Skallagrim
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For sure. They'd be able to push that through, and it would ensur eternal Habsburg supremacy within the Empire, so it's a really obvious move.The Austrians would want all Hungary, including all Transylvania, for themselves in the HRE I presume?
It helps that the HRE and Poland-Lithuania are bound to b allies here. They can stand back-to-back.Interesting thought on the PLC aim to get Yedisan, Bessarabia, and Moldavia, to regain access to the Black Sea coast. If they succeed and hold in perpetuity (or till modernity) this cuts off a Russian road to the Balkans.
The Habsburgs, certainly.If Wallachia can be pried away from the Ottomans, who is more likely to get it, the PLC or Austria?
It'll probably fall out of the Ottoman sphere, especially if the Ottomans lose the land connection to the West of the region earlier. As to the sphere it then comes into: that depends on a lot of external factors. If Russia and Sweden are still going to fight, that will work to hinder Russian ambitions elsewhere. If Russia and Sweden try to fight (or at least box in) Poland-Lithuania together, that may end p limiting Polish prospects in the region.Will the Crimean Khanate fall out of Ottoman vassalage by the late 1700s? If so, into Muscovy-Russia’s sphere, or Poland-Lithuania’s?
Personally, I think Poland-Lithuania will have plenty of work cut out for it in digesting its Eastern holdings properly. Given enough time, it could add a lot of Catholicism there. But that needs a period of consolidation, so no more conquests.
Again, a lot depends on how things play out. I could see the Protestant states squabbling, but I could also see them forming a league -- or even gradually working towards a dynastic union of basically all the Lutheran countries. One overall effect is that the Northern German states will be way, way more oriented towards Scandinavia.Post 1648, or whatever year peace is made-Brandenburg, Swedish Pomerania, Danish Holstein, Bremen should have no problem repopulating and agriculturally redeveloping their war-devastated lands with all the Protestant refugees from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Prussia, Bohemia, Hungary, and southern Netherlands available.
I imagine the north German states would all be interested in at least trying out colonial ventures of the plantation and trading variety, but also of the settler variety. Even if any individual states lack the merchant fleet or financial means to start a colonial, they will have surplus subjects ready and eager to participate in other countries’ colonial enterprise. For example, Holstein should get much more populous, and since it was already tied to Denmark politically it could threaten demographic balance in the Danish monarchy. It could also boost Danish colonial efforts. Would German speakers From or passing through Holstein and Schleswig who move to Danish colonies retain German or end up speaking Danish?
I'd expect a lot of Protestants from Switzerland and Geneva to (metaphorically and at times literally) go "down the Rhine" and end up in the Dutch Republic. It'd be the only other Calvinists haven, so it's the natural place to go.Your map has the Austrians taking Geneva with the the rest of Switzerland- that’s interesting. They effectively become more footloose Huguenots wandering Europe and the globe?