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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.
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