Have there ever been any borders more convoluted than the HRE?
>>1644657
it didn't work
>>1644657
Wow, that map makes my head hurt.
>>1644657
Thank god for bismark
pic related: best germany
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE MAPS MAKE ME HUNGRY FOR CANDY.
>>1644863
I get it
>>1644657
Europe is the master of the autistic enclave
>>1644657
Much like the canton system, excepting the fact that these were all tracts of noble property.
It was under this arrangement that the eternal teuton was as civilized as he's ever been.
>>1644657
It did for the better part of a thousand years. Germany was never supposed to be a united nation, its natural state is a collection of regions and city-states under Austrian hegemony.
>>1644666
But it did.
If any one cunt invaded all those and united them under one flag, the nobles, free cities, and principalities would start screaming MUH FREEDOMS MUH FREEDOMS.
It took German nationalism to quiet down those voices. But initially a lot of German states valued their autonomies.
>>1646985
YOU SEEM TO BE UNDER THE ABSURD BELIEF THAT DEMOCRATIC DISUNION IS SOMETHING "GOOD", OR DESIRABLE, WHICH MAKES YOUR POST MORONIC.
>>1647009
filtered
>>1644863
yeah lol fuck germany XD