(Historical) Annexxations/Mergers We Would Have Liked To See.

htgriffin

Crying said:
Didn't Turkey only invade Cyprus in response to its government trying to ethnically cleanse its northern Turkish population?
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Sadly, people keep overlooking that (along with the displacement/death tolls of the Greek/Balkan Liberation Movements in general, but I digress).

RoC/TRoNC reunion is my preferred outcome, but much like Israel incorporating the West Bank/Gaza or Palestine Liberated From River To Sea, ironclad protections/civil rights/citizenship across the board for _everyone_ must be part of the deal or it is worse than the status quo.
 
Sphenodon

Sphenodon

Crying said:
Didn't Turkey only invade Cyprus in response to its government trying to ethnically cleanse its northern Turkish population?
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To my knowledge no attempts were made or stated by the pre-invasion Cypriot governments (or the Greek Junta, for that matter) to expel or kill Cypriot Turkish populations on the island.

The original invasion, occurring between July 20-22, 1974, was conducted in response to the coup of the Republic of Cyprus' government by the Cypriot National Guard (supported by the ultranational terrorist organization EOKA-B) in a bid to install the pro-Enosis Nikos Sampson. While explicitly propagandist towards union with Greece, the army explicitly avoided attacking Turkish Cypriots (the overwhelming majority of which had by this point segregated themselves into concentrated enclaves due to conflict/disenfranchisement within Cypriot society and politics) to avoid invoking the wrath of Turkey. EKOA-B held no such inhibitions, and in this timeframe was responsible for multiple instances of Turkish massacres.

Nonetheless, Turkey invaded under pretense of supporting Cypriot independence and protecting Turkish Cypriots, though a ceasefire was declared two days later upon collapse of the Greek military junta (which had orchestrated the original coup). At that point they controlled only a tiny strip of land near Nicosia. The invasion was later resumed in August amid the closing of the second round of peace talks in Geneva; Turkey had issued demands for the Cypriot government to accept a federalization of rulership of the island as well as a population transfer, while denying requests for processing time under grounds of suspicion.
 
Brita

Brita

Sounds foolishly romantic but here's one:
Maritime Kingdoms of the Celts (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Man, Brittany and Cornwall)
 

B_Munro

pompejus said:
The Netherlands with Flanders, Dunkirk, East-Frisia, Luxemburg, Surinam, Indonesia, Ceylon, the rest of Europe, the rest of Asia, the rest of the world, the moon, Mars, the of the solarsystem, milky way Galaxy and the known universe.

All bow down to your Dutch Overlords!
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The world emperor in the Robert Heinlein SF novel Double Star is a member of the House of Orange...
 

B_Munro

And why not a map? (Starting at the beginning and moving forward, so some stuff is made impossible by what came before).

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ImperialxWarlord

ImperialxWarlord

Hungary and the Eastern Roman empire. There’s a thread about alexios II being born a girl and forcing Manuel I to go through with marrying his eldest daughter to Bela III. If this happened a lot of the shit that doomed the empire could be avoided.
 

last admiral

Banned
I have read a book about this premise, what if Malacca didnt fall and gather their strenght and conquer Goa and Lisbon. In that story, Malay Sultanate of Portugal were replace the defeated Portugal.

I wonder what are the effect in Europe and SEA if such scenario happen?
 
ramones1986

ramones1986

Another take of mine:
  • Puerto Rico and the (ATL) Hispanophone Caribbean islands, Barbados*
  • (ATL) Hispanophone Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Note:
*Bonus points of both the Caribbean islands and Barbados were geologically larger than OTL (Yup, geographical ASB PoDs could be also applied, as long as it's within the plausibility.)
 

Anawrahta

Banned
Muslims never conquer the Indian subcontinent, and a Hindu-buddhist dynasty creates a United State consisting of
India+ Eastern Afghanistan+ Indus Valley+ Java+ Malay Peninsula+ Cambodia+ Champa
 
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