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[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Switzerland be like:

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

I was bummed that they gave Bulgaria a fifth color, when they were clearly aware that you only need four colors, but then I saw that it's not a contiguous landmass, so I guess, that's a valid way of grouping those two...

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 9 points 14 hours ago

I love how Corsica has a picture of Napoleon.

[–] morto@piefed.social 12 points 15 hours ago

Those older maps with overlay drawings were so cool

[–] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's should be from 1878-1885, as it shows Eastern Rumelia as a somewhat separate state. It was an autonomous province of Bulgaria for that 8 years; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Rumelia

I couldn't find anything to narrow it even more.

But it has some errors, e.g. Austria wa called Austria-Hungary at that time

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Colloquially 'Austria' (or equivalents) was still widely used, just as the Ottoman Empire is referred to Turkiye here.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I never understood if it was Prussia or already Germany before WW1

[–] PenguinInLaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

Prussian Kingdom was technically one state in the German Empire. But since the Prussian king was the emperor, distinction between them was somewhat artificial.

[–] PenguinInLaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago

Pre-Balkan wars even.