So, as we all know, Central and Eastern Europe (e.g Hungary, the areas along the Danube, Poland, Belarus, and Western Ukraine) in the early modern period was eventually dominated by either the Ottomans, the Russians, or the subject of this thread, the Habsburgs.
But it didn't have to turn out this way.
So, say the Habsburg line stays in their orginal Swiss domains or somehow go extinct before spreading and gaining power, who could we expect to take their place?
I personally am partial to a Jagellionian empire, though getting it to be as expansive or greater than the Habsburg empire would require (imo) either a successful crusade of Varna or at least Władysław III not dying in the Battle of Varna. That would set up a Poland-Hungary-Croatia but after that I don't know where a state like that could expand into.
So, what are your possible Alt-Habsburgs?
But it didn't have to turn out this way.
So, say the Habsburg line stays in their orginal Swiss domains or somehow go extinct before spreading and gaining power, who could we expect to take their place?
I personally am partial to a Jagellionian empire, though getting it to be as expansive or greater than the Habsburg empire would require (imo) either a successful crusade of Varna or at least Władysław III not dying in the Battle of Varna. That would set up a Poland-Hungary-Croatia but after that I don't know where a state like that could expand into.
So, what are your possible Alt-Habsburgs?