Crown of Andalusia and Granada (Europa Universalis IV)

*2016*

## Crown of Andalusia and Granada

(Taj Al-Andalus wa Garnatah)

1230-1991

### Capital

Garnatah/Granada (1230-1476)Qurtuba/Córdoba (1476-1599) Al-Qahira/Cairo (1599-1991)

### Common Languages

Official Language: Andalusian Arabic Other Languages: Traditional Arabic Portuguese Catalan Berber Mashqiri Arabic Spanish Occitan

### Religion

Majority religion:Sunni Islam Minority religions: Roman Catholicism Orthodoxism

### Government

Hereditary Monarchy Sultan

* 1230-1272 Muhammad I
* 1598-1602 Ali IV

Great Sultan

* 1602-1610 Ali IV
* 1755-1792 Muhammad XVII
* 1965-1991 Iqbal I

### Currency

Dinar (1230-1476)Granadan Eamila (1476-1602) Andalusian Eamila (1602-1991)

### Succeded by

Arab Republic of Egypt

Although the Empire is long gone, there are a few remnants which shows their expanse across the Early Modern Ages. Such as comparing the faces of Granadans and Egyptians. There are many similarities in their lighter skin than most and the southern region of Spain shows prosperity which was found during the life of the Andalusian Empire at its height. Many Egyptians know the Andalusian dialect and those even in Persia, some 6,000 km from Granada, elders in villages had passed down the dialect throughout their lives and even some tribes in Kazakhstan still follow the ideals of Andalusia and Nogai. The Empire that there once was could easily be compared to the Muslim Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries and certainly the Roman Empire. Perhaps the most shocking of all is the mark it had left. Especially in Panama. In 2001, a British expedition who had sought out Aztec relics in the central continents found not relics but Andalusian traces. Muskets, and a few bones, marked by signs of paper. When it was reconstructed, it was found that the cells of William Neville had stuck on the paper for decades before disappearing. And even today, we discover new things by the second linked to Andalusia. It is no wonder why the Iberians struggled to reconquista.

## Emirate of Granada 1230-1476

#### **Reconquista**

After the invasion of the Caliphates into Iberia during the 8th century, the Catholics of Europe were more than determined to regain the loss of the peninsula. Starting in 711, Frankish, Portuguese, Navarrese, Castilian, Aragonese and Leonese troops attempted to retake the holy lands only to end in failure after the first stage. Eventually, after many hardships, the table seemed to turn at the end of the millennia. The Emirate of Granada was formed in 1230 under the leadership of Muhammad I Nasr. However, the final stage of the Reconquista set in circa 1236, the Emirate became a vassal of the Crown of Castile. In 1340, Granada was released of vassalage only to find itself under attack from all sides. By 1444, the Emirate of Granada became too weak to withstand any more wars holding 300,000 inhabitants, guarded by only 6,000 men and 13 ships. However, it was then that the tides began to turn on the Catholics.

#### **Reconquista Fallida**

In December 1444, under Muhammad IX, the Granadan army invaded Ceuta, half of which swung around raiding nearby Castilian and Portuguese towns and cities most notably, they sacked the city of Cordoba. With that, it ended the reconquista and the army size of the Emirate tripled by 1476. Though it did not come with trouble. Morocco, whom had aided the nation broke off the alliance signed under the Treaty of Fes (1444) and relations worsened. The Emirate by then was renamed the Sultanate of Granada under the reign of Sultan Ali I who died a year later. Morocco was invaded though with the help the Iberian nations, they failed the repel the growing strength of Granada and even went as far as to request aid from the Papal States who agreed to help. A major war broke out named the First Italian War (1480-1484) between Granada on one side and Castile, Portugal, Sicily, Naples, Papal States, Aragon and France on the other. Numbers ranges from 100,000 troops invaded Iberia where Granada had half that. However, in 1482, an army led by Muhammad X landed in Sicily and established a strong foothold in Italy. From there, he marched north with 15,000 men pillaging and sacking. The Papal States fought hard under a 2 year long siege but Rome finally broke and the Christian nations had to sign the humiliating Treaty of Syracuse (1484): Sicily was to become a vassal state of Granada; Sardinia, Corsica, Fes, Murcia, Valencia and Cordoba were to be ceded to Granada; a reparation of 1,000 Granadan Eamila were to be paid in silver. Thus ending the short-lived Reconquista Fallida (1444-1484) dubbed as the Dark Ages of Iberia.

