And this benefits Spain how? Milan might be gone in the next war and Sardinia would not make for the loss of Navarre and the Philippines in one million years.
If anything the reign of Charles II is underrated: the economy improved, the population decline reversed, territorial losses were...
My point is that Napoleon III was paranoid about another guy with a dynastic claim on France becoming a rallying point for French legitimists and a threat to himself, after becoming King of Spain. In TTL it's the Carlist guy instead.
He technically couldn't do the latter because the HRE was elective. And his brother was already resident in Vienna and popular due to being the king of Bohemia and Hungary.
Sicily and Naples were part of the Crown of Aragon so they wouldn't be detached from it.
About the only plausible...
The Jacobites continued to use the title "King of France" while they were exiled in France and using the "other" King of France's support for a restoration in Britain.
What other plausible post-Soviet conflicts in the vein of the Caucasus and Yugoslavia could arise in the early 90s in Eastern Europe and how would they go? Poland tries to recover Lviv/Lwow/Lvov? Romania invades Moldova? Hungary invades Romania or Yugoslavia? Bulgaria invades Yugoslavia? Violent...
This is Alfonso X of Castile
This is Alfonso's kingdom
This is the land he claimed according to a treaty with the Muslim king of Niebla
This is the land the Portuguese later claimed was part of the same, but on the other side of the sea
This is the land Alfonso claimed belonged to his wife...
I question that the horses escaped and then native peoples never exposed to riders decided to randomly horse break and breed an animal that would have been simply wild and also alien from their perspective.