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Biggest Countries in Europe in 1700

Name the nations and empires that had the most territory within the continent of Europe in the year 1700.
Crude estimates based on this map.
Even if they were primarily based outside of Europe
Individual parts of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE must be guessed separately. Whiners will be impaled on a pike.
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First submittedNovember 17, 2018
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km²
Answer
4,000,000
Russia
1,500,000
Ottoman Empire
1,000,000
Poland-Lithuania
1,000,000
Sweden
700,000
Habsburg Monarchy
700,000
Spain
600,000
France
500,000
Denmark-Norway
300,000
England (including Scotland)
km²
Answer
100,000
Brandenburg-Prussia
100,000
Venice
90,000
Portugal
40,000
Dutch Republic
40,000
Papal States
40,000
Swiss Confederation
30,000
Bavaria
30,000
Duchy of Savoy
30,000
Saxony
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45 Comments
Quizmaster
+11
Level ∞
Mar 26, 2024
What's up with the Holy Roman Empire? To understand this era in history, you have to realize that the modern nation-state hadn't really been invented yet.

The Holy Roman Empire, famously, was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire.

It wasn't really a country in the sense that we have countries today. At one point, there were over a thousand quasi-independent states within the empire, some as small as a single village.

Some kingdoms, like Austria, had territory both within and outside of the HRE.

So don't ask for us to include the HRE. It just doesn't make sense.

KoljiVriVoda
+4
Level 77
Nov 17, 2018
Missed two smallest...
kalbahamut
+6
Level 82
Feb 5, 2019
I got Saxony but I missed Venice and Savoy.
Ent
+2
Level 75
Feb 5, 2019
same
rphxx
+2
Level 71
Nov 3, 2019
same
Hollywood
+2
Level 62
Feb 11, 2020
Same
Pdogs
+1
Level 44
Apr 24, 2024
same
TheSavageGeographer
+4
Level 45
Feb 5, 2019
The only one I actually missed was Savoy
Sifhraven
+2
Level 71
Feb 16, 2019
I missed papal as well..
ruftytufty
+11
Level 79
Nov 17, 2018
Nice quiz thank you - but you're early on Great Britain. No such thing until 1707. Before then it was England (apart from a very brief period under the Commonwealth).
TheLastFish
+3
Level 70
Nov 17, 2018
In defence for the quizmaster, already the referred map is wrong on this issue. Please correct to England (including Wales and Ireland) and Scotland.

PS: Nice Quiz! :-)

