AHC: Industrialised Italy

Don Quijote

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Try to make Italy an industrial power comparable to France/Germany/Britain with a POD of 1796 (date of French invasion), with the general aim of it becoming a great power by WW1. I'm expecting early unification to crop up, but any other methods are fine. It doesn't have to comprise the same territories as OTL.
 
Well, you have to get them some coal from someone.
If I recall correctly, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are producers of coal. Not sure of the plausibility of an Italian state projecting power in that area at the time but Venice did have borders near Ragusa at one time.
 

Don Quijote

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Well, you have to get them some coal from someone.

Where are the closest big coal mining areas to Italy? Could they be absorbed directly into the country? eg if they were in Dalmatia/Nice/somewhere close.

Perhaps increased naval strength will allow them to import more coal.
 
Where are the closest big coal mining areas to Italy? Could they be absorbed directly into the country? eg if they were in Dalmatia/Nice/somewhere close.

Perhaps increased naval strength will allow them to import more coal.
In modern times, a few coal mining areas are located in the Balkans.
 
Try to make Italy an industrial power comparable to France/Germany/Britain with a POD of 1796 (date of French invasion), with the general aim of it becoming a great power by WW1. I'm expecting early unification to crop up, but any other methods are fine. It doesn't have to comprise the same territories as OTL.

The Popes want the Papal States to be an industrialised European power and modernize their infrastructure from the early 19th century onward while remain absolute rulers. They heavenly invest in railways and trains to move the papal troops faster and build a telegraph network.
 
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Try to make Italy an industrial power comparable to France/Germany/Britain with a POD of 1796 (date of French invasion), with the general aim of it becoming a great power by WW1. I'm expecting early unification to crop up, but any other methods are fine. It doesn't have to comprise the same territories as OTL.

You don't need a POD.

This is OTL reality. Italy's industrial output is on par with, and even I guess à little higher than France and Britain. Industry represents a much bigger share of GDP in Italy than in Britain and Franc, Germany being above all.
 

Don Quijote

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You don't need a POD.

This is OTL reality. Italy's industrial output is on par with, and even I guess à little higher than France and Britain. Industry represents a much bigger share of GDP in Italy than in Britain and Franc, Germany being above all.

I mean that it should be industrially and technologically equal to the UK or Germany by 1914, and capable of posing a credible threat to them both economically and militarily. Sorry if I wasn't specific enough in the OP.
 
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