Would such a country be possible ?

Would a country of this size be able to survive till modern times in my timeline ?
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ok, it should also keep one language though, since noricum is not romanized in my timeline yet, the norican language will be the empires main language. large parts of Southern france would be gallic, so the language are very similar and it wont a big problem, the other parts of the empire however must be celtized.
 
that shouldn't be to hard. The Germans will slid along the northern borders. there is also some evidence that in some of the southern German speaking areas on OTL the language shift was from Keltic to German not late latin to German.
 
Would a country of this size be able to survive till modern times in my timeline ?

Yes a country of that description would be able to fit quite nicely into modern times given the right POD. Also it would be a good idea to edit your first post and replace the vector map with this nice new one you've made, it gives a much better idea of what your going for!
 
http://3.imgland.net/xcFD4fA.jpg

sorry, the map has a bad quality, i am not so good in making maps.:eek:
I mean the purple colored area, ignore the rest of the map.

Would this country be possible ? it should be a country dominated by one ethnic, maybe some small minorities, but it should have one main language. It should not be slavic or germanic though.
So what could it be ? What culture or language would this country have ? How would it be caleld ? it should also be a christian country and be one of the dominating powers of Europe.

Maybe a lombard empire ?

In term of language, just like the franks, the language of the court might have been someting which was meant to be latin but having undergone phonetic shift and a sprinkling of lombard vocabulary.

In term of name: Lombardy (borders of some countries have stretched widely without adopting a different name.)
 
This is what the country looks like + the flag

A note regarding the flag: dual/tribands used in various countries are normaly the heraldic colours of the shield. This mean that to have a black/red/white you might want to add some sort of red element to your shield. The easiest way if you want to keep it simple with a black dragon on white is to have it tongued and armed red.
 
the roman empire fell before the people in Gallia and Noricum could have been totally romanized. gaulish or norican was still spoken by the majority of the population. While latin is also going to be a fairly important language at first, the celtic languages will be spoken by the people.
And Carantania celtizes the population of the conquered areas, carantanian is the offical language. like the romans romanized their conquered territories, carantania celtizes their own.
Carantania introduces a cumpolsory school system in the 1600s, in which the pupils learn the carantanian language (which is a bit different than the old norican language or gaulish). thats why it is celtic speaking, i want to avoid the problems of a multi ethnic or mutli lingual states.
Astura (modern Zwentendorf ) is the capital city.
 
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How about a 10th century PoD?

The kingdom of Italy was disintegrating in 10th century. OTL outcome was that it was taken over by German Otto by 962.

At that time, the heathen Hungarians were actively intervening in Europe.
WI instead of losing the Lechfeld Battle and being eventually unified by Geza and Christianized by Istvan, the Hungarians get unified earlier, prevent Otto´s takeover of Italy... and form a Christianized kingdom whose ruling elite, and gradually commoners in the east, adopt the Romance tongue of their subjects in Northern Italy?
 
I like how France somehow has Corsica despite no Mediterranean coast. Is there a year for this map?

I think such a country would be possible, not impossible but a real struggle to survive unless the POD is early enough to unite it culturally somehow, and centralised enough to hold itself together with all those log borders to defend.

I think you need to have it in that format emerge in the modern era, though an ancient POD could be used, I think its ASB having that level of continuity from ancient times. Maybe have these regions stay or become culturally similar enough (maybe Celtic, maybe Germanic, maybe even something else) that by the 17th-19th century the unification of the smaller countries that make up this region seem plausible and obvious, similar to the unification of Germany or Italy in the OTL.
 
Am I the only one seeing Lotharingia? A little cut off from the top buts, but compensating with eastern and western expansion.
 
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