ottoman modernization

------------------ Part 1: Of Bandits and Princes If history can, with much effort made by those who study it, be considered a series of smaller, usually predictable (and often romantic) narratives intertwined with one another - all protagonized by kingdoms and empires which formed, grew and...

Although he was stripped of most of his powers in the wake of the Young Turk Revolution, sultan Abdul Hamid II was allowed to stay on the throne as long as he accepted the return of constitutional order (which he shut down in 1878), which he did - in public. Behind the scenes, he plotted to...

The Ottoman Empire was in a very bad spot by the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th: it had suffered several devastating defeats at the hands of Russia and its growing might, banditry was rampant throughout Rumelia, the empire's heartland in Europe, and much of its territory...

Like it says on the tin. Suppose the Greek rebels are defeated by the Ottomans early on, in late 1821 or early 1822. A POD which could help, at least on the political front, would be keeping the patriarch of Constantinople from being executed on the orders of Mahmud II, since not only did he...

The Great Bosnian Uprising which occurred from 1831-1832 was launched in response to frustrations from the Bosnian nobility at the Sultan's centralizing reforms which revoked privileges from the nobility and for the Sultan granting the autonomous Principality of Serbia 6 districts that were...

Hadji Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman soldier and statesman who served as pasha of the Sanjak of Smederevo from 1793 until his murder in 1801. He was an enemy of the Janissaries and their ally Osman Pazvantoglu and a friend of local Serbs, who he allowed to collect taxes and form militias, and the...

What would've happened had the French not invaded Egypt in 1798? Let's say one of the higher ups in the Republic realizes that it's impossible to control the place in the long term thanks to the presence of the Royal Navy. Would France have won the War of the Second Coalition faster with...

As the 19th and 20th centuries arrived, the Ottomans started facing the growing problem of nationalism and identity. With the age of multicultural Empires united by the legitimacy of the monarchy was ending, Nationalism tore the Empire apart and put them in the precarious position of OTL. While...

What is a way to have the Ottomans industrialize by the 1920s, or at least be in the process of industrialization, preferably with a PoD in the 19th century?

I want you to come up with a realistic plausibility within the Ottoman government to encourage Europeans to emigrant and convert to sunni islam as a "better alternative", mostly toward the younger generations. The number of immigrants needs to be up to 10.25 million during 1878 - 1914...

So, I was reading @Koprulu Mustafa Pasha timeline (here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-great-turk-returns-alternate-resurging-ottomans-1747-1947.439993/ ) about an Ottoman Empire that reformed in the mid 18th century and didnt loose any territories in europe or the middle...

Like the title says, assuming the Balkans (comprised of Albania, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria) have remained under rule of the Ottoman Empire, what will does the Balkan region would looked like under the industrialized Ottoman Empire?

Could the Taurus be a strong and defendible frontier assuming strong Mamluks and Safavids? Would this OE be even more european focused and more prone to islamization of it? Would it be viable long term? Would they have an easier time modernising with an incentive to exploit the balkans more...

While other states rose and fell, the Ottoman Empire was seemingly in a continuous decline for centuries on end, it went through massive periods of huge political unrest, it lost the most profitable, developed and educated parts of the empire, and eventually collapsed after being defeated in the...

Egypt was a part of the Ottoman Empire up until the last few years, but for most of the 19th century Egypt was basically only part of the empire in theory. Under the Muhammad Ali Pasha dynasty, Egypt was effectively independent and then effectively a British colony. But what if Muhammad Ali...

Like I inquired in regards to Egypt and Levant, it is a scenario where the Ottoman Empire succeeded in reformation and industrialized, how would Ottoman-ruled Arabia would turned out to be like after going through the empire-wide programs of industrialization? I can imagined projects like the...

Based from the thread which is about Egypt. This time, it'll be about the Levant (which is Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan) region under the rule of the successfully industrialized Ottoman Empire. The scenario is where the Ottoman Empire industrialized earlier than OTL and doing a good...

For the sake of this topic, this is what happens when the Ottomans didn't lost Egypt and defeated Muhammad Ali Pasha, one way or another. Thus, the Ottomans managed to retain their hold over Egypt in their empire to modern-day. So, how would Egypt will turned out under the Ottoman Empire which...

In 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte was planned to be sent to Constantinople under the Ottoman Empire, and Selim III to reform, and train the Ottoman Military and Artillery. He, however, days before the journey, stopped a Parisian mob and was kept in France to stay. But What if Instead, Napoleon was...