Map of Europe, 1500 AD

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1. Erig says

   July 4, 2017 at 8:38 am

   There’s a mistake in the status you allow to Brittany. Brittany was NOT a “french substate”… It was fully independant until 1548, and became united to France in 1548 before the 1532 treaty. This treaty was planning a union between France and Brittany, not a domination of one on the other.

   During its long history, Brittany had to compose with its problematic neighbors, France and England, and had to change its alliance often. If our sovereigns accepted the English and French suzerainty one after the other, they never became a serf nor a dominion, and never paid tribute to any of the english or french kings.

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2. Spiral says

   May 11, 2018 at 7:10 pm

   What’s the difference between an union, personal union and dynastic union?

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3. Rk says

   May 28, 2018 at 8:09 am

   Wales was not part of the kingdom of England in 1500.

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   • Ken says

     July 13, 2020 at 10:46 pm

     Still isn’t.

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   • Alun Stone says

     July 14, 2020 at 1:24 pm

     Not correct, Wales was annexed in the late 1200’s by Edward, true, there was no act of union until 1530, but it was still under English control.

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4. IceWare says

   August 12, 2018 at 4:05 pm

   In a (real) union two or more states share some institutions, however they are not as unified as states in a political union. A personal union is the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct. In a dynastic union two different states are governed by the same dynasty, but not the same monarch, although it depends on the country.

   The difference between dynastic and personal union is basicly this: If the ruler dies and one part of the union breaks away it was a personal union. If it stays it’s a dynastic

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5. Felix says

   June 3, 2019 at 6:32 am

   Montenegro was a Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire.. not sure how it could be claimed as an independent ‘tribe’ in 1500 AD. Kingdom of Croatia was in a personal union with Hungary. It had separate laws, boundaries and even its own Sabor (parliament). The Serbian Despotate last until 1459, afterwards it was part of the Ottoman Empire including in 1500 AD.

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   • Montenegrin says

     November 4, 2020 at 5:07 pm

     The territory of nowadays Montenegro belonged to Ottoman Empire, and it was labeled sandzak as a part of it, sandzak was an administrative unit in the Ottoman Empire. But, the social system inside this territory was that of tribes, in territories of Montenegro and Albania lived the last tribes in Europe. There was never a tribe of Montenegro or Albania per se, but there were many tribes all around the mountainous, difficult to access terrain. This tribal society stayed even until the 19th, early 20th century, and the contemporary mentality and traditions in these countries are still heavily influenced by a tribal society.

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