Countries That Used To Exist In Medieval Europe

▶ Support me on Patreon & get exclusive / ahead of time content! ▶ In this video I talk about countries that used to exist in Medieval Europe. To do this, I use a fantastic map made by reddit user ratkatavobratka, available at: . Through looking at this map we are able to identify some of these “countries“ or at least personal domains (duchies, counties, kingdoms) that used to exist in the year 1444, but that no longer do today. Examples of such are the Kingdom of Algarve, the Kingdom/Crown of Aragon, the Emirate of Granada, the Duchy of Brittany or the Duchy of Burgundy. At his point in history, France was not yet unified, neither was Spain, and this fragmentation of what are today the territories of modern countries was also seen elsewhere: Ireland, Russia (which saw the independent states of the Republic of Novgorod or the Grand Duchy of Moscow), I