- “Map of the Empire of Germany” by Louis Stanislas d’Arcy Delarochette, 1790
- A map of the then greatly-fractured Holy Roman Empire (when wasn’t it fractured though). The map presents demarcations between states, including the “Circle of Austria,” Bavaria, the Circle of Swabia, the Lower Rhine, Franconia, Bohemia, Moravia, Silatia, Lusatia, Upper and Lower Saxony, Pomerania, and Westphalia. Switzerland and the United Provinces (the Netherlands).
- It’s odd that the Netherland would be included on this map though – it was made by a Frenchman, who would have perhaps had a nationalist incentive to claim the region for his motherland (Patriots vs. Orangists).
- Does a “circle” simply embody a collection of political units? Is a “circle” a precursor to a more centralized, ethnonationalist state?
- A map of the then greatly-fractured Holy Roman Empire (when wasn’t it fractured though). The map presents demarcations between states, including the “Circle of Austria,” Bavaria, the Circle of Swabia, the Lower Rhine, Franconia, Bohemia, Moravia, Silatia, Lusatia, Upper and Lower Saxony, Pomerania, and Westphalia. Switzerland and the United Provinces (the Netherlands).
Map of the Empire of Germany (1790)
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Seduced by the Map 