Political Borders of Europe from 1519 to 2006

** NEW (Jan/2011) THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN CITED IN AN ACADEMIC ARTICLE (read more below)

The link to the article is here: http://tinyurl.com/374xjyt

TITLE: Democratic Public Discourse in the Coming
Autarchic Communities

ABSTRACT:
The main purpose of this article is to tackle the problem of living together -- as
dignified human beings -- in a certain territory in the field of social
philosophy, on the theoretical grounding ensured by some remarkable
exponents of the Austrian School − and by means of the praxeologic method.
Because political tools diminish the human nature not only of those who use
them, but also of those who undergo their effects, people can live a life worthy
of a human being only as members of some autarchic or self-governing
communities. As a spontaneous order, every autarchic community is
inherently democratic, inasmuch as it makes possible free involvement,
peaceful coordination, free expression and the free reproduction of ideas. The
members of autarchic communities are moral individuals who avoid
aggression, practice self-control, seek a dynamical efficiency and establish
(together with their fellow human beings) a democratic public discourse.

Keywords: democracy, democratic public discourse, libertarian, self-control,
non-aggression axiom, spontaneous order, autarchic community

META: RESEARCH IN HERMENEUTICS, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY VOL. II, NO. 2 / 2010: 386-409, ISSN 2067-3655, www.metajournal.org

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OTHER MAP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwsmzHxMktA

Explore more at http://home.zonnet.nl/gerardvonhebel/

I just got the pictures they have on their site, added the dates and morphed them in sequence.

Pay special attention to the area that is now called Germany. So much change in so little time.

Music: Johannes Brahms - Waltz (1865)

Note: I am not affiliated with the websites, I just made this out of pure curiosity.

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[Blindanddumb]

@0z0e0r0 by the way, i can tell you what stalin had in mind: he wanted to strenghten the strategic postition of russia at the cost of germany and poland, and deepen the hatred between the two.

seems he succeded, for a part

[Mud69Pie]

Portugal has been the same size since 1297 i don't think it is going to change :(

[ErnestasStrabeika]

WTF ?!?! Kingdom of poland ?it was Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth not only Poland...

[Sebastianek1990]

@RyanBoss26 hmmm what you saying its all about culture but consider one thing... immmigration... if we go straigh ahead to next example we can do exactly same with France- they is plenty of muslims out there split the france to i don't know algieria, tunesia, or some southern african former french colonies..

[RyanBoss26]

@Sebastianek1990 Okay, my former comment was a bit unclear btw, it was kinda late, hadn't much sleep. What I mean is, that although people may not like it, White-Russians culture and ethnicity are not that different from Russians so why should they deserve/have a own land. Of course maybe the same with Kosovo, just add it to Albania. 

[Heinakuhi]

@Sebastianek1990 Yes, it was one country. It was Rzeczpospolita.

[Sebastianek1990]

@RyanBoss26 i watch some documentary films about today belarus...belarus culture= culture of peasants in the villages mainly, in the main town russia culture "lead the way".

What i saw too about belarus culture (it was a long interview with local artist) culture of belarus its mainly connected with remain pogan culture of this lands.

[Sebastianek1990]

@MrMitchthegreat in WW II too...

[Sebastianek1990]

@Heinakuhi it was one country still splited only for administation, common foreign affairs, common king

[RyanBoss26]

@Sebastianek1990 You're probably right :D. Although has Belarus a defined different culture and ethnicity than Main-Russia? (Maybe for people it is a reason to not care but it is for me :P). I thought not but maybe I should look it up again^^.

[SpeedNDrop]

thi is a bullshit map