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Hi all,

This is my first post so be patient with me... ...ok the POD of this timeline is that the Philorthodox plot of 1839 succeeds and Othon I of Greece (Otto Wittelsbach) is 1) forced to convert to Orthodoxy, along with his wife Amalia of Oldenburg, 2) the Bavarian advisors are booted out (to be replaced by Russian army officers, British naval officers and French industrialists) 3) the King swears never to grant a constitution and 4) peerages are handed out to the heroes of the Greek War of Independence.

Characters who did not exist in OTL will be introduced with a *

1839 - following the success of the Philorthodox Plot the Russian faction begin a century of dominance of the Greek political landscape that will lead to Greece being more capable of waging war and carrying out policies of industrialisation.

1848 - first and only son Ludovikos (Ludvig)* is born.

1844 - 1855 - sympathetic Philorthodox guerillas in the Dodecanese Islands and Crete wage a war against the Ottomans funded by House Wittelsbach, in return for not assisting Russia in the Crimean War Britain and France pressure Turkey and Egypt into relinquishing these islands to Greece.

1869 - Othon I dies of a heart attack. Ludovikos I succeeds his father to the throne, marrying Princess Louise of Great Britain, as a wedding gift the Ionnian Islands are bestowed upon Greece (in OTL they were given to Greece for choosing pro-British George I as king)

1871 - Ludovikos' first son Othon* is born followed by Christophoros* two years later (died at age three), Goulielmos* four years later and Helena* a year after that.

1877 - 1881 - Greece fights alongside Russia in the Russo-Turkish War, sending an expedition to seize Cyprus and the rest of the Aegean Islands as well as taking the rest of Epirus.

1889 - Crown Prince Othon marries Princess Sophie of Prussia.

1890 - Frederikos* is born to Crown Prince Othon and Sophie, he will be followed by Arthouros* a year later and Henrikos* two years after that.

1896 - Ludovikos I dies of pnuemonia, he is succeded by Othon II.

1910 - Othon II dies in a sailing accident, he is succeded by his son Frederikos I.

1912 - Inspired by Italy's crushing victory over the Ottomans in Tripolitania and Cyrenica Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro enter into an alliance and attack the Ottomans simultaneously. Frederikos leads a brilliant offensive to conquer Macedonia and is killed at it's gates by a stray round, his brother Arthouros assumes command and seizes the city. In a frenzy over the loss of their young king the Greeks slaughter the Ottoman garrison and the city's Turkish inhabitants. Arthouros will continue to lead at the front until the situation stabilises and he can go back to Athens and be coronated at Christmas.

1913 - The Ottoman Empire surrenders and at the Treaty of London Bulgaria gets Thrace, Serbia gets Vardareska and central Albania, Greece gets Macedonia and southern Albania and Montenegro gets northern Albania. Later Bulgaria will be defeated by a coalition of the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Romania. Apart from ceding parts of Thrace back to Turkey, the northern Aegean coast to Greece, eastern Vardareska to Serbia; Bulgaria is forced to drastically reduce it's army. In Corinth, in a secret pact known later as the Corinthian Entente; Greece, Serbia, Romania and Montenegro sign a secret alliance to keep the Austro-Hungarians and Ottomans out of the Balkans and the Bulgarians down.

(To be continued...)
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