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Love me a Kalmar Union timeline, and with a pod i don't remember seeing before? That's a follow. :) Could Philippa's death at Vadstena add to the percieved holiness of the town/monastery? It sure feels like it. A beloved & pious queen went there to die will be the narrative people remember.

As a Swede I must protest New Sweden not getting Southeast Pennsylvania, I.e. tje Pennsylvanian parts of the Philly metro area. That side of the river was also part of the colony and having the whole metro in one state, but not really much far beyond the metro, would make for state level...

Maybe not the greatest song ever, but completely believable!

Wiki says they were fed mostly salmon. What if people started trying to supplement their diet with vegetable matter? And if some of the dogs mutated their gastrointestinal system a little bit to adapt to the less carnivorous diet? Dogs do have better tolerance for such than cats after all, and...

How much milder? Ireland, Scotland, and coastal British Columbia kind of climate?

So, less money spent on stations for passengers (more of using any preexisting stations if possible?), and routing the line with a focus on good connections to industrial areas of towns and cities? Would have been a interesting line, no doubt.

The current EU is at about 1.6 million square miles. This South Africa would be bigger than the EU. Nice. I think it was part of a union with Rhodesia for a time before independence otl? I.e. not unreasonable?

OTL Namibia joining South Africa in this timeline seems like an obvious thing. But will be interesting to see how OTL Botswana joins in. Beyond that? Anything more seems like a stretch. With good governance through the decades the idea of this larger South Africa becoming a significant player...

A TL where the Soviets manage to expand southwards in Asia before 1950 at least, but not getting near the Sea. Let's say taking South Azerbaijan from Iran, and all the Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen areas from Afghanistan. Plus some small extra bits, can't have it be clean borders. What then? Iran &...

That felt like the end of the timeline. Devvy once again giving us an entertaining timeline making us think ours is not the best timeline. Applause! Having never been to England outside the M25 (except for a day in York & a day in Brighton) Preston strikes me as an obvious choice for a NW...

I like putting the international border tight in the connecticut river. There'd be border town right on the river eventually, but it would make for a very different evolution of trade flows, industrialisation, and town growth regionally.

"Nordic (which will be a unified and standardized language ITTL like German and Italian IOTL)" In a TL where the Kalmar Union turns into an actual unified state, that is to be expected yes. One Bible translation. One language & one set of spelling rules taught in schools since a national school...

With the capital at about 200k, and the whole country at about 800k, what are the international travel options like in the modern day? Mostly via a regional hub?

With a Scandinavian union forming in the 1800s, would the railway from Oslo to Gothenburg to Malmö have been treated as a proper mainline railway? I.e. double tracked all the way and built for actually decent speed. Maybe with Gothenburg as the Union capital this, along with the...

Now caught up with the thread. Nice focused timeline, and both well written and nice idea. A lovely choice to lead Yorkshire into the future, yes.