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I wouldn't worry so much about how 'Königreich Österreich' and sort sound.....not even regarding historical precedents. You must take into account that during 19th C. a big number of Electorates/Prince-Bishropics/Lesser Duchies were merged/upgraded.....and on other occasions it was just the...

....just as silly as "Königreich Frankreich".....

Sorry.....I sprang instinctively.......:biggrin::coldsweat:

I hate to be boring, but IMO OTL Transfer of Cyprus to Britain ressembles a lot an hypotetical territorial cession (or "sublease" ) to the French. OTL Cyprus Convention stated that the purpose of British administration of the island was providing military assistance to the Ottoman Empire in...

🤔 Hmmm........therefore we'll see in the end a Russian Armenia .... and a French-Armenian Cilicia???

Will that actualy entail any impediment?

Hello everybody, and Happy new year!! I'm sorry coz I've been very busy IRL last months for even posting comments. My congrats to Earl Marshall for this amazing TL that has totally hooked me from the begining. The more it developes it's becoming even more fascinating and complex. Great research...

Perhaps an Armenian revolt around Van, like that which happened OTL in WWI could make the Russians divert some military to assist them. In the aftermath, and considering that ITTL Caucasus campaign there would be no need of a costly siege and takeover of Kars stronghold already in their hands...

🤔🤔🤔 Uhmmm ..... a certain Loris-Melikov comes to my mind.... Glad to see you back, Earl !

Well, a satellite kingdom with Russian-born Monarch could also work....but IMHO it's just a sort of disguise, considering that Morean ports would host Russian Mediterranean Fleet

The fact is at that moment there were FEW avaiable relatives among Russian Dinasty: the Greek Plan envisioned the 2nd male grandson of Tsarina Catherine the Great becoming King of liberated Greece, but he was born in 1779, AFTER Orlov Revolt. His father and his elder brother were expected to...

I suppose Russian predominance would be difficult to mantain. Greece is far away, there's no land border, and there are lots of rivals nearby eager to fund anti-Russian uprisings

What if Orlov Revolt hadn’t been an outright failure from greek point of view, and with Russian naval and supplies assistance Greek rebels had managed to secure at least control of Peloponese + Crete and some islands? I know the whole scheme was ill-planned and a lot of PODs are needed to turn...

That is a very interesting option, given the fact that some strategic trade routes to Persia (Trabzon-Tabriz) passed through eastern Armenian vilayets. Further expansion of Russian Empire in eastern Anatolia (OTL they already control strategic Kars outpost ) would entail Russians becoming the...

IMO there were two approaches or schools of thought about the ongoing chronic Oriental Crisis: to avoid Russian expansionism at the expense of OE, one option was to avoid or minimize to the limit any territorial concession from the Ottomans, while OTOH sometimes it was preferable to distribute...

Or perhaps Britain is looking for a proxy in the Balkans to counter Russian expansionism and Greece should fill the gap A-H left.....

I second the above nomination for Pride Goes Before a Fall: A Revolutionary Greece Timeline by @Earl Marshal !

My bet for the upcoming events: TTL Crimean-like war goes more or less like OTL 1877 Russo-Turkish War: Russia almost unopposed (ITTL no A-H to threaten Balkan advance), Tsar's Army breaks Ottoman defence on Silistra, and gets the outskirts of Constantinople, after a lengthy bloody campaign...

Besides that, It may be necessary to butterfly away her death in her infancy .....

:p:p:p:p GREAT!!! Countdown to the next chapters..... 3, 2......