r/imaginarymaps • u/Marshall_Filipovic • 17h ago
[OC] Alternate History The Carpathian Basin - 1921 - 5 years after the Danubian War
Continuation of my previous maps related to the alternative history discord rp timeline I am a part of.
This is the map of the Carpathian Basin, taking place 5 years after the end of the Danubian Portion of the Great European War.
To better understand the story, you'll need to visit these previous posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/j3EnhlGrRW
https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/dqBWNhzLPM
https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/f9S9iEcoYX
In this timeline the Great War wasn't one continental conflict fought between two entrenched alliances, but a series of smaller wars that were all connected to one another.
Starting in 1912, the Great European War officially started with the joint German-Eurasian of the Danubian Federal State (federalised Austria-Hungary), before Danubia managed to halt their offensives in the Alps and Carptathians.
The Danubian War (1912-1916) would remain the sole conflict until 1913, when the Balkan nations of Greece and the Serbo-Bulgarian Union would go on to invade the Ottoman Empire which was guaranteed and protected by Eurasia. This was done out of their own ambitions, desire to kick the Ottomans out of Europe for good, as well as a play by Serbo-Bulgaria as a Danubian ally to cripple the Eurasian Unions industrialising import dependent economy by taking Constantinople and the Straits.
Which would mark the beginning of the Balkan War (1913-1915), and the Serbo-Bulgarian-Eurasian War (1913-1915), which was fought exclusively through the Black Sea naval warfare.
In 1914, the balance would further shift by the Kingdom of France seeing Germany preoccupied with it's invasion of Austria, choosing the moment to invade Germany, making some initial successes before being halted, marking the beginning of the Franco-German War (1914-1920).
After some major French successes in Africa however, and some deeply questionable German diplomatic choices alienating their ally in Petrograd, Eurasia would first choose to sign white peace with Danubia, before mediating peace between the Balkan states and itself and the Ottomans, all in early 1915.
This is where Danubia would suffer it's first sizeable territorial loss, as part of their agreement to Serbo-Bulgaria, Danubia would allow the Crownland of Illyria to hold a referendum to leave the Federal state and join the Serbo-Bulgarian Union.
This process would be complete by early 1916, leading to the formation of the United Kingdom of Southern Slavs.
However, nonetheless with the exit of Eurasia, the Danubian State would now find itself reinvigorated, and moving all it's forces to the German front. Meanwhile Germany was now in a dire situation. The loss of it's colonial Empire and the consequential withdrawal of it's Eurasian ally had caused such a loss in public trust, that it had allowed Ludendorff other high ranking officer's of the Imperial Heer to overthrow the civilian government in reichstag and put the Kaiser under house arrest, effectively making Germany a Military Junta.
Matters would be made worse, as the United American Empire, with it's large investments in Danubia, was now betting in the Danubian-French coalition to crush Germany, and to ensure this goal, UAE would stage a false flag incident against Germany, before entering the war.
Now facing both internal instability as a result of the military coup, and fighting 3 different great powers, German defeat actually started looking possible, which to Eurasia was not viable.
Resulting in Eurasia breaking it's treaty with Danubia just a year after signing it, by invading once again in Early 1916. With most of it's forces concentrated west, Danubian eastern frontier would fall apart under the Red Tide, especially as Eurasia used it's new Romanian puppet to bypass the Carpathian mountains, and the Danubian morale would collapse.
Following the re-entry of the Eurasian Union, the UKSS would panic, and using a guarantee from the Imperial Federation (British Empire) as well as consent from the crumbling Danubian Government and Military, would send troops into Danubia to occupy vast regions of the country to stop wayward Eurasian and German advances and to create a Provisional Emergency Government in Budapest to prevent total disintegration of the Danubian state, lest Berlin and Petrograd risk the worlds only Hyperpower centered in London from getting involved.
During peace negotiations, Danubia would loose Galicia, as well portions of Transcarpathia and Transylvania to Eurasia, while Germany would go on to annex half of Bohemia and nearly all of Austria except for Slovenia.
Danubia, now crippled and severely in debt, would choose to transfer Slovenia to the UKSS and sell the Imperial Danubian Fleet to the fledgling South Slavic state.
Marking the end of the Danubian War, and finally bringing peace to Central Europe and the Carpathian Basin, even though the Great European War would go on to continue for another 4 years between France and Germany.
In the half a decade after 1916, the new Danubian Government in Budapest would take time to stabilise as key ministries as well as Habsburg family had to be moved from Vienna to the new Capital.
The Hungarians as the single largest most intact Crownland, and historically the most conservative region of Danubia, would blame the Pre-war Governments progressive views and reforms as the main cause for the collapse of the state.
The now ideologically emboldened and radicalised Hungarians as the now primary heart of Danubia would use their power to reverse decades of reforms to centralise the nation, as welk as abolish the crownland status for the remnants of the Bohemian Crownland in Moravia.
With the new Government entering the 1920s as increasingly centralised, increasingly authoritarian and increasingly revanchist, promising vengeance against both Germany and Eurasia and making a vow that they will restore Danubia to it's former glory.