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Is there a way that a second/alternate version of the Netherlands could form from the North German trading states, like Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburg? It doesn't have to necessarily leave the HRE, but it should fill the shoes that were filled IOTL by the Netherlands. In other words an urban society and politics, the naval and commercial expertise and a successful colonial power.

So essentially what I am asking is whether it is possible for a nation to come into existence that stretches from Frisia to Pomerania and that bares stark similarities to what we know as the United Provinces?
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