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The lore of this timeline has a phantom divergent point sometime around the latter half of the Illyrian Movement, which most of what I wrote this timeline has tended to focus on the history of, at least for the very first half.
The Illyrian Movement fails to see the dream of Yugoslavia to completion, and instead various sub-movements get formed surrounding nationalism. the Croats, Bosnians and Slovenes of the Illyrian Province of Austrohungary wanted to form their own nation. However others more to the south of Austrohungary's Illyria, such as the Herzegovinians, still clung to the Panslavic dream that in OTL would become known as Yugoslavia, falling behind the Serbian monarch as he expanded northwestward. Revolts plagued Illyria from both Panslavicists from inside and outside Illyria, and the "Hervatslavia" movement, spearheaded by Croatian politicians. What finally broke the straw on the cammels' back in the leadup to world war 1, was the assassination of Prince George of Serbia by one Ernst Parricida von Carniola, a well-known Austrohungarian political extremist, a heavy opponent to the Illyrian Movement and a well known bigot to any Slavic people. This led to Serbia declaring war on Austro-Hungary, which roped in people from all sides due to previous treaty systems and alliances complicating European politics, and beginning what would become known as the 20th Century Great War. At the time, it was known as the War to End All Wars.
Italy dropped out of the war halfway through, not wanting to help the Entente but also not feeling comfortable siding with Austrohungarian Empire (at least so long as they were run by the Hapsburgs) in any capacity.
the US doesn't help due to "their own internal issues" (mostly the country being more centralized and spearheading a new Monroe doctrine of sorts by President Elihu Root, as well as the New Reconstruction movement), the US is unable to intervene in France, which leads to France's early surrender. Britain fought well, mostly in Sub-Saharan African theaters (largely due to the fact that Germany had been so effective at blockading Germany and Denmark from British naval raids that the British turned to British West Africa and British East Africa.)
Germany, after focusing their attention back west when Russia fell into disarray, felt sympathy for the Russian Empire against the radicals, and after France's surrender sent divisions back over to Russia in summer of 1917 in order to aid the Russian White Army (Federalists and Monarchists) against the Socialists. the Federal Government would be put in place by Germany during the peace talks at the end of the war. British general Edward Ashmore would go on to say that if Britain's economy had not come close to collapsing due to the war effort, the war may have gone on for another year or more before British loss. Austrohungary had come to peace talks with Serbia and the Croatian Revolutionary Army a year before Britain's surrender. This led to an independent cession of Baltic land to Slavic peoples, before the peace talks in the Paris Peace Conference began.
Germany had been given Russian lands of Ukraine and Poland, turning them into independent duchies under the Hohenzollern Monarchy. The same was done to Breizh (Brittany) and Corsica, properties of France.
Though the war ended in 1919, Austria and Hungary parted ways in 1921, with the land of Galicia (in Austria, not Spain) given to the Duchy of Poland. Austria later ousted the Hapsburgs, an event that shocked the whole of Europe, in 1925. the Hapsburg Monarchy only exists today in Hungary, and has thankfully abandoned Incest.
