Guess the only question is who caused the act of nuclear terrorism.
For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL
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Anyways, how much of the people who's blood is in the hands of the Azanian regime is comprised of Whites who were unable to flee the country fast enough and how much of them are "traitors" (read: political opponents of the regime and Christians who refused to renounce their faith)? And on that note, what method of mass murder did Azania use to exterminate the white population of South Africa and eliminate politicial or religious opposition to the regime? Finally, what became of the Indian and Coloured communities of South Africa? Killed by the Azanians? Forcibly expelled by the Apartheid regime or the victorious Azanians?
Islamist terrorists from Turkestan !
Well, either they were in favor of Apartheid or not, the Afrikaner diaspora is one of the most sizeable ones in the recent world, with refugees pouring down to Mozambique, Rhodesia and Kalahari to avoid being killed, with the most fortunate ones managing to flee to Europe or America, the other ones being still put into concentration camps. For eliminating them (and the Indians and Coloured too, power to the African man !), they resorted first to firing squads, others by machetes, knives and gassing in some corners. Now, the remaining populations are just left into huge concentration camps, slowly starving to death or laboring to death.
Poland revolted in the aftermath of the World War and took its chances into trying to be a fully independent country. The Germans had just achieved nuclear weaponry and were happy to use it.
I will experiment with two new formats for this timeline : country profiles to help describe each country, but also fake news article in order to delve deeper into this alternate world.
Tsongas' parents opted for the Law of Return implemented by the Greek government after the Great European War, while Arinanna Huffington never left.
Yes, and it looks like they killed the Tsar and Prime Minister as well. Poor Russia.
On that note, what was the relation between Alexander IV and Nikolai IV and what position did Yevgeny Primakov hold in Gorby's government?
Konstantinos (XII)
Konstantinos (Κωνσταντῖνος, 2 August 1868-11 January 1923) was King of the Hellenes from his father Georgios I’s assassination on March, 18 1913 until his abdication on February 27 1921, when he was succeeded by his son Georgios II.
The first Greek-born member of the House of Glücksburg, Constantine, having the name of the first and last Byzantine Emperors, was very popular from his birth, being considered the first monarch that would manage to reunite Greater Greece, according to the Megali Idea of Greek irrendentism. Educated in Germany, serving in the Second Greco-Turkish War and the First Balkan War, Constantine grew convinced of his own destiny and firmly believing in his divine right as King. Collaborating with long-time Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, he acceeded to the throne after his father’s assassination, at a time when Greece’s population had doubled and her future looked bright.
After gaining Northern Epirus from Albania during the Third Balkan War in 1914-1915, Konstantinos heavily threw his support behind his country after the Notaras Incident : convinced that his deep links with the House of Hohenzollern ensured German neutrality and that the war would be quick, he declared war upon the Ottoman Empire on October, 14 1916. Nevertheless, the balance of powers had changed : Germany was now concerned about the stability of the Ottoman Empire due to the Bagdadbahn, and it was Russia, motivated by the Trabzon Incident and an access to the “warm waters”, that allied with Greece, along with France. Konstantinos had started the Great European War.
Greece fared really well alone against the Ottoman Empire, that was heavily distracted by revolts and Russian invasion : a successful landing in the Dardanelles led to a conquest of Constantinople on May, 15 1919. Nevertheless, as Constantine was prepared to claim his throne in Byzantium, the Alliance came at full force against Greece : Bulgaria invaded Thrace in 1918, Italy conquered Epirus and Ionian Islands, while Bulgaria and Germany would expel the Greeks from Constantinople in 1920. The assassination of Venizelos in Athens the same year would throw the country into disarray : without his Prime Minister’s charisma in hold the country together, Konstantinos knew that political upheaval awaited the country, and he sued for peace, proclaiming a ceasefire, a decision that would infuriate Venzilists. The King called Field Marshal Kondylis to rule as Prime Minister, and the Treaty of Nicosia heavily partitioned Greece, leading to his abdication as he took full responsability for defeat, exiling himself in Switzerland, where he died.
Upon his grandson Konstantinos XIV’s succession, his regnal name was retroactively changed to Konstantinos XII (Κωνσταντῖνος ΙB’) in order to stress the continuity between the Byzantine and Hellenic Empires. Thus, Konstantinos had ruled as Emperor, at least in the history books.
Georgios II
Georgios II (Γεώργιος B’, 19 July 1890-1 March 1935) was King of the Hellenes, succeeding his father Konstantinos upon his abdication on February, 27 1921, until his assassination. He was succeeded by his brother Alexandros.
