AHC: Italian Egypt

Porsenna

With a POD from, let's say, 1850 onwards, have a unified Italian state of some kind acquire Egypt as a colony or protectorate for at least 40 years.
 

idontlikesand

Porsenna said:
Good point. The canal was already under construction, I believe. Would an earlier date for the POD help? Like, say, 1800?
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you need the great powers of Europe to be distracted by a war that doesn't invovle Italy. This would most likely also require earlier Italian unification. Lastly you need an Italy strong enough to conquer Egypt.
 

LordKalvan

In 1882 the French suddenly pulled out of the Franco-British planned intervention in Egypt. Gladstone government extended an invitation to Italy for a participation in the intervention (there were significant Italian economic interests in Egypt - although not on the scale of the French and British ones and quite a number of Italians living in Alexandria).
The Italian government declined this invitation, mostly for internal political reasons but also because Italian participation in the Austro-German pact was under discussion at the same time).
If the British invitation is handled better and the Italian government finds more problems with Austria it might be feasible for Italy to participate in the intervention and possibly become a (junior) partner in the Egyptian protectorate.

The most likely outcome would be closer ties to UK and no Italian participation in the Central Powers Pact. Stronger Italian intervention during the Mahdi insurrection would be also likely, and Sudan might become another Italo-British co-dominium. France might be unhappy about Italian presence in Egypt but I don't believe it would be a serious problem.
 

LeCHVCK

Murat betrays Nappy and gets a huge chunk of Italy at Vienna. Later he unifies Italy in the 30. Later Italy aquieres Egypt.
 
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