(February 9, 2015 at 11:38 am)Alex K Wrote:(February 9, 2015 at 11:33 am)Norman Humann Wrote: You're right, I forgot about the whole mess with most of the European nations. I just kind of have this idea in the back of my head from learning Polish history. Poland was one country from 966 and it never was as divided as most other countries.
I suppose this core-Poland you mean did not include eastern Prussia? I mean polish history has some mess, too, getting divided sometimes, no? (and I'm not even talking about WWII)
No, it didn't originally include it. It was much smaller than the current territory.
It does have a lot of mess on the Eastern borders, the Baltic shore and Silesia (which I live in), but it's more of a territorial dispute mess. I meant that it didn't have the problem with being divided into many duchies, except for a short period of time and even then it still fromally existed as a unified nation.
