habsburg monarchy

POD: Austria-Hungary remains on the defence through 1918, the Italian Front doesn't break, and the Entente's advance on the Balkans is halted somewhere in Central Serbia thanks to Austro-Hungarian reinforcements and Entente logistical limits. (By this point, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire...

Quite some time passed since I posted this thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/demographics-of-a-surviving-austria-hungary.488463/ Since then, I kept revisiting the topic starting from scratch every time. At this point, I finally reached a point where I'm more or less...

Like it says on the tin. Could the House of Habsburg, assuming lots and I mean lots of things go right for them, plausibly impose their power over the principalities and electorates scattered throughout the HRE in the period starting with the onset of the Protestant Reformation and the ending...

The Guelders Wars were a series of conflicts between the Duchy of Guelders and the Habsburg Netherlands which lasted for more than forty years (1502-1543) before finally ending with a victory for the latter and the creation of the Seventeen Provinces. But what if the Habsburgs lost and were...

After the Treaty of Cordoba, wherein Ferdinand VII took the offer of the Mexican Crown with a grain of salt and forbid any bourbon from accepting it either, an offer was sent to Archduke Charles the Duke of Teschen, the famous duke who had defeated Napoleon in Aspern-Essling. OTL, the offer was...

The common perception is that the Habsburg state was doomed to disintegrate since it had so many ethnic groups, and WW1 simply sped up the process. However it seems like this idea was popularized much latter in order to justify Austria-Hungary's destruction. I believe that the level of...

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...

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...

By better I don't mean more, in fact maybe less territory but more strategegical one be better. Green Ottoman Empire, yellow romanian vassals, and red hungary (vassal/ally). The conquest and direct rule of Hungary was a waste of resources and an strategical mistake. Logistics didnt allow the...

Hi all, I the aim of this discussion is to map out of all the events in the Holy Roman Empire's history where it could have united and analyse why the plan or event did not materialize in the empire uniting and through this which ones had the best chance by comparing and contrasting them with...

With a PoD between 1559 (recognition of savoyard independence by Valois France) and 1848, how can we unite the Austrian kingdom with Savoy-Piedmont? How does this affect Italy as a whole, what with the Habsburgs controlling most of northern Italy (and possibly also southern Italy, if we can...

What if emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (notable for his seizures and his abdication in favour of Franz Josef) and Maria Anna of Savoy, sixth child of Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy, had a son or more together, around the 1830's?

Even after years of battle and attrition, by the end of the Seven Years War, Prussia occupied most of Saxony and Silesia, but lacked the strength to take Dresden or Glatz, and thus traded Saxony for Glatz so ensure the future security of Silesia. If Prussia hard performed better in some...

What if the Habsburg faction in the continent-wide struggle for Spain's throne after Carlos II's death had somehow won in the end? What are the overall effects on Europe? In my view, Britain was as wary of a surgent France (as per OTL) as of a resurgent Habsburg hegemony. Thus, i could...

In 1646, Balthazar Charles, Prince of Asturias and heir to the Spanish throne died at the age of 16 of smallpox. As he had no surviving siblings and his mother had died his father Phillip IV remarried and had children with his niece Maria Anna, with the only child to outlive their father being...

Hello everyone! I've decided to start my TL! The POD is in 1903, The May overthrow fails to kill King Alexander I of Serbia. Stuff ensues. Here goes nothing! Excerpt from London times, 1st June 1903: SERBIA EMBROILED IN CIVIL WAR! Austria-Hungary Prepares Intervention! Ladies and Gentlemen...

After the revolution in Vienna on 13th March, 1848, two days later, the Hungarian Diet sent a delegation led by Lajos Kossuth to Vienna to discuss, and make him sign their proposed "ten points" and appoint Lajos Batthyány as Prime Minister. These ten points were the followings: -Responsible...

Hi everyone! I was thinking doing a TL where the Habsburg dynasty stay in some sort of power til today. This is not specifically an Austria-Hungary tl, but if it isn't to implausible I'll think about it. Here's my issue, though. I'm stuck doing this on my phone and can't find a good map maker...

What's the best PoD out there for both the Habsburg and Bourbon royal houses (and the countries they control) to become allies, with the condition that it lasts past a single major war? Is such an alliance feasible in the long term? Would the 18th century be the most likely context for this...

A 'what if' that I've contemplated for a while, what if Maria Theresa von Habsburg had lost the War of the Austrian Succession? What would the consequences have been? For example, Maria Theresa secured the Hungarian throne independently of the Austrian inheritance, would the Franco-Prussian...