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What if at the Congress of Vienna the Rhineland, which IOTL was given to Prussiato act as a buffer against France, instead had a different future? Perhaps given to another German country like Austria or Saxony or Bavaria, or perhaps given independence as its own state? Or even reverting to a consolidated version of how things were pre-French Revolution, where smaller states like Julich-Cleves-Berg and Trier controlled it?

How might this effect the balance of power in Europe? How about the rise of pan-German nationalism and the move towards unification?
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