greek war of independence

  1. Basileus_Komnenos

    Effects of Murat controlled Naples on Greece/Greek Revolution

    Assuming there's not Hundred Days Campaign, which allows for Murat to essentially maintain his throne in Naples, how would that affect the later Greek War of Independence? Would Murat join the expedition with France and Russia, sending troops to reinforce the Greeks? Would Murat try getting one...
  2. Basileus_Komnenos

    AHC: Successful Filiki Eteria/Phanariote Greece

    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...
  3. Greece loses its war of independence?

    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...
  4. Earl Marshal

    Pride Goes Before a Fall: A Revolutionary Greece Timeline
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1: The Spark of Revolution

    Chapter 1: The Spark of Revolution The Ottoman Empire, 1801 On the 22nd of February 1821, the Phanariot Alexander Ypsilantis crossed the Pruth River into the Danubian Principality of Moldavia and in doing so sparked an open revolt against the Ottoman Empire. Across all of Rumelia, Greeks rose...
  5. WI: European Philegyptianism instead of Philhellenism, Western volunteers join Muhammad Ali Pasha

    At the beginning of the 19th century, "Egyptomania" began to abound in Europe, as archaeologists continued to discover new artifacts, tombs. As linguists translated Coptic and old hieroglyphics to decipher the writings of the Ancient Egyptians, interest in the ancient history of Egypt grew...
  6. Earl Marshal

    AHC: Leopold of Greece

    In the London Protocol of 1830, the great powers of Great Britain, France, and Russia had intended on having Leopold of Saxe-Coburg become the King of Greece only for him to refuse it. His reasoning was that Greece was politically unstable and that he wanted the Arta to Volos border for Greece...
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