The Austrian could get control of the balkans.
For Napoleon that would be territory far away from the homebase with little strategic value to him and it is separated by the Austrian Empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyrian_Provinces
The Austrian could get control of the balkans.
For Napoleon that would be territory far away from the homebase with little strategic value to him and it is separated by the Austrian Empire.
Weren't the Giray khans of the Crimea the recognised next in line if the Osmanli dynasty died out?
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Weren't the Giray khans of the Crimea the recognised next in line if the Osmanli dynasty died out?
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One could argue that the late 18th/early 19th century is the doable time for eliminating the Ottoman Empire, even more so than the period within which it was actually eliminated IOTL.
Provincial governors are setting up their own borderline-independent fiefdoms left and right; the army is weakened by a long and grueling reform process; even the Jannisaries are still around and they're at the peak of their counter-productivity; the subjugated peoples are even more restless and quick to revolt than they will be later on.
If multiple great powers concentrate on attacking the Ottoman Empire in such a state, who knows what might happen.
Well, Frederick the Great's intervention/demand for compensation was a big factor causing Leopold's Austria from backing off of its Ottoman war. So, perhaps Ottoman partition would be a fairly plausible knock-on consequence of any of the frequent "Prussia is crushed in 7 Years War" threads, like disaster at Leuthen. If there's an Austro-Russian consensus in the 18th century to grind down the Ottomans, and no Prussia or France in a position to do anything about, they might go as far as they want.
I assume he mean's Leopold II.Umm...
What?
Leopold and Frederick the Great... weren't contemporaries.
Unless you mean Leopold II, and he didn't become Emperor until Frederick was... quite a few years in the ground.