Countries that could have successfully united but didn't

Additionally to their Germanic culture/language (which is not much to say, as romanized as the Goths were), their biggest identitarian characteristic was their christian arianic faith. If they decide to style themselves emperors, they could use that as a mark of prestige and opposition to the catholic eastern empire. Of course, as IOTL Visigothic Hispania, that would alienate them from the roman popular base, unless...
-they are more successful than IOTL about attracting peasants and villae lords to themselves.
-they pull a Reccared like IOTL and convert.

So, we could have ourselves a Gothic Arian Church set up over a revived Roman Empire in the west, with a Germanic aristocracy?
Maybe the Arian church could start sending missionaries and converting Catholics in the West, combined with less tolerance for Catholicism, under a longer-lived Theoderic the Great, or a son that (as far as I know) never existed. This sounds like it has all sorts of places it could go.
Early crusades, a deposed Bishop of Rome/anti-popes, religious wars back and forth between the Ravenna and Constantinople.
And, of course, Theoderic IOTL allied himself with other Germanic states, via marriage or threat of invasion, so...
Visigothic+Ostrogothic Kingdoms+Frankish Kingdoms+Vandal Africa = Gothic-Roman Empire?
Or at least...
Visigothic+Ostrogothic Kingdoms= Gothic-Roman Empire, with Frankish and Vandal Kingoms as allies or even client states.
 
Spain and Portugal.
Scandinavia.
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
Wales and Ireland.
Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, Austria as a part of Germany.
 
Wales and Ireland.

Ireland had a hell of a time just uniting itself, I don't really see it being able to take Wales, which I'd point out is'nt the same as Ireland anymore than England is the same as Germany.


Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, Austria as a part of Germany.

With an HRE united Germany and PoD's further back to prevent Dutch moving far enough away to become its own language (Dutch was originaly a German dialect), I could see Belgium (and the Netherlands), but all of Denmark I really don't see, it's not German, is one of the two hearts of the Nordic Cultural World and predates and outlasted all the German Minor States.
 
With an HRE united Germany and PoD's further back to prevent Dutch moving far enough away to become its own language (Dutch was originaly a German dialect), I could see Belgium (and the Netherlands), but all of Denmark I really don't see, it's not German, is one of the two hearts of the Nordic Cultural World and predates and outlasted all the German Minor States.

Though that would certainly be an interesting war, between a unified German Nation (Großdeutschland) and a Nordic Union (perhaps a survival of the Kalmar union of the crowns of Denmark, Norway and Sweden), with the Germans claiming Denmark as an extension of ethnic German lands. Even without a surviving Kalmar Union, I don't see the Nordic nations taking an German invasion into Denmark lying down.
 
Ireland had a hell of a time just uniting itself, I don't really see it being able to take Wales, which I'd point out is'nt the same as Ireland anymore than England is the same as Germany.




With an HRE united Germany and PoD's further back to prevent Dutch moving far enough away to become its own language (Dutch was originaly a German dialect), I could see Belgium (and the Netherlands), but all of Denmark I really don't see, it's not German, is one of the two hearts of the Nordic Cultural World and predates and outlasted all the German Minor States.
I'm thinking more along the lines of united Celtic tribes. Germany could claim Some of the Danish Isles as an extension of German lands as stated above.
 
My big one would be the land of modern day Iraq, Iran, and Talikasgan all as part of a much more powerful Iranian empire.
 
Burundi+Kenya+Rwanda+Tanzania+Uganda(+South Sudan?)= East African Federation.

To be fair, this is in the works, it just hasn't happened YET.
 
I'm thinking more along the lines of united Celtic tribes. Germany could claim Some of the Danish Isles as an extension of German lands as stated above.

Imagine if Brittany had remained with England via the "Angevin Empire." That would have all the "Celtic Nations" under one rule. I wonder if that would have had any impact on Celtic identity... I don't know, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman identity has left its mark pretty indelibly on the people of the British Isles, at least in England. With an earlier POD, though...

England+Cornwall+Wales+the Isle of Man+Scotland+Ireland+Brittany= The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and Brittany, The United Kingdom of the Two (Three) Britains and Ireland?
 
Eastern Roman Empire and Russian Empire: (Very) Eastern Roman Empire

This probably could have happened a number of times. The Russians driving the Turks out of Anatolia is probably the most likely.

EDIT: This probably would have just ended up with a Russian Constantinople and the Russian Tsar claiming even more loudly that Moscow was the Third Rome. The Russian Tsar might just add "Roman Emperor" to his collateral titles.
 
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