WI The Carpathian Croatian culture survived.

WI a Croatian speaking people still lived in the area of modern day Slovakia.

Pod: Slavic and Magyar migration still occurs but the language and culture still survives with the people in the area, so that the Adriatic and Carpathian Croats resemble somewhere inbetween the Nordic countries and Spanish American countries, same language but each country has different dialect and some addition words and phrases for surrounding cultures e.g Latin for Adriatic Croats and Czech and Polish for Carpathian Croats and similar culture but with different regional influence.

My question is how likely is this?
And if it did happen and these people replaced the role of Slovaks in history thus causing minimal butterflies how would that effect European events during the 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly Croatian nationalism, the 1848 revolution and post ww1 breakup of Austria Hungary.
 
WI a Croatian speaking people still lived in the area of modern day Slovakia.

Pod: Slavic and Magyar migration still occurs but the language and culture still survives with the people in the area, so that the Adriatic and Carpathian Croats resemble somewhere inbetween the Nordic countries and Spanish American countries, same language but each country has different dialect and some addition words and phrases for surrounding cultures e.g Latin for Adriatic Croats and Czech and Polish for Carpathian Croats and similar culture but with different regional influence.

My question is how likely is this?
And if it did happen and these people replaced the role of Slovaks in history thus causing minimal butterflies how would that effect European events during the 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly Croatian nationalism, the 1848 revolution and post ww1 breakup of Austria Hungary.
I don´t know how likely this is but I would guess that even if Slovakia was settled by more Yugoslavian people they would still develop a different identity, they did even if they were around other bigger West Slavic people and even with them being old migrants from Poland(if I recall correctly) of some centuries ago, I´d say that their identity would be even stronger than OTL.
About the influence on history:
Croatian nationalism: I´d say nothing would change here, those "Croatian" would be as similar as Bosniak or Serb are but still geographically separated by an entire nation.
1848 revolution: Slovakia is not really a big player and weren´t both loyal to Austria? Maybe they would be strong ally against Magyar influence.
WW1: If such event still happen I´d say that the Czech_Corridor would have become more probable but I still see some problems:
1-Slovakia is way too separated from Jugoslavia even with the corridor.
2-The Czechs or Polish would have been seen as more qualified to take the territory even without the cultural similarities.
3-The Serbs would be against making Croatia so strong in the country.

I hope this helped.
Edit: Grammar.
 
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I don´t know how likely this is but I would guess that even if Slovakia was more settled by Yugoslavian people they would still develop a different identity, they did even if they were around other bigger West Slavic people and even with them being old migrants from Poland(if I recall correctly) of some centuries ago, I´d say that their identity would be even stronger than OTL.
About the influence on history:
Croatian nationalism: I´d say nothing would change here, those "Croatian" would be as similar as Bosniak or Serb are but still geographically separated by an entire nation.
1848 revolution: Slovakia is not really a big player and weren´t both loyal to Austria? Maybe they would be strong ally against Magyar influence.
WW1: If such event still happen I´d say that the Czech_Corridor would have become more probable but I still see some problems:
1-Slovakia is why too separated from Jugoslavia even with the corridor.
2-The Czechs or Polish would have been seen as more qualified to take the territory even without the cultural similarities.
3-The Serbs would be against making Croatia so strong in the country.

I hope this helped.

Helped a lot, thanks.
 
If this culture survives, then its gonna butterfly almost all of modern history.

Not to mention, even if it survives, it will definitely be a separate language by the time modern times rolls around. The culture will most likely be different as well, after 1000+ years of isolation, so why would they unite?
 
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