Protestant Slavic country

Lusatia? Silesia?

they would have to be made independent though

Well, so far as Lusatia is concerned, I already mentioned the Sorbs. Prussian Silesia was Protestant majority, but that was because it was German-majority--the Polish population was mostly Catholic. As for Austrian Silesia, "In 1900, the population of Austrian Silesia numbered 680,422. The Germans formed 44.69% of the population, 33.21% were Poles (Bielsko-Biala, Cieszyn) and 22.05% Czechs and Slavs. According to religion, 84% were Roman Catholics, 14% Protestants and the remainder were Jews."
http://freepl.info/74-lower-and-upper-silesia
 
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I was under the impression that Bohemia was pretty Protestant until Austria Counter-Reformationed it. So if you get an independent Bohemia, it could work. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but a good time for this would probably be around the 30 Years War.

I was actually thinking of writing a timeline a while back about Protestant Slovenia, since IIRC they went majority (or at least significantly) Protestant right after the Reformation, and stayed that way until Austria pushed the Counter-Reformation and expelled the Lutheran preachers. So to avoid their re-conversion to Catholicism, you basically need them to be independent from Austria. Unfortunately, due to the geographical size and position of Slovenia (it's small and was considered to be part of the Austrian Crownlands), not to mention the fact that there's very little arable land, and there really isn't a good way for them to gain independence. The other option is to have someone else take over Slovenia, the two principal suspects being Venice and the Ottomans (hey, it worked for the Protestants in Ottoman Hungary!).
The problem with the Ottomans taking it is that it's at the very edge of their territory, it's not very good land, and it's close enough that the Austrians are going to be furiously trying to get it back. But I could see it becoming something similar to the Croatian Military frontier, where Austria promised freedom of religion to anyone who was willing to settle there and fight the Ottomans.

Venice at this time period I don't know so much about, but I would assume they would be interested at least in the coast. Which would of course once again get the Austrians upset since Slovenia was their main access to the Mediterranean.
 
Well, so far as Lusatia is concerned, I already mentioned the Sorbs. Prussian Silesia was Protestant majority, but that was because it was German-majority--the Polish population was mostly Catholic. As for Austrian Silesia, "In 1900, the population of Austrian Silesia numbered 680,422. The Germans formed 44.69% of the population, 33.21% were Poles (Bielsko-Biala, Cieszyn) and 22.05% Czechs and Slavs. According to religion, 84% were Roman Catholics, 14% Protestants and the remainder were Jews."
http://freepl.info/74-lower-and-upper-silesia

The Catholics in Bohemia were mostly the Silesians/Poles at one point
I think the Polish speaking lands needs to be taken from Bohemia this will cause Bohemia to be 98-99%, actually, Jogaila was asked by the King of Bohemia to take Silesia which he refused had that happened, I think any crusade against Bohemia will be harder.
 
The Bosniaks in the mid to late Middle Ages adhered to a rather heterodox form of Christianity, denounced by both the Catholics and Orthodox as heretics. After the Ottoman Conquest, they gradually converted to Islam. ITTL, a Bosniak scholar who studied in Germany can return home carrying Protestant ideas, eventually forming a Protestant Bosnian church with similarities to the Anglican Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Church
 
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