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One probable effect to the timeline given greater urgency would be to accelerate it, though, so his Acting Presidency (if any) would likely wrap up before OTL's certification date.

No, the Diocese of Europe is an Anglican thing that exists in parallel to the majority churches of the areas in question.

Is there a way around the change they made recently to block hotlinking?

Gambia lacks natural borders to defend as well as most of the strategic depth you'd expect for its size. Extra points for having actually been successfully invaded in the last few years.

I'd believe that those Austrian exclaves were never actually planned, just a consequence of a future mapmaker taking an imprecise proposal literally.

Perhaps a land cover dataset like MODIS would be a helpful starting point. This particular one purports to distinguish blocks with at least 30% construction or 40% cropland from less developed ones, so it is going to miss some residences.

Is Cayenne a German possession ITTL?

This also applies to Russia: Moscow's a big deal not so much because of its location as because it was the seat of the Vladimirian principality that won out. There's no particular reason a Tsar couldn't have arisen from, for instance, Kostroma or Pereyaslavl-Zalesky and kept the capital there.

Enfeoffing a new lord with control of the city itself would abrogate the imperial immediacy of the burgher government. Installing him in the old burgraviate would mean supplanting Brandenburg-Ansbach and/or Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Unless there happens to be a power vacuum there, I think making...

The Madagascar contingency: how to leave New Zealand out without looking like you're leaving New Zealand out.

Nevada came in with an unconventionally low population, and it's dubious that Virginia provided the necessary consent for partition considering that only Unionists voted on it. The bill for admitting Kansas benefited from the seceded states' withdrawal from Congress, but I don't think was...

The closest thing, especially if you jog over from the Syr Darya to the Chüy, to a river valley extending further east would be a route across the Gobi to the Amur River. For China to end up north of the line you pretty much have to cut across Tibet somehow.

When did Mars surpass Earth in population? Also, it's a little surprising seeing Kanaloa subject to the Solar Syndicate. I'd expect that if anywhere maintained independence on cultural grounds it'd be the one extrasolar colony established before the Dark Ages (especially since it doesn't seem...

I don't really consider this question answerable. We're speculating on what, three hundred years of divergent history? That's enough time to solve any social problem if things go right (and develop any one if things go wrong), and "everything from Iraq to Hungary to Algeria is under one...

Have you seen @ClaustroPhoebic 's timeline?