The eldest son of King Constantine, Georgios II succceeded him as King in a Greece in upper disarray : forced to concede Constantinople to the Allies after having ephemerously conquered the city during the Great European War, it had lost Epirus and the Ionian islands to Italy, Macedonia to Bulgaria and Crete to Germany. Plus, since the assassination of Prime Minister Elefetherios Venizelos, the country was on the brink of a full-scale civil war and resented the “alien monarchy”. Nevertheless, Greece had free rein in Western Anatolia, and took advantage of the Continuation War against the Ottoman Empire to conquer Northwestern Anatolia, centering on Smyrna, even getting on the brink of a new European War with the Marmara Crisis in 1922, when Greek troops crossed into the territory of the Free City of Constantinople. On October, 22 1923, in order to curb Venizilist tendancies, a coup was carried out by General Ioannis Metaxas in the name of the King, installing a Pyrist regime after sham elections the following year.
Georgios II, even he was an uncharismatic monarch and experienced an unhappy marriage with Elisabeth of Romania, made much to install the Metaxas Regime : supporting the turn to corporatism and Hellenification of Anatolia, he also supported the conquest of Macedonia and Thrace over Bulgaria during the Bulgarian Civil War of 1925, while leading to the Enosis attempts with Cyprus in 1931 and 1933. Nevertheless, the same year, a coup attempt by Venizilist officers proved that the political movement was still strong, all leading to the assassination of the King on March, 1 1935, while he was leaving Tatoi Palace ; his assassin, a Venzilist member of the guard, was immediately killed by the Royal Guard. Being childless, the King was succeeded by his brother Alexandros.
Alexandros
Alexandros (Ἀλέξανδρος, 1 August 1893-5 April 1958) was King of the Hellenes, succeeding his brother Georgios II on March, 1 1935, and becoming the first Emperor of the Hellenes on the proclaimation of the Empire on August, 1 1947, reigning until his death. He was succeeded by his son Konstantinos XIII.
Nothing had expected Alexandros to accede to the throne one day. The second son of King Constantine, he was known as a mischievious child, before attending a Military Academy in Germany and distinguishing himself in combat during the Balkan Wars, the Great European War and the Continuation War ; he also created considerable outcry within the family by his courtship with commoner Aspasia Manos ; he almost relinquished his rights to the crown when Aspasia died of sepsis during a visit to the Athens Zoo, in 1918, when the couple was attacked by a monkey. He later settled, marrying Marie-José, sister to the king of Flanders ; when his elder brother Georgios was assassinated, without having a child, he acceeded to the throne of Greece.
If the relation of King Alexandros with Prime Minister Metaxas was uneasy, he vehemently supported his successor and namesake, Alexandros Papagos, and established a good working relationship with him, moreover after the coup attempt in 1944. The King’s experience with Germany helped to warm up relations with the hegemonic power, leading to the retrocession of Crete in 1938. Greece decided to remain neutral in the Great War, but the shifting of powers in Europe due to Syndicalist powers encouraged the Greeks to ally with Serbs to invade Italian Albania in 1945 ; three months after, the Ottomans followed suit… by invading Italian Anatolia and Constantinople. The hour was at hand for Greece : helped by the might of Russia, Greece was able to conquer Italian territories and to enter the Free City of Constantinople on September, 1 1946, ending 25 years of national humiliation. The ownership of the Byzantine capital was acknowledged by the Allies in 1948 and 1950, as a condition for Greek entry into the World War, but Prime Minister Alexandros Papagos approved of the completion of the Megali Idea by proclaiming the Empire of the Hellenes, on Alexandros’ 54th birthday on August, 1 1947, with Alexandros as its first “Basileus”. The British also approved of the annexation of Cyprus, that was annexed in 1955 after a 1950 plebiscite.
Nevertheless, if the Germans and the British had approved of Greek expansion as a fait accompli, the Italians didn’t accepted of the takeover of Albania, Ionian Islands and Dodecanese. As soon as the World War was finished in Italy, the Italian Army landed in Albania, leading a four-year-war against the Greek Army ; even if the Hellenes resisted vallantly, they were finally expelled from the Epirus after the battle of Ioannina on May, 9 1953, ending the First Greco-Italian War : the Italians weren’t too harsh on Greece, keeping Epirus and Ionian Islands as part of Albania, while relinquishing Anatolia and establishing a condominium over the Dodecanese that would lead to Greek annexation in 1957. Nevertheless, Crown Prince Philipp, that had fought in Albania, was so devastated over Greek defeat that he committed suicide.
