poland

WI In Versailles Poland gets (without plebiscite) Danzig, whole Upper Silesia, southern part of East Prussia and Polish-majority part of Cieszyn (all that together would likely require British representatives get some kind of collective brain tumor, but it is hypothetically possible) and then...

How could the Prussian King also become King of Poland either through election or through the partition. What would happen to German unification if Prussia owns most of Congress Poland and in return does not own most the historical Prussian rhineland.

Sometimes, a monarch dying without male heirs was a problem back in the medieval age. Casimir III of Poland was one case: after he died without a male heir, the native polish Piast dynasty went extinct, and Poland ended up as ground for power plays between Bohemia, Hungary, and Lithuania. So...

As result of pacts made with Soviets Third Reich exchanged Germans from Lithuanian SSR for Lithuanians living on Reich's territory. Initially only Lithuanians from Memel were planned to be deported but seeing that Soviets are fine with such population transfers Germans decided to include also...

I'm working on a TL that involves Germany and Russia turning into liberal democracies under constitutional monarchs, thereby butterflying away World War I and the Soviet Union. I'm trying to figure out how realistic it is to keep Finland and Poland as part of Russia. With these circumstances and...

1789 onward was an era of absolute Russian, Prussian, and Austrian dominance. After the Polish Partition of 1795, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was eliminated as a state. Despite Jan Henryk Dąbrowski's attempts to liberate Poland afterward, the boundaries of the Third Partition were...

Tribes on the Vistula River never unite ... What happens then? Will there be any other states on the Vistula, or will these lands germanize?

In the 16th century, Polish-Lithuanian nobles started to develop a highly peculiar way of speaking due to a large amount of fluent and skilled Latin speakers, Latin being widely used as a lingua franca. This was on one hand due to the fact that Polish nobility had always looked up to ancient...

What if Poland took Germany's place?

The challenge is to have Eugene, Prince of Savoy, be elected as ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

This TL originates from the Hungarian website gyakorikerdesek.hu the poster acknowledged that it was a satire: -The Treaty of Trianon never happens, so pre-20th century Hungary stayed as a whole. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy never came into being, instead we made a new union with the Poles...

It is often claimed than Stalin has taken idea of pushing Poland west from previous Imperial Russian plans ('Sazonov Plan'). So let's say victorious Russia really came with simillar solution post-ww1. Poland was more troublesom that it was worth for Russia, the very existence of Poland would...

On the second day of Battle of Warsaw, during the charge of Polish hussars, one of them attacked the Swedish king who fell from the horse, but was succesfully defended by his guards (the hussar in question received a funeral with honors from the eventually victorious Swedes). But what if the...

Come up with a way to include all of OTL Poland as a traditional part of the HRE. (Nongenocidally of course).

After independence could the Polish monarchy be restored and what effects would this have on Poland? :) (someone made one where Pilduski was king but this is different)

So one of the most disappointing events in Lithuanian history happened during the Thirteen Years' War, or, more accurately, Lithuania's (in)action during it. As we know, this was the war which was the death knell to the Teutonic Order, reducing it to a tiny fief around Koenigsberg. Now, Poland...

Ignoring the butterflies for a moment supposing that Brandenburg had never inherited the Duchy of Prussia - Sigismund II Augustus decides not to allow inheritance via Albert Frederick's daughter - but owned Pomerania and Silesia, do people think that Frederick II would have still participated in...

The Danish island of Bornholm was controlled by the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1946. What if the Soviets don't hand the island back to Denmark and either: -incorporate it into the USSR as part of the RSFSR -hand it over to Poland -or create a puppet state on Bornholm called the "People's...

As Polish troops advance into the Ukraine during the 1920 Kiev offensive, they linked up with the remnants of the Czechslovak Legion, who after capturing the Tsar's Gold reserves in 1919 attempted to head for Vladivostok only to be caught in a battle near Omsk and sent fleeing in the opposite...

The Polish-German war is considered to be the most important event in the 1990s. A border clash between the newly independent Poland (formerly the Polish SSR) and East Germany escalated rapidly, until East German forces laid siege to Szczecin. When East Germany refused an ultimatum to withdraw...