Greece/Neo Byzantium in the 19th Century

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is form a modernised, Hellenic, Orthodox Empire centred in Constantinople. It can be as large as you want, however it must be all of modern day Greece and Constantinople. The society should be needs to be more structured, bureaucratic and less free, similar to the Byzantine age rather than the current Hellenic Republic. It is also heavily militarised and centred on maritime commerce more than Industrialisation.

Your POD is 1800. Good Luck!

I might plan to use the best idea for a timeline, although that is up for debate considering my activity with Cesare Borgia.
 

Thomas1195

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Maybe Napoleon join force with Russia to attack Ottoman Empire, rather than attacking Russia. Then Napoleon forms a puppet Greece including Modern Greece, Constantinople and Eastern Thrace.

Let's see, maybe having Gladstone as PM during 1874-1880, then have him backing Greece to war on Russian side during 1877-1878 ejecting Ottoman out of Europe. Same outcome as in my first POD.
 
Maybe Napoleon join force with Russia to attack Ottoman Empire, rather than attacking Russia. Then Napoleon forms a puppet Greece including Modern Greece, Constantinople and Eastern Thrace.

Let's see, maybe having Gladstone as PM during 1874-1880, then have him backing Greece to war on Russian side during 1877-1878 ejecting Ottoman out of Europe. Same outcome as in my first POD.

Great start! What would get Napoleon to do this?
 
Lol. Great point. Also could lead to a pretty damn different Europe, as France rules over it, and Britain's isolated.
Well, for as long as they can hold it anyways. Napoleon's empire very much relied on his leadership. In a generation or two we would likely see it break up at least partially, though a total reversal is unlikely.
 

Thomas1195

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Don't see Napoleon doing very well across the Bosphorus, as he had a lack of naval support, and could just get starved to death in the hills of Anatolia, similar to the Russian Campaign.

Ok, so clearly that's a great candidate for a restored Neo-Byzantium. Any other ideas?
At least he would take Balkan
 
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