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- Furkle, on 10/11/2007, -4/+83hehe, Kingdom of Alba..
- Jo9100, on 10/11/2007, -8/+69Map of Americas in year 1000, according to the western civilisation (us)
http://tinyurl.com/18r - Speedy7, on 10/11/2007, -0/+56You can see other maps from 1AD to 2000AD.
Its amazing to see how much land the romans actually took hold of. - Nudar, on 10/11/2007, -5/+42I hereby pledge my allegiance to Jessica, Queen of Alba. Long live the queen!
- AmishRefugee, on 10/11/2007, -7/+40so THAT's where 'Kings of Leon' came from (see northern Spain)
guess ya learn something every day... - greatkingrat85, on 10/11/2007, -0/+32Alba is the Gaelic word for Scotland.
If you remember in Braveheart, after Gibson's "they'll never take our freedom!" line, he shouts "Alba gu bra!" Which means 'Scotland forever', in Gaelic. - c_2_g, on 10/11/2007, -1/+32It's really weird to think that the defined borders that we have in today's world or nations didn't always exist like this. And it really hasn't taken very long for some countries to adopt strong identities defined by these borders created in the last millennium. Draw a border around a group of people and they assume a new identity. It's strange how it can have such an impact on everything and cause people to consider those in other countries (outside of their border) as so different and of a different "nationality".
- barc0de, on 10/11/2007, -3/+31I have a soft spot for the Holy Roman Empire, because it wasn't holy or roman or an empire.
- SaintStryfe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25For something more impressive, see the Map of 1300, after the Holy Roman, most of the Byzantine and the Spanish Caliphate collapses. It's interesting how states merged from West to East and West to East, a sort of "de-Balkanization" almost going Geographically, right up to when Germany and Italy took their present shapes in the 1800's.
For an even more interesting view, check out http://www.euratlas.com/history_europe/europe_map_1500.html . This map shows the former Holy Roman Empire at its most fractured. At this level, you can barely make out some of the small dutches, principalities and kingdoms.
/big European History geek - Chopper3, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23The British Empire was the largest there ever was.
- sabach, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21It's off to the the side, where it says "Here there be dragons".
- redxii, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19I was hoping for a Google Maps Europe 1000.
- Datrio, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16http://www.euratlas.com/history_europe/europe_map_1800.html
You forgot Pol... Oh, snap. - rsek, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15yes, thats how I like it, flanders, a seperate country!
- Paroparo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12It was split into East and West Rome in 395. The East is commonly referred to as Byzatine nowadays, but its population kept referring to themselves as the Roman Empire up until the Turks took over in 1452.
That's how huge the idea of Rome was in everyone's minds. Heck, you have people being crowned as Emperor of the West and taking the titles of Caesar Augustus throughout the middle ages. I think Napoleon was the last guy to do it. - Tarnum, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13I see the Kingdom of Aragon, but where is the Shire?
http://www.euratlas.com/travel_time/europe_south_west_1200.html - ssulistyo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12hmm, there are still lots of kingdoms around...the UK for example
- atcdev, on 10/11/2007, -0/+101000 years ago people didn't move around as much. So national identity was not so important. You could live your whole life in one village and never even need to know you lived in a country, or had a king.
- iigloo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10No, Chopper3 is right. The brittish empire was the largest empire ever known.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires - jahnke, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Ahhh, so this is where history comes from
- Lemonblood, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11http://www.euratlas.com/big/big1300.htm
I like this one. - YellowBook, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10You look at the Earth from space and nothing much has changed in millions of years, yet we so much emphasis is placed on these artificial boundaries which only serve to divide us. IMHO, we' d all be better off if humanity could see the Earth as one big whole rather than 100 different nation states.
- moojj, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10You could have come up with something a little more interesting. I mean come-on, you had "Alba" and "bra" to work with.
It reminds me of that episode of the Simpsons when they go to spring break. The sign out front of the hotel says something along the lines of "FART HOTEL". Some guys come up, change it to "FRAT HOTEL" and move on snickering. Needless to say, the joke was right in front of them. - Cornea, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Here you go. Not a perfect fit - but it gives you an idea.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=http%3A%2F%2Fkeirclarke.googlepages.com%2Feurope.kml&ie=UTF8&ll=53.696706,18.105469&spn=23.057419,88.59375&z=4&om=1 - Habemus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Why? What significant even took place on June 6, 1941 in Normandy?
- craighoxton, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Pass the Duchy on the left hand side..
- dacheetah, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9He was actually saying "Jessica Alba Forever" in Gaelic. :P
/sarcasm - vosik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I would say if the winter of 1941 in russia was warmer (it actually was colder than "normal" russian winter)
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9What's wrong with a monarchy? The UK is still a democracy and the Queen brings in a ridiculous amount of tourism.
Also, it's fun to laugh at the royal family so everybody wins. - Phosphan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7What are you talking about? Because of June 6 and Normandy, I guess you mean Operation Overlord - which was in 1944, more than a year after the Battle of Stalingrad which marked the beginning of the slow collapse of the German army. The landing in Normandy helped a lot, but it was no turning point of the war. The Soviet Union was already on the way to victory for a while.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Where's Midgar?
- dacheetah, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7He was dugg down because the Kingdom of Alba comment was by a different person two hours earlier.
It was flagrant comment abuse AND plagiarism, and deserves a painful downdigging. - reevolutn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9i hearby pledge my pork sword to the queen
- Battlecry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Once I was the King of Spain
- iigloo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6The EU isn't a nation though... But yeah, you're right.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8UK = thousand year old monarchy + thousand year old democracy.
Figure that one out. - paraxion, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6For that matter, where is the village of Indominable Gauls?
- Aviatora, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6In school we were always taught that the 'pink bits' of the map were always the most important bits...
- ayeroxor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5♫ But it's my destiny to be the King of Spain... ♫
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I'm sure there's maps with a larger empire though. Seems weird that a relatively small country used to own a third of all land with a third of the World's population.
- rickytan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6No. I didn't bother to look at the map enough, but I noticed your exact comment got dugg the ***** up two replies below with the new comment system...haha
- ssulistyo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Also, the Holy Roman Empire is not the same entity as the Roman Empire of antiquity.
- nox327, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Bosnia did exist you moron, Can't you see it on the map. It is just that it was taken over by everyone that wanted to. Everyone from the Roman to the Ottoman, to Austria-Hungry in the 20th century, to later Yugoslavia. It is great to finally see Bosnia independent, after being ruled for hundreds of years by others.
- Andrej73, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9This was one of the great times of Hungary
- writingrights, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Oh, Wikipedia. Even on the most random of topics, you never fail.
- crazybugger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Very enlightening.
- Cornea, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Or check it in Google Earth:
http://keirclarke.googlepages.com/europe.kml - ePlus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Principality of Wallachia FTW!
- organon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Only possible because they relied on mercenaries and private contractors for their defense for some time already.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Actually, from the 5th century onwards we call the East Roman Empire as the Byzantine empire and for a reason. By the 7th Century AD they already dropped the Latin from their official language and chose the Greek language as their official, since 99% of the people of the empire spoke Greek anyway. They were Orthodox Christians in contrast to the West's Romeo-Catholicism and they were mostly Greek in origin (there were -as well- a great amount of Slav populations in the Empire too). We -modern Greeks- think we are the descendants of the Byzantine empire -we have the 29th May of the fall of Constantinople as day of national tragedy- which -we also think- descended from the East Roman Empire, which in essence was Ancient Greece under different rule (Romans instead of Greeks)......
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