AHC and WI: Duchy of Athens Survives

Only way I can see that happening is if the Duke of Athens is able to get himself turned into a vassal of the Ottomans like the rulers of Transylvania and Wallachia. I see this a unlikely, but it could have happened given the right circumstances.
 
Only way I can see that happening is if the Duke of Athens is able to get himself turned into a vassal of the Ottomans like the rulers of Transylvania and Wallachia. I see this a unlikely, but it could have happened given the right circumstances.

This would seem to be the best way to do it. If/when the Ottomans decline, he can maybe come under Hapsburg protection?
 
Wasn't the last Duke of Athens notoriously pro-Turkish? I've heard stories that he actually had relations with Sultan Mehmed. That was actually the prime reason the Duchy was returned to Francesco II (the Turks took Athens in 1458 but let Francesco maintain Thebes until 1460).
 
This would seem to be the best way to do it. If/when the Ottomans decline, he can maybe come under Hapsburg protection?

Err...That seems really random here. I think that if it's not on Turkic clientele, it would maybe form sort of Skanderbeg's Albania equivalent, under Papal or even Napolitan protection.
 
Err...That seems really random here. I think that if it's not on Turkic clientele, it would maybe form sort of Skanderbeg's Albania equivalent, under Papal or even Napolitan protection.

Or Venetian even, especially if perhaps they own the Morea. I mean Venice certainly had client states of her own (The Duchy of Naxos and Catarina Cornaro's Cyprus come to mind).
 
Or Venetian even, especially if perhaps they own the Morea. I mean Venice certainly had client states of her own (The Duchy of Naxos and Catarina Cornaro's Cyprus come to mind).

Yes, of course. A more italian-influenced Athens could give REALLY interesting results going up to a possible (yet strange) condominium between italian states in Greece.
 
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