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Based from the thread which is about Egypt. This time, it'll be about the Levant (which is Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan) region under the rule of the successfully industrialized Ottoman Empire. The scenario is where the Ottoman Empire industrialized earlier than OTL and doing a good job at it.

The question is how would Levant under the industrialized Ottoman Empire would turned out to be like?

I can see coastal areas being more developed than OTL while certain key cities like Damascus are modernized.

If this industrialized Ottoman Empire granted independence to the Levantine countries, how would they turned out to be like?
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