• Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I mean, what were the middle parts of Italy and Germany before? Wouldn’t those technically be countries that don’t exist anymore as well?

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    11 months ago

    I can’t believe this map includes Castile, but does not make any mention of Al-Andalus. That’s one of the most interesting epochs of Iberian history!

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      11 months ago

      TBF if you’re going to include all the countries that no longer exist on this map, it’d be unreadable.

      Off the top of my head (and in no particular order): all the small states in the Holy Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire, Dacia, Poland-Lithuania, Scotland, England, the Kingdom of Ireland, Wales, Burgundy, Al-Andalus, Czechoslovakia, the DDR, Yugoslavia, Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungaria, the Irish Kingdoms, etc.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, that’s my point. They included a few random ones, that existed hundred of years ago. When recently, a bunch of countries stopped existing, which makes them more rellevant today, yet are not on the map

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    11 months ago

    Wikipedia: it was.

    Also, it absolutely was. Sure it was nominally a union of federal republics, but they had very little autonomy from Moscow. If you’re going to argue that made the republics independent states, you might as well argue that present day states in Germany or the US are independent countries. They have more autonomy than the Soviet republics had.

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    11 months ago

    Always fascinating that one of the longest existing countries was venice (and a republic at that, I think it’s the longest existing republic) … Over a thousand years! That’s longer than the Roman empire (stfu no one thinks that the eastern Roman empire is the Roman empire :D) . And certainly longer that the 1000 year Reich

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    11 months ago

    Prussia existed as a duchy before 1701 and was still a sovereign state until 1934, and wasn’t officially abolished until after World War II.

    Need to be more specific about this.