Furthermore, France had invaded Castile and Aragon from the north as well and in 1493, another war broke out between Granada, Castile, and Portugal. In 1506, the Portuguese and Castilian monarchies were exiled to Madeira and the Canary Islands respectively after the joint invasion resulted in the annexation of all of Iberia by foreign powers. However, tensions soon arose regarding France and Granada, 2 great powers vying for Iberian control resulting in a series of conflicts in 1551-1551, 1576-1579 and 1581-1586 all named the Franco-Granada Wars.

## **Sultanate of Granada 1476-1602**

#### **Wars of the Pretender Caliphates**

As the Sultanate of Granada continued its path in ‘retaking’ Iberia against France, Granada was making good progress elsewhere in the world. Such as in the New World, Brazil was colonized early on by France, England, the Netherlands, and Portugal. The Netherlands was no worry for Granada as they were allies under the Treaty of Amsterdam (1510) after fighting the harsh Dutch War of Independence (1510-1512). Granada soon entered the sphere of colonizing and established its first colony in Bahia (Bahiaan). Whilst doing so, Sultan Ali III made serious pushes across Northern Africa during his reign between 1526 and 1556. In that time, he had expanded from Morocco which his predecessor Muhammad XI had annexed in 1525 to the far reaches in Djerba taking the fort situated on the island. Furthermore, the island of Malta, which served as a good trading and defensive ground for the Christian denomination was taken by Ali III after the Siege of Malta (1527-1531). By the end of the reign, he was known as Ali the Mameluke after incorporating numerous bodyguards of Mamluk descent and of which, his Sultanate had reached Benghazi.

But at the same time, the Ottoman Empire, its Janissaries known as the most fearsome force in the known world and the rest of its army had started a series of assaults on the Mamluk Sultanate as well coming from the north past the Levant. It was a race against time as both armies, the Granadans and Ottomans wanted the prize of Cairo. One war after another, the Mamluks were at a standstill with a standing force of merely 2,000 to 5,000 men. Mostly recruits. But as it seemed, in 1599, the last keep of Cairo fell to Granada. Their Sultan executed by Ali IV. Afterward, Ali immediately transferred his capital and administration to Cairo as it was closer to the Ottoman frontline. But waiting outside the new capital just 50 kilometers away was the Ottoman army of 30,000 headed by Hamid Yemisci Pasha.

The Granadan-Ottoman War was declared later in the year and Cairo was automatically besieged. It was in December that the forces of Ali IV containing up to 25,000 men sallied out and launched a surprise attack on their enemies. Yemnisci was killed and as many as 20,000 Ottoman troops were killed, wounded or captured. This ended the First War of the Pretender Caliphates, named after the will of the Sultans to be named Caliphs.

   A second war broke out in 1600, though the Ottoman army was still weakened, the Granadans swiftly invaded the Levant and in the shattering First Treaty of Antakya (1602), the Levant was ceded to the Granadans and on the last day of the year, Ali IV declared himself ‘Great Sultan’ naming his nation as the Andalusian Empire. Further in history, the third (1608-1614), fourth (1623-1626), and fifth wars (1630-1632) resulted in the catastrophic denouement of the Ottoman Empire. After the Wars of the Pretender Caliphates (1600-1632), the Austrians, Russians and Persian Mughals attacked the fronts causing the borders of the Ottomans to be forced back to the Danube in the West and to the source of the Murat River in Anatolia.