In the Paris Peace Conference, various land divisions, concessions and demands were discussed. Germany took the Lorraine (save for Meuse) and Bas-Rhin Regions from France, and forced France to demilitarize most of their eastern border with the German Empire. They also made a duchy out of Brittany, a Gaelic-led province led by German dukes. They also forced Francophones or French-loyal peoples out of occupied and conceded territories later in the early 1920s. the British Empire was forced to give up most of their southern African colonies to Germany, (they gave Zuidafrika to the neutral Dutch later to ease up Germany's burgeoning colonial administrations) and they were put in so much debt after the war that they later went through a revolution and dethroned the monarchy, forcing them into exile on the island of Guernsey. England's economy failed completely to the point that the Pound Sterling was useless, partially due to some failure of an economist claiming they could just print more money. Entire wheelbarrows of notes to pay for a candy-bar. The new Republic of England (armed with the new English Silver Dollar) was declared extremist, and faced revolts from Wales, most of Scotland and Ireland. Germany, throughout the 1930s, personally assisted these dissenters against the English Republic (the German people started to have a righteousness complex, after hearing about how France and Britain treated the celtic peoples of their nations.) the Welsh and Irish fought the hardest, though many among them would admit that without Germany, they would have been wiped from the face of the earth under the heel of the bigoted far-right-wing English. the United Kingdom was no more, and with it came the colonial administrations of all of Britain's colonies falling apart and becoming their own republics, being withdrawn to England and if they refused and mutinied against the new Republican government, were eaten alive by either Republican-loyal troops or African / Indian / Polynesian insurgents. the Windsor Dynasty however did manage to take control of the Raj in India in the 1940s, marrying into other Indian noble families, redefining the castes, giving more rights to religious minorities like Sikhs, and so on. the Kingdom of India would go on to have a lot of favor in the west under a European-influenced governmental system. England, after the end of the Gaelic-and-German War (1933-1935) would once again fall under an extremist government in the 1940s, not giving a shit about the Gaelic people and this time specifically Germany for enabling the Celtic peoples' rebellions and for both the 20th Century Great War (or rather 1910s Great War)'s unreasonably harsh debts and such (completely ignoring the fact it was an economist's fault not Germany's or the Windsor's), and at this point was just waiting for a random excuse to go to war.
They found a reason in 1950, that being the assassination of a British diplomat to Germany by some thug in Hannover. They started invading the German coastline a few days later. And because of one foolish English naval gunboat, Denmark was drawn into it, declaring war on England. Germany began retaliating, and this began the Bight War, a largely naval conflict. Though what did occur on land, saw thousands of deaths. Germany eventually threatened England with a new superweapon, the Nuclear Bomb. It had originally begun development in the United States for the Aleutian War, a conflict with Japan over the Alaskan Territory, which the United States would come to loose. (American Resistance movements would continue into the 1950s, when they were later forcibly subdued and deported to the United States in the Treaty of San Francisco in January 1961.) Germany used the nuclear weapons first on Great Yarmouth, which the English would be mortified by and there would be calls for surrender. However some English generals called those who wanted to back out of the war cowards, managing to spy on the Germans and get plans for a nuclear weapons arsenal and continuing to go to war. This resulted in Germany dropping a second bomb on Croydon. This scared the English enough to engage in formal surrender, and extremist warcrazed holdouts on the coast resisting the official call of surrender were wiped out by German Uboats. Germany would pay reparations decades later for the nuclear strikes on England, and Nuclear weapons were outlawed from use despite having such a large arsenal. the United States, Germany, and later the Japanese Empire would have some of the largest nuclear arsenals on earth.
In the 1960s, Poland would see mass protests against the Hohenzollern Monarchy in the duchy, leading to the monarchy being chased out by mutinying soldiers and the Polish Republic being officially established. the Second Balkan War, which happened a while before this, would see Instanbul almost laid waste to by Bulgarian soldiers, however this would not be the end of the Ottoman Empire just yet, of which was still largely considered the sick man of Europe. Sharifian Revolts have been common along the southwestern arabian coastline and into the Holy Land, and the movement has been largely successful at establishing their own governments, however it remains unrecognized by many of the global powers. Some major governments have even banned the sale of certain companies' products due to them being supportive of, by, or within the government of the Sharifians and the Hashemite monarchy. This timeline also does not see the British Empire in Palestine, and thusly Zionism is not enabled as much and is simply considered the Jewish Crusade by many locals within the Ottoman Empire; although many scholars are impressed by the German-funded Jewish reconstruction of the Hebrew language, and there are roughly 20,000 fluent speakers in Jewish-majority cities within Italy, Poland, Germany and Spain.