Quizmaster
+6
Level ∞
Nov 17, 2018
This has been fixed. It's a bit complicated since, though England and Scotland were technically separate, they had the same monarch. The area listed includes the entirety of Great Britain as well as Ireland.
TheLastFish
+15
Level 70
Nov 17, 2018
Well, modern Australia and Canada also share the same monarch but are technically separated nations, right? ;-)
Djilas
+21
Level 83
Nov 19, 2018
It was a bit different in the time when the monarch actually ruled the country.
JonOfKent
+1
Level 57
Apr 3, 2024
It's 1700, not 1600 - by this time England had already beheaded a king for getting above himself. Although the monarch(s) in 1700 had much more political influence than they do today, it's not right to say that they simply ruled the country - it was more an continual battle of wills between them and the English and Scottish Parliaments. The last royal veto of an Act of Parliament was only in 1708, and even that was on the advice of ministers.
Kesselian
+4
Level 69
Nov 20, 2018
What about Naples?
kshanti
+4
Level 61
Feb 5, 2019
That was part of Spain in 1700, it became part of Austria (Habsburg dynasty) after the war of Spanish succession in 1713.
mammix
+8
Level 58
Nov 21, 2018
I tried Papacy, Piedmont, Sardinia... At least the first two ones should be accepted.
iuvas
+4
Level 95
Nov 21, 2018
i agree on piedmont, since it is present also on the map cited as source. On the contrary, Sardinia would be incorrect because the savoy dukes were granted possession of the kingdom of sardinia only in 1720
JonOfKent
+1
Level 57
Apr 22, 2020
Yes, I put Piedmont too... all rather confusing! I also got muddled about when the Netherlands became independent and didn't even bother trying it. Duh.
MrZiggy49
+7
Level 69
Nov 30, 2018
Thanks empire total war :)
boiadellago
+4
Level 74
Jan 24, 2019
I don't understand why England and Scotland are counted together since they were separate countries until the Act of Union (1707), yes they had the same Monarch, at the time William III and Mary II, but they had different institution, for example in 1707 there had been the first election for the Great Britain parliament, before that there were two parliaments.
CraftBananaDuty
+1
Level 37
Feb 5, 2019
wasn't it considered England-scotland-netherland and Scotland-england-netherland at the beginning of 1700? because of the dutch king there and stuff?
fitheach
+3
Level 58
Feb 7, 2019
"...because of the dutch king there and stuff". Eloquently put! :-)
Penguinish
+7
Level 72
Feb 5, 2019
Thanks to EU4, I got full points :)
Arp2600
+3
Level 86
Feb 5, 2019
What about Moldavia and Wallachia? They seem pretty big and independant on the map...
TheSavageGeographer
+4
Level 45
Feb 5, 2019
I'm pretty sure it was still part of the Ottoman Empire at the time...
RJF
+1
Level 63
Jan 20, 2023
They weren't. The principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, as well as the Republic of Ragusa, were vassals of the Ottoman Empire, but not part of the empire itself. They were probably counted as part of the Ottoman-controlled world for the purposes of this quiz, but they most definitely weren't part of the Ottoman Empire itself.
kshanti
+2
Level 61
Feb 5, 2019
Good thing that Austria works, Habsburg Dynasty is correct as it's name. But Spain was also controlled by its own branch of the Habsburg family. (The last one died in november of 1700 and got replaced by a Bourbon). And that's a bit confusing.
RJF
+1
Level 63
Jan 20, 2023
Yes, although prior to the formation of the Austrian Empire in 1804, all the Habsburg realms (those under the Austrian branch, that is) were nominally independent countries that just happened to be in personal union. So technically the Archduchy of Austria, the kingdoms of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and the Duchies of Silesia were all separate countries in 1700.
Npredella
+3
Level 48
Feb 6, 2019
Can "Republic of Venice" be accepted for "Venice" ?
GKS
+5
Level 46
Mar 6, 2020
Just write 'Venice', it's shorter anyway.
MrRichie46
+3
Level 19
Feb 6, 2019
Can the United Provinces be accepted for the Dutch Republic as it was known by that as well?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Mar 26, 2024
Yes.
jf15
+4
Level 63
Feb 6, 2019
Please accept Piedmont, not just Savoy. Should have gotten that early on, especially since it's practiced elsewhere: Brandenburg-Prussia, Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 26, 2024
Was the Duchy of Savoy ever called Piedmont in the year 1700? I can't find evidence.
AceRimmer
+3
Level 57
Mar 4, 2019
18/18 Playing Europa Universalis IV really helped me out...
Zefyrinus
+2
Level 71
Aug 18, 2019
But according to that map Brandenburg, Saxony and Bavaria were part of the Holy Roman Empire? And why isn't Moldavia/Wallachia included?
stusum
+3
Level 64
Jan 9, 2020
I don't have a problem with you including England & Scotland as one country since they were ruled by the same monarch. But could I ask that Scotland be removed from brackets as the wording makes it seem as if Scotland was part of England.
tjmoores
+1
Level 37
Mar 17, 2020
Can you accept "Commonwealth" for Poland-Lithuania?
jennywren21
+1
Level 62
Jul 3, 2020
I actually missed the Ottoman Empire. Not that I've never heard of it, but it just didn't spring to mind. Imagine 300 years from people not thinking of the USA as one of the great world powers.

I'm not trying to start a debate about whether it is or isn't a great country, but just thinking about what the future will look like. How many dynasties and empires thought they would live on forever only to be nearly forgotten after only a few hundred years?

BananaCoconut
+1
Level 23
Aug 3, 2022
Yay I only missed Saxony, but got everything else!
RJF
+2
Level 63
Jan 20, 2023
I know I'm being the world's biggest pedant here, and I'm not even sure if this actually warrants changing, but Spain technically wasn't a single country until the Nueva Planta degrees of 1707-1716, and even then the unified kingdom didn't yet include Galicia, Navarre or the Basque Lordships.

But seeing as you went for the entirety of Spanish-ruled Europe here (including Naples, Milan and the Southern Netherlands), it might be best to just change the one answer to "Spanish realms" or something similar, instead of separating them all into different answers.

Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 60
Aug 31, 2023
Glad to see some historical geography quizzes.
ChoraleraleriaYT
+1
Level 43
Apr 23, 2024
COMBINE HRE INTO ONE- *gets impaled*
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