1,000 Years of European Borders

[malaise]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gzXoc8y2G0k&fbclid=IwAR3VWcfYAFcVho6MnHqEM4hxd3B7ccziGBmrfyeOF3pZEBSW0negkBY0yfs

[yonder]

1. Pretty cool, thanks.

[Glorfindel]

2. Fascinating...Napoleon's empire was so brief you could scarcely notice it

Thank you, malaise. Wonderful stuff as always!

[old as dirt]

5. People noticed.

Women's History Month: Catholicism, Royalism, Impiety, and Target Practice.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/123059995

[old as dirt]

3. With a little help from my friends.

https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Slave-Royalists-Age-Revolution/dp/1107084148

Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780-1825

Introduction

Reform, revolution, and royalism in the northern Andes

New Granada and Popayán (1780-1825)

In the year 1810, in the midst of the Spanish monarchy's deepest crisis of sovereignty that took place during Napoleon's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, the slave- and mine-owning elites across New Granada's southwestern province of Popayán (in present day Colombia) formed the first I surgent juntas, rejecting Spanish sovereignty.

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In a remarkable moment in the history of slavery, the representatives of the Spanish king mobilized slaves against slave owners, and slaves allied with and defended the crown, which had historically promoted slavery.

(pages 1-2)

"Esclavos en resistencia, negros realistas"

"Slaves in resistance, Black royalists"

[empedocles]

4. The most interesting map I've ever seen. TY

[My mental sidetrip to your map, was Mussolini's promise to restore the Roman Empire all over the Mediterranean - and of course Hitler was aware of large German populations through Europe, and in the US, from Pennsylvania to Texas].

[malaise]

6. Watched this one last night

These people have been fighting way too long for my liking

[cilla4progress]

7. Brilliant!

Those "German" tribes for so long?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. One small mistake - this shows France as gaining present-day Belgium in 1763

ie at the end of the Seven Years' War. They didn't - that land was the Austrian Netherlands from 1714 until the early 1790s, when revolutionary France took it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Netherlands

(I'm in the middle of a podcast about the French Revolution, and France facing up to Austria at this border, and winning, and then getting control of modern Belgium, has been a significant part of its wars against other countries during the revolution)

[malaise]

10. I knew DU experts would correct any errors

Thanks

[Wounded Bear]

9. There are several versions of that. Always interesting...

[bigtree]

12. k&r