Another thing of important note, Ragusa is the only speaker of a Romance language (or at least that of which speaks a recognized and well-known romance language) in the Balkans. During the latter half of this timeline's version of the Illyrian Movement, the Dalmatian Movement was also in full swing. A lesser form of Italian Nationalism in the Baltic, they wanted to establish a Latin-majority nation in the Dalmatia region. Though they failed and were overtaken by Hervatslavia, these Dalmatian Movement militant groups (particularly the Fosclioni, or the Black Lions) had established a 'neutral zone' in the Serbian expansion in the Baltics as part of the Yugoslavian dream (which as previously stated never truly came to fruition in this timeline, and were sponsored by Montenegro. Their Neutral Zone advertized that they would be a safe zone for immigrants from the Great War. Largely overpopulated because of this going into the latter half of the 1910s, they sought the assistance from Montenegro for relief efforts. Afterwards, they became the official state government of Ragusa and had joined the Paris Peace Talks in 1919 and later the Dissassembly Accords (the official peaceful breaking of Austrohungary) in 1921. Ragusa, due to the extremist Black Lions group, would only give citizenship to Dalmatians and other Latin language speakers, and found reasons to deport others. Isolationist for the first five years following these policies and enforcing the standardized speaking and learning of Dalmatian (using tactics similar to how the English started weeding out those that spoke Welsh or Scots, and France to those who spoke Corsican or Breton), the language later became known as Raguso, or Ragusian. Ragusa today has gone through serious social reforms, though does still enforce the learning of Ragusian to a fluency as part of a basis for citizenship, and is the only government-recognized language within the region.
In the latter half of the 1960s also involved the Catalonian Nationalism movement really reach it's height. Various Mediterranean provinces began to break away from Spain and form organized armies. German and Celtic righteousness complexes in their national pride of the time saw German and Briton volunteer corps assist the Catalonian revolutionaries in the Catalonian Secession War. It lasted two years, and later the Principality of Andorra joined the Revolutionaries as part of the Catalonian Nationalist Movement, and the Principality became a part of the new Catalonian state. "Gran" Catalonia's official independence would be declared in 1968, and Catalonia enters it's second year of sovereignty as of the time of this map. The two youngest nations in Europe as of 1970 (at least in the sense of their current governments) are Poland and Catalonia.

Edit: Learned something new about Andorra today.

Description
The lore of this timeline has a phantom divergent point sometime around the latter half of the Illyrian Movement, which most of what I wrote this timeline has tended to focus on the history of, at least for the very first half.
The Illyrian Movement fails to see the dream of Yugoslavia to completion, and instead various sub-movements get formed surrounding nationalism. the Croats, Bosnians and Slovenes of the Illyrian Province of Austrohungary wanted to form their own nation. However others more to the south of Austrohungary's Illyria, such as the Herzegovinians, still clung to the Panslavic dream that in OTL would become known as Yugoslavia, falling behind the Serbian monarch as he expanded northwestward. Revolts plagued Illyria from both Panslavicists from inside and outside Illyria, and the "Hervatslavia" movement, spearheaded by Croatian politicians. What finally broke the straw on the cammels' back in the leadup to world war 1, was the assassination of Prince George of Serbia by one Ernst Parricida von Carniola, a well-known Austrohungarian political extremist, a heavy opponent to the Illyrian Movement and a well known bigot to any Slavic people. This led to Serbia declaring war on Austro-Hungary, which roped in people from all sides due to previous treaty systems and alliances complicating European politics, and beginning what would become known as the 20th Century Great War. At the time, it was known as the War to End All Wars.
Italy dropped out of the war halfway through, not wanting to help the Entente but also not feeling comfortable siding with Austrohungarian Empire (at least so long as they were run by the Hapsburgs) in any capacity.
the US doesn't help due to "their own internal issues" (mostly the country being more centralized and spearheading a new Monroe doctrine of sorts by President Elihu Root, as well as the New Reconstruction movement), the US is unable to intervene in France, which leads to France's early surrender. Britain fought well, mostly in Sub-Saharan African theaters (largely due to the fact that Germany had been so effective at blockading Germany and Denmark from British naval raids that the British turned to British West Africa and British East Africa.)
