Holy Alliance - more useful in alt world?

JJohnson

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I was reading about the so-called 'Holy Alliance' with Russian Czar Alexander I, Emperor Francis I of Austria, and King Frederick William III of Prussia for 'defending the Christian religion.' Would this alliance have possibly aided in restoring to Greece the city of Constantinople?

James
 
Well, Constantinople has for a long time been full of Turks. I don't see Greece digesting this population well.
 
I was reading about the so-called 'Holy Alliance' with Russian Czar Alexander I, Emperor Francis I of Austria, and King Frederick William III of Prussia for 'defending the Christian religion.' Would this alliance have possibly aided in restoring to Greece the city of Constantinople?

James
The Holy Alliance was an instrument of suppression of revolution. The Greek uprising was a revolution. As such, the guarantors of the Holy Alliance were induced to ignore it and not support it, von Metternich especially. When the original Russian tsar to devise the Holy Alliance, Aleksandr I, died, his successor Nikolai I put some of the first fractures in it by working with Britain and France in support of the Greek rebellion, a policy that culminated in the Battle of Navarino and the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-9.

So, no, the Holy Alliance wasn't trying to support any sort of thing like that.
 
More likely they may have supported a provision granting Russia and Austria great sway over ports and cities throught Turkey, perhaps culminating in a Russian Orthodox bishop in the Hagia Sofia. Russia's aim in the 1850s was more or less power over all of Turkey's Christians. Maybe they could try to get a similar position for Austria over the Catholics, while Russia takes the Eastern Christians.

I agree, though, that the Holy Alliance wasn't in the business of propping up revolutionaries like the Greeks against legitimate monarchs like the Sultan.
 
More likely they may have supported a provision granting Russia and Austria great sway over ports and cities throught Turkey, perhaps culminating in a Russian Orthodox bishop in the Hagia Sofia. Russia's aim in the 1850s was more or less power over all of Turkey's Christians. Maybe they could try to get a similar position for Austria over the Catholics, while Russia takes the Eastern Christians.
I doubt Britain would have agreed to that, or France. :p
 
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