AHC: Give an inland European country overseas colonial possessions.

I recently read that Switzerland has an unusually strong maritime tradition, and a commercial port in Basel on the upper Rhine.

It got me wondering, does anyone think they could wank a landlocked nation into acquiring overseas colonies? Either through private ventures, royal inheritance/dowries, client states with actual ports, or a reliance on navigable rivers.

Candidates that come to mind are:

-Bohemia, especially if they keep Silesia which would give them the inland port of Koźle
-Switzerland
-Westphalia, ocean going ships can sail up as far as Duisburg
-Austria, Poland and Hungary if they lose their short coastlines to enemy conquest
-Hungary has the port of Pozsony
-Burgundy, if it loses it's Flemish possessions, especially if they acquire the port of Liege in Wallonia
-Liege itself as a tiny bishopric with colonial ambitions

How they would secure sea lines of communication, either through an actual navy based at home or elsewhere, extensive use of mercenaries/privateers or reliance on an allied power is up to you.

Bonus points if they don't even have a river connection.
 
Post-1900, but Czechoslavakia inherited a portion of the Austro-Hungary navy and even built their own river moniter, President Masaryk, which was as great as any other ship on the Danube.

For colonies, Czechoslovakia had an interest controlling formerly German Togo after WWI. Presumably, Czechoslovak Togo would be a beneficiary of the good will of France and Britain to some extent, although you could say something similar about Portuguese Africa and even Czechoslovakia itself.
 
Austria Hungary had a concession zone in China which they lost in WWI. Both Austria and Hungary eventually gave up their claim in 1920. Without China's entry into the war they would have held onto it.

Also if Austria formally claimed Franz Joseph Land they would again quality in the period between WWI and 1926 when the Soviets annexed it.
 
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