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Sat Sep 3, 2022, 12:40 PM

Sep 2022

Love looking at old maps. They are always fascinating!

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Medieval map 1444 [View all] packman Sep 2022 OP

Fascinating. MineralMan Sep 2022 #1

Alright, which one of y'all glitter-bombed Germany? Act_of_Reparation Sep 2022 #2

I think they tried to overcompensate for that during WWII nt Shermann Sep 2022 #4

So many separate, small "kingdoms"! jmbar2 Sep 2022 #3

Germany at that point was the result of inheritance laws. malthaussen Sep 2022 #8

Fascinating! cilla4progress Sep 2022 #9

Thanks for the elaboration. Did they all just grift off the serfs? jmbar2 Sep 2022 #10

They were not getting wealth from the Americas wnylib Sep 2022 #22

The war in the 1700s was about the Spanish Succession, not the Holy Roman Empire muriel_volestrangler Sep 2022 #24

Oops. You are right. I conflated the War of the Spanish Succession wnylib Sep 2022 #26

Yeah, basically. Some of these principalities were pretty damned poor. malthaussen Sep 2022 #25

In the 18th and 19th century their major exports Retrograde Sep 2022 #19

The French intermarried with the Spanish. wnylib Sep 2022 #23

Another thing: You can save the entire map in full resolution. MineralMan Sep 2022 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author MineralMan Sep 2022 #6

Thanks for posting Dave in VA Sep 2022 #7

This is what guides Mockalito in his decisions. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #11

Fascinating map and discussion. Bookmarking. crickets Sep 2022 #12

At thge time of the map whistler162 Sep 2022 #13

Fascinating. Amazing how large Lithuania is. grantcart Sep 2022 #14

Poland-Lithuania was the dominant country in Eastern Europe Wednesdays Sep 2022 #16

Within just a few years after that, the French Wednesdays Sep 2022 #15

Beautiful map. Germany, oh Germany..... paleotn Sep 2022 #18

Lithuania is gigantic on this map, compared to what it is now FakeNoose Sep 2022 #20

Source CloudWatcher Sep 2022 #21

Found what may be the ancestral home of all Republicans.... KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2022 #27

Great map, interesting comments. Thanks, Packman! Hortensis Sep 2022 #28

as Terry Pratchett once wrote Conjuay Sep 2022 #29