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Would there be a way for the Balkans to evolve differently, such that:

Italy today holds what we called the Austrian Littoral and Trieste, and possibly also Dalmatia as majority Italian.
Austria today holds its OTL territory, plus Rijeke, the "Sudeten" territory from Czechia, an Slovenia, as majority Austrian.

My question would be how to get the Italians and Austrians to settle those territories over where they did settle (Lower Styria and Karinthia/Karniola over Siebenbergen, for example), so that they could then reasonably claim them as national territory in the 20th century. Or, barring that, have the entirety of Styria and Karinthia remain in Austria as majority Austrian territory.
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