impressive, very nice... let's see the Hohenstaufens' HRE
the best kind of medieval border-gore is when the same guy owns territories that aren't contiguous, just everything being exclaves within exclaves on top of other exclaves
This is only a legislative map (circles) of the HRE, not a territorial one. Which used to be different things, back in the day. Each circle had an imperial court of law. Which was responsible for disputes in that circle.
It's only spent ~107 years as a unified country and caused so much of the world's problems. Hell the most unified was when it included Austria, which was a 100% Nazi time period. 1991 was absolutely the farce to 1871's tragedy.
it's pretty amazing that for all the many, many things she was wrong about, margaret thatcher managed to be right about german reunification. or at least not-wrong. combination of staunch nationalism and having lived through the war i suppose
make no mistake - fuck the uk too. i just think it's kind of funny that thatcher knew that the krauts could not be trusted with a unified state of their own, even if she was coming to that conclusion from a different set of priors than we are