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Spice islands are in the Indonesia/Malaysia area, sugar islands are in the Caribbean... which one do you mean? Caribbean islands are never called spice islands.

Austria had the Nicobar Islands until the 1780s. Though realistically, they don’t have any real use - the British only used them to imprison Indian rebels.
 
Concerning Africa... what about Emil Holub, bohemian 19th century traveler on Zambezi river? Even OTL there was some plan to buy some small part of Mosambic from Portugal...
 
i asked a question similar to this a while ago. i forget the exact reasoning, but Somalia was suggested at that time.
 

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@oshron well Italian colonial achievements like Somalia and Libya may be the best analogies for what Austria could do, because it is geographically most similar.
 
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Have the Habsburgs be much more successful against the Turks, maybe even since Ferdinand I, who could unite Hungary and retake Belgrade. Then in the constant wars, the Habsburgs seize Egypt and the Levant. At this point, your job is basically done, you've got a Habsburg colonial empire, but if they buid the Suez Canal as well, that maybe bring the whole Middle East into Habsburg hands.
 
Guys, may I sugest Brazil? It almost happanned, Dona Leopoldine died at the heights of her popularity and credibility, papers published that D.Pedro should be forced to abdicate and give the crown to Dona Leopoldina who everybody would gladly follow.The proposal was made to her but she remained loyal to her husband. The POD is that she doesn't die in december 1826,and being competly delusioned about her husband and fearing that the Brazilian throne would be lost for her descendants, she was extremely dedicated to service of the country and dynasty,and she accepts the regency. Now depending of the ime of her acceptance we could have ,either D.Maria da Gloria or D Pedro II as the next monarch of Brazil.Dona Leopoldine wanted to Mary her heir to Habsburg cousin,in that case we would get Habsburg Brazil,may be even a new Habsburg cadet branch.Immigration trends would certainly be different than otl!
 
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nandalf: Hm, there was some plot involving some kind of union between mexican Habsburgs (Maxmilian) and Brazilian dynasty in sixties... That would be really big empire! (ok, maybe not empire, I think they didn´t think about union between countries, but still...)
 
nandalf: Hm, there was some plot involving some kind of union between mexican Habsburgs (Maxmilian) and Brazilian dynasty in sixties... That would be really big empire! (ok, maybe not empire, I think they didn´t think about union between countries, but still...)
Maximilian was D.Pedro's II cousin,and he Tried to marry princess Isabel to his brother or an archduke,but Franz Josef wasn't interested.It would be interesting ih it happened!
 
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Well,both,Brazilian government and people wanted to marry D.Pedro II to a a Hansburg,Dona Leopoldina was adored and Brazilians wanted another Austrian archduchesse as empress, so if the austrians wanted it would be a Hapsburg,since D.Pedro II was son of an archduchesses
 
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