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    Consequences of central and southern Italy remaining Byzantine

    Well that's the general problem with Manuel. The empire would likely be far better off had either of his elder brothers not died.
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    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Cossacks? No. Nope. These are going nowhere near the Greek Asia Minor army. I've seen nowhere any plan either before or after the November election to recruit any former Whites in the Greek army. I suspect that any such idea died before even birth, from what the Greek officers in Ukraine were...
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    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Some of the French material had already gone to the Serbs, or to the Greeks for that matter. What I'm interested and have no good answer is what happened to the 80 58mm mortars shown here in Greek inventory. Post that in effect the Greeks for every practical purpose were organizing one or two...
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    An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania

    I'm getting the impression my nameshake just decided to quietly slip away and live in peace. He probably was one of the most reluctant people to take the purple...
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    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    To be a bit pedantic, strictly speaking the POD is Ion Dragoumis failing to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm inclined towards the theory Benakis was involved in his death even if neither Penelope Delta nor Natalia Mela ever wanted to believe it. So played it safe and had his car...
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    An Age of Miracles Continues: The Empire of Rhomania

    Unfortunate that Papagos died, I liked him. The economic cost to the shiplords may be good in the long runalthough it is clear that dependence to Indian moneylenders of all things needs to go. The empire has a reasonably advanced banking system back in Europe after all, only common sense that it...
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    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles
    Threadmarks: Part 2 Of lost monkeys and unlost elections

    Tatoi Royal Estates, Greece, September 17th, 1920 (old calendar)/ September 30th, 1920 (new calendar) Alexander, king of the Greeks, was trying to kill time by running around the estates in his motorcycle till the time came to visit hid friend Christos Zalokostas for lunch. For a moment he...
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    Russia Resurgent - A TL

    Call me biased but I do not see how the Iraqis would be in position to hold back a US army invasion even if liberally supplied with Russian and I suppose Chinese light arms. In OTL about 239,000 coalition troops inflicted something in the order of 30-32,000 casualties on 538,000 Iraqis with only...
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    The Spirit of Salamis- A Short Allied Victory in Crete TL

    These are likely to have some drastic effects with a Greek government in Crete. If for no other reason because the place is overwhelmingly Venizelist...
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    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    At this point I'll only say that there's going to be a ship named Salamis, she's not going to be and destroyer. :angel:
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    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Aren't we going a little bit ahead of ourselves here? I mean we are still in August 1920. There's a Greek election first and a war to end first. :angel: That said Italy was not liable to be particularly friendly to Greece at this point and poor Tellini was supposedly not very friendly to the...
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    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles
    Threadmarks: Part 1

    Paris Gare de Lyon train station July 30th 1920 (old calendar)/August 12th (new calendar) Eleutherios Venizelos, prime minister of Greece was on his way to Marseilles. In Marseilles a Royal Hellenic Navy warship was waiting to bring back the prime minister in Greece. Venizelos was, not without...
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    Consequences of central and southern Italy remaining Byzantine

    Last seen the empire held on to south Italy till 1071? Central Italy is a different matter. But there is an obvious side effect namely that the Pope TTL is still an imperial subject. And while the bishop of Rome will most certainly be very influential and a counterbalance to The Constantinople...
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    Pride Goes Before a Fall: A Revolutionary Greece Timeline

    Designs are not much of a problem. In OTL you had the Mylonas rifle of which about 8,500 were bought before switching to the French Gras rifle, the later had an obvious advantage in the Greek army already having something like 50,000 Chassepot rifles that could be converted. Then you had the...
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    Pride Goes Before a Fall: A Revolutionary Greece Timeline

    If memory serves the first was the arsenal of Nauplion, setup in 1825.
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    The Spirit of Salamis- A Short Allied Victory in Crete TL

    The British? That's Greek territory under control of the Greek government. If someone it's gathering food supplies it is Greek government authorities not the British.
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    Russia Resurgent - A TL

    Armenian observers worked together with Turkish and Azerbaijani ones? What's wrong in this picture?
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    The Spirit of Salamis- A Short Allied Victory in Crete TL

    Yes that's an important side effect that is often forgotten and probably with more immediate effects than the time around 1943 that it will be possible to actually utilize Crete against the Romanian oilfields. But in the meantime the RN had taken rather heavy casualties to keep the supply lines...
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    Pride Goes Before a Fall: A Revolutionary Greece Timeline

    That's really a matter of the Persians doing worse than Europe not of the Greeks doing much better than the average European state.
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    The Spirit of Salamis- A Short Allied Victory in Crete TL

    Two fighter and one border squadron OTL, probably more TTL, its easier to escape to Crete from the mainland than escape to Egypt, besides some of the 300 pilots Greece had in 1941 having been evacuated to Crete and being available. Then you can add pilots from the Greek diaspora , John Plagis...
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