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With a PoD of 1696 (the death of Jan Sobieski), could Saxony have formed a common border with Poland and created an empire similar to Austria's rule over Hungary? To put it in the form of a challenge - by the 19th century the King of Saxony must also be King of Poland and controls Warsaw at a...

After giving birth to two daughters Hedwig of Sagan, fourth wife of Casimir III*, King of Poland gave birth to long awaited son. Vladislaus (Władysław), born in 1369, was first royal son born in Poland from the time of his father's birth almost 60 years earlier**. Although Casimir's second wife...

So, let's assume the Premyslid dynasty are successful gaining Poland. How does this come about? What other territory could they reasonably get? Austria? Carinthia? Styria? The Imperial title? Etc. Other side effects?

Polish patriots claim it was possible to reclaim the Kresy (Lwów, Stanisławów, Wołyń, Brześć nad Bugiem, Grodno, Nowogrodziec, Wilno) after the fall of Communism. Was it really the case? If so, what could have been done?

In december 1917, an armistice was concluded between the Central Powers and the Bolsheviks. The TL;DR version of this is that the CPs initially only demanded for Poland, Lithuania and Courland which roughly corresponded to the frontline. The Bolshevik negotiations stuck with their policy of "no...

Cracow, 30 November 1427. Queen Sophia gives birth to her only daughter. Girl is named Elżbieta (Elizabeth) after her deceased half sister Elżbieta Bonifacja, oldest daughter of King Władysław Jagiełło and his first wife Jadwiga from House of Anjou. June 1434-after death of Władysław II his...

I've never understood why Vladislaus II of Opole, as a male line Piast and a (female line) descendant of Vladislaus I the Elbow-High wasn't logical choice to ascend to the Polish throne either after the death of Casimir III or that of Louis I of Hungary, for whom he was essentially a viceroy...

What if the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes failed to conquer a large foothold in Britain, so they migrated the other direction, settling the lands east of the Elbe? As far as I know this area was partially vacated by Germanic tribes migrating into the Roman Empire, and quickly settled by West Slavs...

In OTL, Franklin Roosevelt planned on stepping down in 1940 in favor of his preferred successor, Harry Hopkins. However, Hopkins' health collapsed and WWII broke out, prompting FDR to run for an unprecedented third term. The POD is that German Conservatives forge a coalition to block the Nazis...

Lipka Tatars are a very interesting historical ethnic group. First made up of pagan Tatars fleeing Islamization in late Middle Ages, then subsumed by Muslim Tatars, the Lipka Tatars settled in what is now Belarus, Poland and Lithuania. Though for a long time they served as a military cast and...

With a POD of 1900, you’r challenge is to make Poland be divided by at lest 2 countries into the modern day. The most odvious to me are Germany and Russia holding onto their polish territory, but is it possible to have other scenarios? Maybe a Czechoslovakia controlling the southern part of...

Just like first, personal Polish-Lithuanian Union, real union from 1569 also was result of fate of dynasty-this time Jagiellons were going to die out. Would Sigismund Augustus had a son, something as radical as OTL Union of Lublin would rather not happen, or would be significantly delayed. IOTL...

What would happen in eastern europe if the Prussian Confederation was stronger and they actually beat the Teutonic Order. With more power they could probably demand more rights. Would this lead to Prussia becoming an equal member of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth later?

What if Poland and Lithuania were never united under the Jagiellonians? How would Central and Eastern Europe have developed if Poland and Lithuania largely remained separate realms, and developed largely independently?

The last Franconian duke of Prussia had two sons, Albrecht Friedrich (b.1580, d.1580) and Wilhelm Friedrich (b.1585, d.1586). However, both died in infancy and when the loopy duke died in 1618 (having been insane since 1578), the duchy passed to the electors of Brandenburg. So, WI: the...

In other thread I've proposed this chainn of events: That was part of challenge to make Mary Tudor wife of Sigismund Augustus. But let's ignore English part and concentrate on the bolded part instead, maybe with little modification-Anna of Bohemia and Hungary dies from some illness before...

Say that Wenceslaus is killed in late july 1295 by classic horse ridding accident. His death before he get crowns of Poland and Hungary would cause massive butterflies in whole Central Europe. His 5 years old son Wenceslaus III would inherit Bohemian throne. Once again Bohemia would need...

The Deluge in Poland and Lithuania, which was a crisis period extending from the early 1650's to the early 1660's, saw the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth be invaded on all sides by Sweden, Russia, the Cossacks, Brandenburg (to a small extent), and the Duke of Transylvania. There were also some...

OTL Konrad of Mazovia was mindless brute known for invitation of Teutonic Knights to Chełmno Land, which became nucleus of future Teutonic Order State (as result Konrad is often blamed not only for later wars between Poland and Teutonic Order but also for Partitions and ww2 :) ). ITTL Konrad's...

Here is an interesting line I have just found in History of Lithuania, tome IV: 1386-1529 by J. Kiaupienė and R. Petrauskas: Obviously, there are reasons as for why Ivan III would decline such an offer, but let's say he has a change of mind and agrees, leading to the foundation of the Kingdom...