## Andalusian Empire 1602-1991

#### **Muhammad ‘the Magnificent’**

Muhammad XVII, known as ‘the Magnificent’ was born in Cordoba in 1747 with all of Yusuf X’s commanders and advisors present. And in his early childhood, he spent time administering the projects in the Suez with Yusuf’s most trusted advisors and scholars. However, at the age of 8, his father died suddenly and Muhammad was brought before the throne in 1755 thus beginning his long reign.

During this time, he funded 20,000 Andalusian Eamilas to the construction of the Suez Canal between 1760 and 1769 which greatly boosted the needed economy of Andalusia by double. Early signs of industrialization with furnaces and mass-irrigation systems flowed throughout the empire during Muhammad’s rule and it was at this time when the period of prosperity was known as the first stabilizing halve. In addition to economic reforms, he was also one of the first few leaders in the world to abolish slavery then followed by Britain shortly after, his name therefore became well-renowned in the Americas as more and more former slaves took up arms for the Empire. In one skirmish alone along the Argentinian border, over 6,000 former slaves fought against the British whose force, turned against their own commanders and joined the slaves. The band became known as the ‘Slave Hats’.

In the second halve of Muhammad XVII’s leadership, the nation saw a devastating conflict. The First World War. At first, it was a small usual war fought between the Austro-Russian Alliance and the Ottomans and the latter were greatly losing at first due to its inability to deal with multiple fronts. But the war turned into bloody and global one. On 11 May 1771, the Ottoman ambassador to Cairo sent a letter directly to the Great Sultan Muhammad XVII requesting for military aid stating “I beg of your royal highness, the Great Sultan and Caliph Muhammad XVII of grand magnificence. To aid our brother Muslim nation in this war against the infidels of the late and fallen Rome.” Within days, the rider was sent back to Istanbul. War was declared.

In 1771 alone, 300,000 Andalusians, 112,000 Sicilians, 68,000 Arabs, 56,000 Brazilians, and 30,000 Caribs mobilized against the so-called ‘Holy Grand Alliance’ alongside 264,000 Ottomans. A total of 830,000 ‘Exalted Caliphates’ troops fought off against the other. Of greater value, the Allies commanded 226,000 Russians, 190,000 Brits (including its colonies but excluding British France), 146,000 Austrians, 101,000 Holy Romans, 100,000 Brandenburgers, 85,000 Swedes, 40,000 Portuguese (including its colonies), 38,000 French, 20,000 Castilians and 3,000 Mughal expeditionary forces. All in all, there were 949,000 to begin with.

In a little no more than two weeks, Muhammad approached Russian territory and raided all its settlements where sometimes, his general staffs would commit war atrocities like none had ever seen. By 1772, the Tyrol region of Austria had fallen to Sicilian command and with that, it cut off a major supply line from mainland Austria from Eastern France, owned by the Habsburgs as well. Britain began suffering greatly from popular unrests across its state but it was still willing to commence uneven battles against the Andalusians. Much of Britain’s colonies had been occupied and it was the next year when the Allies seriously broke.

1773, in Brazil, the Slave Hats, or rather the Bahian Army led by a Brit, William Neville, a mercenary lord hired by the locals to command the 10,000 Bahians. He was most popular amongst the slaves and colonists. In January whilst the weather was only just slightly cooler, he marched around Colombia and besieged the Portuguese Colombian capital capturing it in just 5 days. He advanced further past the long frontlines and approached Panama, the only region which connected the Portuguese colonies together. That being said, he raided and pillaged the city razing it to the ground whilst establishing a two-front trench line, one facing South America, and one facing North America. That way, Portuguese Mexicans could not have reached their allies and on the other side, the South American Portuguese soldiers were trapped. As many as 59,000 men surrendered. The rest perished. The day South America fell to the Exalted Caliphates was named by many including Muhammad XVII as “The single most decisive victory for the Great War”.

