Candidates for an alt-Belgium

After the First World War, some people in Tyrol wanted to preserve the unity of the historical County of Tyrol by seceding from Austria, therefore making (in their opinion) the treaty that gave Bozen and Trento to the Kingdom of Italy null and void. Similarly, some people wanted to preserve the multiethnic nature of the Austrian Littoral by creating a polity independent from Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia.

Both movements failed before they even began.
 
I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned. Have Denmark retain Schleswig-Hostein and integrate it into Denmark proper.

As of 2018...
Denmark has 5.8 million people.
Schleswig-Holstein has 2.9 million people.


If you want things to be more balanced, have Denmark grab Hamburg and perhaps retain Pomerania (which it briefly had in 1814).

Hamburg has 1.8 million people.
Danish Pomerania has 0.5 million people

There was plenty of independent sentiment in Schleswig-Hostein even up to 1848 so it is possible that a Great Power could feasible step in to guarantee. The issue is that Britain stepped up to do so in Belgium's case to prevent the real possibility of France annexing Wallonia
 
Are there any alternative candidates for a nation which, like Belgium, is formed pre-1900 and exists into the twentieth century split nearly equally between two different language/ethnic groups, or religious groups, which exist more-or-less without constantly trying to kill each other.
Switzerland: Reato-Romanic, Italian, French, German , Catholic, Protestant.
 
There was plenty of independent sentiment in Schleswig-Hostein even up to 1848 so it is possible that a Great Power could feasible step in to guarantee. The issue is that Britain stepped up to do so in Belgium's case to prevent the real possibility of France annexing Wallonia

What do you mean by independent sentiment?

As in sentiment to be independent from Germany and party of Denmark?
 
What is a Belgium but a more peaceful Yugoslavia?

And even this so-called peaceful Yugoslavia used to have nationalists blowing stuff up until the 80s.

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How strong was slovene national consciousness? My understanding is that in the 19th century there was a debate as to whether they were croats who lived like germans or germans who talked like Croats. It's noteworthy that Slovenia was part of the German Confederation.

After WWI, perhaps Austria retains Slovenia. Then after WWII of TTL, Austria regains Kustenland and South Tyrol.

German speakers: 9,358,000.
Slovene speakers: 2,430,000
Italian speakers: 260,000





How about a Serbo-Bulgarian Yugoslavia under the House of Obrenovic?



Levi Eshkol succeeds in finding an Arab Partner to establish an Israeli-Palestinian Federation in 1967.
 
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