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Is it possible that the territories held by the Teutonic Order would have developed in the 14th century into a kind of organized 'empire-like' entity that could have become a rival of neighbouring HRE (even crushing/succeeding them years later)?
Implying that the union between Poland and Lithuania failed and so the Order would not be successfully challenged by them.