1774, by this year, much of France had fallen, only a few pockets of light resistance were dotted across the country. Russia signed an armistice to end the fighting after Nyen, and Moscow fell to the Ottomans and Andalusians. Britain, Brandenburg, and the Holy Roman Empire followed suit. In 1775, Vienna was sacked after the west and south had been overrun. Austria too signed an armistice. Two days later, on 8 July 1775, the final nation Sweden ended the war.

The Congress of Istanbul (1776) outlined several factors: Nogai was to become a vassal under Andalusia; the Ottomans would regain it’s lands of Anatolia and anything south of the Danube; Venice would be released as a Republic; the colonies of Brazil would be ceded to Andalusian Brazil; a reparation of 47,000 Eamila would be payed to Andalusia over the course of 40 years until 1816 for compensation over the war; a reparation of 50,000 Para would be payed to the Ottomans over 50 years until 1826 and more. The First World War definitely shocked the world as it served as an introduction to modern warfare and its lack of laws. The battles during the wars took place across the world from as far as Louisiana in the west to as far east as the Indian Ocean. 10.4 million people died with it being the most catastrophic war thus far in history. Where 7 million soldiers fought against one another over 60% were casualties.

And yet it wasn’t the end of Muhammad’s reign yet. He, as a leader like the Ottoman Great Sultan Abdul Hamid I continued to reconstruct the devastated lands and certainly, relations were far greater than it was previously. And in a few years time, war broke out again between the Andalusians and the Mughals in 1789.

It was the final years of Muhammad XVII’s reign, the borders had shifted once again in the east forcing the Persian Mughals from their home territory Iran and whilst doing so, Indian kingdoms took advantage of this and reclaimed much land including the Mughal capital of Delhi. Russia and Austria, both countries which have previously participated in the First World War suffered greatly from the 1790 Revolutions of Europe. Particularists and revolutionaries funded by the Andalusians rose up to numbed exceeding 500,000 between the two nations and as they failed to contain the troubles, the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II of Austria was assassinated in his carriage by several grenades thrown into the seats of the vehicle. Although backed by the Andalusians, the perpetrators originated from Hungary. A year after this feat in 1791, Britain suffered a similar fate with France and America after intervening in the Mughal Crisis. Americans declared their independence under George Washington and several others. France undergone a revolution marking the end of British rule which had lasted for barely a century. Its revolution led by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte, then a Lieutenant as well as Maximilien Robespierre who was killed in 1794 when an artillery fired by Napoleon struck his bowel in the Battle of Versailles. On one occasion, Napoleon had visited Muhammad XVII who was on his death bed several days before his actual death in Cairo in 1792.

Muhammad’s death marked the height of Andalusian power and control in the world and it was the alliance between France, the Ottomans and Andalusia which brought it to its knees.

#### **Napoleonic Wars**

    Muhammad XVII was succeeded by another great leader, his son, Ahmad I or ‘the Great’. The country mourned for 2 weeks before everyone returned to work in the great nation Muhammad had carved out and Ahmad kept it up like his father before. However, as Napoleon ascended the throne in 1804, the first thing Ahmad did was sign the Treaty of Toulon (1804). This involved the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire and the Andalusian Empire where the empires agreed to fight with one another in order to carve the world into three pieces. And they did so very well. When Austria decided to launch the War of the Fifth Coalition in 1809, it was a disaster from the start. They had ridiculously strong defenses in the Tyrol region facing France and the Confederation of the Rhine but terribly weak strongholds in the south along the Danube. In addition to this, the number of bridges across the river reached over 200 making for an easy access for the Ottomans to invade. Ahmad did not contribute at all seeing that the war was inevitably over. In the end much of Slavonia and Transylvania were ceded to the Ottomans and Dalmatia was passed to France and the Emirate of Sicily. Though following the Treaty of Turin (1810), Andalusia returned any French possessions to Napoleon and in return, he was granted territories of Tyrol and Dalmatia. The Treaty of Rome (1811) was passed the following year allowing the Vatican to be handed to France for religious purposes; in return, Andalusia was given unrestricted access to French Mediterranean ports such as Montpellier, Marseille, Toulon and Nice. Though it was in 1812 when the French Alliance or the Triple Entente began to fall.

