Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations (148 page)
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Authors: Norman Davies
Tags: #History, #Nonfiction, #Europe, #Royalty, #Politics & Government
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. Lwów-L’viv-Lemberg, capital city of Habsburg Galicia.
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. Joseph II (r. 1780–90), emperor and first king of Galicia and Lodomeria.
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. Franz-Josef (r. 1848–1916), emperor and last king of Galicia and Lodomeria.
BORUSSIA
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. The Vistula Lagoon (the
Kalingradskiy Zaliv
, formerly the
Frisches Haff
): the Baltic coast in the watery homeland of the
Prusai
.
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. Malbork, Poland: formerly the Marienburg, headquarters of the Teutonic Knights and the world’s largest brick castle.
BORUSSIA
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. The Battle of Grunwald (in the German tradition, Tannenberg), 15 July 1410, as depicted by Jan Matejko (1878): the Death of Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen.
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. The Tannenberg Memorial, 1927–45, marking the German victory of September 1914 and the ‘Teutons’ Revenge’ for Grunwald.
BORUSSIA
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. (
top
)
The Prussian Homage
, Krakow, 1525, as depicted by Matejko. Albrecht von Hohenzollern kneels before Sigismund I, king of Poland
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. (
middle left
) Albrecht von Hohenzollern (1490–1568), last grand master of the Teutonic Order and first duke of Prussia.
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. (
middle right
) Frederick I (r. 1688–1713), first king in Prussia, Königsberg, 1701.
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. (
left
) Frederick William I (1620–88), the ‘Great Elector’ of Brandenburg and last duke of Prussia.
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. The Abbey of Hautecombe, Lac du Bourget, Savoy: site of the mausoleum of the
Casa Savoia
.
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.
Mont Blanc
, painted by J. M. W. Turner in 1837, when Western Europe’s highest peak formed part of the Sardinian ‘Sub-alpine Kingdom’.
SABAUDIA
