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Hi Everyone, this is the third map in a series of maps that I’ve been doing that is loosely a Napoleonic victory with some changes (mostly Napoleon being less of a megalomaniac and betraying Spain/fully invading Russia) but that has a fair amount of other stuff going on as well. The first two maps and some further explanation can be found here: www.deviantart.com/theaidanman…
www.deviantart.com/theaidanman…

This map is set in 1932, 52 years after the setting of the last map.
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    Europe sits on a knife-edge. The Russian Empire, beleaguered by crippling defeats at the hands of a rising Japan and a declining Ottomans, managed to limp on for a few paltry decades before being brought to heel by the combined forces of peasant revolutionaries inspired by the writings of Alexander Herzen and disgruntled urban intelligentsia. The flames of revolution have thawed the Russian winter from the western lands of the Empire, and the Gagauzes of Budzhak, the Tatars of Taurida, and the Nations of Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland now stand proud and independent, though still wary of the wounded Russian bear.
    The Ottomans, though victorious in their conflicts with Russia in the very early 20th Century with the help of their partners in France and Japan, were irreparably bankrupted and left saddled with an increasingly (and ironically) byzantine bureaucracy. These pressures left the Ottomans unable to contend with the rising tide of Nationalism. The Arabs of the Levant and Egypt broke out in open revolt, quickly overwhelming the sluggish southern administration. At the same time, the Slavic Principalities and the Romanians pierced into Rumelia, backed by the ailing Russian Empire. With the Ottoman Administration looking paralyzed, the Muslim inhabitants of Rumelia; Albanians, Bosniaks, Turks, and others; took up arms to defend themselves against communal violence and aggression. As the withdrawal of Ottoman presence became a reality, these forces coalesced into the Rumelian Confederation, inspired by the structure of the very nation they had come together to defend against. Turkey, for its part, took the loss of much its empire as a system shock. Now under a fiercely modernist and centralist regime, Turkey has managed to retain significant territories in the East of Rumelia and the Northern fringes of Arabia. The future seems to beam from Konstantiniyye, but will the world appreciate its splendor?
    The Hapsburgs of the Austrian Empire, realizing that the loss of the western German territories to the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th centuries left Germans as an even smaller minority within the Eastern Realm, came to the negotiating table with their constituent peoples in the late 19th century. Hungarian statesmen such as Lajos Kossuth and his successors realized the weakness of the Hapsburg hand, and successfully negotiated a trialistic arrangement of the empire. Although this agreement put the Magyars in a position of great advantage, continued economic stagnation and Hapsburg scandal involving German favoritism led to widespread socal and economic unrest across the country, culminating in an electoral “velvet” revolution that deposed the Hapsburg monarchy and instituted a social-democratic government. Though a “revolutionary” state, Danubia (officially the Danubian Confederation), vehemently denounces the “violent excess” of Russia and the Russian Revolution and attempts to maintain cordial relations with Paris. This is not a given however, as groups on both the right and left seek to undermine the Social Democratic government, and ethnic tension has not been completely vanquished by trialism nor confederalism.
    Italy, long divided, remains divided. The Napoleonic kingdom endures in the north, having established its Adriatic dominance despite an increasingly discontent slavic population. To the south, the weak kingdom of Naples has fallen to Peasant Unrest, establishing an Agrarian Populist regime in the latter portion of the 1920s. Synthesizing redistributionist ideals with a conservative agrarian outlook has made them ideological cousins of Russia, holding multiple congresses in post-revolutionary times. Already making contacts with paramilitaries and sympathetic politicians in neighboring Sicily, the fires of revolution seek to scorch every inch of the Italian peninsula, and perhaps even beyond.
    Poland, the Nordics, the German States, North Italy, and Silesia all have remained insulated from the tides of radicalism by the blanket of Paris, with the Napoleonic Consensus and Germinal System holding fast and evolving over the past century. This order, however, is not immortal, and faces many challengers. Many across Europe seek to benefit from the downfall of the Napoleonic Order, including some in France itself. Like they did more than a century ago, the winds of change have begun to blow the tides of history over Europe. Who is to say what may wash up this time?

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This was a joy to create, and any feedback is more than welcome!

