AHC: A European Power Under Non-European Control, post 1750

Make a power of Europe (France, Britain, Italy, Prussia) under occupation of a non-European Power, any time after 1750. Possible?
 
I could imagine some combined Barbary power taking control of parts of Italy.

The problem is creating a North African state capable of doing this--perhaps we invent a Great Man who foresees the Europeans will tire of the corsairs and conquer North Africa, so he unites all the Barbary states into one entity capable of fending off a European assault (or an Ottoman attempt to assert their nominal sovereignty).

This new Maghrebi Empire could threaten Sicily or even Italy proper if it got ambitions beyond simply claiming control of much of the Mediterranean and taxing all who plied it.
 
...there was also American help occupying after WWI, and there was Kosovo. So, reality's already there, neener neener.

RUSSIA HAS BIG SWATHES IN EUROPE!
 
...there was also American help occupying after WWI, and there was Kosovo. So, reality's already there, neener neener.

RUSSIA HAS BIG SWATHES IN EUROPE!

Russia is historically part of Europe, it just has big swaths in Asia.
 
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