Could Denmark be a Belgium

Despite all the internal tensions, Belgium has managed to cohere as a polity for a good couple of centuries now.

Denmark is quite similar, with two (three including the Frisians) linguistic groups and a long history as a polity (even if Denmark and Holstein were technically separate).

Could Denmark have weathered through the 19th century as a unified polity and become a Belgium-like multilingual political entity?
 
Have the Napoleonic Wars end in the destruction/drastic weakening of Prussia and this seems quite possible. Whether the Holsteiners wanted to be part of unified Germany or not, the issue was forced by German invasion OTL
 
Denmark's gonna need a but more Germany for this to happen. What would be more interesting imo is a Denmark unified Germany .
 
Denmark's gonna need a but more Germany for this to happen. What would be more interesting imo is a Denmark unified Germany .

Perhaps they grab Hamburg, Lubeck, Saxe-Lauenburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Heligoland either at the end of the Napoleonic Wars or afterwards?

Maybe a partition of Mecklenburg-Schwerin could work in Denmark's favor as well. A solid border between the Elbe and Lake Schwering would be good for the Danes I think.
 
Perhaps they grab Hamburg, Lubeck, Saxe-Lauenburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Heligoland either at the end of the Napoleonic Wars or afterwards?

Maybe a partition of Mecklenburg-Schwerin could work in Denmark's favor as well. A solid border between the Elbe and Lake Schwering would be good for the Danes I think.

Denmark hardly would need so much and want that even so much? It probably is wnough if Denmark can keep Schleswig-Holstein.
 
Heligoland was Danish until 1807, and Denmark could probably exchange something for it to get it back from the British. Maybe the Danish Virgin Islands or part of Danish India? They could still have a decent colonial empire for such a small country with their part of the Gold Coast and the Nicobar Islands, and maybe also be able to grab a few other small colonies in Africa and Asia.

Denmark would have something like 7 million people total (less than Belgium) if it incorporated Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg into some sort of Danish Confederation. About 20-25% would be German. This is proportionately less than the French-speaking community of Belgium, although if you somehow annexed the free cities of Hamburg and Lübeck into Denmark it would be more even.
 
Heligoland was Danish until 1807, and Denmark could probably exchange something for it to get it back from the British. Maybe the Danish Virgin Islands or part of Danish India? They could still have a decent colonial empire for such a small country with their part of the Gold Coast and the Nicobar Islands, and maybe also be able to grab a few other small colonies in Africa and Asia.

Denmark would have something like 7 million people total (less than Belgium) if it incorporated Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg into some sort of Danish Confederation. About 20-25% would be German. This is proportionately less than the French-speaking community of Belgium, although if you somehow annexed the free cities of Hamburg and Lübeck into Denmark it would be more even.

Denmark-Holstein-Lauenburg plus Hamburg and Lubeck would be quite the polity I think, and 60-40 Danish-German probably.
 
Okay let's run with the union surviving. The POD are very two very small in 1808 the Prince Frederik (VII) who are born are slightly different from OTL, a alternative brother i9f you will. This Frederik VII producer a heir. Next Christian VIII survives slightly longer meaning it's him and not his son who deal with the demands for democracy, he makes a compromise with them. This means no Schleswig Wars. We still see a linguistic conflict between Danes and Germans, but a less liberal constitution and no succession crisis means the union survives.
 
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