Union of Bavaria and Austria

If the the Archduchy of Austria and Bavaria were both under one ruler and merged to create a kingdom what would the name be?

I do not know how or when this happens but I am curious what possible names for this entity there could be.
 
If the the Archduchy of Austria and Bavaria were both under one ruler and merged to create a kingdom what would the name be?

I do not know how or when this happens but I am curious what possible names for this entity there could be.

When and how it happens probably defines what the name is.

Under the Holy Roman Empire, there were numerous unions of crowns, but the various domains remained separate entities and names or designations didn't change. Consider the "Hapsburg Realm": Austria, Tyrol, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola - all separate Duchies (and one County, Tyrol). They remained in this condition from their acquisition by the Hapsburgs in 1282 until the abolition of the HRE in 1806.

During the whole later history of the HRE there was only one "kingdom" within it; the Kingdom of Bohemia, which had been established in 1198.

There were various possibilities for Austria and Bavaria to be conjoined. The Hapsburgs' predecessors in Austria, the Babenbergs, were also rulers of Bavaria at times. Then in the 1700s, the Bavarian line of the Wittelsbach family went extinct, and the Hapsburg Emperor tried to claim Bavaria over the claim of a collateral Wittelsbach line, offering to exchange the Austrian Netherlands for Bavaria. (This deal was blocked by Frederick of Prussia in the "War of the Bavarian Succession".)

Suppose that deal had gone through. Then, most likely, Bavaria would have been incorporated into whatever state replaced the HRE - an Austrian or German Empire, probably.
 
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