Germany, after focusing their attention back west when Russia fell into disarray, felt sympathy for the Russian Empire against the radicals, and after France's surrender sent divisions back over to Russia in summer of 1917 in order to aid the Russian White Army (Federalists and Monarchists) against the Socialists. the Federal Government would be put in place by Germany during the peace talks at the end of the war. British general Edward Ashmore would go on to say that if Britain's economy had not come close to collapsing due to the war effort, the war may have gone on for another year or more before British loss. Austrohungary had come to peace talks with Serbia and the Croatian Revolutionary Army a year before Britain's surrender. This led to an independent cession of Baltic land to Slavic peoples, before the peace talks in the Paris Peace Conference began.
Germany had been given Russian lands of Ukraine and Poland, turning them into independent duchies under the Hohenzollern Monarchy. The same was done to Breizh (Brittany) and Corsica, properties of France.
Though the war ended in 1919, Austria and Hungary parted ways in 1921, with the land of Galicia (in Austria, not Spain) given to the Duchy of Poland. Austria later ousted the Hapsburgs, an event that shocked the whole of Europe, in 1925. the Hapsburg Monarchy only exists today in Hungary, and has thankfully abandoned Incest.
In the Paris Peace Conference, various land divisions, concessions and demands were discussed. Germany took the Lorraine (save for Meuse) and Bas-Rhin Regions from France, and forced France to demilitarize most of their eastern border with the German Empire. They also made a duchy out of Brittany, a Gaelic-led province led by German dukes. They also forced Francophones or French-loyal peoples out of occupied and conceded territories later in the early 1920s. the British Empire was forced to give up most of their southern African colonies to Germany, (they gave Zuidafrika to the neutral Dutch later to ease up Germany's burgeoning colonial administrations) and they were put in so much debt after the war that they later went through a revolution and dethroned the monarchy, forcing them into exile on the island of Guernsey. England's economy failed completely to the point that the Pound Sterling was useless, partially due to some failure of an economist claiming they could just print more money. Entire wheelbarrows of notes to pay for a candy-bar. The new Republic of England (armed with the new English Silver Dollar) was declared extremist, and faced revolts from Wales, most of Scotland and Ireland. Germany, throughout the 1930s, personally assisted these dissenters against the English Republic (the German people started to have a righteousness complex, after hearing about how France and Britain treated the celtic peoples of their nations.) the Welsh and Irish fought the hardest, though many among them would admit that without Germany, they would have been wiped from the face of the earth under the heel of the bigoted far-right-wing English. the United Kingdom was no more, and with it came the colonial administrations of all of Britain's colonies falling apart and becoming their own republics, being withdrawn to England and if they refused and mutinied against the new Republican government, were eaten alive by either Republican-loyal troops or African / Indian / Polynesian insurgents. the Windsor Dynasty however did manage to take control of the Raj in India in the 1940s, marrying into other Indian noble families, redefining the castes, giving more rights to religious minorities like Sikhs, and so on. the Kingdom of India would go on to have a lot of favor in the west under a European-influenced governmental system. England, after the end of the Gaelic-and-German War (1933-1935) would once again fall under an extremist government in the 1940s, not giving a shit about the Gaelic people and this time specifically Germany for enabling the Celtic peoples' rebellions and for both the 20th Century Great War (or rather 1910s Great War)'s unreasonably harsh debts and such (completely ignoring the fact it was an economist's fault not Germany's or the Windsor's), and at this point was just waiting for a random excuse to go to war.
They found a reason in 1950, that being the assassination of a British diplomat to Germany by some thug in Hannover. They started invading the German coastline a few days later. And because of one foolish English naval gunboat, Denmark was drawn into it, declaring war on England. Germany began retaliating, and this began the Bight War, a largely naval conflict. Though what did occur on land, saw thousands of deaths. Germany eventually threatened England with a new superweapon, the Nuclear Bomb. It had originally begun development in the United States for the Aleutian War, a conflict with Japan over the Alaskan Territory, which the United States would come to loose. (American Resistance movements would continue into the 1950s, when they were later forcibly subdued and deported to the United States in the Treaty of San Francisco in January 1961.) Germany used the nuclear weapons first on Great Yarmouth, which the English would be mortified by and there would be calls for surrender. However some English generals called those who wanted to back out of the war cowards, managing to spy on the Germans and get plans for a nuclear weapons arsenal and continuing to go to war. This resulted in Germany dropping a second bomb on Croydon. This scared the English enough to engage in formal surrender, and extremist warcrazed holdouts on the coast resisting the official call of surrender were wiped out by German Uboats. Germany would pay reparations decades later for the nuclear strikes on England, and Nuclear weapons were outlawed from use despite having such a large arsenal. the United States, Germany, and later the Japanese Empire would have some of the largest nuclear arsenals on earth.
