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Redrawing the World - Asia Minor

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As with other maps I will publish in this series, there's not much of a fleshed out backstory. At the very most I will merely offer some speculation as to how the situation on the map might have come into being. Also note that I randomly mixed modern, historical and ethnolinguistic borders at will, whatever felt most appropriate at the moment of drawing...

- Greece didn't screw up the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) as much; instead of marching for Ankara they stayed put in their mandate area around Smyrna, only gradually adding new territory by moving up north towards the Dardanelles. Simultaneously, ethnic Greeks in the Pontic region formed a breakaway state as the Ottoman Empire (or its remnants) was disintegrating and forcibly dismantled, having support of the Greek government while the WW1 allies looked the other way.

- The Treaty of Sèvres (in one form or another), was enforced to a sufficient degree to call into being an enlarged Armenia and an independent Kurdistan.

- To ensure free access through the Bosporus, Istanbul/Constantinople was put under a demilitarized condominium of the major powers of the time. Similarly, although the Dardanelles came under Greek sovereignty, the major powers stationed troops here for much the same reason.

- The Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was maintained after 1924 (whereas in OTL it was dissolved) and during the course of Soviet history rearranged to the configuration depicted on the map. After the fall of the Soviet Union (1991), the Mountain ASSR broke away and gained independence as many other Soviet republics did, as the Republic of the Northern Caucausus.

- The newly independent Arab nations sought unification for the sake of greater viability as a state, or alternatively, the Arab nationalistic movement of the 1950s/60s (think of Nasser, etc.) was a much greater success than in OTL. This is the Levantine Union on the map, which consists of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank, and Sunni Iraq.

- Post-WW2, Stalin sought annulment of the Treaty of Kars, which was negotiated in 1921 to demarcate the Soviet-Turkish border. Whereas in OTL the Soviets backed down after American and British diplomatic action, Turkey was keen on maintaining peaceful relations with the USSR, and acceded (at least partially) to their demands. The Armenian and Georgian republics gained territory at Turkey's expense.
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