AHC:Tunisia taken in Italian Reunification

Huh? At that time, Tunisia was nominally a subject of the Ottoman Sultan. I would guess that it would bring Italy to war with the Ottoman Empire and Egypt as well as Austria.

1860, Egypt had 26 sailing ships and 7 steamers.
1853, the Ottomans had Ottoman navy had 10 ships of the line and 14 frigates. 6 frigates were lost at Sinop. 1877 they had 13 ironclad frigades and 3 wooden ones, and stil several of the ships of the line.

I also see references to steam corvettes in the Tunisian navy.
 
Italian Tunisia

During the late 1800's, when France wanted to colonize Tunisia, the Italians asked France to give Italy Tunisia because their were a considerable population of Italians in Tunisia. If France had recognized Italy's right to colonize Tunisia, Italy would have likely ruled Tunisia until the end of the age of imperialism.
 

Eurofed

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Make Italy join Prussia/Germany in the Franco-Prussian War. The *Treaty of Frankfurt would surely force France to recognize Tunisia in the Italian sphere of influence (in addition to Italian annexation of Nice, Savoy, and Corisica). Italy would then gain the other powers' assent to its colonization of Tunisia in the *Congress of Berlin, and colonize it in the late 1870s.
 

yourworstnightmare

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The easiest way for Italy to get Tunisia would be some Franco- Italian deal, and would require a Italy that stay very pro- France and don't flirt with Germany.
 
I think what is needed is a earlier Italian Tunisia.

Maybe a Kingdom of Naples - Ottoman Deal of some Kind. Or some kind of similar deal.
 
After unification of Italy, the early Italian colonists petitioned the king to annex Tunisia (IIRC, it was in 1865 or thereof).
Nothing came out of it, since the Roman question and the Veneto issue were dominant.
Maybe it would have taken some incident between the local population and the Italian colonists (it is irrelevant if the bey is behind it or not).
Once the incidents happen, a military intervention is not a problem. The diplomatic side might be much more complicated, since I do feel that both the British and the French would not be completely happy with Italy controlling both sides of the channel of Sicily.
 
Perhaps you could have the Spanish Habsburgs be more successful in keeping Tunis and defending it against the Ottomans. After the War of Spanish Succession, I could easily see Tunis being handed over with Naples to Emperor Karl VI and with some luck, assuming things go more or less as in OTL, eventually being given to the King Carlos III of Spain and his son King Ferdinando of Naples as part of the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily. If Tunis then stays part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, when Italy is unified they'll naturally expand into the rest of Tunisia during the nineteenth century.
 
Unification is way too early. The Ottomans wouldn't take to kindly to Italy trying to take territory they consider rightfully theirs. Italy isn't strong enough to win a war against the Ottomans yet.
 
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