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Fireurchin wrote: The Timeline:



Islamic World
Defeated after the Abbasid take over, the Umayyad retreats to corduba and established their control from there, which is further undermined by the rise of the Almohad empire based in Tunis. However finding an unlikely alliance with the byzantines (By the 1400s more religiously tolerant and playing the muslim nations against each other) and defeat the Almohads at the battle of carthage. They continue as a north african empire against the spanish christian nations, attempting to take over their last territories in spain (granada). They are fighting the mamluks for control of egypt until the Ottoman takeover in 1453, defeating the mamluks and seljuks combined and taking Damascus in 1443 and 10 years later, Alexandria. After a period of decline in the 1700s, and then the scramble for africa, the Umayyad caliphate are defeated against the french but reform into the Umayyad republic.

After the Almohads begin capturing key Umayyad territories, the Caliph and his family are relocated to Syria, and begin rallying support against the Almohads. Some caliphates support the Caliph of Cordoba, whereas, some caliphates don't. After several assassination attempts on the Caliph of Cordoba, the Islamic Caliphates begin declaring war on each other. As Catholic Europe begins securing major victories over the weakened Islamic World, various families, such as the Borgias, begin gaining early power within the Vatican.

Once a lowly Seljuq noble house in the Seljuq sultanate of Rum, the Ottomans retreated eastwards after the fall of Rum. However their fortune turned as the crusader states, most notably the county of Tripoli and the Kingdom of Jerusalem were beginning to falter after their support began to erode from europe as all eyes turned to the war in hispania. After the capture of Damascus in 1443, Ottomans turned their eyes to the fertile lands of egypt where they captured the Mamluk capital of Cairo sending them into exile into the Byzantine Empire and then to the Umayyad caliphate until their return in 1813 after the byzantine capture of Alexandria. However from the 1700s, began a slow decline for the empire. As the Byzantine empire and the Seljuk Sultanate slowly strangled the Ottomans, more and more territory fell into the hands of hostile foreigners. After its fall in the great war (1914-1923), it was established into the Ottoman republic. However the rivalry between the Ottomans and seljuks continues to this day.

The Seljuk empire is one of the most prosperous of nations as it benefited from Byzantine trade after hostilities ceased when the the sultanate of Rum was deposed. It once stood as the greatest islamic empire in the middle ages nearly destroying the Byzantine empire. However hostilities between the Fatimids and then the Mamluks prompted the rise of the Ottomans who originally were a lowly Rum noble family and soon took over all of the levant, saudi arabia and much of north africa. Its power eroded from the mongol takeover )who eventually just were absorbed into the empire) weakened it. By the 1700s however, the Byzantines soon began to open relations with the Seljuks and benefiting from trade, began to retake most of it persian territory although they were unable to recapture baghdad in the great war. Today it stands as one of the great middle eastern powers rivalling the byzantine empire





 Everything here was only draft material and will be deleted, and I will rewrite all of Islamic history

 

 Just some edits on Alhomad history and Umayyad history, if you can fix the Alhomad and Umayyad history in the last bit of the timeline, note i don't want to assume any history after 1550 withe the Islamic world, note the reformation will be a combine Luther/Jan Hus abandonment of the Catholic Church with a sort of protestant style orthodox church, with equal church leaders but within that, the English will break away from that creating as sort of Anglican church style. Note that the HRE will not be split up, it will transition from Catholicism to Prostestant Patriachial church, making france and Hispanic kingdoms the key Catholic nations. Orthodox is on relatively good terms with the Prostestants

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