Vistula, going into Prussia.
1849, September: Swedes take Tampere.
1849, October: German troops have reached Memel / Nyemen river.
1850, January: Battle of Drevesina (OTL Boise, Idaho).
1850, March: Battle of Békéscsaba. New Roman troops start reconquest of eastern Hungary.
1850, March: Germans start to besiege Riga.
1850, June: Battle of Plotzeck; Littauen (again) conquered by Germany.
1850, August: New Romans defeat the attacking Serbian-Romanian-Bulgarian troops at Vinkovci, Croatia.
1850, September: New Romans take Khust (Carpatho-Ukraine), concluding their conquest of Hungary.
1850, October: Germans conquer Estonia, except for the capital Reval / Tallin.
1850: After the liberation of Prussia and Poland, the German politicians decide to strike at Russia's heart, driven by their wish for revenge. Emperor Benedetto whose troops just conquered Eger is surprised to hear they don't want to make peace.
1851, May: German-Polish-Czech troops take Minsk.
1851, July: Battle of Vitebsk; last big battle before Moscow, since the Novorussians now retreat.
1851, August: Helsingfors taken by Swedes.
1851, November: German main army destroyed (with help by general winter) at the little city of Moscow. The front has to be taken back behind Lake Peipus and the former east border of Prussia.
1852, February: Canadian commander Jacob Andrews (later president) manages to land on Vancouver island at night, the first step to conquer it.
1852, May: Peace of Constantinople. Other than earlier said, Hungary becomes a satellite of New Rome. It stays that way until 1878 when its government is toppled by local Socialist revolutionaries, after which Germany interferes, as earlier said. From then on, Hungary is in the German camp.
(Sorry if this sounds like anti-Russian wank. True, the coalition had better weapons like the needle gun, and fought an opponent, but still. In reality, the Russians will have won the one or other little battle not mentioned here - and the winners probably will prefer to stay silent too.)
The World, 1900-10:
1900s: The relations between the Germanies and the New Roman empire cool down, for an end of slavery in the latter isn't in sight. (Italy proper has abolished slavery, but even after the end of transatlantic slave trade, there's enough inner-imperial slave trade in Roman Atlantis and North Africa left, plus the more discrete slave trade with its neighbors Songhay and Braseal until recently.)
German movie studios from the Atlantean East Coast discover the city Paradi(e)s (OTL Rio de Janeiro) as a location, making it a center of movie productions (esp. adventurous movies).
Italians start to drill for oil in the deserts of Libya and Algeria, to support their new car industry.
1900: Olympic Games in the German capital of Dresden. There's an eclat overshadowing the games when the German visitors boo the Russian teams.
1902: Three volcano explosions in Atlantis. (OTL Mount Pelée in Martinique, Santamaría in Guatemala, and Soufrière in St Vincent.)
1902-07: Germany easily picks up the many small states the kingdom of Songhay disintegrated into.
1904: Olympic Games in Paris. Again, the Games are sadly disturbed when an radical tries to assassinate old emperor Ludovico.
1905: The new Chinese emperor dies; being a great admiror of the New Roman empire, he ruled that every emperor has to adopt a successor - relatives are explicitly ruled out.
1906: Great Earthquake in Tainstvo (OTL San Francisco - the Germans also call it Franzensburg), capital of the republic of Northern California, independent since anti-Russian War and with a mixed population of Germans and Russians. The shrewd Kanzler of German Atlantis, Alfred Kleiber, sends troops to "restore order" and "build up the destroyed city", effectively making the republic a satellite. The republic of Novorossiya, which had had similar plans, but couldn't send enough troops over the Pacific in the short time given, protests. Germany (in Europe) sides with its Atlantean counterpart.
1908: An earthquake and tsunami kill 70,000 in Messina.
Olympic Games in Nanking.
1909: Prince Ludovico of Occitania - designated successor of his father - dies. The New Roman empire mourns for him. Behind the scenes, members of the imperial family (including that of former emperor Benedetto, and the Spanish Monteleone family), the government, the bureaucracy, and the court try to influence the emperor about his decision about the new successor.
1910: Gold Rush in Alyeska. Many Canadians also cross the border. Newspapers all over the world write articles comparing the situation to Northern California. The danger of a war becomes apparent.
1910, July 16th: Emperor Ludovico dies, and again the New Roman empire is shook up. Many people in its government wonder whether the empire is in danger, as the new emperor, Ludovico's grandson Alessandro II, is far less talented than his grandfather. Many also criticize that the emperor broke the principle of adoption, but this party couldn't succeed in making him rethink his decision.
Stories (yes, from now on several stories per post):
[post=913823]An analysis of the world situation and a review of a scandalous book[/post]
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