WI - Hungary with sea access

Not sure of pre-1900 (or even post-1900) PODs involved though what if Hungary (up to the present day) had access to either the Adriatic or Black seas?
 
Pre-1900: If the Kingdom of Hungary keeps Dalmatia with its coast, and avoids its Croatian and Dalmatian vassals from breaking off, then it can have sea access to the Mediterranean via the Adriatic. It had sea access for most of the medieval period, after its founding. In the Ottoman wars era, Habsburg-ruled rump Hungary had some more limited sea access via the Croatian Captaincy and the chunk of Adriatic coast of Carniola (much of present day Slovenia).
 
Why have either when you can have both?

With an early enough PoD and sufficient butterflies, you can have a Hungary that has access to both. If you're into a Hungarian-Polish Commonwealth, you can even add the Baltic to the mix. All doable, with the right PoD.
 
OTL Kingdom of Hungary did have an Adriatic port, although I don't know if it was contiguous with Hungary or separated by Austria. In any event the borderline irrelevant Hapsburg navy was mostly Austrian contingents, and most of their coastlines were Austrian or Croatian.
 
While Hungary having access to the Adriatic seems feasible, how would it gain access to the Black sea?
1) /pre-1900; more success against Ottomans results in subordination of Wallachia to Hungary, with or without being entangled with Austria. This produces a vulnerable salient that both Russians and Ottomans will try to seize, and also buffers the Balkans from Russia. How resistant the Romanians are depends on details. But Romania is Orthodox IIRC so that is a flashpoint.

2) post-1900, Central power victory might lead to such an annexation, if not to Hungary proper than to "Crown of St. Stephen." In this case Russia is knocked out temporarily due to fall of Romanovs--or maybe not; for the Empire to hold together perhaps the victory must come early--but maybe by "Hungary" someone means "Hungary disassociated from Austria." I believe in case of CP victory, the German Empire will strive to keep AH united, but possibly if the victory came late, AH is too unstable and the Germans settle for it breaking into as few peices as possible and this leaves Hungary with both a piece of Adriatic and Black sea access.
 
That's OTL. "Croatia" was united with Hungary throughout most of both nation's history, from the Middle Ages until WW1.
 
A very simple POD would be King Emeric (or his father, Bela III) living longer and entirely writing out Andrew II's disastrous reign. Under Bela III the Arpad monarchy was one of the most centralized in Europe and was generally awesome, but Andrew II was worse than John Lackland in many aspects and paved the way for his country's annhilation against the Mongols and eventually the downfall of the Arpad monarchy, and with it Hungary's greatest shot at being something great. Both Bela III and Emeric were already the Kings of Croatia, so all you'd have to do is prevent the Arpads from losing territory. The Black Sea is trickier, but very manageable. Have Emeric finish his father's work in Transylvania and Halych and then you're a stone's throw away from the mouth of the Danube and the Black Sea.
 
Not sure of pre-1900 (or even post-1900) PODs involved though what if Hungary (up to the present day) had access to either the Adriatic or Black seas?

Not sure if it counts, but my history teacher at school used to tell of how her grandfather used to be a captain/commander in the Hungarian navy. And a bunch of the other kids used to look at her like she was cuckoo. Now, IDK when her grandfather lived - guessing sometime before Hungary lost access to the sea after WWI, but it did have sea access. Otherwise, the Comte de Benyovszky can always be more successful in encouraging Hungary to build roads to the seaports on the Adriatic as he attempted OTL.
 
To the Sea, Magyar! Yes they did have access to the Adriatic. After the Compromise they did a good job of developing Fiume and encouraging non-Italian migration to that city. So it was part of the Austro-Hungarian prosperity of the late 19th century. They didn't do anything spectacular like embark on a colonial policy. Of course, one would not expect them to. Austria-Hungary was a land power in Central Europe only.
 
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