Alternate Post-WW1 States?

The following nations were created post WW1:
  • Finland
  • Austria
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
  • Poland
  • Hungary
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Estonia
From the fallen empires of Austro-Hungary, Russia and Germany.

The Ottomans were also defeated but they became primarily disintegrated into European mandates.

However, what other nations could've been liberated or created post WW1?
 
The following nations were created post WW1:
  • Finland
  • Austria
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
  • Poland
  • Hungary
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Estonia
From the fallen empires of Austro-Hungary, Russia and Germany.

The Ottomans were also defeated but they became primarily disintegrated into European mandates.

However, what other nations could've been liberated or created post WW1?
Belarus
Ukraine
Slovak republic


Any number of those mandates that simply transfered power from a group with at least historical claims to those who are just imperialists .

All about the power and enforcing said treaties.. Even if those bring subjugated don't get a say or choice

You could have Prussia disunited from Germany
 
Was Ireland not part of Great Britain, who won WW1? Why would it be liberated?
They wanted to be free . Wasn't Poland . Finland and the Baltic part of Russia?

How. Liberation movement . Have the bits do things not kosher.. Us gets squimish as do others..
 
The breakup of the Russian Empire could have resulted in even more new countries being created, same with that of the Ottoman Empire. Austria-Hungary... some alternate borders maybe, and separate Czechia and Slovakia, but that's it. The peoples of the Kustenland tried to fight against Italian and Yugoslav annexation to preserve the multiethnic crossroads character of the region, but they did not last long.
 
Revived Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or alternatively, the effort to built a Litbel state works.

Transylvania, Banat, Moldova, and Bukovina could theoretically have become countries, as could have Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia, or a state combining the three that is not added to Serbia.
 
Perhaps Kurdistan emerges from the corpse of the Ottoman Empire and becomes a British protectorate?
If this is post-WW1, it is more likely Kurdstan would be partitioned by the French and the British and be incorporated as part of Syria and Iraq. However after post colonialism it might become one country again, like what happened with Morocco.

Speaking of Kurdstan, I don't know how viable of a country a united Kurdstan would be since "Kurd" as we know it covers so many different groups of people. Yugoslavia was considered a viable country at one point and we all know what happened there. It could just end up falling apart if the Kurds turn against each other over smaller tribal identities.
 
In early November 1918, just as the German Revolution started, the 4000 man strong Kaiserliche Marine garrison on the island of Als elected a uniform tailor and marine soldier, Bruno Topff, as the leader of their local Soldiers' Council. Immediately thereafter, apparently because of a break-down of communications with Gustav Noske in Kiel, Topff supposedly declared the island an independent republic.

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Now was it really Topff's intention to create a separate German republic on Als? It's debatable. Most likely it was his and his fellow marines' plan to have the republic join with the recently established Republic of Germany once the November chaos had settled.

Nonetheless, it's a fun story IMHO.
 

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A "Bohemia"

What if the Czech state were just taken from Cisleithania, leaving Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine to Hungary? What if the Czechs also did not take Teschen?
The Czech or "Bohemian" state would have the wealthiest and most industrial portions of the OTL state, and would face potential nationalities trouble with German-speakers.

However, might an interwar "Bohemia" have found a way to function as a neutral, binational state.

Or if not that, might a larger Hungary, which has not been stripped of Slovakia or Carpatho-Ukraine, be more resistant to German blandishments and more incentivized to ally with Bohemia and Poland?

https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...en-established-in-bohemia-and-moravia.450731/

Or a Czechoslovakia without Sudetenland
https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...shed-with-these-borders.407503/#post-13996123

Czech out these alternatives too:

https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...-masaryk-1-december-1915.317347/#post-9240797
 
Zapadoslavia, the Western Slav equivelant of Yugoslavia with Poles, Czechs and Slovaks.

Baltic federation – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Consolidation in general would've been a smart move to prevent the Russians and Germans later eating the weaker, smaller states as snacks.
 
What about a Baltic Union including Finland and the Baltic States?

I think there's several problems with it. Finland is atleast twice as big as any other member. Finns have a long history of autonomy and a strong nationalism, the Baltics don't. The lack of a continuous land mass makes a single economy much more difficult, and vulnerable. Speaking of which, a longitudinal country with a small population next to the Soviets is a death sentence.
 
Perhaps Kurdistan emerges from the corpse of the Ottoman Empire and becomes a British protectorate?

If this is post-WW1, it is more likely Kurdstan would be partitioned by the French and the British and be incorporated as part of Syria and Iraq. However after post colonialism it might become one country again, like what happened with Morocco.

Kurdistan was actually guaranteed independence (unpartitioned) in the Treaty of Sevres.
 
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