In the 1960s, Poland would see mass protests against the Hohenzollern Monarchy in the duchy, leading to the monarchy being chased out by mutinying soldiers and the Polish Republic being officially established. the Second Balkan War, which happened a while before this, would see Instanbul almost laid waste to by Bulgarian soldiers, however this would not be the end of the Ottoman Empire just yet, of which was still largely considered the sick man of Europe. Sharifian Revolts have been common along the southwestern arabian coastline and into the Holy Land, and the movement has been largely successful at establishing their own governments, however it remains unrecognized by many of the global powers. Some major governments have even banned the sale of certain companies' products due to them being supportive of, by, or within the government of the Sharifians and the Hashemite monarchy. This timeline also does not see the British Empire in Palestine, and thusly Zionism is not enabled as much and is simply considered the Jewish Crusade by many locals within the Ottoman Empire; although many scholars are impressed by the German-funded Jewish reconstruction of the Hebrew language, and there are roughly 20,000 fluent speakers in Jewish-majority cities within Italy, Poland, Germany and Spain.
Another thing of important note, Ragusa is the only speaker of a Romance language (or at least that of which speaks a recognized and well-known romance language) in the Balkans. During the latter half of this timeline's version of the Illyrian Movement, the Dalmatian Movement was also in full swing. A lesser form of Italian Nationalism in the Baltic, they wanted to establish a Latin-majority nation in the Dalmatia region. Though they failed and were overtaken by Hervatslavia, these Dalmatian Movement militant groups (particularly the Fosclioni, or the Black Lions) had established a 'neutral zone' in the Serbian expansion in the Baltics as part of the Yugoslavian dream (which as previously stated never truly came to fruition in this timeline, and were sponsored by Montenegro. Their Neutral Zone advertized that they would be a safe zone for immigrants from the Great War. Largely overpopulated because of this going into the latter half of the 1910s, they sought the assistance from Montenegro for relief efforts. Afterwards, they became the official state government of Ragusa and had joined the Paris Peace Talks in 1919 and later the Dissassembly Accords (the official peaceful breaking of Austrohungary) in 1921. Ragusa, due to the extremist Black Lions group, would only give citizenship to Dalmatians and other Latin language speakers, and found reasons to deport others. Isolationist for the first five years following these policies and enforcing the standardized speaking and learning of Dalmatian (using tactics similar to how the English started weeding out those that spoke Welsh or Scots, and France to those who spoke Corsican or Breton), the language later became known as Raguso, or Ragusian. Ragusa today has gone through serious social reforms, though does still enforce the learning of Ragusian to a fluency as part of a basis for citizenship, and is the only government-recognized language within the region.
In the latter half of the 1960s also involved the Catalonian Nationalism movement really reach it's height. Various Mediterranean provinces began to break away from Spain and form organized armies. German and Celtic righteousness complexes in their national pride of the time saw German and Briton volunteer corps assist the Catalonian revolutionaries in the Catalonian Secession War. It lasted two years, and later the Principality of Andorra joined the Revolutionaries as part of the Catalonian Nationalist Movement, and the Principality became a part of the new Catalonian state. "Gran" Catalonia's official independence would be declared in 1968, and Catalonia enters it's second year of sovereignty as of the time of this map. The two youngest nations in Europe as of 1970 (at least in the sense of their current governments) are Poland and Catalonia.

Edit: Learned something new about Andorra today.