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So with any POD after Greek Independence, what is the largest it could have gotten to? Could it have taken Constantinople? Eastern Anatolia? Cyprus? What are some realistic ways for it to get to a larger size?
 
A 19th century Russiawank might see them completely steamroll the Ottomans, allowing them to divvy up the Empire as they please. Although Constantinople itself would likely be placed under direct rule a vassal/friendly Greece could receive Thrace, the Ionian coast, and Pontus, possibly with even those latter two connected by coast. A very ugly-looking state, and not a very ethnically homogenous one, but pretty damn big.

Cyprus might join through enosis later on.
 
The most secure border would have been one dividing Europe(and Ionian Islands + Cyprus) and Anatolia, less chances of border disputes, on top of that the Dardanelles are divided between 2 countries, ensuring the possibility of great powers supporting this.
 
So with any POD after Greek Independence, what is the largest it could have gotten to? Could it have taken Constantinople? Eastern Anatolia? Cyprus? What are some realistic ways for it to get to a larger size?
You mean something like the Greater Greece (Megali Idea)

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So with any POD after Greek Independence, what is the largest it could have gotten to? Could it have taken Constantinople? Eastern Anatolia? Cyprus? What are some realistic ways for it to get to a larger size?

Greece + Southern Albania, Eastern Thrace and Cyprus. A maybe maybe Southern bits of Eastern Rumelia (Bulgaria).

Eastern Thrace without access to the Sea of Marmara or Constantinople.
 
A 19th century Russiawank might see them completely steamroll the Ottomans, allowing them to divvy up the Empire as they please. Although Constantinople itself would likely be placed under direct rule a vassal/friendly Greece could receive Thrace, the Ionian coast, and Pontus, possibly with even those latter two connected by coast. A very ugly-looking state, and not a very ethnically homogenous one, but pretty damn big.

Cyprus might join through enosis later on.

Given the politics of the century, I think it would be more likely that this Greek state would control Constantinople than Russia. A great power in control of the straits would alarm the others. Greece is an easier compromise.
 
Muhammad Ali conquers the Ottoman Empire in Africa and Asia. The Greek State and Romaniotes establish a Greek-ruled polity in all of the European portion of the Ottoman Empire that proclaims itself the restoration of Byzantium.
 
Given the politics of the century, I think it would be more likely that this Greek state would control Constantinople than Russia. A great power in control of the straits would alarm the others. Greece is an easier compromise.
Why would that bother the others? I mean isn't Russia the only who uses it of all the great powers. It's not like it's the Suez Canal.
 
Why would that bother the others? I mean isn't Russia the only who uses it of all the great powers. It's not like it's the Suez Canal.

I think that the other powers thought this would give Russia too much access to the Mediterranean.
 
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