On the failure to force Russia into capitulation, the armies of Andalusia and the Ottomans who had made it to Crimea thus far had to retreat alongside the dying Frenchmen. In 1813, during the Second Battle of Austerlitz, and the Battle of the Nations, the Entente were defeated and all armies had to be pushed back to Istanbul and Paris the coming year. Andalusia still presented a great fight until 1815 when Napoleon had returned from exile. During the Hundred Day Offensive, Waterloo was lost, Napoleon was forced to abdicate once more ending the Triple Entente. But the Ottomans and Andalusians continued to fight on. It was in 1816, that Istanbul fell forcing the Ottomans to an armistice and 2 years later in 1818 that the Napoleonic Wars officially ended with the fall of Cairo. The first time since 1599 that Cairo fell to foreign invaders.

Under the Congress of Vienna (1818) for France: any German territories, Rome and Poland had to be given up; de Valois monarchy was returned to its original state; Napoleon had to be exiled to the island of South Georgia. For the Ottomans: Slavonic, Transylvanian, and Wallachian grounds had to be given up; the Kingdoms of Serbia, Wallachia and Moldova were released. For Andalusia: the Emirate of Sicily was to be carved into the states of Piedmont, Lombardy, Venice, Parma, Modena, Lucca, Tuscany, Papal States, Sardinia, Sicily and Naples which undid a total of 338 years of work. The monarchies of Castile, Aragon and Portugal were returned to Iberia excluding the territory of Granada which Andalusia kept for historical and cultural purposes. Baku and eastern Persia was returned to Russia and the Mughals respectively which ended the idea of Ahmad I being ‘the Great’.

#### **Three Empires**

Whilst Europe fought against countless revolutionaries in Hungary, France, Britain, Russia, Sweden and Greece, Andalusia under the rule of the Great Sultana Aixa I who had ruled since 1823 after the death of Ahmad I found itself in a more serious situation. The populace was greatly divided in cultures as there was no such thing as ‘Andalusians’. True Andalusians namely Granadans only made up barely 9% of the Empire’s population and in the same year of 1848, the Empire divided itself into 3 realms.

The Western Andalusian Empire, known officially as the Granadan Empire took up lands of Granada and Morocco. The Republic of Andalusia, known as the Republic of Tunis controlled Algiers, Tunisia and Libya up to Benghazi. The original Eastern Andalusian Empire, known by everyone as the Andalusian Empire controlled Egypt up to Libya, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic Red Sea coastline. The Republic focused primarily on trade and was economically stable but was highly corrupt within officials and although appeared to fare well, a few assassinations and imprisonments made by the Granadans led to the downfall of Tunis in 1851. The territories were immediately absorbed by the Western Empire. Surprisingly, the Eastern Empire was supported by all European states except for Russia and Austria and including the newly formed Spain and the revived Portugal. The Maltese Pact (1851) assured that the region of Granada except Gibraltar would be handed to Spain and the cities of Ceuta and Tangier would go to Portugal. With acceptance in 1853, war was waged in a coalition-like force against the more militaristic Western Empire. And although they had more men, Granada fell in 1854, Morocco landed in 1856, and the North African frontier reconquered by the Eastern Empire. The Maltese War (1853-1857) although not taking part in Malta itself, resulted in the end of the Three Empires (1848-1857) and as issued, the territories noted in the pact was honored. Still, the sudden split came as a shock to all states at the time. Spain and Portugal continued to support Andalusians and that created the November Alliance (1857) between Portugal, Spain and Andalusia.

