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  1. Austrian Diplomacy 1790-1792

    This period of uneasy geopolitical lull is intriguing me lately. The #2 power has been thrown into disarray and the others are scrambling around for advantage and/or wringing their hands about the contagion spreading. Austria is in great turmoil. With a quagmire in the Balkans, Flanders and...

  2. Joseph II marries Madame Elisabeth in 1781

    And they have two boys. Franz (1783) and Karl (1785). Joseph dies in schedule in 1790 Does she have any influence over policy? Probably not. But if she did, would she slow down Joseph’s reforms? I’m not sure a minor can be elected HRE. But if so, how would the regency be handled? A council...

  3. NAFTA style Free Trade Area in Central Europe 1910

    What are the chances of a German/Austro-Hungarian/Romanian customs union initiated by Germany by 1910? Advantages for Germany? Cheap labor for household help and also markets for products. Manor Houses staffed by Poles and Ukrainians. Advantages for AH and Romania? Capital investments and...

  4. AHC: 1870 Europe Semi Unified Italy, Germany

    With a POD of 1848 have a Europe with the following features by 1870. Prussian leadership of German Confederation (no empire) Independent Bavaria, Luxembourg Danish Schleswig, Prussian Holstein French Alsace-Lorraine Savoyard leadership in Italy, annexation of at least Lombardy...

  5. Franz Joseph/Crown Prince Frederick Bromance

    BFFs. How can this happen? Can it affect marriages—as in can FJ marry Anne or Prussia or Frederick marry a Bavarian sister? What effect could it possibly have on Austro-Prussian relations. FJ has power of course but Frederick does not—unless he can influence his uncle and then his father. Does...

  6. AHC: Partial Unification of Germany and Italy

    Create a Europe in 1870 in which Germany and Italy are partially unified. Germany may have central authority vested in Prussia, but it must not be an empire. The more political concessions to constituent states, the better. At the very least, Bavaria must retain full independence (though it...

  7. Hungarian Sponsored Trialism

    Simply put, there has been much theorizing about FF and his plans for south Slav trialism, but what if the Magyars beat him to it and cultivated the Croats from early on? The structure is already there in the sub-compromise, it puts wedge between the Croats and Serbs and neutralizes Austrian...

  8. AHC: Thriving Yiddish Culture

    With a POD of around 1900, create conditions for a community of 15 million Yiddish speakers worldwide and a recognized minority community in the former (or current?) Pale of Settlement. Assuming obviously that the holocaust must be avoided, but also assimilation and a Hebrew-only Israel? Must...

  9. Glorious Charles VI

    Often considered a boob-"crapulous" says the book, Danubia, Charles VI lost much of the gains from the treaties of Utrecht and Passarowitz and set his realms up poorly for the looming succession crisis. What if he was glorious instead of crapulous? 1713: Peace of Utrecht as OTL. !714...

  10. Diplomatic Revolution Late 1690s and Marriages

    In order to bring the War of the League of Augsburg to a close and come to an arrangement about the Spanish Succession, France and Austria set about settling their differences. The attempt at detente and possible alliance is cemented by an array of brilliant marriages. This will be right up...

  11. A-HOLE

    Let me apologize in advance for the bad (bad!) joke and the (even worse!) acronym: Austro-Hungarian Operations League East. BUT say the ever fertile minds in Vienna developed an effective and ruthless anti-terrorism unit say around 1900. Can they take out Apis? Can they prevent the...

  12. Italy Neutral in WWI

    Seems the cabinet and the Parliament were opposed to intervention and the King and popular opinion tipped the balance the other way. Suppose Italy sat out the war despite obvious internal and external pressures. Would they still have picked up Trentino and Trieste after the war? The...

  13. Russian Collapse

    The Ottoman thread had me thinking about various points in history when Russia could have collapsed. We did have this in 1917 obviously but how about a point in time between Peter the Great and 1900? Great Northern War? Pugachev's revolt? 1812? I will focus on the Crimean War. The war is...

  14. You Instead of Count Boul

    Count Buol steered Austria right into the reefs in the 1850s. You are the Chairman of the Conference of Ministers instead of him. What are your polices? You are stuck with his predecessor's choices: Reconquest of Lombardy/pacification of Italy Russian intervention in Hungary Diplomatic...

  15. ACH: Stalinist Reconstruction

    Achieve the most brutal reconstruction possible in the South. Liquidations of classes (slave owners), collectivization, deportations. Go for it.

  16. Austria's Meager Compromises

    Franz Josef and his advisors would not budge on the issues of Italy, Germany and Hungary until they were beaten militarily. What if a smart advisor brought the emperor around to honesty rather than hubris or honor? What face saving compromises could have garnered better outcomes for Austria...
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