Choose any PoD before ~1450, and after 569, and create a unified Italian state, which may or may not contain Sicily (up to y'all) under any form of government, whether native-ruled, or ruled by a foreign dynasty.
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Wasn't Italy essentially unified several times in that period? The Lombards, the Medieval Kingdom of Italy, and the HRE obtained almost all of the peninsula. Often the only bits that were independent were the Papal Domains and Roman Italy.Choose any PoD before ~1450, and after 569, and create a unified Italian state, which may or may not contain Sicily (up to y'all) under any form of government, whether native-ruled, or ruled by a foreign dynasty.
Wasn't Italy essentially unified several times in that period? The Lombards, the Medieval Kingdom of Italy, and the HRE obtained almost all of the peninsula. Often the only bits that were independent were the Papal Domains and Roman Italy.
I disagree.The medieval kingdom of italy was not a unified italy, the only bits it controled pretty much where Milan and Savoy.
Leave him rule for another 25-30
years and he'll unite all Northern Italy and
Central Italy into one centralized state. If Northern Italy is
united one of his descendants will eventually take all
Southern Italy.
Well, maybe not all of Italy but Northern and Central Italy for sure. I never heard that he intentionally divided his lends From what I knew on contrary he tried to gain as many lands as was possible being the creator of Duchy of Milan which consisted of his first gains. On the map I attached to my previous are his domains at the moment of his death. His state broke apart after his death -that's true- but that wasn't his will- the problem was that his eldest son was only 13 and couldn't preserve his father's heritage. Had Joan Galeazzo lived such breaking seems implausible.My understanding is that Gian Galeazzo didn't really plan to untite Italy; he actually divvied up the lands he ruled in his will, no?
Well, maybe not all of Italy but Northern and Central Italy for sure. I never heard that he intentionally divided his lends From what I knew on contrary he tried to gain as many lands as was possible being the creator of Duchy of Milan which consisted of his first gains. On the map I attached to my previous are his domains at the moment of his death. His state broke apart after his death -that's true- but that wasn't his will- the problem was that his eldest son was only 13 and couldn't preserve his father's heritage. Had Joan Galeazzo lived such breaking seems implausible.