I suspect that with the apparent weakness of the Austrian state, the Ottomans would be acting up sooner rather than later.
1703: A Franco-Bavarian army takes Vienna
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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Well it would be the Hungarian state actually, and the French, who have long been the most influential European power at Constantinople, would try very hard to discourage them, since they have friends in Hungary. The alternatives would be Russia, but in TTL as in OTL the Turks have wasted the opportunity of attacking it at its weakest, and Venice.
Should I move this to "Timelines and Scenarios"? I doubt I'll get far enough with this to call it a proper TL, but you never know.
I believe that timelines is for finished Timelines, not timelines in progress. Maybe you could ask Ian to change the name of the thread.
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Having done a bit of research on the Neuchatel situation, the heir should be the Prince of Conti. I've changed the TL accordingly.
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I have just created a map template for 1700, you can use for a post war map.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2960286&postcount=2777
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2960286&postcount=2777
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The Belgium-like country between France and the Netherlands is the Archduchy of Lower Lorraine under the former Duke of Lorraine. The little red thing between France and Switzerland is the Principality of Neuchatel under the French Prince of Conti. Courland is independent of Poland-Lithuania. Hungary is independent of Austria under the Archduke Charles.
The pixelated areas throughout Germany are ecclesiastical states whose ruler Bavaria has the right to appoint from the House of Wittelsbach. The pixelated area in Hungary is the autonomous Principality of Transylvania and region of the Partium under Francis Rakoczi. The pixelated area south of Milan is the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, which is very likely to be inherited by the future crown prince of Hungary. The 3 pixelated areas to the south are the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and its planned division upon the extinction of the House of Medici (the northern exclave to Mantua, the south to Spain and the rest to Hungary).
Europe on January 1, 1710:
The pixelated areas throughout Germany are ecclesiastical states whose ruler Bavaria has the right to appoint from the House of Wittelsbach. The pixelated area in Hungary is the autonomous Principality of Transylvania and region of the Partium under Francis Rakoczi. The pixelated area south of Milan is the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, which is very likely to be inherited by the future crown prince of Hungary. The 3 pixelated areas to the south are the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and its planned division upon the extinction of the House of Medici (the northern exclave to Mantua, the south to Spain and the rest to Hungary).
Europe on January 1, 1710:
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Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
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It's not the Hungarians. It's their Habsburg king, their ambitious queen and a complicated web of dynastic entanglements. Though the Hungarian aristocracy is more powerful than it was before independence, they cannot force Charles and Elizabeth to pass up an opportunity for peaceful territorial acquisition, especially not in Italy.
And the exclave is for Mantua.
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Avoid it? I worked very hard on creating it. It was meant to highlight special cases. For example, Salzburg's pixelation is the result of alternating azure-or-whatever-you-call-it (for Bavaria) and bad-teeth-yellow (for ecclesiastical states) pixels. And I had to do it all in Paint since I'm computer-artistically illiterate. Though I guess "pixelation" is not the right word for it.
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Wow, that's dedication. I'd use diagonal stripes myself; I can link you to the tutorial I did on how to do them in Paint fairly easily if you want.
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Well, it's not like I have anything better to... Oh, wait.
They are, technically speaking, diagonal stripes, just extremely small and extremely close together. I cover an area with diagonals and then copy and paste repeatedly, though I still have to do the margins and narrow areas pixel by pixel. Actual stripes wouldn't work because you wouldn't recognize them on those tiny exclaves spread throughout Austria. Most of them probably consist of the local outhouse and the shade of a nearby tree, but not the tree itself, which falls under the sovereignty of Schwesterbumser VIIII, Landgrave of Hinterwasserdorf from the House of Roteransatz.
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Thande
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You can make that kind with my method much easier than filling them in by hand, too, just start with lines only one pixel thick.
May I suggest that you make it a Grandduchy before Susano finds out? He always likes to remind us that an archduchy was an extremely rare title (basicly only used for Austria) and we should use grandduchies instead.
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Grand duchies were rarer still back then - there was only one, Tuscany. The others are either Napoleonic (or Napoleonic era, at least) creations or alternate translations of "grand principality". Wiki mentions a prior use of the archducal title in Lotharingia, and I guess I'll go with that.
If you can convince Susano, you won't hear anything from me (although I like grandduchy better, but that might be because I am a bit of a Luxophile*).
*Is this a correct word for someone who loves Luxemburg?
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Well he hasn't said anything, but I have no idea if he's still following this thread.
There's a term?