The death of his eldest son distressed the Emperor, who left most of his royal prerogatives, his last public appearence being for the consecration of Hagia Sophia in 1955 and the reunification of the Dodecanese to Greece. He thus didn’t play an active role in the Constantinople and Cyprus race riots, nor in the timid democratization that followed Papagos’ death. He would die, aged 64, in 1958, in the middle of the Fifth Greco-Turkish War and in a Bosphoros Palace freshly renovated since its days as the Dolmabahçe Palace. If his eldest son never reigned, his two other sons, Konstantinos and Nikolaos, would succeed him.
Konstantinos XIII
Konstantinos XIII (Κωνσταντῖνος ΙΓ΄, 24 September 1932-13 August 1968) was Emperor of the Hellenes, succeeding his father Alexandros on 4 May 1958 until his assassination, when he was succeeded by his brother Nikolaos.
Konstantinos became first in line to the Greek throne after the suicide of his older brother Philippos ; prior to that, he had pursued an active career in the Greek Navy. Upon his accession, he opted for the regnal name of Constantine XIII, in order to uphold the continuity between the Hellenic Empire and the Byzantine Empire (whose last Emperor was Constantine XI) ; his grandfather’s regnal name was retroactively changed to Konstantinos XII.
The Emperor had to preside over the Fifth Greco-Turkish War from the beginning of his reign, and vehemently supported the settlement program in Anatolia and Cyprus ; nevertheless, there was no strongman in Greece to impede the return of Venizilist parties, that won a majority in the 1963 elections. If they were highly nationalistic in nature, the Venizilists remained Republican, and took an even more radical turn after Prime Minister Sofoklis Venizelos unexpectedly died in 1964 and was succeeded by Grigoris Lambrakis. Lambrakis created a rift in the Venizilist party, founding the Pan-Hellenic Social Movement and embarked in a radical agenda, forming a constituant assembly in 1967 ; riots followed the following year among the students, calling for immediate reforms and abolition of the monarchy. The Emperor and the elite feared the prospect of a civil war and Konstantinos supported a coup from the Navy on May, 29 1968, installing Admiral Konstantinos Engolfopoulos as Prime Minister. Political parties were forbidden and a state of emergency proclaimed.
Konstantinos wouldn’t live enough to see the military regime he had supported endure : during a military parade in the streets of Thessaloniki on August, 13 1968, the Emperor was shot three times while riding the imperial limousine ; he died three hours later in the hospital from his wounds. Believed to be a sniper hidden in the upper floors of a neighbouring building, the assassin was never arrested ; a popular conspiracy theory asserts that later Venizilist Prime Minister Alexandros Panagoulis (1981-1986) had carried out the assassination, even if Panagoulis denied all involvement, even if the Prime Minister claimed in personal circles “that someone needed to take care of the tyrant”. Childless in spite of his marriage to Christa, daugther to German Kaiser Wilhelm IV, he was succeeded by his brother Nikolaos.
Evidence have been produced that Konstantinos XIII had been in fact homosexual, as evidenced by his late marriage and his childlessness.
Nikolaos
Nikolaos (Νικόλαος, born 2 June 1940) was Emperor of the Hellenes, succeeding his brother Konstantinos XIII upon his assassination on August, 13 1968, ruling until his abdication on June, 13 1991, when he was succeeded by his son Georgios III.
As third in line to the throne, nothing had expected the youngest child of Emperor Alexandros to ever succeed, but the suicide and assassination of both his brothers would lead him to become Basileus after his brother’s assassination, while Greece was ruled by a military regime. At first supportive of the Navy, Nikolaos noticed the strength of the 1969 and 1970 democracy riots and encouraged a transition to a civilian regime in 1972, along wiith free elections and a new Constitution in 1973 under Royalist Prime Minister Christos Sartzekis, even though Venizilism was still formally forbidden. The Emperor managed to undertake a paternalist image, leading the nation to victory in the 1974 and 1986-1987 wars against the Ottoman Empire, yet a large part of Greek opinion bore bad feelings against the monarch, seen as the supporter of the military dictatorship. An assassination attempt against him occurred in 1970.
