As it says, how do we get an polity commonly referred to as Austria-Poland with a POD after the formation of the HRE.
As it says, how do we get an polity commonly referred to as Austria-Poland with a POD after the formation of the HRE.
Austria-Poland doesn't preclude Boehmia in Austria like how OTL Austria-Hungary had Bohemia as part of Austria. How about Austria-Bohemia-Poland-Hungary like they wanted during WW1?I'm not sure you can without having Bohemia or Hungary completely assimilated into them.
You could have a timeline where the Piasts/Přemysl form a single Crown. (Perhaps a war over Silesia that kills the primary heirs of one of the dynasties marries a daughter to the other dynasty, leading to a common king - who may well fuse the crowns.
After those circumstances, as Poland-Bohemia is now bordering Austria, then you can reasonably have Austria and Poland-Bohemia unite via marriage/constitutional union, and form Austria-Poland.
Austria-Poland doesn't preclude Boehmia in Austria like how OTL Austria-Hungary had Bohemia as part of Austria. How about Austria-Bohemia-Poland-Hungary like they wanted during WW1?
Perhaps in lieu of marrying into Spain Austria marries into Poland instead?
Oh, I'm aware of that, but I'm not exactly about to write up every possible permutation
Also, that state, it is basically Greater Moldova and Poland fused, might as well add Lithuania, and watch Russia and Western Europe quake in terror.
I'd imagine that anything that refocuses the attention of the poles west and seperates them and the lituanians would lead the teutonic knights to more victories against the lithuanians.
Wasn't Jadwiga of Poland supposed to marry an Austrian prince, before being forcibly married off to Jogaila of Lithuania instead?
And Europe trembles. Then the Ottomans get an epic beatdown. Maybe liberation of Constantinople?You could achieve this rather easily with a PoD following the Battle of Varna. At this point Poland and Hungary were united under the reign of Władysław III of Poland, and it was his death in this battle that split this union, with Poland eventually electing his Brother Casimir IV, while Hungary elected Ladislaus the Posthumous.
Perhaps instead Poland decides to also embrace the Habsburgs here. Ladislaus was later elected King of Bohemia as well, this would put those 3 Kingdoms and Austria under Habsburg Control. Butterfly away his death at an extremely young age and there you go. A Habsburg Rule East Europe in Record Time.
Austria-Poland doesn't preclude Boehmia in Austria like how OTL Austria-Hungary had Bohemia as part of Austria. How about Austria-Bohemia-Poland-Hungary like they wanted during WW1?
Perhaps in lieu of marrying into Spain Austria marries into Poland instead?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Poland_(1916–18)Your top point is really interesting (the bit about WWI) could you provide a reference/link for I can find out more about it?
Austria-Hungary had three different ideas regarding Poland. One, the "Austro-Polish solution", involved the creation of a Polish kingdom under the Emperor of Austria, who, among his other titles, was already King of Galicia and Lodomeria. German and Magyar (Hungarian) elements within the Habsburg monarchy opposed such a move for fear of creating a predominantly Slavic area. Unlike Emperor Francis Joseph, however, Charles I of Austria, who had acceded to the Habsburg thrones in 1916, promoted the idea. The other two ideas involved the division of the former Congress Poland between Prussia and Austro-Hungary, or between Austro-Hungary and a state built from Lithuania, Belarus and the remnants of Congress Poland.[6]