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Points of Divergence : The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was a country based in Turkey and the Balkans that existed from the fourteenth century to the twentieth century. It rose to prominence after sieging, capturing, and making a capital of the city of Constantinople, former capital of the Byzantine Empire. After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans conquered most of the Balkans, as well as the Middle East and North Africa. Leading much of the world in technology for centuries, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful nations on earth for long periods of time, as member Abdul Hadi Pasha will gladly tell you. AH.Commers adore the Ottoman Empire, because it is often seen as the successor state to the Byzantine Empire, which was in turn the successor state to the Roman Empire. As is the case with the other two Empires, the Ottomans are the topic of much discussion on AH.Com. Sadly, the Ottomans ceased to be shortly after WW1 for a variety of reasons.
Pre-1700 PoDs
Battle of Manzikert Points of Divergence
Challenge: Smaller, but more stable and longer lasting Ottomans
The effects of the Ottoman Empire never existing
Ottoman Interregnum: Could the Ottomans have collapsed in the 1400s ?
Challenge: Ottoman Empire seen as a continuation of the Roman Empire
Tamerlan destroys the Ottoman Empire
WI: Osman II managed to disband the Janissaries ?
WI the Ottoman Europe became majority Muslim by 1600 ?
WI the Ottoman Empire moves further east ?
An idle thought on the Ottoman Turkish language
Arabic as official language of the Ottoman Empire ?
Suleyman I doesn't kill his son
WI the Ottomans made it to America ?
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Post-1700 PoDs
Discussion on the Ottoman Empire's best case scenario
Challenge: Have the Ottomans at the Congress of Vienna
Plausibility check: Revolution in the Ottoman Empire
WI : Muslim Patron for Ottoman Muslim subjects
The Ottoman Empire surviving with a 19th century POD
Discussion on the Ottoman Empire surviving to the modern day
Discussion on the Ottoman Empire pulling a Meiji
A TL about the Ottoman Empire reforming
More discussion on a surviving Ottoman Empire
Discussion on a more modernized Ottoman Empire
Discussion on a resurgent Ottoman Empire
Napoleonic partition of the Ottoman Empire
Challenge: End the Ottoman Empire before 1850
Challenge: Break up Anatolia (preferrably between 1850 and 1900)
Best point to destroy the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century
Challenge: Russo-Turkish rapprochement in the 19th century, after the Crimean War
Reviving the idea of an Ottoman victory in 1877-78
The development of the Ottoman Empire with regards to oil production
Italians exploit Ottoman naval inferiority and defeat the Ottoman Navy in 1912
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WWI PoDs
Short discussion on the Ottomans surviving WWI
Discussion on the Ottomans surviving WWI
Discussion about the Ottomans in a TL where the Central Powers win WWI
Discussion about the Ottomans staying out of WWI
Short discussion on an Ottoman Empire that joins the Allies in WWI
More discussion on the Ottoman Empire in a world where the Central Powers win WWI
Best case scenario for the Ottoman Empire ?
Neutral Ottoman Empire in WWI?
Neutral Ottoman Empire in WWI, WWI ends similarly
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Miscellaneous
The Ottoman Empire seen as a continuation of the Roman Empire ?
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