#### **Second and Third World Wars**

In 1914, Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by Serbian nationalists and that provoked the outbreak of war between Austria and Serbia. Russia, Germany, France and Britain soon joined as the world’s leading powers at the time. The final major global power, the Andalusian Empire joined in 1915 alongside the Ottomans in the Central Powers showing more hate towards the Russians than there was towards the Austrians. This feat however ended the November Alliance as Portugal and Spain entered the war on the Entente’s side. Andalusia who had seen a few regressions in the past knew whose technology fared best in the desert and proceeded to amass a general retreat in 1916 after the British landed in Arabia and after Spain and Portugal had reclaimed Morocoo. The high command of the Andalusians including Great Sultan Ali V commenced Operation Desert Storm. Some 4.8 million soldiers retreated to Benghazi and the Sinai taking up arms in trenches along the Saharan heat. The trenches were well thought off, built in bunkers provieded good shade whilst the dry sand prevented trench foot unlike the western and eastern fronts in Europe. They avoided using wood so that their trenches wouldn’t catch fire and rather chose to use sandstone in their bunkers reinforced with metal platings above so that air bombings would not damage them too greatly. The Entente forces were at a stand still with nothing but melting trenches, over nine of ten the deaths on the Entente side in the Sahara and Sinai were attributed to heat exhaustion and strokes. The Ottomans did not do so well with a similar strategy.

When in 1917, the Russians were forced out, it released tensions building up along the frail Caucasus borders and allowed the Ottomans to swing around trapping the British people and Bedouins besieging the Sinai. But it was only by 1918 that the attack came into effect but by then, it was far too late. Germany and Austria had signed an armistice as of 11 November 1918 and the Ottomans had no choice but to follow after their Austrian front entirely collapsed and interior riots had broken out. Later in 1919, the Ottomans would fall to the Republic of Turkey. Still, the Andalusians kept fighting. The Andalusians alone inflicted as many as 3 million military casualties on the Entente and 5 million by 1921. Though at that year, the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese forces overwhelmed the Suez and captured it causing for the entirety of the Sinai to fall into Allied hands. It was clear for Ali V the war was over. And on 30 October 1921, Ali V accepted an armistice ending the Second World War. Overall, 30 million soldiers and civilians died as a result and in 1922, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. All of Mesopotamia had to be given up to the British and French; Morocco was released as an independent state; the military of the Andalusian Empire was limited to 250,000 soldiers and 25 ships.

However, it wasn’t long until the Third World War came about. Because of the international economic crisis named the Great Depression which struck America and Europe the hardest, it gave rise to extremism and numerous far right or left wing political leaders who sought out a better future for their countries. In Germany, it was Adolf Hitler, an Austrian born who fought in the Second World War and a strong nationalist. Benito Mussolini took power right after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and placed the Italian state beneath fascism. Joseph Stalin who succeeded Vladimir Lenin, a strong Marxist who went on to establish the Great Purge in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. And in Andalusia, there was Hosni al-Arabi, the communist who led the great uprising in Alexandria against the new ruler Yusuf XII in 1922. However, it was easily put down as manpower and equipment was at its minimal.

In 1939, when Germany declared war on Poland, Andalusia began seeking redemption and revenge against the Allies and in the proposal sent via the Dagher Telegram named after the Andalusian Minister of Foreign Relations Bedario Dagher to Berlin requesting for foreign aid. Germany blindly accepted any help they could get and therefore allowed the Andalus to step into a ring of fire. The Allies soon declared war against the Andalusians and as history would follow, Yusuf XII applied the same strategy used in the Second World War. He had named it the Ali Lines but it differed from his late father’s strategy. Instead of closing the gap for supply lines, he chose to stand his ground on the borders of his regions owned greatly by the local garrison. Abandoned towns would be rigged with time bombs which was cheaper to mass produce and would blow according to whenever they thought the Allies would station there. It was a good tactic until the Americans joined in 1941.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, the Americans declared war on Japan and in return, the rest of the Axis powers declared war on America. Within a few weeks, the first battalions from the United States had arrived in Ceuta and Tangier in preparation to launch the North African Offensive. In February 1942, the Americans, British and French troops launched an all out offensive on the Andalusians entrenched along the Moroccan border but as it turned out, some guerrilla fighters had placed themselves all across Algiers and Tunisia. Most of them were suicide bombers who threw themselves into enemy lines. Though 80% of the bombers never made it to enemy grounds. This failed attempt to weaken the Allies in Africa gave the signal to Yusuf that he had to implement his father’s original strategy and organized a well-planned retreat to Tunisia. But by 1943, the Allies had caught up.

