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From the first half of the 2000s - the end of the ten years of the 21st century, the former Republic of Macedonia, which in a natural historical development after the Balkan Wars and even after the Two World Wars would have been the South-Western part of my native Bulgaria, and after the Second...

The Filiki Eteria was a secret society/revolutionary movement that gained traction in the early 19th century aiming to overthrow Ottoman rule in Greece and restore an independent state. This group was largely dominated by the Phanariotes, a wealthy group of Greek Merchants who gained influence...

Hey guys. I am currently writing a TL where Napoleon didn't make his two big blunders (The Peninsular War and the Invasion of Russia). I found an older post concerning what would happen if the Ottoman Empire collapsed due to the Palace Coups of 1807-1808. My main question is if Mahmud II is...

How would politics have developed in the Kingdom of Greece and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia without the fascists invading the two countries? -would Yugoslavia be able to keep itself united under a monarchy rather than the OTL federation? I imagine that, without the atrocities in World War II...

So in the immediate aftermath of Cyprus’s independence, in 1963 - 64 inter communal violence would flare up. In Turkey, the minority government of Ismet Inonu was currently in a coalition with the Nationalist, Republican Villagers Nation Party and under consist threat of coups decided to start...

I'm a really big mythology buff and love learning about little known pieces of world myths. In a recent video I was interested to learn that Poseidon, not Zeus, was considered the chief deity of Mycenaean Greece, the last vestige of the Bronze Age that lasted roughly from 1750 BC to 1050 BC...

How would a "Greater" Greece following the Megali Idea have affected WWII and the Cold War? Assuming Greece won the Greco-Turkish War, or did better in WWI, how would it fare in the Second World War and the later cold war? Obviously there would be internal issues within Greece due to...

In another thread we explored the possible consequences of Haled Efendi not pushing his Four Dynasties Plan on Phanariote support for a Greek Revolution after the Napoleonic Wars https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-southern-greek-revolt-but-no-greek-revolution.540426/ Here I would...

Pretty much as the tin says, what if the Ottoman Empire did not declare war on Bulgaria (or anyone else for that matter) during the Second Balkan War? Would Bulgaria be able to hold itself against just the Serbs, Greeks and Romanians ? If not, would Greece end up being able to take more of...

The Greek Civil War took place from 1943 to 1949. It was mainly fought against the established Kingdom of Greece, which was supported by the United Kingdom, the United States and France and won in the end. The losing opposition was governed by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its military...

If Justinian restored the Roman Empire by Reconquering the entire Mediterranean coast would there still be large scale hellenisation (assimilation into greek culture) in the Byzantine Empire like irl?

Porphrogennetos The Romans and the New World (left, Basileia Rhomaion in 976 AD) (left, Phrygia, where Tzimiskes were travelling through) On the eighth of January, 976. Emperor John I Tzimiskes, scion of a distinguished family and himself a distinguished emperor, woke up in the cold...

What's the maximum population that the territory of OTL Greece could support?

Like it says on the tin. Suppose the Greek rebels are defeated by the Ottomans early on, in late 1821 or early 1822. A POD which could help, at least on the political front, would be keeping the patriarch of Constantinople from being executed on the orders of Mahmud II, since not only did he...

In 1925, a short war occurred between Greece and Bulgaria. It isn't truly known what caused the war, with two versions of the story existing. But that doesn't matter, what only matters is who would've won? What would have occurred after the victory for whichever side pulls the win? How does it...

What if during the Corfu incident Mussolini was for some reason crazy enough to actually invade Greece? At the time Mussolini’s government was brand new and his army was definitely not prepared for an actual war. I think that Albania who was at the time nearly a Italian puppet would have sided...

I'm wondering about the ramifications for World War I and beyond where the Ottoman Empire still lost The Italo-Turkish War between 1911-1912 and lost their territory in Libya but still managed to retain their holdings in the Dodecanese Islands. What are the effects of this on the Balkan War...

In the late 18th century, there was an idea pushed by Catherine II of Russia to partition the Ottomans' European territory, which ran roughly as follows: Austria would receive Bosnia, Serbia, northern Albania, and western Wallachia. Russia would receive Pontus in Anatolia and create two new...

Plausibility check : How much can Ancient Egypt expand and settle in Mediterranean and Africa without touching Mesopotamia from Narmer until Hyksos with continuous wars of expansion, full political and religious support and without dynastic change or wars of succession ? direction of expansion

The Nicopolis Crusade was a failed effort in 1396 to stop the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. Lack of competent leadership, numbers, and supplies was what doomed the expedition and allowed Bayezid of the Ottoman Empire to mop them up. Assuming the crusade was able to get more numbers (England...