Description

Hi Everyone, this is the third map in a series of maps that I’ve been doing that is loosely a Napoleonic victory with some changes (mostly Napoleon being less of a megalomaniac and betraying Spain/fully invading Russia) but that has a fair amount of other stuff going on as well. The first two maps and some further explanation can be found here: www.deviantart.com/theaidanman…
www.deviantart.com/theaidanman…

This map is set in 1932, 52 years after the setting of the last map.
------------------------------------------------

    Europe sits on a knife-edge. The Russian Empire, beleaguered by crippling defeats at the hands of a rising Japan and a declining Ottomans, managed to limp on for a few paltry decades before being brought to heel by the combined forces of peasant revolutionaries inspired by the writings of Alexander Herzen and disgruntled urban intelligentsia. The flames of revolution have thawed the Russian winter from the western lands of the Empire, and the Gagauzes of Budzhak, the Tatars of Taurida, and the Nations of Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland now stand proud and independent, though still wary of the wounded Russian bear.
    The Ottomans, though victorious in their conflicts with Russia in the very early 20th Century with the help of their partners in France and Japan, were irreparably bankrupted and left saddled with an increasingly (and ironically) byzantine bureaucracy. These pressures left the Ottomans unable to contend with the rising tide of Nationalism. The Arabs of the Levant and Egypt broke out in open revolt, quickly overwhelming the sluggish southern administration. At the same time, the Slavic Principalities and the Romanians pierced into Rumelia, backed by the ailing Russian Empire. With the Ottoman Administration looking paralyzed, the Muslim inhabitants of Rumelia; Albanians, Bosniaks, Turks, and others; took up arms to defend themselves against communal violence and aggression. As the withdrawal of Ottoman presence became a reality, these forces coalesced into the Rumelian Confederation, inspired by the structure of the very nation they had come together to defend against. Turkey, for its part, took the loss of much its empire as a system shock. Now under a fiercely modernist and centralist regime, Turkey has managed to retain significant territories in the East of Rumelia and the Northern fringes of Arabia. The future seems to beam from Konstantiniyye, but will the world appreciate its splendor?
    The Hapsburgs of the Austrian Empire, realizing that the loss of the western German territories to the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th centuries left Germans as an even smaller minority within the Eastern Realm, came to the negotiating table with their constituent peoples in the late 19th century. Hungarian statesmen such as Lajos Kossuth and his successors realized the weakness of the Hapsburg hand, and successfully negotiated a trialistic arrangement of the empire. Although this agreement put the Magyars in a position of great advantage, continued economic stagnation and Hapsburg scandal involving German favoritism led to widespread socal and economic unrest across the country, culminating in an electoral “velvet” revolution that deposed the Hapsburg monarchy and instituted a social-democratic government. Though a “revolutionary” state, Danubia (officially the Danubian Confederation), vehemently denounces the “violent excess” of Russia and the Russian Revolution and attempts to maintain cordial relations with Paris. This is not a given however, as groups on both the right and left seek to undermine the Social Democratic government, and ethnic tension has not been completely vanquished by trialism nor confederalism.
    Italy, long divided, remains divided. The Napoleonic kingdom endures in the north, having established its Adriatic dominance despite an increasingly discontent slavic population. To the south, the weak kingdom of Naples has fallen to Peasant Unrest, establishing an Agrarian Populist regime in the latter portion of the 1920s. Synthesizing redistributionist ideals with a conservative agrarian outlook has made them ideological cousins of Russia, holding multiple congresses in post-revolutionary times. Already making contacts with paramilitaries and sympathetic politicians in neighboring Sicily, the fires of revolution seek to scorch every inch of the Italian peninsula, and perhaps even beyond.
    Poland, the Nordics, the German States, North Italy, and Silesia all have remained insulated from the tides of radicalism by the blanket of Paris, with the Napoleonic Consensus and Germinal System holding fast and evolving over the past century. This order, however, is not immortal, and faces many challengers. Many across Europe seek to benefit from the downfall of the Napoleonic Order, including some in France itself. Like they did more than a century ago, the winds of change have begun to blow the tides of history over Europe. Who is to say what may wash up this time?

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This was a joy to create, and any feedback is more than welcome!