Unusual Balkanization Candidates

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Also, Switzerland. Because anybody who went from having some of the world's premier mercenaries to studious neutrality must be plotting something, and I'd like to see a wrench thrown into the works. :D

Sandman, despite Switzerland's small size, there actually is a group favoring Juran independence.
I agree that the possibility of Mexican balkanization has seldom been mentioned. This could be because Mexico is more or less homogenous, although this hasn't prevented other states from balkanizing in the past.
 

Susano

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Perhaps the people of the Romansh language could finally have their own homeland.

I think ther are more Friulian speakers than Rhaetoromance speakers, so a balkanisation of Italy would be better for that purpose. Though there is also a Romansh variant in South Tyrol, so I guess a Friaul-South Tyrol-Grisons state would be the optimum for such a homeland, heh.

Sandman, despite Switzerland's small size, there actually is a group favoring Juran independence.
...from Bern, not from Switzerland. A goal which has been largely reached with the creation of the canton of Jura, though some parts of that region are still Bernese, so that movement goes on.
 
Poland. It was dynastically divided between XIIth and early XIV century.

Poland tends to be an all or nothing state, either existing intact or being divided among various powers, although it probably is possible to keep it divided into petty states and kingdoms.

You`re uneducated.
 

Valdemar II

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A balkanised Switzerland would be quite interesting, especially if it happen around the Reformation, especially because some of the cantons was medium size states in their own right (primary Bern). The bigger Cantons like Bern, Zürich, Valais and Graubünden may begin/keep a expansionistic policies, so we may see some of the cantons expand out of Switzerland, and of course conquer some of the smaller and weaker cantons. I don't think Fribourg will survive. The oldest cantons would likely reestablish their old alliance as some kind of Catholic confederation together with some of the easten smaller cantons, while they're quite minor they defensive enough to survive, Graubünden would stay out and go Protestant, while in northen and western Switzerland the Protestant cantons will subjugate the Catholic cantons, and Valais will end up as independent Catholic state.
 
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