Small nations in 1444 say “I’ve got my whole life ahead of me” No you don’t the Ottoman Empire (debt) is coming!!

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Yeah nah legit a lot of HRE principalities were pretty much just one broke ass elector with no qualifications against the world.

    • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Nah you're lucky if you're an elector there's like 8 of those but like 50000 little shithole principalities and counties

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      My favourite example was the Duchy of Oświęcim (later infamous for Auschwitz camp location) which were three small towns and like 45 villages, and then it got divided further to the three even smaller duchies of Oświęcim, Zator and Toszek.