While Germany may have united in 1871, the North German Confederation formed in 1867, and the German Empire was effectively just South Germany joining.
It's a very similar mess in Habsburg empire, they just consolidated their power earlier and the various parts weren't so often on kingdom or principality level.
I always saw it as Hapsburg in school but a check online says that is the Anglicized spelling used in America. Wikipedia calls it, "The House of Habsburg (traditionally spelled Hapsburg in English.)"
This is a great quiz, thanks, the map is amazing, I get lost trying to remember the German and Italian States.
I was wondering at the separation of Sweden and Norway though - thought they were a Union under the Swedish crown from the Convention of Moss in 1814 until Norwegian Independence in 1905.
After doing some reading, I believe they show up as separate here because the Convention of Moss established only a personal union. Norway retained its own parliament and constitution.
1) Great job! 2) But...^^ it is a pity that so many countries are missing. There are only 19 out of the 35 German states listed. Two Italien states are missing (Cospaia, Massa and Carrara). Also the Ionian islands are missing. Finally Montenegro has still been part of the Ottoman Empire in 1815, although its authonomy.
Pre-1871-Germany was a cluster of many kingdoms, duchies, principalities etc. Since many of them are so small, they wouldn‘t have appeared on the map. That‘s why I wrote that smaller German states were put together. For Montenegro, I used this map: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_1815_map_en.png
Pre-Napoleonic-Germany was a cluster of many tiny states, past-1815-Germany appears to be managable (about 35 sovereign states). It would be just an even greater job if those are included as well. By the way, Andorra, San Marino, and Liechtenstein are actually smaller as many of the states you neglected, what appears a bit inconsistent. ;-) About Montenegro and those other puppets of the Ottomans: they have not been sovereing state de jure, however enjoy large autonomy.
Montenegro had de facto independence at the time, and was ruled by Prince-bishop Petar I, and was by no means a puppet of the Ottomans, as you falsely claim.
"The replacement of Venice by Russia was especially significant, since it brought financial aid (after Danilo visited Peter the Great in 1715), modest territorial gain, and, in 1789, formal recognition by the Ottoman Porte of Montenegro's independence as a state under Petar I Petrović Njegoš."
no, montenegro was fully independent at this time, just not internationally recognised. montenegro has been totally free of the ottomans since the 1690s
You need bonus points for the amount of extra work and research put in for this. I consider it a win to have scored the "average" and that was only good enough for 1/5 points lol
Europa Universalis helped me quite a bit here. I'm kinda sad I didn't see Andorra on the map (not knowing I could zoom in) and that i wrote Luca instead of Lucca.
Nah. "Berg" is a mountain, "burg" is a town; Wurttemberg is an actual mountain (a hill, actually, not very high; I've driven up it) with a chapel where the castle used to be.
Hey there. This is a great quiz, and I think the map is really well done.
I suggest accepting "Hesse-Nassau" and "Hessen-Nassau" as answers for Nassau. The Duchy of Nassau, which existed in 1815, is different from the Province of Hesse-Nassau within Prussia, which was formed in 1868. I think however, that accepting these as alternate names for Nassau would make at least a little sense, given how broad the scope of accepted answers generally are.
First mistake would be Lübeck.The 1815 Congress of Vienna reconfirmed Lübeck's independence and it became one of 39 sovereign states of the German Confederation. Also quiz should accept Sigmaringen as the full name was Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, it lost the name Sigmaringen only after annexation by Prussia in 1850.
Funny to think that Austria was this (for Europe) huge empire before and now it is this tiny little mountainous country dwarfed by neighbors Germany and Italy with only 8 million people. And me right in the middle of it.
If this had covered the period just 9 years previous (1806) it would have been a LOT easier since most of Germany would have been under the Holy Roman Empire.
This quiz is nice. Although I don't think Norway should be in it (Sweden-Norway was still a thing. Hence if it is added there should also be Ottoman Vassals like Serbia, Walachia and Moldavia (Or the constituents of Austrian Empire)). Also, Hohenzollern should also accept Sigmaringen, since it's Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Also, I think that Thuringia ain't a thing, but should be Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (I think those are the regional ones big enough to recognize)
Not exactly. Sweden-Norway was a personal union, which is two or more separate states united by the same monarch, while still having their own laws, constitutions, government, etc. in contrast to Denmark-Norway, which was a real union.
While not fully independent, it was definitely not part of Sweden itself.
It's a complicated case and the map creator can legitimately decide either way: "Sweden, aided by the major powers, forced Norway to enter the Union [by a military invasion!]. On the other hand, Norway, aided by the same powers, essentially dictated the terms of the Union." (Wikipedia) But I'd prefer to go for one country, as they had common foreign policy and thus were presented as one to the rest of the world. Besides the 1814 Swedish attack and some thinking to repeat it in 1905 ...
Do you mind if I use a part of this map for a quiz? I'm thinking about making a 'Biggest European Cities in 1815 on a Map' quiz and using this as the basemap
Great quizz! However, I'm wondering why Finland is not included among the grand dutchies, though - it was a Grand Dutchy of the Russian Empire from 1809 until independence (1917).
I was wondering at the separation of Sweden and Norway though - thought they were a Union under the Swedish crown from the Convention of Moss in 1814 until Norwegian Independence in 1905.
"The replacement of Venice by Russia was especially significant, since it brought financial aid (after Danilo visited Peter the Great in 1715), modest territorial gain, and, in 1789, formal recognition by the Ottoman Porte of Montenegro's independence as a state under Petar I Petrović Njegoš."
I suggest accepting "Hesse-Nassau" and "Hessen-Nassau" as answers for Nassau. The Duchy of Nassau, which existed in 1815, is different from the Province of Hesse-Nassau within Prussia, which was formed in 1868. I think however, that accepting these as alternate names for Nassau would make at least a little sense, given how broad the scope of accepted answers generally are.
Great quiz!
I learn so much from JetPunk and I'm a great-grandmother who lived through some of the answers. (But not on this quiz..)
While not fully independent, it was definitely not part of Sweden itself.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Russian Empire
France
Spanish Empire
Portugal
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Ottoman Empire
Netherlands
Austrian Empire
Andorra
Switzerland
Prussia
Sicily
Monaco
Bavaria
Sardinia-Piedmont
Naples
Luxembourg
Montenegro
Hamburg
Papal States
San Marino
Liechtenstein
Saxony
Tuscany
Frankfurt am Main
Württemberg