Alternate History Challenge - World Bulgarian Empire

wormyguy

Banned
On a whim -

Your (very hard) challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the world map look like this by 1945. POD anytime you want, and it can be as ridiculous and have as much extreme good luck as you want, the only three rules are:

1. There must be only one nation on Earth.

2. It must be called Bulgaria.

3. It must not involve time travel, or intervention, either supernatural or alien.

If it is impossible to meet the challenge, at least make Bulgaria as large as possible. To make it slightly easier, Byzantine Empire is allowed in Bulgaria's place, so long as there is a Bulgarian dynasty of emperors firmly in place.

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A Bulgarian marries into the Khan's family and his descendants inherit the Mongol empire.

The empire incorporates some European ideas and traditions, and remains stable, at least compared to OTL.

Also, large parts of the empire would have to be hinterlands where outcasts, rebels and others are exiled to. They would be "officially" part of the empire, just in case gold is discovered, but the amount of governance would be minimal.

Somebody similar to Columbus sails across the Atlantic, and instead of working for Ferdinand and Isabella, he's sent by the Bulgarian emperor. So when he discovers Brazil by accident, it's claimed by Bulgaria.

Members of the Bulgarian Imperial Family marry into the German dynasties and take over central Europe.

Bulgaria takes over the Mideast and its navy sails down the eastern African coast and when they discover gold in South Africa, Bulgaria starts colonizing the whole continent.

A Bulgarian entrepreneur marries into a Chinese family. The Chinese don't approve until he starts taking on Chinese traditions and customs. The Bulgarians don't approve until the Bulgarian starts a profitable trade between the two, then the Bulgarians make him a great hero.

I'm sure there's more that has to happen...:)
 
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