States that have been reduced in size

[Wulfhere]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WT0uM8jYO6k/SwZC9en4UzI/AAAAAAAAB1g/DEF_sxCGHyw/s1600/roman+empire.jpg

http://famouswonders.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/vatican-city-map1.gif

Roman Empire to Vatican City. For this to work, one needs to accept the argument that we're actually talking about the same polity at all. After the Byzantine reconquest of Italy in the 6th century its holdings were gradually reduced to the central strip from Rome to Ravenna, and the effective ruler became the Pope, on behalf of the Byzantines. He crowned a new Western Emperor in 800, though later in the Middle Ages the Emperor ceased to have any control over what were now known as the Papal States. Incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy in the 1860s/70s, a very small fragment of the Papal States were granted independence again in 1929, as the Vatican City.

[Albion]

Good examples are

the Netherlands which lost Belgium
Norway without Jamtland and Bohuslan
Denmark without Scania
Ireland without NI
England giving up Lothian

[Wulfhere]

Good examples are

the Netherlands which lost Belgium
Norway without Jamtland and Bohuslan
Denmark without Scania
Ireland without NI
England giving up Lothian


There has never been a sovereign Irish state covering the whole of the island. There was an Irish state that was set up by, and remained a dependency of, England and Great Britain until 1801, but the modern Republic of Ireland has no institutional connection with it.

[Albion]

There has never been a sovereign Irish state covering the whole of the island. There was an Irish state that was set up by, and remained a dependency of, England and Great Britain until 1801, but the modern Republic of Ireland has no institutional connection with it.

The High Kingship of Ireland?

[Wulfhere]

The High Kingship of Ireland?

It wasn't a state, but a temporary dominance by one state of the others (and not usually all of them, either). Analogous to the Bretwalda in England.

[Peasant]

http://i.imgur.com/ZmNGc.jpg


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Germanborders.png

[Loddfafner]

France:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Anachronous_map_of_the_All_French_Empire_%281534_-1970%29.png

[poiuytrewq0987]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Byzantine_Empire_animated2.gif
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/8/85/20090227232615%21Breakup_of_Yugoslavia.gif

[Wulfhere]

The Third Reich

http://ww2intenmin.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/8/2/5282101/3010760.png?651

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/ww2-pix/bunker.jpg

[Damião de Góis]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Portugal_Imp%C3%A9rio_total.png

Good times :p

As for our borders, they have been the same since 1297 and only changed in 1801 because of Olivença, which is some shithole town on the border with Spain.

[SilverKnight]

Spanish Empire
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5922/spanishempireanachronou.png (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/269/spanishempireanachronou.png/)

Mayor colonial cities/ outposts
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/561/t014755a.gif (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/27/t014755a.gif/)

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2200/hapsburg.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/88/hapsburg.jpg/)

[Bobby Martnen]

Germany

RIP

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Flag-map_of_the_German_Empire_%281914%29.svg