Long time no see, uh?
I have sort of a simple question: how many (and which) PODs (happening before 1900 of course) would be necessary for us to create a scenario in which:
1 - Galicia is part of Portuguese territory
2 - The Basque Country is an independent nation
3 - As well as Aragon/Catalonia/Valencia
4 - Same for Occitania and Brittany
IIRC, Galicia was once a Kingdom on its own, before being annexed by The Kingdom of León, and shares many cultural, geographic and linguistic likenesses to Portugal, even nowadays.
Most of the current Basque Country exists where once was the Kingdom of Navarre, invaded about 1512 by Aragonese troops. The heir to the crown eventually became Henry IV of France.
If Ferdinand II of Aragon successfully had a son with french noble Germaine of Foix, he could've passed down the Aragonese crown to this child, preventing his older daughter (who was already a mother of two future Emperors and a queen in Castille by her own right) from inheriting.
Brittany is somewhat complicated as I can remember, since Brittany was something of a "satellite duchy" to France during most of its history, and Claude of Brittany's marriage to François Le Premier de Valois definitively annexed its territories to the french ones. About Occitania, I have no idea, but I believe the survival of Aquitaine and Provence as independent duchies could've helped.
Any ideas? Any help? I'd really like to explore all possibilities...
I have sort of a simple question: how many (and which) PODs (happening before 1900 of course) would be necessary for us to create a scenario in which:
1 - Galicia is part of Portuguese territory
2 - The Basque Country is an independent nation
3 - As well as Aragon/Catalonia/Valencia
4 - Same for Occitania and Brittany
IIRC, Galicia was once a Kingdom on its own, before being annexed by The Kingdom of León, and shares many cultural, geographic and linguistic likenesses to Portugal, even nowadays.
Most of the current Basque Country exists where once was the Kingdom of Navarre, invaded about 1512 by Aragonese troops. The heir to the crown eventually became Henry IV of France.
If Ferdinand II of Aragon successfully had a son with french noble Germaine of Foix, he could've passed down the Aragonese crown to this child, preventing his older daughter (who was already a mother of two future Emperors and a queen in Castille by her own right) from inheriting.
Brittany is somewhat complicated as I can remember, since Brittany was something of a "satellite duchy" to France during most of its history, and Claude of Brittany's marriage to François Le Premier de Valois definitively annexed its territories to the french ones. About Occitania, I have no idea, but I believe the survival of Aquitaine and Provence as independent duchies could've helped.
Any ideas? Any help? I'd really like to explore all possibilities...