AHC: Balkanize the Balkan peninsula

The trouble with further Balkanising the Balkans is that there isn't really much more you could do, but there are a few suggestions I can think of:

One idea might be to partition Bosnia along religious lines between Catholics, Muslims, and Orthodox, but the trouble is that the Catholic and Orthodox parts would likely get eaten up by Croatia and Serbia respectively, with the Muslim parts maybe forming a buffer if they aren't absorbed.

Another option is to have the Greek Civil War end in an armistice and partition, with a Communist north and Capitalist south.

Finally, have Yugoslavia successfully absorb Trieste after WW2 instead of Italy, then after Yugoslavia falls apart Trieste attempts to go it alone and tries to set itself up as a tax haven a la Monaco.

Also, if you include Romania as part of the Balkan Peninsula, maybe an independent Transylvania as a compromise between Romanian and Hungarian nationalism.
 
Yeah, that's the main problem. Some separatist entities such as the Serbs and Croats of Bosnia could be more successful, but they intended to unite with their "mother" nations sooner or later. Making them strike out alone is possible, but hard and unlikely.

So that just leaves small statelets. For example, what if Tito didn't expel the local Germans and Italians, and instead herded them into their own "autonomous provinces"? One on the Adriatic coast and another in northern Serbia or Croatia. Then, when the country falls apart, these regions also descend into violence and are eventually made independent states with Western backing.

A different and more balanced international supervision of Kosovo might have established a separate Gorani (Slavic Muslim) state on its territory. Then they could go crazy and also establish a Circassian microstate, a Serbian Orthodox Vatican, and maybe throw in a microstate for local Roma too.
 
Greece is divided to Communist Greece and Capitalist Greece during the civil war.

Could there be independent Vojvodina?
 
Greece is divided to Communist Greece and Capitalist Greece during the civil war.

Could there be independent Vojvodina?

Vojvodina is a Communist joke which never caught on...a Hungarian state in the northern part of the region is possible, though. Relations between ethnic groups there stayed reasonably good in the 90s, but that's not the only way things could have gone.
 
Sandžak? Northern Epirus? Slavonia? Dalmatia? Banat?

Dalmatia could be possible if there would be surviving Dalmatian language with several speakers. But last speaker died on 1890's so you would need very early POD and it would make Balkans pretty unrecognsible.
 
You could also conceivably split Albania a few more ways. In addition to the natural North/South divide, you could also get a Catholic state in the North West (In OTL such a polity briefly existed as the Republic of Mirdita in 1920) and a Greek state in the South.

Perhaps in TTL Tito is able to annex Albania and incorporate it into Yugoslavia. The Albanian Republic is given Albanian chunks of Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro to compensate for the loss of Northern Epirus which becomes a Greek Republic that serves to shelter communist refugees from the civil war.

Following the deaths of Tito and Kardelj, Yugoslavia collapses. The Albanians fight for independence and get it but soon collapse under regional tensions and ingrained tribal loyalties.

I wonder if perhaps you could have the Banat go it's own way in TTL as well. Perhaps as a bastion of "True Yugoslavism"?
 

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Dalmatia could be possible if there would be surviving Dalmatian language with several speakers. But last speaker died on 1890's so you would need very early POD and it would make Balkans pretty unrecognsible.

Doesn't really need a seperate language to make a seperate state - Croatia and Serbia both speak Serbo-Croat, after all. All that is needed is a reason that Dalmatia achieves independance seperately (date, occupying powers, etc) to the rest of 'Croatia'.
 
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