The Ottoman Empire

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Economic strength 1825
5 Craft centers Bucharest, Istanbul (Constantinople), Ankara, Damascus, Baghdad
4 Resources: Mosul (tar), Iron (Alexandretta), Iron (Smyrna) Cyprus (food)
5 Major ports: Istabul,
21 minor ports: Scutari, Burgas, Varna, Constanta, Tirana, Dubrovnek, Zongugalk, Samsun, Trabzon, Batumi, Smyrna, Antalya, Alexandretta, Haifa, Beriut, Tripoli, Jaffa, Famagusta, Iraklion, Rhodes, Jeddah
Ottoman infrastructure consists of unpaved roads that are not capable of anything beyond local commerce
additional financial: 40  (the Turks have a substantial local banking industry)
additional income: the Haj generates 10 points a year, while Jerusalem generates 5 points a year
total income: 90

Egypt (subeconomy of Turkey)
1 Craft Center Alexandria
3 Resources (Food, Cotton x 2)
5 Major port: Alexandria
8 minor ports: Daimetta, Port Said, Suez, Bardia, Tobruk, Tripoli, Beghazi, Homs (the Libyan Barbary pirates have turned to slave trading and smuggling)
the road network in Egypt is nonexistant outside of cities
Financial; 50 (Egypt is the primary source of investment capital for North Africa and Arabia)
total income: 67
Total Ottoman Empire Income: 157

Recent history
With the loss of Greece and Serbia in 1823, the decline of the Empire is clear to all....

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Ottoman Imperial forces
Janissaries - 1 Grand Army (24 garrison divisions official strength) maintenance 6.5 points
(actual strength: 24 brigades, none are combat ready).. if mobilized can form 24 infantry regiments as the rest are too unfit or comfortable to deploy. Deployed in Istanbul and Adrianople and Ankara (1/3 each)
Garrison Armies: (field army sized) Balkans (Albania/Bosnia), Danube (Romania), Adrianople (Bulgaria/European Turkey), Anatolia, Syria, Euphrates (180,000 authorized strength)

Ottoman Army total: 325,000
none of this force is immediately combat ready. The actual strength of the armies above work out ot 6 Expeditionary Armies in size plus the heavily corrupt Janissaries at a weak field army in strength.

maintenance 38 points

Imperial Levy
50 Militia brigades (all from Turkish areas), 10 Militia Brigades (Albanians), maintenance 6 points

Total Ottoman Military maintenance is 44 points annually

Ottoman Navy
unlike the Army the Navy is in decent shape and has less of a corruption problem
(Peacetime Navy, regular Maintenance)
6 BB2, 12 FF2, 20 Brig, naval yard at Smyrnia 25,000 men maintenance 10 points (includes corruption problems)

Egypt
Mamalukes - destroyed in 1810 by Mohammed Ali
Egyptian Army- 1 Expeditionary Army (in the Delta) (25,000)
1 expeditionary army (garrison) watches border with Sudan and garrisons Sinai (25,00)
10 garrison brigades - garrisons ports and Cairo as security force (25,000)
fortress- Alexandria (1,000)
Militia- 30 militia brigades (all infantry)75,000
Militia Cavalry- can draw upon 5 brigades of Berber Light cavalry, no more than 5 regiments at a time (5,000)
maintenance; 10

Egyptian Fleet: 5 Frigates, 20 Brigs (Mediterranean) plus 20 brigs from Libya (feudal naval militia) plus 5 Brigs in Red Sea (Blue Water Navy, double maintenance)
total: 7500 regulars plus 1000 Libyans
maintenance: 6.5

Total military maintenance Egyptian Army and Navy: 16.5

[Lefty]

The German Ambassador in Constantinople sends a note thanking the Caliph for his humanitarianism in preventing terrible war.

He goes on to offer to help train and equip a New Model Army for the Ottoman Empire based on German standards and training. With peace guaranteed by Germany, he recommends training an expeditionary army in Thrace to help protect against further uprisings. He offers German officers to travel to Constantinople to train the army until Turks can take over and 30 points of grants to help fund the force and loans backed by German credit.

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Economic strength 1825
3 Craft centers Istanbul (Constantinople), Ankara, Baghdad
2 Resources: Mosul (tar), Iron (Smyrna)
5 Major ports: Istabul,
7 minor ports: Scutari, Zongugalk, Samsun, Trabzon, Batumi, Smyrna, Antalya,
Ottoman infrastructure consists of unpaved roads that are not capable of anything beyond local commerce
additional financial: 20 (the Turks have a substantial local banking industry)
total income: 34 points
Navy: 1 naval yard, 5 brigs
Army: 40 garrison brigades (being revised)

40 points of German aid in 1827

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