Spyke
feddit.org

This map is a bit of misleading. There almost always was a king or Kaiser who ruled over most of them. Yes they had their own little land to reign but they had to obey the king too.

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There almost always

For about 1000 years, not more.

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lemmy.today

You can do this with pretty much any location on earth.

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Melchiorreply
feddit.org

Honestly the better question is, why Germany looked like this, so recently. Most other places in Europe and Asia had much larger countries.

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Vinylraupereply
lemmy.zip

Simple. Those counties managed to hold sovereignity.

(Also theres Dutch, Swiss and Polish counties next to them, equally as small)

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Well it's more like the HRE nobility didn't want any of their little inbred freak babies to have to work for a living

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discuss.tchncs.de

It never was. That map there is not historic, it is a modern day map of public transportation networks.

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ranslitereply
pie.dasneuland.de

60 Millionen Deutsche können kein Ostdeutsch. Schreib dich nicht ab. Lern Ostdeutsch, du Orschkrampe.

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