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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Enlightened Despots
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Contents
Government in the Age
of Enlightenment
- Rising Polities
- Declining Polities
- Holy Roman Empire
- Poland
- Ottoman Empire
Government in the Age of
Enlightenment
- Declining and Rising Polities
- Map : Europe 1648
In 1648 All of East-Central Europe was affiliated in some way with three "old" polities - The Holy Roman Empire, The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Ottoman Empire.
- Map: Europe 1795
By 1795, after the division
of Poland, more "modern" polities had come to dominate. The HRE was to be abolished in 1806, Poland had disappered a polity and the Ottomans had lost vast territories in eastern Europe and north of the Black Sea. Now dominant were the Habsburg Empire/Austria, and Prussia, and Russia.
- Russia
- Austria
- Prussia
- The Holy Roman Empire
- Poland
- Ottoman Empire
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