But the year long retreat allowed for Yusuf’s acting field Commander of the North African Army General Samil Mansour to establish a several trench lines stacked one on top of another with bunkers leading from the deep reaches of the Sahara to the coastline of Tunis. And later in the year, the Battle of Kasserine Pass paved way for a buffer zone between the Allies and the Andalusians called the No Man’s Land. Until in 1944 when the tides began to turn once more. Malta and Britanny had been captured by Allied forces and both fronts allowed for the invasion of the German Reich. In 2 months of Brittany’s liberation, Paris was liberated in August, Italy in October, Southern France and parts of Belgium by December. In 1945, Mussolini was found dead hanging from a balcony in a hotel in Genoa. Hitler shot and killed himself in a bunker in Berlin an hour before the Reichstag fell to the Soviets on 30 April. But the war was short from over.

German scientists who funded and helped the Wunderwaffe program in Germany escaped to nearby Egypt where Yusuf XII welcomed them with open arms. They helped the country establish the first nuclear program which used German technology and knowledge where most materials came from within the country and Sweden. They were desperate. The Allies had focused all their European troops on Africa and the Ali Line had failed. Operation Camel under British Commander Bernard Montgomery had pushed the Andalusians back to the open Libyan desert where on the east, the Sinai had been overrun. What the scientists lacked, they created and were the first ones to create man-made plutonium. And on 12 November 1945, after 2 atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan by America in August which forced them out of the war, the first Andalusian atomic bomb was detonated in the desert 150 km east of Asyut. It was known as the Rahman Test and although smaller in size than that of American bombs, because it was man-made, it made the Rahman bomb even more unstable than the American counterparts creating a larger explosion chain, force, power, and radioactivity spread. Anything in a 1.5 km radius was vaporized and produced a mushroom cloud approaching 10 km in the sky which made it visible for over 160 km in every direction. But unknowingly to Allied inteligence, the Andalusians had a second one.

On 25 December 1945, as British forces prepared to storm the Suez Canal which they would do so later, at approximately 08:30 in the morning, a Heinkel He 274 carrying the single load piloted by Luftwaffe pilots took off at El-Hamoul airfield and soared to an altitude of 10,000 meters avoiding radar detection on all fronts. Even if attacked, it would undoubtedly be able to stop an entire squadron on its own. But because it was so unexpected, there weren’t any just as it was with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At 09:15, the Heinkel ‘Embassy’ accended an extra kilometer above Limassol and at 09:16, right above the sprawling city center, opened the gates and detached the bomb from the flight. It flew down for a straight minute and a half before the parachutes opened and at a height of 100 m above ground, it detonated seconds after the crew had reached the exclusion zone. 90% of the population was instantly killed and in minutes 5% more died from poisoning. In the coming weeks, 3% more died and in months 1% extra died. This accounted to the deadliest atomic bombing in global history as barely 400 had survived the bombing. 99% of the population perished as tied to direct consequences of the bomb. Soldiers of both sides looked across the sea just to see a gust of wind and a mushroom cloud exceeding 10,000 meters. People who lived along the Levant facing Cyprus all recorded that they heard a loud clap twice that was the explosion and implosion.

