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    Una mappa dell’Europa nel 1812

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    2. Galba_the_Great on

      Klagenfurt, ice-cold,🎶🎶🎶
      Klsgenfurt, in the house,🎶🎶🎶
      Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt🎶🎶🎶

    3. No-Advantage-579 on

      Yeah, Napoleon. I once went on a guided tour describing good changes and intense suffering from a despot alike. He was gone shortly thereafter in 1814 with huge map changes, of course.

    6. Three_Trees on

      Turned out to be a house of cards. Napoleon himself made a resentful comment in the wake of the Russia debacle, I’m paraphrasing but the gist was that his rulership was entirely dependent on his prestige as a military genius whilst his opponents could lose battle after battle and never experience unrest or challenges to their rule because it was based on their lineage and centuries of dynastic legitimacy.

      Even more interesting to me is that when he was in exile on Saint Helena, he stated that he felt his true lasting legacy was his domestic reforms. And so it proved because the state system he built in France endured all the regime changes there throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Again I’m paraphrasing but he said something like ‘you win a hundred battles but it doesn’t matter because of one defeat’.

    8. Spath_Greenleaf on

      I always find it surprising to see how much bigger France used to be, from Barcelona to Hamburg, along with Rome and the Ionian islands. Napoléon truly changed the face of Europe

    10. blailike on

      Now as a Dane I always like to point out Hansa stad Hamburg was a two country city both “german” and danish (altona).

      The city of Hamburg still has differences between the two sides of the elb.

      And it’s the richest state/city in Germany today!

    11. Grandmastabilbo on

      It baffles me how they knew the shapes and sizes of countries back then

    13. Forward-Dare-1913 on

      Why has Portugal not changed for so long? I see Portugal is exactly the same on every map of Europe.

    16. InternationalFan6806 on

      If dictators could be nice, then they would rool the entire world.

    17. Ill_Refrigerator_593 on

      I wonder why the US chose this moment to invade Canada in a purely defensive action & totally not an attempted land grab at all.

    19. Ok_Butterscotch_7826 on

      The Nation-state is a relatively new (and progressive) concept! For millennia and up until mid 1800s Europe was just a bunch of very rich people trading land like monopoly cards.

    20. KuzcoEmp on

      worst version of Europe ^ a few treaties away from being good

    27. CneusPompeius on

      De Gaulle: “he left France smaller than he had found her.”

    28. Mannalug on

      Everyone who isn’t Fr*nch or Pole: ☠️☠️☠️☠️

    29. WislaHD on

      This is a somewhat nostalgic period for Poles. Not that we think French hegemony would have been glorious, but there was a promise that Poland would return to the map again.

    31. kurwalover on

      still hard to believe that how did portugal manage to survive in this era

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