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Inspired by real-world minor colonial efforts in the Americas, here is one of those AH board game thingies where you think up ahistorical colonies established by European (and Asian, maybe even African or other) powers in a whole different Age of Colonization. I think this has been done before, but I wanted to emphasize on the minor colonies belonging to unlikely powers.

There is no preset POD or timeline, though if people want to add on to each others' ideas without directing contradicting them, it would be cool with me. I'm sure not going to make a map or anything like that.

I'll start off.

San Valletta [OTL St. Bart's] - The sole New World possession of the Knights Hospitaller, acquired in 1567 after it was bequeathed by the Holy Roman Emperor in honor of the Order's successful defense against the Ottoman siege of Malta. Initially called New Petronium, the name was later changed to reflect the canonization of the former Grand Master of the Order. Though never heavily developed, the island became the Knights' toehold in the Noddian Isles [Caribbean], and where the Order's activities in the New World were focused at, allowing them to play the role of perennial kingmaker with regards to several disputed territories in the region and to engage in several evangelization efforts on the mainland.

Though the island of Clermont [OTL St. Croix] was later given to the Knights by Duke Henry of Auvergne in 1604, it was captured by the Mali colonial city-state of Kangaba [OTL Curaçao] amidst the Noddian Crusades and eventually granted to the Catholic Kingdom of Kongo at the Council of Ehingerburg.
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