Independent Basque Country/Catalonia/Occitania and Galicia as part of Portugal.

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...
 
Hello hello... Anyone? I don't mean to be pushy, I swear, but I've seen many popular threads and seen extensive discussions on some very obscure and weird themes and vague introduction/original posts, so I wonder why people just read this and ignore it...
 
I don't want to rain on your parade, but I'm pretty sure that the Galicia-Portugal one gets brought up fairly regularly by people on the forum. Most of the time, there are criticisms of the perceived level of cultural and linguistic similarities from both our Galician and Portuguese members (there's at least two of the former, and a few more of the latter).

Moving on, it depends when your PoD is going to be.

For Brittany, giving Francis II a son or two will avert the crisis at the end of the fifteenth century. If they can survive until the French kings get distracted by matters in Italy, then it might be enough. Possibly.

Aquitaine/Occitania, then the most obvious PoD is to have Eleanor of Aquitaine born a boy, give her a brother, or keep the one that existed OTL, but stop him dying young. Or, if all her kids survive, then Henry II of England may go through with the planned division of his realms. Richard would then become Duke of Aquitaine, without England attached. Give the Lionhearted one enough skill and luck, and one of his descendent might end up as an independent actor, rather than holding land of the French king.
 
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