AHC/WI: Hungarian and German Colonial empires

Albert.Nik

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With a POD of early renaissance,have Hungarians and German states(Austria and Germany) to build significantly large colonial empires and some settler colonies as well. Choose any part of the World you want.
 
With a POD of early renaissance,have Hungarians and German states(Austria and Germany) to build significantly large colonial empires and some settler colonies as well. Choose any part of the World you want.

Hungary is tough one. No Ottomans or a divided Balkans and Anatolia is a way to keep Hungary strong and resources are available to sent for Colonial adventures. But I really wonder if that is enough for Hungary chances are they might fight over the Danubian Principalities with the available resources.

Austria is pretty much the same problem. But the North German States can try. They have a good chance setting up small settlements in small Caribbean Islands and/or forts in West Africa.
 
If A-H can somehow hang on to the Austrian Netherlands during the 19th Century they have an excellent base from which to get in on the Scramble for Africa.
 
Austria-Hungary almost bought the Western Sahara but the Magyars vetoed it for some reason. There were also Austrian attempts to claim the Nicobar Islands.

If you want a non Austro-Hungarian Hungary, you're probably looking at something in North Africa, or turning parts of the Balkans and Danube into colonies like Bosnia kind of was OTL.
 
Could Austria have beem a colonial power if the Netherlands were inherited by Ferdinand I? If they succeed in keeping this area during the spread of Protestantism, i could see the low coutries being used as Austria's powerbase in the ocean, perhaps controling Indonesia like otl Netherlands or something like that.
 
It’s just hard to imagine the Netherlands not becoming independent at some point. It was similar in someways to the American Colonies, where they had become accustomed to their low taxes and high degree of autonomy, and the attempt to enforce any sort of centralization upon them was going to have just as large a backlash. The fact was that any empire that owned them was at some point going to want to raise taxes if only to reap the areas wealth.
 
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