Challenge: Have everything from Normandy to Denmark be considered the 'Low Countries'

As the title says. They're all relatively geographically low, but by the Low Countries, I mean the way Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands are the low countries.
 

Valdemar II

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As the title says. They're all relatively geographically low, but by the Low Countries, I mean the way Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands are the low countries.

Let the Norman make Normandy into a germanic speaking area would be good start, then make Denmark part of the HRE, and I think we have succed
 
Post Waterloo, the Vienna Congress decides to clip France's wings once and for all. As a buffer, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which OTL did much better than jealous British sources acknowledge in the Waterloo campaign, is further enlarged to encompass parts of France, including Normandy.

A weakened France is not in any position to support Belgian rebels in the 1800s and the Kingdom is never split in 3 states.
 
Post Waterloo, the Vienna Congress decides to clip France's wings once and for all. As a buffer, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which OTL did much better than jealous British sources acknowledge in the Waterloo campaign, is further enlarged to encompass parts of France, including Normandy.

A weakened France is not in any position to support Belgian rebels in the 1800s and the Kingdom is never split in 3 states.

Could work, only you would have only one 'low country'. For Normandy and Denamrk to be considered low countries there must be some historical and geographical connection between them and the Netherlands (and Belgium).
I think a POD around the Vienna congress could work.
Maybe if the Netherlands gains the parts of Germany that were part of France under Napoleon. That would connect it to Denmark. Or we could add Hanover tolist of low countries.
Britain creates a puppet Normandy state in personal union with itself (and Hanover).
When Victoria becomes queen, Normandy (and Hanover) leaves the personal union. Now you have a string of smaller countries from Normandy to Denmark: Normandy, (Belgium), The Netherlands, (Hanover) and Denmark. Next we need to prevent Hanover to be integrated into Germany (and Normandy into France). Maybe these smaller countries decide to work together and stay neutral in all of Europes next conflicts.


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Well, after WWII, the Netherlands wanted to grab some German lands in a one-sided exchange. The major allies weren't keen on splitting up Germany so the Dutch settled for financial compensation of its war damages.

A stronger, bigger Netherlands (actually known as the low countries, not the low country ;)) might well get away with that demand. After all, whose going to stop them and they did suffer a lot in the allied invasion of Dutch Normandy :).

Lets assume they get the areas adjacent to Friesland like Sleswig-Holstein instead of the valuable Ruhr areas which are considered vital to Germany's future.

Denmark, which proved less than a speed bump to German aggression in 1940, realizes it cannot survive without an ally and turns to the Dutch, a country closely linked to its own culture and way of life as a fishing and trading nation.

In time, the alliance is cemented with royal marriages and a union.

Voila, low countries from Normandy to Denmark... :eek:
 
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