Political violence continued in Greece, with the 1977 terrorist attack in the Enosis Square in Constantinople, led by nostalgics of the military regime, while Prime Minister Averoff led an effort towards legalisation of Venizlism, leading to victory of Alexandros Panagoulis, a radical leader. If Panagoulis accepted to establish frosty working relations with Nikolaos and to appease the Turkish inhabitants of Greece, the right-wing, as it stood, saw an opportunity in the aftermath of the victorious Sixth Greco-Turkish War to bolster Greek nationalism : the result was the Epirus War against Italy in 1987, that turned into a complete quagmire. In 1988, the assassination of Prime Minister Souflias, and in 1989, an assassination attempt against Samaras and a coup attempt by Venizilist Army Officers proved that nothing had been resolved in Greece.
In 1990, the parliamentary elections saw the victory of Venizilist Konstantinos Simitis, an avowed Republican, who convened a plebiscite about the monarchy for May, 12 1991, that would result in an abolition of the Crown altogether. The debate was violent, but the preservation of the monarchy prevailed by only 50,6 %. Simitis resigned the following day, but Nikolaos, who had hoped to remain in place after the close result, was convinced by Prime Minister Tsongas that it would only infuriate further the factions in Greece. The King then abdicated and was succeeded by his son.
Residing in London, the former Emperor remains alive to this day and would have certainly ruled to this day. He abstained from commenting the situation at home, only returning for the funeral of his successor Georgios III and the 1996 Olympic Games.
Georgios III
Georgios III (Γεώργιος Γ΄, 20 May 1967-11 September 2004) was Emperor of the Hellenes, succeeding his father Nikolaos after his abdication on June, 13 1991, until his death, being succeeded by his son Konstantinos XIV. The son of Emperor Nikolaos and Princess Elisabeth of Finland, he hailed from the House of Glücksburg.
Georgios III could never have been Emperor of the Hellenes : the Empire was troubled by political violence and his father had abdicated after a harsh referendum on the monarchy, that the institution had barely survived but the close call had committed his father to abdicate. A fresher face for the monarchy, he reached a gentleman’s agreement with Venizilist Prime Minister Pavlos Tsongas, unofficially renouncing the imperial powers guaranteed by the Constitution, allowing the monarchy to reinvent himself as a British-style parliamentary monarchy. Even if opposition to the monarchy and left-wing and islamist terrorism remained prevalent, Georgios was popular, presiding to the 1996 Constantinople Olympic Games, that marked the centenary of the Modern Olympics, and personally leading the rescue efforts after the Nicomedia earthquake in 1999.
On September, 11 2004, the Emperor was on official visit in the recently renovated Archeological Museum of Troy, near Dardanellia, and was expected for a visit in Athens the following day ; the Emperor and its retenue decided to rally Attica by helicopter and spend the night in Athens. As the Imperial helicopter expected to land in Lesbos to refuel, it fell victim to a mechanical malfunction while beginning its descent ; the helicopter fell and crashed into the Aegean Sea, killing all aboard. Even if it was rumoured to be a terrorist attack, an official investigation proved the death to be accidental. Prime Minister Pavlos Bayokannis announced a week-long period of official mourning, while his five-year-son Konstantinos became Emperor Konstantinos XIV, under the regency of Marie-Louise of Baden, Georgios’ wife.
Konstantinos XIV
Konstantinos XIV (Κωνσταντῖνος ΙΔ΄, born October, 29 1998) is the reigning Emperor of the Hellenes, succeeding his father Georgios III on 11 September, 2004. A member of the House of Glücksburg, his mother, Empress Marie Louise of Baden, served as Regent until his majority on October, 29 2016.
The second child and eldest son of his father, Konstantinos wasn’t expected to ascend the throne at only 5, but the untimely death of Georgios III in a helicopter crash, leading to the ascension of the Crown Prince ; the Regency was quickly assumed by the Empress Dowager, who was pregnant with Prince Georgios at the time. One of the youngest monarchs in the world (and among the most-prized bachelors according to gossip), Emperor Konstantinos saw during his reign, the Turkish Cypriot guerrilla, the destitution of Prime Minister Bayokannis for corruption in 2007, the makeover of Greek politics with the election of Arianna Stanissopoulou and the passing of the anti-Muslim Laws in 2012. His reign was also marked by the Cyprus Missile Crisis, riots in 2008, 2015, 2016 and terrorist attacks in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2017. The 2013 Constitution reduced considerably the powers of the monarch, inscribing in the law the status quo that had been reached by his father.
And the Czarevich as well...
Nikolai IV is Alexander's second son. As of Primakov, he served as Foreign Minister at the time of the Vladisvostok terrorist attack.
If it’s possible I would be interested seeing the Star Wars wikibox on May Fourth