Strangely enough,nobody mentioned the Ottomans. Maybe have the Ottomans impose a protectorate over Muslim states in the East Indies to protect them from European predation? IOTL, Aceh recognized de jure overlordship of the Ottoman Caliph.
Take a country that historically had no colonies and find a plausible location for it to colonize
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Not that I know of. But the prestige factor of having a colonial empire just like the older European states was the major driving force behind Polish and Czech colonial efforts. Based on that kind of reasoning, the a more extant, stable, and prosperous Kingdom of Yugoslavia might pursued a League Mandate or something similar for the same kind of nationalist chest-thumping reasons.
The Axis powers' empire-building projects did a lot to delegitimize the idea of colonialism, so I would expect that type of imperial thinking to hang around for longer in a TL without WW2 or the Cold War.
1. Princedom of Monaco colonizes France (if there are enough of the French tourists losing all their money in casinos).
2. Or (this is post 1900), when Iceland went bankrupt, I offered 3 colleagues of mine raise money ($10 per person) and buy it at the discount price (it did not look like it is going to cost more than 40 bucks). 2 of them did not know where it is located and the 3rd (being from India, he at least was familiar with geography) could not figure what he is going to get in return for his $10 (he did not drink and was a vegetarian so my answer that he will be sitting in a warm lake drinking Icelandic vodka and eating herring did not look as an attractive perspective to him). However, if the purchase happened, would it count as a colony?
I'm going to have to go on my memory of reading John Julius Norwich here, but basically Venice was so invested in the Eastern route overland through Egypt that they saw Portugal's offer as an attempt to undermine them. Of course, when not long afterwards the Eastern route was closed to them, they did not have the Atlantic route either, since they had turned the chance down.
Quite what the details were escape me, for now, I'm afraid. I don't own his book on Venice and must have borrowed it from the library
Finland if.... the Russia Empire collapses after WWI and Russia proper fragments into red and white nations.
IOTL, Finland did send some privately funded, exploratory columns into Karelia during the Russian civil war with the goal unifying Karelia into Finland. The small columns, however, were pushed back by resurgent reds and Karelian apathy.
But... with the collapse of the Russian empire and the fragmentation of Russia, Finland sets their sites on colonizing karelia, then moving onto increasingly vaguely defined Finno Ugric areas in the Urals.
IOTL, Finland did send some privately funded, exploratory columns into Karelia during the Russian civil war with the goal unifying Karelia into Finland. The small columns, however, were pushed back by resurgent reds and Karelian apathy.
But... with the collapse of the Russian empire and the fragmentation of Russia, Finland sets their sites on colonizing karelia, then moving onto increasingly vaguely defined Finno Ugric areas in the Urals.
I have for a while considered a scenario where Bulgaria wasn't conquered by the Ottomans and developed into a strong country, with its own navy. Later it's plagued by attacks by Laz pirates and sends a punishment expedition, which ends up conquering parts of the coast in the region from Trebizond to Batumi. This would technically count as a colony. Of course it's quite implausible since Bulgaria never had any naval tradition, but this is still the most plausible way for Bulgaria to gain colonies.
What about Ukrainian colonies for food? In a world where it was the Bulgarians that rolled back the steppe hordes there somehow.
Bulgaria had never had any problems with feeding itself (in OTL it's a major wheat exporter). In contrast at the time southern Ukraine was still mostly unbroken steppe rather than the breadbasket it is today, so would hardly be much of an attraction to a Bulgaria that has plenty of good land already. Plus Bulgaria had always been more interested in expanding towards the rich lands along the Aegean and Marmara Sea and far less in rolling back the rather fierce steppe hordes.
Brian Boru and his son survive the Battle of Clontarf and manage to create a centralised Kingdom of Ireland, during the Age of Exploration Ireland discovers and colonises Newfoundland and Labrador.
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The problem is the Red Sea and Persian Gulf aren't really the best locations out of which to base a colonization project. Still, if the Ottomans put effort into it to displace the Portugese and use clients in India as a jumping off point keeping the Indian Ocean trade a Muslim thing and resulting in a Turkish presence in the East Indies, India, and East Africa are certainly a possability.
Not Spain but Austria gets Louisiana in 1763,no Louisiana Purchase,The Prairie could be a play-yard for Hungarian Hussars and Galician Lancers regiments instead of the U.S Cavalary
Until its overwhelmed by American settlers anyway...Not Spain but Austria gets Louisiana in 1763,no Louisiana Purchase,The Prairie could be a play-yard for Hungarian Hussars and Galician Lancers regiments instead of the U.S Cavalary
Why? Austria and other German States could provide settlers?And the Austrian Netherlands?
I know i mentioned this before, but...
Either the Cholas or the Vijayanagaras survive into the 17th century, and end up colonizing parts of East and South Africa.
Either the Cholas or the Vijayanagaras survive into the 17th century, and end up colonizing parts of East and South Africa.
If there was no Russian Empire, I could see Siberia getting conquered by the Chinese, Mongols, Koreans, Japanese, etc.
For sure- the economic relations and trade links were closer between Mexico and the Philippines than between Spain and the Philippines.
