poland

Because it's not really something that you see very often, I want to see some balkanized Polands with a POD no earlier than the mid 19th century. The more balkanized the better, the more realistic the scenarior the better and, uh, some maps would be cool too.

What are the best possible PODs for a successful restoration of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, either as a monarchy or republic, after WWI?

Say that Jogaila's third wife Elżbieta Granowska outlived him, thus he dies without sons and do not start new dynasty. He still have daughter from his second marriage, Jadwiga (Hedwig) born in 1408. She was engaged with Frederick Hohenzollern, born in 1413, son of Elector of Brandenburg but...

As you all know, Poland is a protestant-majorty country since reformation. So I have a challenge: make Poland Catholic-Majorty with POD from 1475 without ASB.

WI In Versailles Poland gets (without plebiscite) Danzig, whole Upper Silesia, southern part of East Prussia and Polish-majority part of Cieszyn (all that together would likely require British representatives get some kind of collective brain tumor, but it is hypothetically possible) and then...

How could the Prussian King also become King of Poland either through election or through the partition. What would happen to German unification if Prussia owns most of Congress Poland and in return does not own most the historical Prussian rhineland.

Sometimes, a monarch dying without male heirs was a problem back in the medieval age. Casimir III of Poland was one case: after he died without a male heir, the native polish Piast dynasty went extinct, and Poland ended up as ground for power plays between Bohemia, Hungary, and Lithuania. So...

As result of pacts made with Soviets Third Reich exchanged Germans from Lithuanian SSR for Lithuanians living on Reich's territory. Initially only Lithuanians from Memel were planned to be deported but seeing that Soviets are fine with such population transfers Germans decided to include also...

I'm working on a TL that involves Germany and Russia turning into liberal democracies under constitutional monarchs, thereby butterflying away World War I and the Soviet Union. I'm trying to figure out how realistic it is to keep Finland and Poland as part of Russia. With these circumstances and...

1789 onward was an era of absolute Russian, Prussian, and Austrian dominance. After the Polish Partition of 1795, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was eliminated as a state. Despite Jan Henryk Dąbrowski's attempts to liberate Poland afterward, the boundaries of the Third Partition were...

Tribes on the Vistula River never unite ... What happens then? Will there be any other states on the Vistula, or will these lands germanize?