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As im sure most of us know, after the Arab revolt in World War 1, which was a Hashemite lead effort, Feisal al-Hashemi tried to build up support amongst the British in paticular for a Arab state encompassing the Arab lands of the former Ottoman empire. However, the British decided that allowing...

Chapter 1 - The Fall of the Ottoman Empire Mehmet Ali Pasha, the executioner of the Ottoman Empire and first sultan of the Aghayid Sultanate. The seeds of the Ottoman collapse of 1836/1838 were sown surprisingly, not by the century of decline and stagnation that preceded the ascension of...

Im toying with the idea of making a timeline about a world where the Ottoman Empire collapses some time during the 19th century. I assume this would be the best time to do it, as the Ottoman empire was actually a sick man before some of the reforms of Mahmud II (Nicholas I called it too late in...

Bulgaria before world war one was often described as the Prussia of the Balkans. While its true that they were probebly more powerful then any of the smaller Balkan states, they never enjoyed the success that Prussia did. So the challenge is to get Bulgaria to realise most of its territorial...

Alot of discussion has involved Alexander dying later then OTL, or at least some time during the Persian war. I don't think i've seen a discussion about him dying before being on the throne. Lets say he dies a few months before Philip does, and Philip is assassinated according to schedule...

Reading a bit about late imperial Chinese history recently has got me paticularly interested in the Boxer rebellion. The Boxers aimed to removed foreign (more specifically western) influence from China. As far as I understand, Cixi supported the Boxers at first as a way to strengthen Chinas...

Your challenge, should you take it, is to make sure, with a POD of 1700, that most of Africa and Asia should remain under native rulers and not European ones by 1900. This includes no client states, no corporations like the East India Company, though tradings posts such as Bombay and Hong Kong...

For those of you who don't know, Muawaiyah was the first of the Umayyad caliphs, having took power after politically out-manouvering Ali Ibn Talib (who actually came out better in the battle of Siffin). His rise to powers ending the semi-republican system of the Rashidun caliphs and instituted...

As we all know, Edward the seconds reign was much less successful then his fathers, he lost the Scottish war of independence and saw alot of political instability in his reign. So the what if is simply, what if the rather disinterested and easily influenced Edward was more in the mold of his...

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot at a Majlis in 1975. But lets say if something changes, say someone manages to stop the assassin, or the assassin shoots and misses. How could this effect the development of Saudi Arabia and Radical Islamism? (King Faisal tended to support pan-Islamist policies)

What if, instead of making a peace treaty with the Austrains cedeing only Lombardy to the Sardinians (instead of both Lombardy and Venetia as was agreed at Plombières), Napoleon III instead decides to carry on the war futher into Austrian Italy?

Title explains most of it really. How could the Young Turk revolution be prevented, and how does this effect the future of the Ottoman empire?

Im usually not a fan of scenarios which involve a smaller Ottoman empire, but I am interested in finding out if there was any chance of Mehmed Ali keeping Syria (and maybe crete) after confrontation with the Ottomans and their European supporters, and what effects this would have on the...

Well, simply put, what if Garlibaldi never sailed to Sicily in 1860, or if the Bourbons had crushed the red-shirts when they landed. What would the effect on the formation of the Italian state be, on what effect would it have on the rest of Europe?

Well the title says it all. As far as i know, the Pontians were originally very successful in their war against Rome, but were eventually defeated by Sulla and his know how of Alexandrian style warfare. So what if a less competent Roman commander fought the Pontian army in Greece? Or what if the...