Aesthetic borders thread

It looked cooler before Bosnia

>>2699003
Bosnia was what triggered the WW1 in the end, too. Fuck Bosnia.

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>>2698999

>>2698999
>Pic unrelated

>>2699028
Holy shit, that's miserable

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I kind of like the kingdom of Hungary

>>2698999
Get rid of Galicia and add Venice and Romania

>>2699028
>Romanian education

>>2699040
Technically that was Imperial education back then and even more precisely Hungarian education since those parts were governed by Budapest.

>>2698999
A-H looks like the mentally retarded cousin of Germany

>>2699043
It would be better with the Channel Islands included.

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>>2699043
Not grande enough

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The British isles are generally aesthetic as fuck

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>>2698999

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>>2699267
least aesthetic version of Poland tbqh

pic related is best, I always found the round western border very pleasing by its looks

>>2699028
post a literacy map of spain or france for the same period
this is more a sign of the time than anything else, plus austria being a top intellectual destination

>>2699060
NSFW

>>2699460
work in Brussel?

>>2699048
That's what happens when you fill your empire with Romanians, Italians and Serbs.

If 1914 had an independent Congress Poland and Duchy of Finland instead of those countries being Russian vassals it's borders would be god tier.

>>2699040
Wasn't Transylvania hungarian?

>>2699501
Not at that time. Rumania won it after the War.

>>2699509
>Rumania won it after the War.
>1884

>>2699501
Still way too many R*manians in the empire.

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>>2699293
Add Czechy, Miśnia, and Związek Wielecki, and you get perfect borders.

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Swedish Empire, mid 17th century

>if eveything had gone according to plan

>>2701561
>that skeleton on the right
Jesus Christ why

>>2701642
Finland isn't historically a very rich country, undernourishment used to be common.

>>2699396
>alt-history in a nutshell

>>2699204
That Grossdeutschland really is gross. Like it has a tumor. The thread name suggests visually pleasing borders.

>>2702000
>numbers

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>>2702000
This. Second German Reich is pleasing to look at; the third """"""""Reich"""""""" looks bloated and misshaped.

>>2702093
It looks like some sick animal whose crocodile-shaped head is trying to eat at Russian Empire.

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>>2702093
If you put it sideways it looks like the Ottoman Empire

>>2699396
Belarusian outer territories where the EU HQ is looks like a middle finger

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>>2702093
sans East Prussia this is optimal

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>>2698999

>>2704229
Looks better but East Prussia still a bit triggering.

>>2704233
Really cool infographic. It is pretty triggering when Anglos mispronounce our "w"

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>>2698999
I heard people call pic related too bulky

>>2699293
That version is just a big blob.

>>2700285
Is there a map of the Swedish empire projected over modern borders?

>>2699451
this desu, austria entered WW1 with comparable literacy to france and britain

if you want to feel sad, look at a similar map of italy

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>>2699293
>>2705436
We can go blobier

>>2698999
1914 borders were pretty much perfect aesthetically speaking

>>2699215
DELET

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>>2705476
>if you want to feel sad, look at a similar map of italy
Why don't you post it?

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For the brief period in which they controlled the Balkans and Anatolia.

>>2705532

Yeah, especially if Basil had managed to take Sicily. Something absolutely delicious about that purple crescent swooping from Croatia/Sicily to Armenia/Cyprus

>>2705538
They should've just focused on Greek-speaking areas and ones that they could feasibly hold. Basically modern Greece, Cyprus, all of Anatolia sans the Armenian lands because they're better as a buffer and ally against Eastern invaders, and Eastern Thrace. I do conceded that Bulgaria needs to be contained because they were a constant thorn in Byzantine's side, but allow autonomy and low taxes paid in kind to ensure the Bulgarians don't revolt.

Cherson and the rest of Crimea is incredibly useful since it can be easily fortified as well as supplied by sea. It was Byzantine's chief source of news about nomadic invaders on the prowl. Italy, Croatia, and Serbia should be protectorates, but they manage their own affairs and no imperial garrisons.

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>>2705549

Lately, there's a meme going round that "Manzikert wasn't as devastating to the empire as people thought" that people take to mean that the empire recovered (especially under the Komnenoi). Really, this meme stems from (relatively) recent scholarship stating that while it wasn't the 'Battle' of Manzikert that was devastating to the Empire, that instead it was the 'aftermath' were you have multiple byzantine claimants encouraging Turkish raiders to enter Anatolia.

People forget that from the map you show presently, of the European side, the only real 'untouched Roman' with a distinctively Roman character were bits of present day Greece and Thrace (plus Constantinople). Anatolia was the last large bastion of continuous Roman culture and when that was overrun (despire Komnenoi efforts, Anatolia would never return to its Basil II heyday) the only real Roman regions left were Constantinople and Greece.

btw, what do you think of pic related for aesthetics?

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>>2705480
Why end there?

>>2702783
>The Prussian curve with large regions sticking out on each end.
>Not aesthetic

>ctrl f
>no ottoman empire 1683

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Find a flaw.

Pro-tip: you can't.

>>2705789
>tfw no unified Jagellion central European holy empire to combat the disgusting G*rms and R*ssians

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Worst borders

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>>2702093
I agree with this Anon.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LpY3FKyYbA

>>2699060
You can actually see Brits using The Wash for their laundry in this pic.

>>2707007
>that slice of Papau new guinea
for the love of god why bother?

>>2704846
>that hole where Judah is
Dropped

>>2706349
>Iberia not retaken in the rereconquista

>>2700299
Those are top-tier borders

>>2707318
Muh Platz an der Sonne

>>2702000
Fuck off /leftypol/

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Just from it's boarders you know it shouldn't exist

>>2699028
>Galicia
Literally African tier

Mexico and it's not even close.

>>2699038
Hungary proper without Croatia had the best natural borders in history, literally nothing else but mountains and rivers.

>>2702093
>>2713009
For some reason, Czech Republic/Bohemia poking in the second reich is bothering me. Do the Germans have any stake on those lands?

>>2713215
They did.

>>2698999
Serbia's borders on that map are nifty af also

>>2706349
Love the labias around red sea vagina

>>2699060
Britain only looks cool because its surrounded by the sea. If it was connected to mainland Europe it would look like shit.

>>2713276
>It only looks cool because it looks the way it does.

>If it looked different it would not look cool anymore

uh okay

>>2698999
>no Venice
>aesthetic

>>2704233
cool. had no idea dutch people spoke like that

>>2699085
This is objectively true

>>2713683
This

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>>2699038
HAHA

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>>2713726
Delete this

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>>2713814
It could have been worse.

>>2705517
"And so on, Germany was deletes"

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Can't believe everyone is posting half-baked Großdeutschlands but nobody posted Großdeutsche Lösung.

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The great qing empire

>>2704142
What? No way!

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>>2699451
Russian Empire 15 years later.

Intredasting

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>>2702093

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>>2714936
>Jews
>hating Imperial Germany

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>>2698999