>Duchy >Is just a city and a few towns. Would it be misleading?

>>54960932
As long as they are officially recognized.
I mean Australia is just a city and a few towns and it's a goddamn continent.

>>54960932

Not at all. IIRC some Italian medieval city states branded themselves as duchies.

>>54960932
Luxembourg was a medieval duchy and it wasn't much more that what you described. I think they key is the duchy was more prestigious at some other point.

the ruler's just a minor duke.

perhaps other regions mock it. "Dutchy of anon? I've seen bigger pig-farmer's barns than that dutchy"

on the other hand, it could be a specific geographical area, that's limited in expansion - one great valley with mountains either side, or the confluence of two rivers, etc.

Cant see why not.

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*blocks your path*

The Russian principalities kinda count.

>>54961155
Stupid successions like the germans?

>>54961010
They didn't brand themselves as such, those titles were elevated to duchies by Holy Roman Emperors or Popes, often as political favours.

>>54961184
Yup. They're all cousins that hate-love each other, it worked until the Mongols showed up. After the Mongols were kicked out most of them were under the Lithuanians which made Moscow and Novgorod the last remaining Russian states. Moscow only became as powerful as it was because Russians were constantly migrating there to avoid the Lithuanians and Mongols. The Russians made the same mistake back in 1991 it seems.