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    2. lendlevtaldrik on

      Could put a label on Estonians at least. They weren’t among the *Finnish* tribes and the term “Chudes” was mostly used for more eastern Finnic tribes at this point by Russian chroniclers. And Livonians deserve an honorable mention as well.

    3. AdrianRP on

      The kingdom of Galicia wasn’t established until the 10th century and never spanned all of Northwestern Iberia. At this point that territory was called Asturias, which was divided several times into Leon and Galicia, and was reunited and divided several times giving birth to Portugal in the process

    5. tcsreject on

      The Iberian peninsula fumbled hard , they were the pinnacle of civilization until the inquisition 

    6. RockThePlazmah on

      Cities are wrong. The first mentions about Kraków and Przemyśl are from X century

    7. StoneColdCrazzzy on

      Looking at this, I can see the Frankish assumption that they were reestablishing Western Roman Empire next to the Eastern.

    9. BasarMilesTeg on

      Easter border is very ambiguous. They were definitely not an integral part of the empire, at most tribute payers.

    11. RoiDrannoc on

      In reality, we shouldn’t call it the Frankish empire because such entity never existed.

      The Carolingian empire is seen by some historians as the early phase of the Holy Roman Empire, and by the other historians as its predecessor. In both cases, it’s no surprise that it’s more complicated than you think.

      The Frankish kingdom and the restaured “Roman Empire” were two different entities with two different titles but with exact same territory.

      When the split happened (in 888/922), it was as much a split of territory as a split of titles. The “Roman empire” (HRE) lost the west, and the kingdom of the Franks (France) lost the east.

      So yeah, this is a map of both the kingdom of the Franks and the (proto-Holy) Roman Empire, but not of a Frankish empire.

    12. toyyya on

      Sweden is painfully wrong lol, firstly calling the Sami people “Finnish tribes” is just incorrect but also and arguably more important the non Sami Norse already were the dominant cultural force much further north than shown on this map.

    15. Atlandios000 on

      Wait for how much time did the Eastern Romans held Sardinia ? I thought that it would have been fallen untill then.

    18. Romeo_y_Cohiba on

      Is “kosovo” also in the caucuses but not recognized as independent? 

    20. Ant_TKD on

      The region of modern day Cymru at this time wouldn’t have been one single territory called “Wales”, but rather a number of distinct kingdoms (Gwynedd, Powys, and Dyfed being the biggest three, but with many more smaller ones).

    24. ZeroK_23 on

      Was there a place named iberia in the caucasus¿? Why was that? First time hearing it, it seems super curious to me

    29. Natural_Public_9049 on

      Bohemia and Moravia are wrong, they were tributaries, not integral parts. That came later during HRE after 12th century.