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It's the equivalent of our 15th-16th century. Most societies of what we know as "Europe" resemble the Germanic and Celtic tribes the Romans encountered on their expansion OTL. Mighty civilisations like Rome and Ancient Greece existed in this timeline, but by 1492, they or their heirs have either perished or stagnated and isolated themselves. Population densities are fairly low, perhaps because outside explorers have brought devastating plagues to the peninsula to which native europeans had no immunities.

Consider a set of potential colonial powers. They could be an especially prosperous and adventurous Japanese or Korean Empire or Native American Nations that somehow produced mighty fleets like Spain or Britain OTL, perhaps driven to technological heights through fierce competition with other powerful North American nations. They are exploring the world, and among the places they're "discovering", there's "Europe". Possibly while they were looking for the west coast of China, or something.

Presuming that the colonizing forces somehow operate on a similar logic as European powers OTL, do you think it is likely Europe would be chosen as a place for settlement colonies? If that's the case, would the peninsula ultimately end up as one settler nation or split up among several different ones? And how many people would live there by the 21st century? Would there be any major population centres north of the Alps? If there's a "European capital", where would it be?
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