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Relate to my ongoing TL about the German Empire, I was thinking about the following situation:

Given that Hungary could be an independent Kingdom by 1870 that would either implode due to the internal ethnic disputes or maybe be partitioned by its neighbors in a Polish style, the eventual German duchies (or whatever similar entity) in Transylvania/Banat resulting of such a division could be interested (and allowed to?) in joining the German Empire?

I find this idea quite interesting (because of the many consequences it could have for the future) but I'm afraid it could be a bit implausible, given the big distance that separates them from Austria/Germany, not only phisically but also socially and economically. I don't know how feasible was to keep distant exclaves by the 1870s, even if they could be tipped as neutral/demilitarised for not concerning the neighbor nations too much.

My idea is replacing the useless colonial projects of the OTL German Empire by the interest in keeping German-populated exclaves across Eastern Europe (in a combination of satisfying both imperalist/colonial and irredentist movements in Germany).
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