But that did not save Andalusia from defeat. On 19 March 1946, Cairo was taken by British forces Yusuf XII and his family was put under house arrest. The Congress of Geneva later in 1947, released Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine from Andalusian rule, Shammar was released as an independent state after being in Andalusian control for over 400 years. The Shammar state was renamed as Nasrid Arabia since the monarchy of the Nasrids remained in power.

#### **Republic**

Shortly after being reduced to Egyptian lands, the Andalusians faced an era of turmoil and uncertainty. In 1947, Communist outbreaks across the country led to demands for the abdication of the monarch Yusuf XII who had considered self-exiling but his advisors prevented him in doing so as it would lead the country into anarchy. With its economic shortage, aid was requested to America and with the Marshall Plan, the base of finance was returned to its pre-war state.

However, in 1956, a second communist uprising broke out named the Egyptian Revolution. Sadam Hussein, whom he had been exiled at a young age for participating in nationalist rebellions supporting the Axis powers during the Third World War against British rule, appeared in the Egyptian stage. He commanded the uprising in Alexandria and attempted to march on Cairo to overthrow the monarchy but was stopped midway by counter forces. In a bloody stalemate, the Andalusian Empire fell into a civil war shortly after an engagement which ended in Hussein’s victory. Though luckily for the Nasrids, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO for short chose to step in and aid the Andalusians and the monarchy. At the head was Field Marshal Montgomery who headed the NATO army into besieging Alexandria. Within a week, the tanks broke in and captured Hussein’s headquarters though the man himself was not found. This ended the short but bloody civil war in 1957 and later that year, it was discovered that Hussein had fled to the Soviet Union.

Following the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the Andalusian Empire headed into a spiral of decline as more republicans sought to overpower the monarchy. Eventually in 1991, a few months prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, the Republicans finally forced the Nasrids to sign the document of abdication and Iqbal I, the last Great Sultan of Andalusia and last Sultan of Granada and Egypt stepped down to the democratic constitution. However, it was hardly constitutional. Hussein returned from exile and took power once more through elections but in 1993, UN forces moved in and overthrew Hussein and the Americans executed him in Camp Nine in the Sinai whilst he was caught escaping with several others.

Iqbal and his family was exiled to Morocco at first but in 1994, received a confirmation from the Spanish and Portuguese government that they were able to house the Nasrids along the border and in the summer heat, the Nasrids were moved to a Portuguese-Spanish border villa north of Braga. But whilst on vacation in 1995, the Prince Sultan and the Sultana were assassinated in Barcelona by a Egyptian communist. Iqbal died 2 years after the incident leaving his only daughter as head of the House of Nasrid in Iberia. She was frequently visited by heads of states and the Nasrids of Arabia whom were her uncles and aunts.

Though most historians all agree that joining the two world wars in the 20th century was certainly the Andalusians’ denouement. Some cannot help but think that it was the issue of economy and technological inferiority.

## Military of Andalusia

Army Size
 1791
 1991

Navy Size
 1791
 1991

## Demographics

Most of the Andalusian population were Sunni Muslims originating from Granada but where they conquered such as Rome and the Caucasus, these regions remained untouched by the religion of the Empire which undermined the purpose of Ali IV's proposed Caliphate as these locations remained greatly Catholic and Orthodox. The linguistic perspective reveals even more so that there was not a cultural group named Andalusians but rather a mix of other ethnicities. Although Andalusian Arabic was the primary language being spoken officially throughout the nation, many of its so-called minorities had a greater impact on the language especially in Granada where today, the modern tongue used in the region of Spain has a mix of Portuguese, Castilian, Aragonese and partially Arabic. As many as 80% of the Andalusian population in 1791 could not understand Arabic or understood little of it; alongside this, one of the biggest problems with sustaining the global empire was its diversity in governments across the colonial superpower which could be interpreted in the third table below.

Population of the Andalusian Empire
 1791
 1991

List of Vassals and Colonies of Andalusia as of 1791
 Andalusian Brazil
 Emirate of Shammar
 Andalusian West Indies
 Emirate of Nogai