Europe before the First World War

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  1. Labeling Gdingen (Gdynia) in pre WW1 map? It was just a small fishing village back then. It of course became one of the most modern seaports of the early 20th century, but it makes no sense to even show it on the map without independent Poland.

  2. Is it me or only the micro-states, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland look exactly the same more than a century late? (Tunisia too but since it is not in Europe and was a colony at the time..), What a chaotic, terrible, XXth century (1st half much more so) this poor continent had. OTOH, it was almost entirely self-inflicted…

  3. If only King Alexander took the original deal and never formed Yugoslavia we would have seen quite an interesting map.

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