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After the Napoleonic Wars, was it possible for the Austrian empire to directly annex Bavaria, Saxony, and the Thuringian states as they all border the Bohemian crown? Could kingdoms with non-Habsburg heads be integrated and if so do they just pledge loyalty to Austria as they did otl to Prussia...

How do you all think Austria-Hungary wpuld develop after having been defeated alongside Germany in a shorter WW1, probably ending sometime on early 1916. While I don't think Austria-Hungary would collapse in this scenario, I do expect that they would lose Trentino and Trieste to Italy...

I remember reading before that one of the best places for Christian Socialism to grow into a larger movement (though probably a decade or two after the initial pod in all likelihood) is the former Habsburg empire. Seeing that at least some republicanism will be necessary for the Socialist half...

What if a figure in Hungary akin to Attaturk arose in Hungary using the popular outrage by occupation of Hungarian land by the Entente and the Treaty of Trianon arose to power? Assuming Hungary remobilizes and resists the loss of its territory, what would be the effects of such a scenario...

With any PoD after 1909, have the Austro-Hungarian Empire/Habsburg Monarchy survive until the present day with all of their territory as of 1909.

The Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary were partition after WWI by the Entente, creating the borders of the Middle East and Central & Eastern Europe. Here are two PODs for this scenario POD 1: What if the Germans won the Battle of the Marne, and captured Paris, and then going to defeat the...

Devise a scenario where the Habsburgs are restored to power after losing WWI> A pod that comes to mind is the Habsburg attempt at retaking the Hungarian Crown which fell through after Kaiser Karl's death in Portugal. What's the best the Habsburgs could do here assuming they manage to retake...

Part 1: The Treaty of Prague and Resumption of War The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier!’- Otto Von Bismarck, 1866. Chapter One: The Treaty of Prague and Resumption of War The War with Austria was deceptively decisive. Engineered by Otto Von Bismarck, this war...

In August 1914, Russia mobilized 7 armies and sent them to the frontline. 2 of them went to East Prussia where the 1st army was destroyed. 1 army went to Poland. And the other 4 armies (1,000,000+ men) went on the offensive in East Galicia. In OTL, the Russians inflict 450,000 casualties and...

The Battle of Caporetto was a resounding defeat for Italian forces, sending them into full-on retreat from the Austro-German advance. However the Italians stalled their advance at the First Battle of Monte Grappa, defending the plains toward Venice and stabilizing the front, later scoring a...

I've seen several threads before discussing how Franz Ferdinand would have ruled and reformed Austria-Hungary, had he and the country survived long enough for him to have the opportunity. I'd like to dive into the same question for his nephew Karl. If Karl had taken the throne during peace-time...

So i recently was able to meet an old Czech man in Brno whose father and grandfather lived during the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was pretty enlightening. A-H did have its ethnic problems yes, however it seems their shared ties to the crown did inspire a lot of loyalty to the empire...

IOTL, Hitler very nearly was rejected from the German army, but because of an administrative error, his lack of German citizenship and his having Austrian citizenship technically disqualifying him from serving in the army was not revealed, probably due to an administrative error. The rest, we...

It shouldn't be too difficult to imagine the aging emperor Franz Joseph I dying around seven years earlier than OTL. He was a very old man by then, already in his late seventies, so it shouldn't be too difficult for him to catch a cold that turns into pneumonia and kills him. This means that...

Hello everyone! You might remember me from my TL "Italico Valore" which deals with a more victorious 1848 revolution in Italy. Here I wanted to try my hand with a 20th Century POD and I hereby present you "Will of Iron" WILL OF IRON JANUARY-JUNE 1916 The Central Powers ended 1915 in a...

During WW1 there were many close calls, opportunities not fully exploited and a certain degree of logistical failures on both sides but especially the Central Powers one. So my question is: in which battle/campaign the Central Powers, if history took a different turn, could have defeated the...

In 1867, Franz Joseph proposed the establishment to become Austria-Hungary in order to put an end to the military dictatorship in the Austrian Empire after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 which lasted from 1867 to 1918, but what if Franz never proposed the deal? What would be the fate of...

Let's say that the intelligence division of Austria-Hungary, and specifically their investigations into the Black Hand, is significantly better than OTL. They are able to capture enough Black Hand agents or otherwise investigate the organization thoroughly enough that shortly after Franz...

TRAGEDY STRIKES THE ITALIAN POLITICAL SCENE ROME- Sidney Sonnino's government was hit by the tragedy today with the news of Antonio Salandra's sudden death. The finance minister was going to Pisa for institutional reasons, when the train he was traveling on derailed near Grosetto. While he...

Otl, as I understand it, italy joined the entente due to relying on them for food, and AH owning Soth-Tyrol and their adriatic desires. What if then, AH offered to sell south tyrol to them, as well as the some of the north adriatic (AH would ideally get a good chunk of the southern portion after...