Posted on 05/15/2012 6:43:07 PM PDT by Rebelbase
This is an annotated version of the time lapse map of Europe. It's slower, more zoomed in on the Continent, showing years and some important events.
11 Min.long but I learned more in that time than all of prior years!
I loved it! Rarely click to YouTube but am sure glad I did for this. Sent link to family and friend history buffs.
I almost cried at 8:33.
watching Italy and the Holy Roman Empire break up into tons of tiny states is interesting!
I definitely see what you mean about Lithuania!
For all of the complaining about the post-1945 borders, the fact is, modern Poland’s borders are pretty much the same as in Piast Poland, back in 966.
How many different tiny countries did the Holy Roman Empire collapse into anyway? Looked like many dozens.
As a Mick, it brought a tear to see what happened to Ireland over the centuries, though.
Same here. A Mick whose family came from County Cork. :)
Yes, poor Poland.
Speaking of Polish History, this was a cool video they produced for the 2010 Expo in Shanghai, condensing 1000 years of Polish History into 8 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DrXgj1NwN8
Awesome, to say the least. Thank you.
I know an elderly lady who was born in Leipzig, Germany and her grandmother was Polish. She has some horror stories to tell. First the Nazi’s and then the Russians.
THANKS for that link. I put it up on my Facebook page. It’s waaaay cool!
BookMark
Very interesting! Documents a perpetual struggle.
This is just a guess, but I bet most people were surprised by the prominence of Lithuania and subsequently Poland/Lithuania over a long period of time.
In fact, if it had not been for those brave settlers on what was then the eastern frontier of Europe proper, the Mongol Golden Horde would have ridden through the Fulda Gap into central Europe.
A Pole, Henry Sienkiwizc (sp?)wrote a wonderful historical novel called “With Fire and Sword” about the battle between the Horde and the Europeans way back. I read it as a boy and have never forgotten it.
I was. I had always thought of Lithuania as a small country. I wish that the "annotation" were larger. I can barely read it. By the time I get my eyes focused on those tiny words at the bottom of the page, the map has already changed.
Pulled from Youtube.
Do you know where that came from?
There is a longer version that runs 14 minutes with sound.
I watched the miniseries of it on TV Polonia, thankfully they had English subtitles.
The HRE was ridiculously diverse, lots of little fiefdoms where everyone was related, and ethnically different from the next group over, due to millennia of continual invasion. Neighboring states would join due to arranged dynastic marriages, then someone would die (such as the bride, in childbirth, or the groom, in battle) and the whole arrangement would fall apart.
The last Wholly Roman Emperor was probably in the Flavian dynasty. :’)
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