The Ottoman Empire, whose motto is ironically “The Eternal State,” survived for more than 600 years before collapsing during WWI. This Alternate History scenario tries to imagine a world where the Ottomans were actually an eternal state and lasted to this day. If this has some historical inaccuracies, please don’t kill me, as this is my first AltHistory.
Point of Divergence[]
This timeline diverges in 1839 when the Second Turko-Egyptian War broke out.
Timeline[]
- Yemen forms the Arab Caliphate and the British don’t take Aden.
- The Turko-Egyptian War ends in a success for the Ottomans. They fully annex Egypt instead of making them a nominal vassal state in the Treaty of Alexandra. (1841)
- The Ottomans take most of British Africa north of German Tanzania. (1858)
- The Suez Canal is built, but the Ottomans don’t need to sell their portion of the Suez to the British, as the Egyptians did in OTL, because of the tax increase in 1843. (1867)
- The Arab Caliphate occupies Oman. (1876)
- Cyprus stays part of the Ottoman Empire, along with Egypt, which were both taken by the British in the late 1870’s and the early 1880’s.
- Libya and Tunisia are sold to the Italians from the Ottomans to modernize their army, preventing the Italo-Turkish War that happened in OTL. (1910)
- Ottomans meet the demands of the Young Turks activist group and prevent the coup d'état that took place in OTL. (1912)
- The First Balkan War is a massive success for the Ottomans, who defeat the Greeks and Bulgarians due to the lack of them fighting the Italians and their modernized army before European intervention and the Treaty of Thrace gave the Ottomans control of Macedonia as a puppet state and Bulgaria as a fully integrated region. (1913)
- World War I starts, but the Ottomans side with the Quadruple Entente. The war ends in almost the same way. (1914)
- The East African Union, including present day Kenya, South Sudan, southern proper Sudan, and Uganda wanted independence, so the British and French insist on a referendum. The East African Union gains independence. (1923)
- The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Arab Calaphate in the First Gulf War, losing support of some Arabs in the Arabian Peninusula. (1925)
- After a defeat, the Ottomans sign the Treaty of San’aa, in which the Arab Calaphate gained control of Rub a Kahului and present day UAE and Quatar.
- World War II starts. The Ottomans join the Allies because of crubiling Turko-Italian ties. (1939)
- The Eastern African Union joins the Allies and takes out Italian Ethiopia. (1940)
- The last Italian troops are pushed out of Africa at the Battle of Tunis. (1942)
- The Ottoman Empire gains nuclear bombs. (1946)
- The Paris Peace Confrence gives the Ottomans full control over Lybia and Tunisia, and the Ottomans become part of the Big Six in the UN. (1947)
- Iran declares war on the Ottomans, sparking the Fourth Persio-Turkish War. (1957)
- Iran starts to lose, so the Treaty of Tabriz is signed, handing over control of Tabriz and Western Iran from the Iranians to the Ottomans. (1961)
- The Arab Caliphate changes their government to a Constitutional Monarchy, and their name becomes the Kingdom of United Arab States (KAUS). (1973)
- European states of the Ottoman Empire want more autonomy, so the Ottomans join all their European territories into one excluding Bulgaria and Thrace into The Kingdom of Macedonia, including Albania, Greece, Kosovo, and Macedonia. (1991)
- Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Romania set aside their differences and form a pact to declare war on Macedonia in the Second Balkan War. (1993)
- The Treaty of Montenegro is signed, making Montenegro and Southern Serbia annexed by the Kingdom of Macedonia.
- The Ottomans, as a protection pact, forms LGMEN (League of Greater Middle Eastern Nations) with Iran, KAUS, Algeria, the Kingdom of Macedonia, and Morocco.]